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Boston Consulting Group

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Boston Consulting Group reviews

4.2

84% would recommend to a friend

(9,617 total reviews)
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87% approve of CEO

76% positive business outlook

Boston Consulting Group has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 9,617 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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3.0
Sep 14, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

- Salary (you need to negotiate well; otherwise, you will have a low one). - Great health insurance (the best one I had and miss in my current job). - Nice office, and they give you food there. - Most people there are friendly. - If you are lucky, you can travel for training. - Transportation, but this may not apply to where you live.

Cons

- They make you go to the office three times a week and the next two (it alternates, but could move to 3 days later). It is in Heredia, so the traffic is a nightmare. - The job deadlines are crazy, and the clients tend to be complicated. - The culture is designed for extroverted people. Think about that if you don't like the "we are a family" type of workplace and a lot of activities. - If you apply for UX/UI, you aren't going to have the best projects to grow in these areas. The job description doesn't match your day-to-day job. - The culture is very vertical, so managers tend to be rude or micromanage you without consequences.

3.0
Aug 22, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Brilliant, kind colleagues. Free lunches, fun office events, performance review structure. Decent pay. Exceptional benefits.

Cons

Leadership lacks communication transparency. BCG has been doing "quiet layoffs" the last few months, but informing employees, clients and the public they're stable and don't let go their people. Most of these people are high performers they are laying off so they don't have to pay out their EOY bonuses. Their reputation they portray out in the public sphere is a facade. Employee morale is low and instead of being transparent they throw an office event to push the deeper issues under the rug. Also, MDPs have a god complex and treat anyone below them as pheasants and this is totally acceptable and the BCG cultural norm.

2.0
Aug 2, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Great pay great benefits and that is all

Cons

You are a commodity, you are not a human being, your feelings, problems, wants, opinions dont matter only the project matters. You are expendable. This by itself is wporrying to me but more than that its not conducive to a great working atmospohere which in general is a precondition for delivering high quality work, Im onyl a consultnat but Ik can see clients are not happy with BCGs deliverables and we are losing more and more to McKinsey and Bain, Id just say go to McKinsey or Bain for that matter. Again if money is all you care for its ok but there are other great places with great pay. And yes Im looking for something more human and supportive in the meantime Ill just make do with what I have. And also I understand this is my opinion and experience maybe for others its great not to take anything personal and treat everyone as robots.

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