Booz Allen Hamilton reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(10,466 total reviews)
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Horacio D. Rozanski

79% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Booz Allen Hamilton has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 10,466 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Booz Allen Hamilton employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Jan 25, 2013

Falling Apart

Anonymous employee
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Pros

401k (ECAP) is unmatched compared to competitors. 10% of your salary across the board no matter how much you contribute - i.e., whether you contribute 10% or 1%, Booz Allen will deposit 10% of your salary.

Cons

Where to begin. No upward mobility unless you want to be a manager or business developer (no technical track). Training hours (40 hours per year) must be made up before the end of the fiscal year. Mandatory training every year. Annual assessments (review) of your performance that you have to do yourself that takes 2-3 days but is unbillable. Review/assess other people also, on your own time and your own dime. Required that you work on a proposal once a year AFTER you fulfill your client obligations (40 hour work week) so that you're working 80+ hours a week (nights and weekends) but only getting paid for the 40. And so on.

3.0
Jan 22, 2013
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Pros

Benefits, work/life balance. Ability to stay current on technology

Cons

Mismanagement, ethics problems with Leadership. Current company is different after Carlie purchase. The company is not as attractive to work as it was in the past, recruiting talent is becoming a problem. Turnover has been terrible in the last two years. Key people are leaving at over a 30% rate.

3.0
Dec 1, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Good people, real assessment process. Reasonable advancement opportunity. Good ECAP - retirement bonus each year. Good solid benefits.Pay seems lower than other beltway bandits but the job is a little more stable.

Cons

Too much overhead, strange short sighted decision-making from management team, need for billable work - if you lose this, you lose your job. Carlyle Group is bent on running this storied brand into the ground so they can cash out. Talk a good game about work/life balance but ask for a lot of unpaid overtime from junior staff and look the other way on time charging policy violations.

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