Booz Allen Hamilton reviews

Company often over-engineers change. Constant stream of change supposedly to improve, but often crafted in white granite halls devoid of working level impact or input. Federal government is company’s bread and butter. There is no profit motive, and it shows. Taxpayer dollars flow in. Work is largely in support of giving the bureaucracy meaning. You get insight to inner workings of tax dollars. Very sad and depressing how wasteful the government is, lots of uncaring workforce collecting a check and great benefits, waiting to retire at taxpayer expense. Majority of work ends up sitting on shelf collecting dust, just check in box busy work. Lots of change since going public. Droves of knowledgeable people quit or laid off. Continuing decline of benefits to feed shareholders. Loss of 401k automatic contribution was watershed moment. Minuscule pay raises limited by government trip wire (salary limits) and contract limits. Company no longer a firm. Butts in seats is the model. Stay billable. Branding has suffered immensely and less time to invest in building new markets. Company once considered itself the “Mercedes-Benz” of government consulting, but is now a run of the mill sedan. Senior Associates (start of management level) and above panic when March comes around (end of fiscal year). That’s when annual layoffs happen. Annual headache created by going public. Senior leadership constantly repackages services to make it seem new and improved. There’s only so much “improvement” you can do in a government services environment. But they are slick at creating smoke and mirrors flashy marketing material and presentations. Sad thing is the government clients are years behind (software, management concepts, value stream, streamlining), so they don’t know better. What also fuels this is many retired military and DoD clients work at companies like Booz Allen. They have contacts. The old boy network thrives. It's not Deloitte & Touche, McKesson, or Price Waterhouse. It's DoD consulting, which may be an oxymoron.

Benefits cut (medical slashed in 2015, ECAP gone), training hours have to be made up/paid back, promotion opportunities cut.