Bain & Company Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Bain & Company

Pros – get to work with big clients. learn from them.
everyone is very motivated, which motivates you
results-oriented spirit and always strive for superior performance

Cons – work life balance is far from satisfying especially in China

Advice to Senior Management – how to maintain the quality of Bain's product while business is kind of wildly expanding in China

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Bain & Company

Pros – People are smart and very friendly. Great culture. Good place to learn. Very little office politics. They focus on developing their people. Work/life balance not always perfect, but they try very hard.

Cons – Hours can be long at times. Experience varies a lot based on case. McKinsey and BCG may pay marginally better.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep it up! I'll continue telling friends to apply whether out of college or an MBA program. Community is great.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Bain & Company

Pros – There is not a single other company where I would have rather started my career. I can't say enough great things about Bain. You learn a ton, work with great people, and receive an enourmous amount of opportunities.

Cons – Some people love travel, others don't.

Advice to Senior Management – n/a

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Bain & Company

Pros – Great name recognition, good spring board

Cons – Hard core work environment. High stress.

Advice to Senior Management – You don't have to kill us just because your bosses creamed you.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Bain & Company

Pros – smart people, interesting work, learn a ton

Cons – gets political, travel a bunch, office culture

Advice to Senior Management – move to downtown dallas not las colinas

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Bain & Company

Pros – - Challenging engagements
- High-caliber coworkers

Cons – - Very hierarchical
- Ability fo influence industry/functional experiences is minimal
- My office was located in an undesirable suburban location
- Organization puts too much power in junior employees' hands to rate superiors

Advice to Senior Management – - Move away from the generalist model

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Bain & Company

Pros – - great learning opportunities
- ever changing responsibilities
- great management and team generally
- opens doors if you want to go on the buy side

Cons – - poor work life balance
- have to be 'on call' a lot
- ACs underpaid for amount of work assigned
- experience variable depending on who you work with

Advice to Senior Management – fix work life balance; some managers and partners make teams life miserable and should not be at the firm

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Bain & Company

Pros – warm co-workers, sense of belonging and importance, look forward to work instead of dreading it. the corporate culture is really great

Cons – nothing to really complain about...i see myself at bain and company long-term. it has prestige and is enjoyable to work at. rare combination.

Advice to Senior Management – keep on instilling the sense of community in the culture. great job!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Bain & Company

Pros – - multi national company
- 100% according to Russian legislation
- stable
- convinient location
- not overloaded with work tasks

Cons – -working long hours
-limited career growth
-few employees benefits (fitnes, meals compensation, etc.)
- sometimes very few things to do

Advice to Senior Management – It would be great if there will be more training oportunities, plus not to diverse so much visible admin staff and consulting staff

Former Employee – worked at Bain & Company

Pros – Bain takes its training very seriously, and I could not imagine having a better group of colleagues than the people with whom I worked at Bain.

Cons – You have no control over the industry in which you work, and, often, it seems that senior management has little concern for team sustainability.

Advice to Senior Management – Target recruiting such that you are not looking for the "best" people as you have defined it, but the people whose interest most closely with the work they'll doing at Bain, to reduce burnout.