Booz & Company Employee Reviews about "colleague"

Pros

- Some seriously strong colleagues supercharge personal development - Professional, hardworking, smart, diverse - Minimal hierarchy - Lacks drinking culture of some of its competitors, whilst maintaining sociability - Ability to influence your own staffing

Cons

- Dealt with the recession very badly: poor communication, hiring & then firing joiners, poor morale - Client book could be stronger - Progression can be a little too restrictive

Pros

- Very talented and sharp people - Supportive network among colleagues - Little hierarchy - Variety of high profile engagements providing great exposure internationally - Great place if you enjoy travelling

Cons

- Too many changes in recent years since the break up from Booz Allen Hamilton (and before as a matter of fact) - Little direction from management - Bad communication / change procedures leading very mixed messages - Long hours and too much travel - Training unstructured - should be outsourced to professionals - Appraisal process needs reviewing as it does not consider between trade off between bill-ability and following up on development actions

Pros

High quality global clients and at times very interesting projects Early Exposure to executive clients teams International travel Can be very satisfying if click with a 'suitable' practice Colleagues make all the difference & are very collaborative; did not find it to be highly competitive Very good to high salary & many perks (laundry allowance, five star hotels and more) Highly transparent in salary & bonus and very efficient in settling expenses Enables internal networking; good for independent individuals

Cons

Poor work life balance Too structured and heavy on frameworks, not enough whiteboard brainstorming Poor integration of advanced degree holders (PhD, MD, JD) Very slow professional advancement schedule in some parts (i.e., Middle East) Mixed quality of middle management

Pros

Work with highly intelligent and ambitious people dealing with tuff business problems Fast career track with consequent steep increase in compensation Global career opportunities Collaborative culture Possibilities to be entrepreneurial Brand name Perfect stepstone to jump start any business career

Cons

Work-life balance is bad, but it is more of industry treat not specific to Booz Difficult to plan your personal life due to the demands of the trade High turnover of colleagues

Pros

Good environment for learning and acquiring marketable skills, as long as you have professional experience from outside consulting to complement this somewhat academic exposure. Great reputation among employers across the Middle East. Some of the leaders are of outstanding caliber. This is a very good place for learning, growing, and preparing yourself for other things.

Cons

Your colleagues are smart but typically inexperienced and often a bit too full of themselves. Some are outright rude, if being civil does not serve them any other purpose. Intellectual capital is sophisticated, diversified, and widely applicable, but sometime a bit academic. If running companies is your objective, there are several areas for which you have to pick up learnings elsewhere.

Pros

Booz & Company , now known as Strategy&, was a great place to work. Really smart colleagues, challenging work and fun!

Cons

Company is changing due to merger with PwC. The open question is whether the company will remain a premier consulting firm, or become just another big 4 advisory business.

Pros

Most recognized brand name in the Middle East Largest client set in the region Good compensation Junior colleagues are supportive

Cons

Useless training Junior staff completely on their own No role models

Pros

Colleagues are all very intelligent and motivated. Always learning something new. Projects are typically high impact with senior audiences

Cons

Very poor work life balance

Pros

- Highly interesting questions at large clients - Very bright colleagues - Compensation in line with McK - Very generous sponsorship package to b-school - General sense of excitement and desire for improvement at Booz, we truly are a '2 year old start up' -- we have the stability of a 90 year old company's CEO relationships with an entrepreneurial feel not seen at our competitors, its highly unique

Cons

- While some significant effort has been put towards knowledge sharing, it still doesn't culturally pervade the organization. I really believe it will, but until it does, lets keep working on it. - We can be less risk averse in promoting people to partner. Our competitors are a bit faster than us here despite our generally nimbler feel. Probably best to fix this.

Pros

Exceptionally bright colleagues. Real world problems with the ear of senior business people to fix them. Really bright, capable partners

Cons

Widely recognized for a horrible culture. Cut Throat environment. *very weak* leadership