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      4.2

      84% would recommend to a friend

      (9,592 total reviews)
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      Christoph Schweizer

      87% approve of CEO

      76% positive business outlook

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      4.4

      Compensation and benefits

      4.4

      Career opportunities

      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.1

      Culture & values

      3.9

      Senior management

      3.1

      Work/Life balance

      Boston Consulting Group has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 9,592 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
      Oct 16, 2014

      Great experience, but mostly if you don't know what you really want to do

      Principal
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      In my opinion the best of the big consulting firms. The partners really care about your success, you get real, meaty projects. You work with your clients rather than on them.

      Cons

      Work life balance is always going to be very tough. The travel grinds you down. And at the end of the day you might not be able to turn your consulting experience into the job you want outside BCG, because all you really know is strategy and analysis, and not how to do a "real" job.

      4.0
      Jan 6, 2014

      Great people, limited growth opportunity

      Executive assistant
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great benefits, great perks, wonderful coworkers. Focus on work-life balance and try to be very family-friendly.

      Cons

      No development for non-consulting staff. I was there seven years and only had one growth opportunity. Once I passed that, it was very difficult to break into the next step.

      4.0
      Dec 28, 2008

      Great company with good opportunities and very poor senior management

      Consultant
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Extremely high caliber of consultants, demanding and challenging work, some access to high-level clients. Generally BCG pays attention to work life balance and tries to look after consultant's sanity. Pay is very good, and so are the bonuses. Benefits are excellent, healthcare coverage is superb. BCG gives you the opportunity to travel overseas and work in different offices if you like that, but does not force you to travel internationally. Generally, BCG is not very hierarchical, so partners and managers look for input from more junior consultants. Finally, BCG loves feedback, so you get it frequently and it is very much encouraged.

      Cons

      While BCG tries to look after your work life balance, often it does a poor job of it, and you end up working 80-100 hour weeks. In the SF office, management has done a terrible job of communicating with junior members. Staffing is extremely opaque; consultant's input is rarely taken into account; it's mostly about what the company needs and not at all about what you want or need. The day after our CEO came and talked about no layoffs, the office senior management laid off a number of junior consultants masquerading that as the "up-or-out" policy. Extremely shameful and disappointing. I've lost a great deal of respect for BCG.

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