Booz Allen Hamilton reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(10,438 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 10,438 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 23, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

-Benefits -Opportunity (when you network) -Work life balance (when available) -Reputable -Great co-workers

Cons

-Just a cog in a wheel mentality -No communication coming from upper mgmt -Since IPO focus is on almighty dollar not investment in employees -Work life balance not available to everyone -Was once set apart from it's competitors now becoming just like them (butts in seats)

1.0
May 26, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Once a culture that allowed entrepreneurship

Cons

Since Carlisle Group take over, the place has moved inexorably toward an IPO or other liquidity event and they have not been straight with the workforce about what this means. They are now firing leaders and hiring staff in order to send conflicting messages to the community about the organization's health. The terminations of leaders will make already difficult and complex communications with staff more difficult particularly as they add less-experienced staff. What once made Booz special in terms of an entrepreneurial culture is gone.

1.0
Apr 13, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

The Benefits are the on only good things about this company

Cons

-Lack of career growth and pigeon holed with respect to opportunities. -Diversity is forced down your throat. -Find yourself checking blocks just to survive the "360" Assessment -Good talented People more often then none do not get rewarded for hard work and dedication. -Dirtbags are protected by management -U.S. Government is being created out of their money. -Find yourself asking, "Does the U.S. Government really pay me all this money (relatively speaking) to do nothing?", Answer? Yes they do! -Senior Management sits back getting fat and happy while others sit around trying to figure out the matrix (with the exception of the 30 Plus Principles who recently got laid off) -High Turn-over -Have to wear a monkey suit daily except for Friday - Job Requisitions for recruiting paint a picture that describes the need for individuals to extremely technical work which is not even really true for Pen Testers. -If you are technical or desire to be forget about it, you will lose those skills and/or never gain them. -Everyone walks around being frightened of Senior Associates (Level IV's), because the mentality is if you are not a Level IV, you are no one. Strangely, everyone seems to get along well with Principals (Level V's) or higher. -If your Level IV or higher is gunning for the next promotion, they will stop at nothing from screwing those below them over to get there, hell they have too much to lose not to screw the people that made them successful.

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