Pros
- Smart coworkers and managers who I could count on for valuable input - Good compensation, travel perks, and excellent health benefits - High amount of responsibility early in career helped me develop - Skills and brand helped find a much better, more interesting job in my chosen sector (though BCG connections/network was not useful at all in social impact space)
Cons
- Many times, the team's role at client is not actually helpful - but just to sell more work - "Client" cases mean positioning things on unnecessary slides. "Strategy" means trying to sell cost-cutting and pricing projects. "Org" means firing people who work in the cubicles you pass every day - Almost no social impact practice, despite what they say - very difficult to get on public sector projects, because we weren't selling enoug