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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1.0
Mar 17, 2015
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Pros

The reputation of the firm is positive, particularly as a government contracting consulting firm.

Cons

The firm has lost its way. No longer does it build intellectual capital or invest in developing new ideas or people. It now puts 'butts in seats' as the phrase goes within the firm. It often does not even care if the staffing is best for the client - more often it must be best for the bottom line. Networking is challenging, the firms way of staying in touch is to remind employees to fill in time sheets and to take on line training. Leadership thinks more about how to structure itself to satisfy the needs of old time employees rather than to serve the interests of a dynamic marketplace. Sadly, Booz Allen is not investing. It is treating its business like a cash cow and milking it for all it is worth.

2.0
Aug 18, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Great pay (at the time), job would be great if I could make sense of the very complicated and cut throat political environment. For those who navigated that well, saw much success.

Cons

Immature management team (local team), slander, disorganized. Manager was harsh, passive-agressive in nature. There was also another member of my team that acted as the "team mom'. She took it upon herself to direct team members and caused even more dissatisfaction amongst the team. No clear direction of team objectives or direction....just told to put on a good "face" for the team and look busy....what does that mean?

1.0
Aug 15, 2014

Used to be a good place to work

Recommend
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Pros

The only pro I can really think of at this point is that I'm still bringing in a pay check. I guess that's something.

Cons

Ever since I started working for BAH, I have heard on a consistent basis "I'm sorry, we'd like to give you a bigger raise, but it's been a tough year". Now with the "new and improved" assessment process, nobody really even knows how raises are determined anymore. When I started working for BAH, each year an additional 10% of my salary was put into a retirement account. Now they've decided to do away with that, and the only way we can get the company to put a dime into our retirement accounts is to cut our pay. But with the HORRIBLE raises we've received the past few years, which barely keep up with inflation, who can really afford to do that? Management expects you to put hours of extra work into proposals, then you don't see ANY impact for that when it's to get your annual raise, due to a BS excuse. I've had enough. Career opportunities outside of DC are few and far between. Management seems to lose sight of the fact that people who work on the outer edges of the "DC Area" can't always easily travel to DC on a moment's notice, and certainly can't commute to DC for a different contract - especially since BAH refuses to provide additional pay to compensate for the extra travel expense.

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