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Boston Consulting Group

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Boston Consulting Group reviews

4.2

84% would recommend to a friend

(9,635 total reviews)
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87% approve of CEO

76% positive business outlook

Boston Consulting Group has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 9,635 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Boston Consulting Group employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Gerenciamento e consultoria industry (3.7 stars).

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10K reviews
5.0
Nov 11, 2009
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Great place to be, amazingly smart people and challenging projects. Provides excellent coaching and training. Career support is one of the best.

Cons

Work-life balance is probably slightly better than McK, but is still pretty bad. Slightly less staffing flexibility. Travel dept could be better.

2.0
Nov 4, 2009

Excellent company, case experience varies

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Smart, dedicated, interesting and driven people Mixture of work and cases Opportunity for some broad skills development

Cons

Some cases very poorly managed and supported Managerial skills take a back seat to excel/powerpoint skills so it's just luck if you have a good manager There is almost no work life balance - expect to be working pretty much all the time and not sleeping much during the week. When a team's consistent long hours do get raised as an issue partners/principles will assume the team is being inefficient. Hence there is pressure to under-report hours Often the internal politics of BCG is more difficult to manage than client relationships. Partners will put consultants who they know and like on their teams. Getting on the right side of the partners is cricital, if you have a personality clash or tension with a partner it will be very hard. Similarly, you have to learn who the partner's favourites are.

2.0
Oct 28, 2009
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

The professional development opportunities are very good. The firm tries to develop its people and puts specific programs in place. The experience you can gain at BCG is unparalleled.

Cons

The job is extreemly demanding. The travel can be very challenging.

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