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Good people, Bad management - India DRS - Anonymous employee Boston Consulting Group Employee Review

2.0
Sep 5, 2019
Anonymous employee
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Pros

-Majority of people at the R/AR level are amazing, always there to help whenever needed -Great work life balance, gives you a lot of time to decide where you want to go after BCG

Cons

-Learning is very limited, you work on multiple projects with a very quick TAT at the same time, even if you learn something, it is unlikely you will remember it or benefit from it later -Terrible management, some SRs serve no purpose, verbal discussions have no value -Too much emphasis on metrics, R/ARs end up taking responsibilities that are outside their job role -KPIs used to measure performance are largely out of control of the team because you can not decide the type of work the team gets -Tough to focus on the pros with so many cons

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