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Boston Consulting Group

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Tremendous opportunity to learn and grow as a young professional - Consultant Boston Consulting Group Employee Review

5.0
Sep 26, 2019
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Pros

\\Feedback Culture - Huge emphasis on personalized learning and development, very frequent informal feedback and also many formal processes for collecting and delivering feedback \\Secondment - Option to work somewhere else for 6-12 months, risk-free way try out a different industry/function \\Leave Policy - If you're in good standing, they are typically very generous about letting people take unpaid time off to travel, be with family, volunteer, etc; depending on the circumstances you can keep your health benefits while away \\Social Impact - Many local and global partnerships with NGOs, opportunity to work low- or pro-bono for social impact organizations \\Mobility and Travel - Frequent work travel leads to lots of perks redeemable for personal travel; quantity of BCG offices across the country and around the world means the possibility of transferring to different cities (not the easiest process but definitely doable!) \\Health benefits - Unparalleled coverage in the US, I often get surprised reactions from doctors' offices when I give them my insurance card and they look up my plan coverage \\Lifelong friends - Met some of the best people I've ever known!!

Cons

\\Pockets of questionable leadership - It can happen anywhere: you meet successful, charming people who don't always care about the team \\The pressure of client services - Managers who are super Type A and insecure find it hard to say no to the client -> can lead to long hours for the team and high levels of stress \\Cycle of turnover - If case leadership doesn't think you're going to stick around, then they have relatively little incentive to invest in a long term relationship with you; but partially up to you to make the effort and form connections with senior people

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Pros

Education on AI Fluency and access to the latest LLM models. My immediate team who energizes me.

Cons

BCG isn't what it used to be. Former CEO Rich Lesser cared about Innovation about deep IP and expertise, truly about unlocking the human potential that powers us. Current CEO and leadership trickles down commercialization message, everything is about metrics, what's the business impact, how many cases did this work touch, what is the trend. Often times appearing shortsighted. Lots of politics, lots of words, limited action from PA leadership, largely because they are unable to make a decision, going back and forth on priorities; Every MDP wanting to own something, with too many chefs in the kitchen, and not enough true clarity. Incentive metrics are broken, and asked to do more, An innovation unit is not recognized.

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