Booz Allen Hamilton Employee Review

Former Employee – worked at Booz Allen Hamilton full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Booz is very good at capturing large contracts and building a pipeline for future work through them. The people are great, always challenged by and learn from the high caliber of people I've worked with.

Cons – The partner-centric model that worked for a <10,000 person company won't work for a >25,000 person company especially as the leverage models have continued to increased. This has detached us from our clients and our ability to establish relationships. Since partners have limited time, they must prioritize their focus to winning the large contracts that provide the basis for their business. This necessitates them to ignore the client needs and micro-trends that have led toward the current state. It also reduces our offering to the most basic needs of the client, staff augmentation. While we've always been ONLY as good as our people, that's more true now than ever before.

Advice to Senior Management – Focus teams in each market to contract captures and define a business development function
Restructure (more) of the leadership team to develop true service offerings and engage new commercial markets with them at a price that makes sense. Perhaps its even a subsidiary. We know how to do this, cast yourself back to the 90s for the model. This can be an incubator for the work that drives revenue in 5 years. Last, restructure the leadership and establish M&R for a company of 25,000. Too thin at the top and too little connection to clients, middle management and staff throughout.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company