Booz Allen Hamilton Reviews

Pros

There are many facets of the company for making your mark. If one door is closed you can immediately be assigned to another team to continue your progession.

Cons

The demands of government contracting leads to a variable future. If and when the government decides to shed contractors, the higher priced companies are usually the first to go.

Advice to Senior Management

Offer incentives to lower level employees. It creates more of an 'us versus them" mentality when management is offered stock options and bonuses and nothing trickles down.

Pros

- People at Booz Allen are decent
- Used to be a great place to work from what I hear
- No travel

Cons

- Nothing exciting about the work unless you get lucky
- No growth opportunities
- Might as well work for the government

Advice to Senior Management

- Perhaps start paying attention to employee morale
- Getting into the commercial sector will prove to be a disaster

Pros

Booz Allen Hamilton is a large firm with many service lines and practices. This creates an opportunity to expose yourself to how different practices and industries work and may provide you with a chance to pick up new skills.

Cons

The quality variance across teams at Booz Allen Hamilton is high. There is also an unwritten expectation of working "magic" hours when project's have billing limits.

Advice to Senior Management

Please provide more resources for professional development and help ensure the quality of staff is consistent throughout the firm. Extreme emphasis on utilization rate does not create a thriving environment for innovation and self-enrichment.

Pros

Empowered staff
Focus on client needs
Compensation and benefits

Cons

Work Life Balance
Reliance on Tribal Knowledge

Advice to Senior Management

Remember who you were (it's how you got there)

Pros

Really smart people, lots of flexibility.

Cons

Lots of change going on, culture of fear since The Carlisle Group took over. Company is changing from a consulting to a contracting firm.

Advice to Senior Management

Make more time for your junior employees.

Pros

pay, hours, location, access to technology

Cons

hours, recognition To long towards promotions

Advice to Senior Management

recognize key employees

Pros

Good Firm Ethics and Core Values
Willingness of SOME leadership to help you succeed

Cons

No enough billable work in remote offices
To senior leader heavy
Assessment process is a pain

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of the non-performing higher levels and utilize the "worker bees" to their full potential

Pros

- Excellent resume material
- Average (although diminishing) benefits package and pay scale
- Interesting assignments and a variety of clients
- Talented coworkers

Cons

- The culture has shifted from client service and excellence to short term financial management and billable hours.
- Staff are hired as "least technically qualified / lowest cost."
- The assessment system focuses on the wrong metrics - not everyone is a busniess developer. You need hard working technical staff and functional experts.
- There are way too many senior leaders who are out of touch with the client base and only serve as gate keepers and manage through powerpoint. Quarterly Management Reviews are largely group think and self-agrandizement sessions.
- Overpriced, and not worth it.

Advice to Senior Management

I left to find a company that actually lived its core values and took care of the staff in a meaningful way - not parking lot picnics and King's Dominion fun days. Please take a hard look at what you are doing to the reputation and competitive position of what once was a great company and one that was once respected by clients and competitors alike. Not so any more.

Pros

Good exposure to prop writing
Good work exposure
Smart coworkers
great benefits
great internal training

Cons

The pyramid won't work anymore
Govt is shrinking
Billability

Advice to Senior Management

Booz was a graet place to work for up until this year. It's been three years after the sell/buy out with Caryle and the "corporate changes" are starting to flow down. This is a great place to learn how to work props and learn a lot of IP. You can also keep up certs with all of the internal training which is great for more junior personnel. otherwise... Don't plan on making this place a career. Billiability is a new force in the firm and the mid managers are under the gun to execute revenue. They just changed the threshold to be part of the bonus pool to a ridiculous level. This place will have issues when everyone isn't drinking the Kool Aid.

Pros

Great training, salaries, benefits and collaboration opportunities with coworkers

Cons

Primary focus on federal government work in current times presents limits