Boston Consulting Group reviews

Day-to-day work is repetitive, boring, and essentially the same at Associate Researcher or Research level. (These two roles have a combined average tenure of ~5 years, meaning that someone who signs on with minimal experience is looking at 5 years of the same repetitive, boring work.) Environment is high pressure and extremely deadline driven, but returns on individual efforts are too low to motivate sustained exertion. Attrition is extremely high. While lip service is paid to career opportunities within the firm, these don't seem to actually be available. On-the-job skills learned in DRS are very specific to DRS and largely nontransferable. Base compensation is low compared to industry. Management team (with a handful of exceptions) is insufficiently trained and lacks management experience. A number of members of the management team perform consistently below the expected level of quality across dimensions.

All-business all the time, hard to build relationships with people if they are not on your direct project Knowledge Team seemed to be a good place to have a comfortable job, limited opportunity for fast paced growth and promotion. Only possible to get a raise on Knowledge Team when up for promotion. Can be 4+ years at higher levels. Too long. Benefits are not competitive on support staff with other top firms. McKinsey, Bain are better. Most other small firms offer more vacation and 401k match as well. I worked most weekends - could have done better than 15 days - didn't feel like I had much time to re-charge. Had to use most vacation at christmas and thanksgiving like others.