Bain & Company reviews

4.3

89% would recommend to a friend

(8,367 total reviews)
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Christophe De Vusser

92% approve of CEO

76% positive business outlook

Bain & Company has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 8,367 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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3.0
Mar 10, 2026

Good

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good culture with unity in teams

Cons

Work life balance is poor

4.0
Mar 9, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great people, everyone genuinely wants to support you and your work.

Cons

When and how fast you get promoted depends a lot on what senior leadership support is like in your practice. If you have people committed to your career growth and help you find opportunities, you'll probably flourish. But if you don't have that support, you'll likely hit a barrier to promotion.

1.0
Mar 9, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Salary is decent but not above-average. 2. Nice office 3. Benefits and medical coverage is reasonable

Cons

1. Partners/Consultants treat non-consulting employees differently as if they are less of a human being. 2. Tons of trainings that are irrelevant to the working style of the Partner/Manager you're supporting. Heavy on PowerPoint that are not applicable in reality. 3. Lack of performance metric and no transparency on evaluation/results. 4. They see non-consulting employees as numbers, and not a person to invest to. 5. Executive Assistant Program Manager (SF) is inefficient and lacks leadership skills to connect with the team, be an advocate for them, and elevate their moral. SF EAs did not need their Manager since they are very well independent (probably since they can't rely on the Manager). 6. There is no career growth intellectually speaking. Salary, yes but not intellectually and mentally. 7. Some EAs are nice and some are selfish. 8. There is only downward feedbacks. There should be an upward feedback too for full transparency. 9. The internal culture is not ideal. 10. They fire people just because...

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