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Highly political and non-transparent career development process - Anonymous employee Boston Consulting Group Employee Review

1.0
Feb 29, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Smart colleagues, great perks and compensation structure

Cons

Career development is a joke - written feedback as well as client feedback is completely disregarded and ' people's perceptions' play a bigger role in determining how far you go. Some offices (I was in a non-US office) have an almost 'frat house' culture - if you don't schmooze and wine and dine with the right set of folks, you are ostracised professionally and personally. Highly female unfriendly in the office I was working in due to very few female consulting staff members.

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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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