Booz Allen Hamilton Reviews

I worked at Booz Allen Hamilton full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Intelligent, hard working, professional group of people. Highly dedicated and mission focused.

Cons – Known to overwork mid-level professionals

Advice to Senior Management – Focus on listening to mid-level professionals, mentoring and work-life balance

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Booz Allen Hamilton full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Career opportunities, education opportunities, client diversity

Cons – Work/life balance can be difficult to maintain

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Booz Allen Hamilton full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good compensation, interesting work, a fair number of opportunities for different projects

Cons – Generalized reviews for the entire company that are more tedious than average, no technical track, management sometimes disconnected with everyday employees

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Booz Allen Hamilton full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Move at your own pace. Resources are unlimited. Great place to learn all aspects of consulting. Internal resources are nearly unlimited. Plenty of ways for personal and professional development.

Cons – Low salary compared to the work expected of you. Hard to get promoted. Leave structure sucks.

Advice to Senior Management – Be flexible.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Booz Allen Hamilton full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Incredibly smart group of folks here. Good salary and benefits.

Cons – Executive leaders disconnected from reality of "front line" workers.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Booz Allen Hamilton full-time for more than a year

Pros – - Capable Staff
- Good compensation for junior staff with hard skills (e.g. engineering)
- Relatively good job security in stronger market accounts
- Very collegial environment
- Front-line managers and Program Managers are generally very capable

Cons – - Front-line / contractual leadership ability may vary across markets
- Future outlook for the company may seem "poor" for markets or services hit by sequestration
- Opportunities to showcase/build certain skills have been impacted by current market conditions
- Not a good environment for folks who desire constant direction/oversight
- Cultural shift due to the firm going public is noticeable

Advice to Senior Management – The staff understand that these are lean times but sometimes it isn't transparent as to what leadership is doing to stabilize current and secure near-term opportunities to provide job security for current staff. With the government going to larger contractual vehicles that take a long time to award in certain markets, more seems to be at stake with each new competition. Also, more could be done to combat business leaders building fiefdoms instead of utilizing capable staff who are on the bench and aligned to another market.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Booz Allen Hamilton full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good benefits and salary for employees

Cons – Stress can get to you

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Booz Allen Hamilton full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Good reputation, solid company that has a lot of resources available to staff.

Cons – This is not a company that will hold your hand - they make resources available but its up to staff to understand, leverage and execute those resources. Personally, I see this as a pro, but others who are not self driven may not.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Booz Allen Hamilton full-time

Pros – - Well positioned within specific sectors
- Some influential members of senior management
- Attempting to evolve into providers of goods and tangible products
- Excellent corporate values and philosophies
- Good "buttoned-down" (professional) image - great if you like wearing a suit!

Cons – - Experience in certain sectors, but no tangible capability (facilities, equipment, or materiel)
- Consultants not doers (some, not all, employees have previous hands-on experience)
- "Comeback Kids" is code for furloughs during low periods of billable work - bring you back when and if possible
- Look at the current financials and compare them with the competition
- The "glory days" have passed since the split with Booz & Company - now in survival mode

Advice to Senior Management – Only so much reorganizing you can do. Seek and provide additional opportunities for employees to provide new business development vectors. Senior management appears effective. Middle management (Lead Associates, Senior Associates, and Principals) effectiveness is suspect.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Booz Allen Hamilton

Pros – Co-workers are competent and there's generally good camraderie

Cons – Some managers and teams are dysfunctional

Advice to Senior Management – You'll lost hard-working and valuable employees if you keep underpaying them.