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Boston Consulting Group

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Intellectual stiumulating job for people who do not need a private life - Consultant Boston Consulting Group Employee Review

2.0
Mar 19, 2009
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Pros

Projects and teams are at the highest possible professional level in the sector. Principal and partners have an incredible knowledge and experties in all business topics and sector and there is a good level of distribution of knowledge and possibility to learn. Salary is very good in absolute term, not so much if you consider the hours that you work

Cons

Work life balance is bad because of the long working hours (avg 65-90 per week) and stress due to the high level of performances required is high. This varies across different offices and south european ones are the worst. Focus on analytics is sometimes excessive compared with the time spent in effective communication and leadership development

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5.0
Jul 8, 2026
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Pros

Great place to work if you’re on the right team, however there are lots of pockets of resistance throughout the organization, whether in consulting where people are still clinging onto billable work that slowly dying or in IT where people still think ITIL and exit gates in waterfall is still applicable in the type of work we do now you're going to run into friction and lots of people that are trying to earn a spot not by competence, evolution, and change but by clinging on to processes that are antiquated. IT definitely needs a reboot

Cons

Not many. If you're on the right team. If you're on the wrong team, get ready for bureaucratic hell

3.0
Jul 3, 2026
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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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