tough - Anonymous employee Boston Consulting Group Employee Review

3.0
Oct 11, 2011
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great environment to learn business in a short period. Good compensation Good reputation Great colleague Compared to other consultign firms, I guess BCG try to care more about work life balance

Cons

Everyone is super genius, so you might feel a lot of stress working with them. You have to deliver meaningful result in a quite short time to the client, so you would always work under a lot of pressure.

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Education on AI Fluency and access to the latest LLM models. My immediate team who energizes me.

Cons

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