Boston Consulting Reviews

Pros

Great environment to learn business in a short period.
Good compensation
Good reputation
Great colleague
Compared to other consultign firms, I guess BCG try to care more about work life balance

Cons

Everyone is super genius, so you might feel a lot of stress working with them.
You have to deliver meaningful result in a quite short time to the client, so you would always work under a lot of pressure.

Advice to Senior Management

Please take care about work and life balance more. I have seen many consultants got totally exhausted after 1~2 years experience in the firm, and finally most of them left the firm including me

Pros

Excellent compensation and challenging work

Cons

Long working hour, intense, work under high pressure

Pros

salary is extremely high and great

Cons

need to work for very long hours

Advice to Senior Management

N/A

Pros

1. Great brand
2. Fun and really smart people
3. Good compensation and benefits
4. Challenging and meritocratic work environment

Cons

1. Unpredictable working hours which usually end up being quite long
2. Lack of flexibility in choosing projects

Advice to Senior Management

Be a little more flexible as an office. It is great to preach to clients, but significant room for improvement internally.

Pros

Excellent Client, excellent work environment

Cons

Travel is heavy and you are never home

Advice to Senior Management

less travel

Pros

intellectual work, cooperative enviornment, teamwork, nice staff.

Cons

long hour, unpredictable future, frequent travelling

Advice to Senior Management

recruite some folks with more practical hands on experience instead of relying heavily on young fresh out of school graducates.

Pros

- Great opportunities
- great benefits
- respect all around

Cons

- salary may not be aligned with industry standards

Pros

encouraging environment, nice coworkers, educational, highly organized, awesome teamwork, lots of learning opportunity, great client interaction opportunity, big rapport, respectful people

Cons

all the common cons with consulting work - high workload, intellectually challenging, fast pace, competition, erratic schedule, actually not much specific cons for BCG.

Advice to Senior Management

I do not know much about the leadership at Boston Consulting, sorry, but I think overall they are doing a brilliant job and BCG is advanced nicely and steadily. I feel impressed that BCG is doing well in this economy and is stable. Congratulations!

Pros

I. Incredible people development:
a) Extensive feedback
b) Small team structure --> extensive interaction with managers
c) Structured and organic peer-to-peer learning and on-the-job learning via rotating case work
d) Scholarships for high-performing associates to return to school and acquire masters+ (usually MBA)

II. Amazing support resources:
a) Very generous expensing/travel policies
b) In-house R&D, production and research teams on-call for consulting staff
c) Continual check-in procedures on work-life balance, overall happiness, value added assessments etc.
d) Career services and graduate program placement & prep teams available for all

Cons

I. Difficult work-life balance
a) Unpredictable hours
b) Heavy travel

Advice to Senior Management

Keep it up!

Pros

excellence, passion share your culture, have a lot of business connexions, work hard, meet some smart people who challenge your ideas.

Cons

no life, not really interesting when junior

Advice to Senior Management

let people live, and rest, you could get more from them