Boston Consulting Group reviews

Bad work life balance, company does not care about your development and if you dont find a project on your own, you get left out to dry. Extremely stressful. Some great people work here, but in the current business environment they are getting rid of people without giving them much runway or opportunity. My friends at McKinsey and Bain had much better expereinces and were generally given more of an opportunity to learn and develop. While they are also cutting people, its more at the 1.5-2 year mark whereas BCG gave a year or less in many cases and was fine kicking people into a tough job market without giving them the skills or experience they came for. Despicable in my opinion, but at the end of the day, they are a business and profits are all they really care about.

Overall high workload and high stress environment daily (the pros, benefits, and office space do not outweigh the cons and day to day work experience). Systems and reporting are horrible to work with and you are expected to be an expert with minimal training and things constantly breaking. Prepare to be slapped with any work priority at any given time with minimal heads up, and this is on the BST side where people are viewed as disposable. Forced bonding and protecting "special culture", requires sharing too much of personal life than one would want to. Managers are horrible, they don't know what they're doing and generate a toxic environment. It truly is a high feedback culture, a manager will make or break your experience. Managers don't have time to manage people or bring substantial information to teams because they're loaded with work top down consistently.