Booz Allen Hamilton reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(10,442 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 10,442 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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4.0
Apr 15, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Personal development opportunities, especially for training, are good. Training is available through onsite courses, the web, and other avenues. Travel is often (not always) available for courses that are not taught at your location. If enough people at your location want a particular course, it is usually worked out that a class can be scheduled at a regional office. The company makes a big deal out of keeping current and mapping out and following a training path sutiable to each person's level and required skills. Compensation is fair for the industry, at least in the regional offices - I don't know anything about the DC area - and the benefits package is equal to or better than most companies I know of.

Cons

As with any company supporting the government, there are times when the government puts out an unreasonable deadline, either for a report or for a proposal, and you have to do whatever it takes. This can involve long hours and unusual time away from home, sometimes including travel. In my experience, the company is good about providing food, etc., to make late-night or weekend efforts a little easier and allowing for compensatory time off. The career path for those not working toward senior management was, and remains, a little fuzzy. The Associate level is where most people spend a long time, and splitting it in two would be a good idea.

4.0
Apr 13, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Strong reputation across the federal government -Established client relationships and wide variety of projects -Well-defined hierarchy and employee development structure -360 degree annual review process which gathers feedback from management, peers, clients, and others - Wide variety of projects both short, and long-term

Cons

-Strong emphasis on "home team" structure makes it very important to get hired onto a good home team -Employee hierarchy and rank structure creates a diamond shape where the majority of employees falls at the Associate level and is hard to progress to Senior Associate -With Carlyle Group ownership, seems like main emphasis is on profitability even at the expense of firm reputation and long-term prospects

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