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Boston Consulting Group

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Experience is very dependent on which office joined - Anonymous employee Boston Consulting Group Employee Review

3.0
Aug 28, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits, competitive salary, working with very smart people across the board. Wrestling with interesting problems and having multiple experiences in different fields in a short period of time. Great first job out of college/MBA programs.

Cons

Advancement can feel random or come down to how well the business is doing in a particular cycle. Can have very different paths to promotion depending on first staffing opportunity, and difficult to overcome a slow start.

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Variety of experiences and learnings

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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