Bain & Company reviews

4.4

89% would recommend to a friend

(8,309 total reviews)
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Christophe De Vusser

92% approve of CEO

77% positive business outlook

Bain & Company has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 8,309 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Bain & Company employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Beratung industry (3.7 stars).

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8K reviews
5.0
Apr 26, 2023

ACI new

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

People are the most important thing

Cons

Working hours are quite long as know

4.0
Apr 21, 2021

Great company

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

great professional development options huge learning curve

Cons

long hours . . . . .

5.0
Oct 5, 2015

Welcome to Bain

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Welcome to Bain. I'm going to give you a problem that neither the CEO nor his entire management team could solve. And I'm probably going to give you lots of different opinions and imperfect data sources. And then I'll ask you to focus in on where the most value is and convince all those people with different opinions that you're right. But don't worry, I'm also going to give you a Bain team. Those associates and consultants are going to be tenacious in coming up with creative approaches. Those managers and partners are going to knock down barriers for you, connect you where you need to be connected, guide, support, direct and re-direct you. The office support staff is going to fix your computer after you spilled coffee on it for the third time, find you the unfindable data source, and smile and hand you a baked good after you ask for help re-doing dozens of slides. You are empowered and accountable but you are not alone. And the best part is you can't fail. Because after all, what all those people are reinforcing is that a Bainie never lets another Bainie fail.

Cons

Here's how you know you've made it at Bain. The reward for doing a good job is getting a bigger, tougher problem next time. Meaning, you are always solving the easiest problem you will ever solve again. This takes a lot of resilience and active managing of self-expectations to remember that you are not actually getting worse, the problems are just getting harder. So my advice is to remember that. And then take a second to realize that it would be a lot less fun if the reverse were true. And isn't that precisely why you wanted this job in the first place anyway? It sure was for me.

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You have captured the essence of what it means to work here! Thanks for sharing your experience.
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