Boston Consulting Reviews in Boston, MA Area

Pros

The culture at BCG is one that supports each person's individual development. I have been impressed with all the support that is provided, and focus on creating situations where you can get the skill set you need to be successful. It is also is very committed to making consulting a sustainable career from a work-life balance perspective. The people at BCG - including the Boston office - are also wonderful. BCGers are smart and intellectually curious, but also very down-to-earth and nice to work with. I also like the diverse mix of people at BCG - whether it's diverse backgrounds or interests.

Cons

As with any consulting firm, hours can be long, but BCG is better than most firms at helping to maintain work-life balance. As long as you set personal boundaries, you can definitely manage the work-life balance. It also helps to have managers on your team that support flexibility and work-life balance, and I have had many of those managers so far. In this economy, the ability to pick and choose from the cases you want to be staffed on is probably a bit less than in other economies, but I have seen BCG still try to match people with cases that meet their development needs, even in a tough economy.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep recruiting such great people - the people are what make BCG such a great place to work!

Pros

Good place to work
Great people to work with excellent and diverse backgrounds
make a lot of effort to support case teams and staff

Cons

Lack of work life balance, it is the nature of the industry that you work long hours to earn your reputation and status - no pain no gain

Advice to Senior Management

Don't lose the culture that took 40 plus years to develop

Pros

It is a good post doc after an mba program. Can give good breadth of industries ans a view of various companies

Cons

Long hours. Difficult work life balance. Many do not have real industry experience, so the advice can be rather academic.

Advice to Senior Management

Think about your recruitment and retention policies and systems. You should strive to keep the best and brightest, not lose them due to churn.

Pros

The work ethic is a testament to the success of the company.

Cons

Very rigorous work schedule and demanding.

Pros

great place to work. smart people

Cons

long hours, some annoying tools

Advice to Senior Management

great for post undergraduate

Pros

Great brand, you will develop professionally
Fantastic people up through the PL level - though hard to find inspiring partner role models
Fantastic benefits and pay - best pay outside of the financial services industry relative to experience / tenure
Work can be quite industry - get a broad range of functional areas across industries and geographies in a very short time frame - a classic strategy consulting background

Cons

It has a burn out culture - must work too hard to get ahead
Promotion timing and criteria not well understood or transparent - the company will go back on previous promises, be careful

Advice to Senior Management

Be transparent about burnout, investment banking culture - don't pretend this is different
Figure out if you want to be a top strategy firm or implementation firm - it's quite hard to walk both paths at the same time

Pros

The experience you get in different industries is extremely helpful. Also great brand recognition.

Cons

Management has no respect for the individual consultants - they don't need to have since there are always lines of people applying for each open job. So they can work you until

Advice to Senior Management

Since management really needs consultants to do the heavy lifting, they should treat them better

Pros

Great culture, about as family-friendly as a consulting firm can be

Cons

Lack of predictability in work schedule, high-pressure / high-stress place to work

Advice to Senior Management

Continue with strong leadership

Pros

People who are both razor sharp and really nice!

Cons

Relatively intense working hours and travel.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to plan for the long term.

Pros

The people are the best you will work with - smart, committed, and nice. You can be yourself - there isn't a whole lot of pressure to act a certain way to fit in. The job is interesting - you're not taking a cookie cutter approach. You are constantly given opportunities to develop new skills so life never gets boring. There is a strong culture of apprenticeship and everyone has access to the partners.

Cons

The hours can be long or unpredictable on some projects. There is no doubt it is demanding - the hours, the travel. You'll need to make choices and tradeoffs.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue doing what you are doing.