Booz Allen Hamilton reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(10,439 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 10,439 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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3.0
Jan 2, 2009
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Pros

1- Government and non-profit exposure 2- Lots of different projects available 3- Teams are generally collaborative 4- Pretty much 9-5 job

Cons

1- No real consulting work 2- No building of skills - There is really no real skills they help you build. The online courses are good but really don't go far enough. 3- No strategy work - If you are thinking you will do strategy work there really isnt any here. Mostly process or ops based work. Lots of staff augmentation type projects. 4- Lack of incentives - there are no bonuses for associates who lead teams. There seems to be even a higher degree of disconnect when the firm was splitting.

1.0
Jan 2, 2009
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Pros

For this specific Booz Allen Hamilton group in Linthicum, Maryland, the best reason for working there is the opportunity to obtain a high level security clearance. Most of the work done in this office requires a security clearance and having an active clearance is very advantageous in this area of the country.

Cons

Booz Allen and Hamilton in the Linthicum Maryland office is a very competitive working environment, meaning that your colleagues are all working against each other to try to obtain work and assignments. This corporate culture has created an environment of mistrust of others motives, lack of information sharing, misinformation being provided across the organization and a general cut throat mentality.

2.0
Jan 1, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Great people doing challenging work

Cons

Senior management is mostly hired in - there is almost no chance to work your way up the corporate ladder. Advancement within the firm is dependent on your ability to cultivate and maintain "patrons" that help you advance - while the firm pays lip service to objective "criteria" for advancement, especially at senior consulting levels, the truth is that the criteria have no bearing on promotion - the only criteria that matters is your boss's willingness to push for your advancement.

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