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Boston Consulting Group

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Wonderful people, great benefits, intense - Project Leader Boston Consulting Group Employee Review

4.0
Jan 18, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Everyone is curious, motivated and eager to learn - even the internal, non-client facing staff. The team dynamics are generally great and supportive. Strong leadership focus on supporting teams, changing our ways of working when necessary, and focusing on value (rather than work for work's sake). Great benefits that just keep getting better - 6 months paid paternity, fertility insurance, great life insurance etc.

Cons

Working environment can be very intense - while generally my hours have been better than my peers over 5 years (average ~9am - 730pm) there are days or weeks where they go to 10pm or 12pm. Even for those with children, a 'sustainable' working model is suggested as 9am-5pm then 730pm-11pm as working hours...! On the (rare) occasion someone is horrible to work with and creates supreme extra stress for the team, little seems to be done in reality to change their approach or get rid of them.

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Cons

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Pros

Education on AI Fluency and access to the latest LLM models. My immediate team who energizes me.

Cons

BCG isn't what it used to be. Former CEO Rich Lesser cared about Innovation about deep IP and expertise, truly about unlocking the human potential that powers us. Current CEO and leadership trickles down commercialization message, everything is about metrics, what's the business impact, how many cases did this work touch, what is the trend. Often times appearing shortsighted. Lots of politics, lots of words, limited action from PA leadership, largely because they are unable to make a decision, going back and forth on priorities; Every MDP wanting to own something, with too many chefs in the kitchen, and not enough true clarity. Incentive metrics are broken, and asked to do more, An innovation unit is not recognized.

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