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Sweat shop - Anonymous employee Boston Consulting Group Employee Review

1.0
Sep 10, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The benefits and the free food

Cons

This place is great for anyone with a senior title or gained favoritism. Must learn how to play the system. Flexibility for working moms is preached, but only available to senior employees. Rave about being better that McK, but turns out they are just as bad if not worse. Ironic how this company researches and advices how to best run organizations when internally processes are archaic, innovation is encouraged but very seldomly implemented. Most of the work is being offshored to Costa Rica now. Roles are being closely reviewed meaning quiet layoffs which they swear are not a thing. You are expected to be performing in the senior positions in order to achieve advancement. But in the end it is all about who you know and how much you can suck up.

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Cons

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2.0
May 14, 2026
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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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