Booz Allen Hamilton reviews

This review is based on my experience at Aberdeen/Belcamp office and doesn’t reflect the entire Booz Allen Hamilton Company. The Aberdeen office is just another "body shop" where management is throwing their hats in any and every RFQ that CECOM puts out on the market. Although management love to say that BAH brings intellectual capital to the table but most of the work is brain dead and mundane. The only positive is that they compensate you quite well. Most of the focus seems to be on burning down the funding without evaluating the value being provided to the client. Sad part is the client doesn't really know/understand what they are getting (a lot of fluff). The management lacks people and professional development skills.

Management in all of the Information Security/Assurance areas with whom I've interacted and worked seemingly have no IT backgrounds. They have learned how to talk the talk, but can't walk the walk. They recently fired on average just over 20% of their senior leadership. They also made a campaign on the radio and in recruiting to hire 1500 new Cyber people for Summer 2011. Most of them have now probably been "let go." An article came out at the end of 2011 or early 2012 that stated that Booz is not financially solvent. Management then held conference calls where they "told" us that they're "righting the ship." It was ironic as the Italian ship had just crashed at the time. It seemed to fit perfectly, as this is what's happening. Half of one Cyber team has quit and left for greener pastures. After accepting this job and resigning from my previous job, I couldn't find anyone who had anything good to say about Booz. One friend put it best: "Booz is where dreams go to die." There are so many other contractors out there, and they all seem better at this point. When you consider that SAIC has been around about 1/3 as long, and has twice the number of employees and revenue, it seems that Booz is doing something wrong, and companies like SAIC are doing it correctly.