Booz Allen Hamilton reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(10,437 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 10,437 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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1.0
Feb 9, 2009
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Pros

Booz still has a great brand. The name will likely have enduring value on your resume for years to come.

Cons

I was hired as consultant (level I) five years ago by a senior manager who was, shortly thereafter, fired for procurement improprieties. I managed to network my way into billable work for three more years without any management support structure. My timesheet was approved by a different person nearly ever week in that interval. My performance assessments were conducted by people who had never met me. Without an advocate, I was passed over for promotion despite "exceeding expectations" accross the board for four years. In 2008, I finally connected with a business unit appropriate to my skillset (energy). With an entry level title, I led $500k worth of projects, hired and supervised interns, and won hundreds of thousands of dollars of work for the firm by leveraging my network and expertise. I was rewarded with my first substantive raise: from $50k to 60k. Thanks you guys! However, this is still commensurate with neither my education level (MS), experience (6 years in consulting), nor the salaries of my peers. I'm presently interviewing for positions at rival firms for nearly double my salary. Meanwhile, my business unit is filling up with erstwhile Lehman Brothers executives who dilute the quality of the work products we generate because they don't understand this marketplace, yet they make six figures. Many of my colleagues have had similar experiences of being sent out to sea on an iceberg, later coming ashore and fighting tooth and nail with the natives over scant scraps of billable work.

1.0
Nov 19, 2008
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Pros

I believe that the best reason to work at Booz Allen was the number of interesting speakers and brown bag lunches that were open to anyone. I learned a great deal by attending random information sessions. While this didn't make up for otherwise wasting my time, I did feel like this training was very valuable and gave me a lot of knowledge to follow up on in the future.

Cons

Job hunters, beware! Booz Allen has been growing at an unsustainable rate. Managers hire excess workers, then let them sit in offices with nothing to do, sometimes for months. Advancement, security clearances, training - if you want it, you'd better be ready to fight for it, as managers will leave you to fend for yourself. "Networking" within the company consisted of my manager handing me a list of people who didn't know either of us and requesting that I call them and ask to be put on their projects. All in all, I had a very bad experience. I was told that this is mostly because I didn't have any family or friends in Booz Allen prior to going there, as this is how the typical person enters the company. After all of this mistreatment, I had to repay Booz Allen for the tuition that they had paid for and the moving expenses that they had covered.

3.0
Mar 30, 2023
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Pros

I worked with some phenomenal people at Booz and I made some lasting friendships. I'm appreciative of the opportunity to try out different projects and clients. I learned useful skills in Agile project management and strategy consulting.

Cons

I also worked with some incredibly toxic senior managers, who I reported to HR. I had one conversation with HR where they asked me to send names of anyone else who wanted to speak with them about these senior managers. I ended up compiling a list of 12 names, none of whom were contacted by HR. HR did nothing to address my and my colleagues concerns. The company showed a pattern of moving toxic or unproductive people from team to team but never actually addressing the performance or potential harassment issues. I also had terrible experiences with clients and nothing was done by Booz. The work on most projects is slow and inefficient. The weight of finding projects is entirely on the individual employee and there are few formal processes in place to help with the project search.

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