BCG Digital Ventures Reviews

Pros

Great company to work at

Cons

No concerns to call out

Pros

I interned at BCG Digital Ventures for 10 weeks during the summer. A very friendly work environment with lots of corporate events and internship events. Co-workers are very supportive. Good work-life balance. People at different levels went on vacations during the summer. Hybrid work mode. Most FTE only comes to the office 1-2 days a week. Cool and fun projects.

Cons

The work environment might change based on the project you are working on. I was told it was more intensive than tech companies, but I felt it has better WLB than the classic consulting BCG. The designer gets a seat based on my short experience. Senior and higher levels may need to travel 50%.

Pros

You will likely learn a lot quickly. There are interesting travel opportunities, but that's dependent on being on a case with travel. Health care benefits are great. Many of the people I worked with were very intelligent and friendly co-workers.

Cons

Work culture is awful. Pay is below what other tech companies can offer you. Almost everyone works over 40 hours every week. People are generally expected to work after hours. At the worst I had days where I would work from the moment I woke up until I went to bed Management has learned how to not explicitly tell you to work these long hours, rather just strongly imply it and avoid a paper trail to avoid putting themselves on the line. For example, I had caught COVID and was asked to work through it still. This is was done through Zoom calls and calls to my personal phone, leaving no paper trail for management to be directly caught by. This has happened for others in similar situations of illness or working through holiday breaks. The cycle of cases also means you generally can't take off outside of specific windows in-between cases. Unless you get deathly sick, good luck taking time off outside of that. It was not uncommon to talk to colleagues and find they had been working 60+ hour weeks consistently for months without a day off. Growth opportunities are needlessly slow.

Pros

A great place to further your skills and growth.

Cons

Internal community can be hard to navigate.

Pros

- Amazing people within DV and across BCG that you get to work in the trenches, learn from, and build amazing product - Broad set of growth opportunities that really only limited by how much you are willing to put in and how much you will be proactive - Unique set of ventures that you get to build from the ground up with great clients - Great benefits from health insurance, rising bonus structure through promotion and some traveling perks on certain ventures - Ability to get promoted quickly for those that drive impact and help drive growth

Cons

- Long, brutal hours at time - Lack of transparency in career timeline

Pros

Great environment if you want to build a lot of reps in building new companies in a relatively risk free environment with incredibly smart individuals

Cons

Work life balance given start up and consulting lifestyle

Pros

Incredible team and intelligent teammates Opportunity to work at high level with top companies Great benefits

Cons

It's an absolute grind - client is always right, which can get in the way of great work You are the product, so you travel and work at the client's whim culture can be political around year end

Pros

Pay, smart colleagues, good exit opps

Cons

Management, unethical behaviour at the office

Pros

- great team - free lunches - innovation - benefits

Cons

- Going back into the office - management style

Pros

Great perks, treat their employee's well.

Cons

Some political stuff with Partners but what else is new in consulting?