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      Boston Consulting Group

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      4.2

      84% would recommend to a friend

      (9,636 total reviews)
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      Christoph Schweizer

      87% approve of CEO

      76% positive business outlook

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      Boston Consulting Group has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 9,636 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Boston Consulting Group 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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      4.0
      Feb 21, 2009

      Great experience for a few years, but challenging time to be in consulting

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      Pros

      - Smart, highly motivated people who will help you learn to communicate tough issues clearly and effectively - Great brand and professional development - Access to senior leaders in your clients' organizations and ability to work on your the toughest issues they are facing - Frequent and detailed feedback process, including detailed reviews after every project - Work can be quite diverse - get a broad range of functional areas across industries and geographies in a very short time frame - a classic strategy consulting background - Fantastic benefits - including the best healthcare plans and 15% contibutions to retirement plans

      Cons

      - Very structured career path - limited/no opportunity for early promotion or additional responsiblity - Ambiguous and staffing process - with fewer interesting projects these days, the projects you are staffed on will make or break your experience; it's very difficult to work the staffing system to ensure you are learning skills/industries that align with your long term goals - Deteriorating life work balance - in this economy, overselling and understaffing projects seems to be the norm

      3.0
      Feb 17, 2009

      Great opportunity to leverage in short term - but think of it as a 2-4 year opportunity

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      Pros

      Great brand, you will develop professionally Fantastic people up through the PL level - though hard to find inspiring partner role models Fantastic benefits and pay - best pay outside of the financial services industry relative to experience / tenure Work can be quite industry - get a broad range of functional areas across industries and geographies in a very short time frame - a classic strategy consulting background

      Cons

      It has a burn out culture - must work too hard to get ahead Promotion timing and criteria not well understood or transparent - the company will go back on previous promises, be careful

      3.0
      Sep 28, 2008

      A good starting point for a business career

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      Pros

      A great training ground. Teaches you early in your career to distill most business problems to the essential issues. In theory it can give you exposure to a variety of industries, although people often get pigeonholed in industries they happen to have worked in before. Very nice salary, bright and committed colleagues.

      Cons

      Grueling travel commitments as in all big consulting firms. Projects are sometimes ill-conceived and poorly planned (a partner basically sold (oversold) a project wihout having any idea of what we were getting into or even whether this was really necessary.

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