Boston Consulting Group reviews

Cons for BCG in general: -BCG management and leadership made it clear that consultants come first and everyone else is second. While this makes sense in some regard (consulting is the business), it was often disheartening to not feel as valued (ex: women@BCG affinity group is only reserved for women consultants). Living as a non-consultant at BCG was often like a second-class citizen. Cons for recruiting: -Unlike the consultant world, Business Services and recruiting, in particular, does not have an up or out model. Employees who are lazy and not meeting standards are not held accountable. It seemed like BCG rather keep an inefficient, lazy employee who has been working at BCG for 3-4 years at a substandard quality, rather than hire someone new. - The promotion structure is absolutely archaic. You are not promoted based on accomplishments or good work, you are promoted based on your time at the company. All of this reinforces the above issue. There is no incentive for tenured employees to work hard. - There is absolutely no autonomy. It is almost impossible to make changes or create solutions because the approval process takes forever. Senior management has too many issues to solve but has to meet and discuss all of them multiple times. Very inefficient use of everyone's time.

Knowledge team is treated nothing more than as a support function. Expectations from knowledge team is to crunch millions of data over night and give them insights. Most of the time it is not data driven decision but what consultant think is right. Consultants treat knowledge team as temporary hired analyst from an analytic boutique. too much compromise on data analysis Tendency to hire individuals at a lower level and a wrong role. Nothing to learn for an analyst.