Booz Allen Hamilton reviews

ECAP - not eligible for matching until after 12 months with the company, it starts on month 13. Also, the matching only gets paid once a year in February and if you didn't start in February, it's prorated starting your 13th month - January. Must stay at least 6 years to be fully vested. Decreased the % of their contribution in 2014. No management support - when you're working on a deliverable and the team wont deliver on-time, good luck, you're on your own. Tons of managers, no idea what they do to benefit the company except take high salaries & earn bonuses that the lower level staff aren't eligible for. All the managers really did was delegate the work to lower staff. On majority of proposals there is no cross-functional strategy. And if any strategy is done, it's not shared/explained. Get ready to be a glorified data entry person with a more interesting title. :/ If you want a job with decent - long hours with not much thinking involved, try to get hired here! If you prefer to use your brain, don't waste your time. Also note, you will be training PMs constantly on how the price model works because somehow they're always new to proposals and are not familiar with the process or model.

There were few opportunities for promotion to middle or upper management for people with technical backgrounds like myself. Contributions by the firm to employee retirement accounts were being scaled back in a stepwise manner when I was leaving the firm in 2013, the first step down was to ~7%, and I recall that a subsequent step down to ~5% matching contributions was planned for the following year. There was no bonus structure in place for any employee below Senior Associate. Compensation was lower than many competitors, I feel that this was due largely to upper management staff not billing to client engagements.