Bain & Company Reviews

Pros

Ingrained culture of intellectual curiosity and teaching. People who are brilliant, but don't take themselves too seriously. Opportunities to make an impact on the world's leading companies.

Cons

None that aren't applicable to all management consultancies. You have to get comfortable with the constant change - your clients, coworkers, and the skills you need are always in flux. If you can embrace this, though, you may come to find that it's the element of the job that most excites you.

Pros

Good learning environment
Supportive culture
Good compensation

Cons

Long hours
Poor work - life balance

Pros

People are great, extremely supportive, and helpful

Cons

Be prepared to deal with unpredictable schedules!

Pros

Constant feedback for the work; responsibilities given according to your ability

Cons

Long hours; too many people to make friends with everyone

Pros

Bain is a great company focused on being a great place to work -- they care about their employees, create a fun work evnironment, while making an impact with clients and the community.

Cons

Very high performance bar -- you will be challenged to work hard and need to set your own boundaries

Pros

Great perks and challenging work.

Cons

Long hours, not always stimulating work

Pros

Excellent opportunities to learn and grow.

Cons

Long hours, lifestyle can be difficult to manage.

Pros

-Professional development opportunities
-Individual impact to case teams, clients, and firm
-Fun colleagues to work with
-Heavy focus on mentoring
-Frequent office-bonding events

Cons

-Though managers usually try to mitigate it, the hours can sometimes be long and unpredictable
-If you don't like to travel, the job can be rough (even though we travel probably less than other consulting firms)

Advice to Senior Management

N/A

Pros

*Work on really interesting and important problems
*Lots of formal and informal training that help you get valuable skills for the future
*Wonderful group of people who are fun to spend time with

Cons

*Hours can be long sometimes
*Most travel cases are two nights a week, which is managable, but a minority are three nights a week which can be tough
*Work can be stressful. It's important that you actually care about solving the problem and helping the clients. If you do, then that helps make it through difficult situations. If you don't really care, then this isn't the right job for you.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to give excellent coaching and make yourselves available to the teams. Always manage the clients' expectations to avoid scoop creep. (Most partners are good at this).

Pros

This is an incredible place - I've been stretched so much and yet so strongly supported, it's been both a hell of a learning experience and a hell of a lot of fun. The laser-focus on resluts is invigorating and effective and it's inspiring to see the impact we can make at clients. My biggest concern choosing Bain over a competitor was that the companies might be less 'premier' but my first few projects have all involved co-creating strategy at the C-level of Fortune 100 companies. Now I'm actually hoping to getting experience at a smaller/privately held company. I can't recommend this place highly enough, as an empoyer or business partner.

Cons

You will work hard, and long. If you're not someone who can get passionate about transforming a client's business, it would be hard to sustain the enrgy level necessary to succeed here.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep it up.