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Boston Consulting Group

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Amazing learning and development experience - Consultant Boston Consulting Group Employee Review

4.0
Aug 21, 2012
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Pros

Professional and personal development, enhanced through a culture of coaching and frequent feedback. Amazing culture, great people to work with and learn from. This is particularly important given the intensity and long hours. Work experience difficult to match elsewhere, working directly with CEO's and top management to deal with their most pressing issues. Great for career opportunities when thinking of an exit from consulting. Management is very open, and willing to help consultants in their development independently from their decision to stay at the company.

Cons

Work/life balance: as in any consulting job, it implies long hours and travel. Also, constantly steep learning curve, and job intensity requires to be passionate about the job in order to really enjoy it.

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Cons

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Pros

BCG has top tier benefits, really smart colleagues, good in-office perks, and has a great company reputation. This was a huge part of my experience and has made me go back forth about my decision to leave.

Cons

This is speaking as someone who is not on the consulting side. On my particular team, office politics were very strong with little to no opportunities for people outside of the inner circle to assimilate. More broadly, I feel like the salary trajectory was a little slow, there is a lack of location mobility and and promotions can be hard to come by. Even so, I have personally seen exceptions be made for certain people. More broadly, being located in North America can be difficult since new roles are being open in other regions which is making internal mobility next to impossible. If you have any dissatisfaction with your current team, title, or level - there's a real possibility that you will have to wait multiple years before being able to make meaningful shifts towards your long term career goals.

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