Pros
Pay and benefits seem to be somewhat higher than the rest of industry. Co-workers are mostly great to work with. Training opportunities are plentiful, and employees are encouraged to take part in at least 20 hours of training each year. You're treated like a professional at Booz Allen - a lot of the processes and controls that are in place at other companies are not as strict here. So far, that is. That's changing as we go along.
Cons
1) Layoffs. Lack of work letters last year made everyone afraid of layoffs. This year we're hiring. Makes no sense. 2) Changing culture, loss of prestige. Moved away from management consulting and are now into technology and strategy consulting, or just plain staff augmentation. No private sector work, the only client is the federal government. 3) Lack of integrity. Management doesn't keep its commitments, and doesn't seem to try. 4) Unfair promotion justification and performance review criteria. Promotions are reserved for non-billable sycophants who hang off of management like parasites. 5) Low annual salary raises. Booz Allen claims they're higher than industry, but that doesn't seem to be true. 6) Lack of meaningful work. Once you're on a contract, you're stuck there until the funding runs out. That's regardless of whether you like it there or not. 7) Recruiters sales pitch is misleading. They claim Booz Allen is utopia, yet it's no better than the rest of the crowd. 8) Unjustified arrogance. Management thinks everything we do is perfect and "those other guys" like CSC and SAIC are doing lousy work. 9) Training is corporate brainwashing and indoctrination into the Booz Allen way. Not much content there. 10) Expectation that you'll work overtime (nights and weekends) for free. That's right, no bonuses or generous raises for you Mr. Hard Worker. 11) Carrot dangling. Promises of higher raises and promotions for hard work that don't necessarily come to fruition.