Booz Allen Hamilton Reviews

Cons

No real cons. Every now and then you'll come across a manager who isn't very good, but that happens anywhere.

Cons

Standard bureaucracy to navigate when working with government clients. Work can be a bit unpredictably slow or fast depending on government deadlines.

Cons

* Big company benefits (broad range of benefits, not necessarily _the best_ though - my deductible doubled.. eek) - listing as both a pro and con * Easy to get lost in a big company, advocating for yourself and networking are essential ingredients of a good career at Booz Allen * Very locked down machines. All of the security restrictions / processes takes some getting used to. * Clearance process can definitely feel invasive and the process requires a lot of patience.

Cons

No more bonus even thought company has record breaking profit, no mobility, sexist leadership, toxic managers, no training available without being friends with TechX leadership, Boomer principals give you low pay raises. Training budget has to be prepaid, disparate treatment for disabled veterans, management works from home and does nothing while employees have to deliver on client site

Cons

Pay is pretty low if you don’t come in at a higher rate, and even after that raises are very minimal. There are no opportunities for bonuses.

Cons

- Junior-level employees often lack professionalism and experience - Organized Chaos. They lead with what the junior- to mid-level SW developers need versus what true thought leaders should develop as a comprehensive data, technology, and systems governance strategy. Without a real strategy, everything is "important".

Cons

Sitting at a Client site makes it difficult to connect with the corporate side of BAH and leadership does not make an effort to keep the company culture alive. BAH makes it incredibility difficult to recieve pay raises or attain promotions and routinly underpays early career individuals. There is no clear path to promotion and goal posts are often moved. There is also a tendarcy for leadership to promote employees that they work with on a regular basis. If you dont work directly with leadership you will likely be underpaid and passed up for promotion yearly. At times it will seem that people recieve promotions to management but do equal or less work that consultants and senior consultants. Promotions are usually reserved for high visibilty, client facing positions.

Cons

Cons the way to get promoted is the most insane thing I've ever heard and no one will be able to tell you how. Also they are so cheap. They won't even pay for lunches. Healthcare sucks it's like you don't have any. Got into a car crash where a drive hit me, went to the ER and my insurance just outright denied it.

Cons

There are very few (if any) true consulting projects here. There may be some IT work that Booz does that's kind of like IT consulting, but that's about it. Just because you have or work for a "client" does not mean that you're a consultant. Accountants, Lawyers, Talent Agents, Therapists all have "clients." A true consultant is someone who comes to an organization briefly to provide strategic advice (Strategy Work -- McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Deloitte Strategy etc.) or someone who comes to implement change and then leave (Implementation/Operations Work). This is not Booz Allen. Booz sends employees to government agencies to do the work that a regular Government Service employee would do otherwise, and they want their team/employees to stay on that client contract for as long as the government will let them. I gather that Booz pays less than other firms as well. This firm is fundamentally not really different from a CACI or SAIC -- those two firms don't masquerade as "consultants," they are simply government contractors. Booz Allen is a firm that decades ago used to be an actual consultancy, but is now in effect just a big government contractor.