Boston Consulting Group reviews

Downside is - for Female employees at a junior level especially Assistants - MDP's want them on a platter as in for late night drinks, favors, and if someone raise the issue in the open forum in BCG that means Management will try to get rid the that individual by harassing individual (who raised the issues with proofs) day and night! Many doesn't say as they fear to loose the Job ;for the right things - EA's keep working day and night midnight early mornings! Despite of working marvelous - buttering is real important, gossips are important with team members - work is not priority. Above mentioned is for BCG India office culture!

This is a very confused organization with two types of mindsets prevalent -Consulting and backend capabilities. Now the spotlight is on consulting and rest everything takes the back stage. Consulting is a very fiercely competitive field and similar expectations are mounted on backend teams. The whole setup is to facilitate the consulting unit like robots. This leads to multiple cons like: > Work life balance is impossible. > Quality of work is below average since most of the times the work is around POCs for some pitching rather than actual project work. > Impractical short turnaround times expected from backend teams as consulting teams either have no clue of how technology works or they simply don't care. > Extremely poor project execution with no standards observed, no proper project plan, no vision, random sub standard firefighting work and then one day pin drop silence and project vanishes and backend teams get no idea what happened. Now apart from work, as an organization, there are many cons as below. > They dont have a portal to track exit formalities and everything is just on mails. > Their finance department is very opaque. They launch seemingly employee benefit schemes and include clauses and create barriers to utilize them. And if one day you realize to exit the firm, all of these benefits would be recovered quietly. > Complete management is very egoistic and unprofessional. Employees are formally asked to not take leaves. Every hour of employee is micromanaged. Higher managers never interact with employees, not even when the employees have resigned. Humor is when resigned employee have to themselves contact HR for further steps. Management is very keen on replacing employees so forget about any effort to get retained once you put resignation. Unprofessional comments on employees are passed as jokes on team calls or parties by management. >Very opaque employee rating system. No digitized employee rating portal and they still follow ancient method of emails and no clear timelines. So bonus and promotions are completely controlled by managers irrespective of the type of work done. There is no proper hierarchy in the organization so people looking for promotions and career growth can forget about it as there are just managers above senior developers/analysts. So employee would be working the same mundane stuff for years with no value added. I sometimes wonder how does the company featured in "best places to work in world" in some internet websites. The whole image is being falsely presented to attract and exploit talented people. This review is only applicable for employees in backend teams and may or may not apply to consulting teams.