Booz Allen Hamilton reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(10,441 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 10,441 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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2.0
Sep 22, 2014

Awesome to Awful, a 3 year spin

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Pros

The workload was great, the pay was competitive, it was a nice challenging engineering position with ARINC (which was bought out by BAH in 2012, and transitioned into the firm in 2013/2014). Benefits were par for the course, coworkers were friendly and agreeable, and for contract work, they do a good job of keeping people with billable work.

Cons

No promotion path, pitiful raises for even the top performers, citing economic reasons and the need to keep costs down to be competitive, and at the mercy of the people bidding for work. Better hope they bid good work for you instead of work that you're overqualified for. There's been a fairly large and concerning exodus of senior staff and management in the past year, and incoming work has gone from design and engineering to cable fabrication and manual labor. Benefits got "restructured" a few times (and restructuring is never to benefit the employee) and the job is nothing like it used to be

1.0
Aug 7, 2014

Horrible place.

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Pros

No pros. Well, wait a minute. There was one pro. During "orientation" we were told, in no uncertain terms, that we would be expected to put in a minimum of 10-hour days. This is "billable" time, you see. The place is like "the firm" except we're not dealing with lawyers but contract slaves. So the one "pro" is that the place was honest about using people.

Cons

It's a sweat shop. If that's what you want, jump right in! It's actually beyond me why anyone would work for a place like this. Want to throw your life away? Go right ahead. Have fun. Seems to be what much of America has to put up with, sadly. Just know this: there are many, many better places to work. Let me echo Nancy Reagan, otherwise a downer: Just say no.

1.0
Jul 29, 2014
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Pros

This review pertains to my experience in the SIG. Very flexible working arrangements, multiple offices in the DC area and working from home isn't a problem. Lots of nice people (non-management).

Cons

The company is currently collapsing at an astonishing pace (particularly the health market) while its competitors are hiring aggressively. Management are liars and scoundrels. Will stab you in the back in a heartbeat if they screwed up their quarterly estimates. Focus is entirely on short term revenue targets and they will happily fire good people who are between projects. Force people to take awful assignments such as data entry. The company culture is completely decentralized; your experience at the firm is 100% down to your career manager and their boss. You are left to fend for yourself to find a project and you never see anyone, partly a consequence of the extremely flexible work locations noted above. Company claims to be about ethics and integrity which is completely laughable. Compensation is low, there is no bonus, and the benefits are average.

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