Booz Allen Hamilton Reviews

Pros

Salary, educational opportunity, generous 401K, culture of integrity, culture of excelence and client support

Cons

pressure to expand business to get promoted, time consuming assessments, disorganized set of web sites

Advice to Senior Management

Change the availability calculation to promote integrity--as is stands now, not all time is reported as you wish with in the Total Time reporting policy. Fix the websites. Make assessments simpler by reducing words required and the overlap in categories.

Pros

Good mgmt consulting training
Very good orientation process

Cons

Sloppy security clearance due diligence
Misleading about opportunities
Company is basically a resource clearing house not necessarily a place to make a career like they often tell you.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop hiring for jobs that don't exist just to build a capability your playing with people's careers

Pros

You can find good knowledgeable people. There are people willing to mentor you (if you can find them). Some groups have really good people that work well and treat people well.

Cons

The company seems to run more on politics and "good old boy" network. Less emphasis on capability or knowledge for advancing your career and more on who you know and how you can spin your story. The company does a lot of lip service to make it appear employee friendly but some groups are run really poorly.

Pros

Leadership cares about the staff, there are multiple career paths, and even as the company has grown it has maintained an entrepreneurial environment.

Cons

As the company has grown there has been an increasing communications gap. In prior years it was very much the feel f a partnership, has been trending towards more of a traditional corporate environment lately.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't forget that the company's sole product is knowledge and expertise of individual people; as decisions need to be made the staff need to get clearer reasons why choices are made to be able to buy into the vision.

Pros

Excellent benefits if you can keep them

Cons

Managerial Incompetence at the highest levels

Advice to Senior Management

You will ruin the company reputation by staring at the bottom line

Pros

smart co workers
training opportunities
emphasis on work life balance
educational opportunities
ability to control which projects individuals work on

Cons

change in corporate culture following IPO
lack of management communication on significant changes
policies that are not favorable to employees upon termination

Advice to Senior Management

Ensure that all employees are aware of all policies related to personnel. Including understanding how the new lack of work policy is being implemented across the firm.

Pros

Meeting and working with people from such diverse backgrounds who are motivated to achieve common goals.

Career flexibility Booz Allen provides, allowing staff to reinvent themselves over their career.

Booz Allen hires staff for a career, not a position.

Cons

The perception of clients towards consultants that they are overpaid and/or are there to attempt to fill their position.

Working in an environment where our work contracts must renewed annually, lack of feeling of job security.

Pros

Good work/life balance
Competitive salary
Opportunities to work on various engagements

Cons

With all the changes happening at BAH right now, unsure about the direction its taking

Pros

Core values. Diversity. Opportunities for career development.

Cons

Heavy workload prevents taking advantage of opportunities for training and career development. Time required for 360 review.

Pros

- Work life balance is good if you are not deployed at a client site full time
- Hire smart employees
- Promote telework if you are not deployed at a client site
- Training whether it is internal or external is good.

Cons

- They hire employees and put them on projects that have nothing to do with their background/experience.
- Annual assessment is time consuming and detailed but doesn't seem to be utilized properly. when employees are spending valuable time to write their assessment, at least fairly assess it.