Pros
- Good Benefits - Chance to work with lots of technologies - Chance to work on seemingly important federal projects for your country - Good place for those with no experience Not a pro/con: Your mileage will vary based on the project you work on. Booz Allen has hundreds (or thousands) of contracts spread across the federal government. It's more like thousands of companies in one than a single uniform unit.
Cons
- They appear to hire almost anyone, lots of warm bodies. This is good if you need experience, this is bad if you're a good engineer because you'll end up pulling dead weight on your project. - Too much corporate cheerleading and propaganda. The two-day new hire intro is lots of drinking Kool-Aid and pretty thin on important details like benefits etc. It could be condensed into one day with how pointless the cheerleading is. Tons of Booz Allen spam to your inbox like "how booz allen is embodying its values in the month of may". Does someone get paid to write that spam? - The structure of Booz Allen feels very nebulous, poor organization. For instance, they have tons of subdomains that you go to do various tasks like setting up a printer, contact helpdesk, etc.. yet they don't have a centralized area where you can see all the subdomains. You are just expected to learn/know. Very disorganized - Too many meetings, as a developer expect to spend 5-10 hours a week in meetings. - PTO policy is bad, 15 days per year, woof, get with the times. If the project I was on was managed better and Booz Allen had better PTO I might have stayed. - My project was a trainwreck. Team Lead was in over his head. The organization was terrible. Lots of subject line only Jira tasks with no info. No planning. Also, the guy just didn't do anything. Very bad for morale when you see that coming from your lead. It's highly unlikely I would work at Booz Allen again.