Great experience for a few years, but challenging time to be in consulting - Consultant Boston Consulting Group Employee Review

4.0
Feb 21, 2009
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Pros

- Smart, highly motivated people who will help you learn to communicate tough issues clearly and effectively - Great brand and professional development - Access to senior leaders in your clients' organizations and ability to work on your the toughest issues they are facing - Frequent and detailed feedback process, including detailed reviews after every project - Work can be quite diverse - get a broad range of functional areas across industries and geographies in a very short time frame - a classic strategy consulting background - Fantastic benefits - including the best healthcare plans and 15% contibutions to retirement plans

Cons

- Very structured career path - limited/no opportunity for early promotion or additional responsiblity - Ambiguous and staffing process - with fewer interesting projects these days, the projects you are staffed on will make or break your experience; it's very difficult to work the staffing system to ensure you are learning skills/industries that align with your long term goals - Deteriorating life work balance - in this economy, overselling and understaffing projects seems to be the norm

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5.0
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Pros

Great learning opportunities in different industries

Cons

Really hard job most of the time.

2.0
May 14, 2026
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Pros

BCG has top tier benefits, really smart colleagues, good in-office perks, and has a great company reputation. This was a huge part of my experience and has made me go back forth about my decision to leave.

Cons

This is speaking as someone who is not on the consulting side. On my particular team, office politics were very strong with little to no opportunities for people outside of the inner circle to assimilate. More broadly, I feel like the salary trajectory was a little slow, there is a lack of location mobility and and promotions can be hard to come by. Even so, I have personally seen exceptions be made for certain people. More broadly, being located in North America can be difficult since new roles are being open in other regions which is making internal mobility next to impossible. If you have any dissatisfaction with your current team, title, or level - there's a real possibility that you will have to wait multiple years before being able to make meaningful shifts towards your long term career goals.

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