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Boston Consulting Group

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Interesting for fresh graduates, not so interesting as you are experiences - Software Engineer Boston Consulting Group Employee Review

3.0
Jul 14, 2023
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Pros

- a well established big corporate - the people are nice - the pay is okay nationally but if you have the skills to pass interviews well, you have way better opportunities for financial growth elsewhere

Cons

- your actual manager will change for each project and you are more likely than not to have someone horrible over you with very unrealistic expectations - on paper "they care about work like balance", however, trust me, that's a big lie. people over work A LOT and managers expect you to do so too. Needless to say, if you don't, you won't get promoted ... - BCG is NOT a tech company, sou will always be seen as a non essential member even if you will literally be bringing crazy value - Salary is SO low in comparison to the value you are bringing - growth within the company is SO slow, political, unfair, unrelated to your actual skill that its sickening. They would rather bring in someone new rather than promoting veteran employees - if you are a fresh graduate joining BCG, make sure not to feel trapped within the ecosystem. You will need to learn a lot of BCG specific stuff that is useless elsewhere so keep this in mind and focus on what can be portable and usable everywhere else

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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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