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    1. 5.0
      Oct 4, 2016

      Great place to work

      Case Team Leader
      Current Employee, more than 5 years
      Boston, MA
      Recommend
      CEO Approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Your colleagues are legitimately smart, and always interested in helping you progress your career. Pay is generous and grows quickly if you do well. Company culture is unparalleled. Work is interesting and focused on most important company problems

      Cons

      Work can be taxing, and the nature of client services often leads to fire drills and stress. As with any consulting firm, sometimes you'll work on specific tasks that are annoying, but it's definitely the minimum

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      1. 5.0
        Oct 3, 2023
        Consultant
        Current Employee, more than 3 years
        Boston, MA
        Recommend
        CEO Approval
        Business Outlook

        Pros

        Incredible learning opportunities for recent graduates of college and business school

        Cons

        Steep learning curve and variable hours

        1. 5.0
          Oct 5, 2015
          Manager
          Current Employee, more than 5 years
          Chicago, IL
          Recommend
          CEO Approval
          Business Outlook

          Pros

          Welcome to Bain. I'm going to give you a problem that neither the CEO nor his entire management team could solve. And I'm probably going to give you lots of different opinions and imperfect data sources. And then I'll ask you to focus in on where the most value is and convince all those people with different opinions that you're right. But don't worry, I'm also going to give you a Bain team. Those associates and consultants are going to be tenacious in coming up with creative approaches. Those managers and partners are going to knock down barriers for you, connect you where you need to be connected, guide, support, direct and re-direct you. The office support staff is going to fix your computer after you spilled coffee on it for the third time, find you the unfindable data source, and smile and hand you a baked good after you ask for help re-doing dozens of slides. You are empowered and accountable but you are not alone. And the best part is you can't fail. Because after all, what all those people are reinforcing is that a Bainie never lets another Bainie fail.

          Cons

          Here's how you know you've made it at Bain. The reward for doing a good job is getting a bigger, tougher problem next time. Meaning, you are always solving the easiest problem you will ever solve again. This takes a lot of resilience and active managing of self-expectations to remember that you are not actually getting worse, the problems are just getting harder. So my advice is to remember that. And then take a second to realize that it would be a lot less fun if the reverse were true. And isn't that precisely why you wanted this job in the first place anyway? It sure was for me.

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          You have captured the essence of what it means to work here! Thanks for sharing your experience.

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