Boston Consulting Group Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Boston Consulting Group full-time for more than a year

Pros – Work with the best minds on things that matter - actual impact on ground, interacting with CxOs, greatly respected by everyone

Cons – Bad work-life - 12 hours a day is minimum and that too stressful 12 hours. Intensive travelling monday to friday - all year long

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Boston Consulting Group full-time for less than a year

Pros – BCG culture is really good

Cons – Work life balance is little difficult

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Boston Consulting Group full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Offers great Quality of work and exposure to senior clients across multiple industries

Cons – Lifestyle very hectic especially if you have a young child

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Boston Consulting Group as an intern for less than a year

Pros – 1. Great people to work with
2. Fun environment
3. Superb work
4. Fantastic process and review mechanisms
5. Amazing exposure

Cons – 1. Everyone smokes
2. Remote location work
3. India focussed

Advice to Senior Management – Continue with the same drive and energy!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Boston Consulting Group part-time for less than a year

Pros – Great amount of knowledge content available

Cons – Long working hours and field consulting requires a lot of travel impacting work life balance

– I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Boston Consulting Group full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great Experience and diversity of work

Cons – travel can get as high as 80%

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Boston Consulting Group full-time for more than a year

Pros – Enables you to present and think like top management at an early stage in career
Great apprenticeship with immense importance to personal development

Cons – Terrible worklife balance with need to put in more than 80 hr a week
Up and out policy puts lot of pressure on the employees
Good to join if you are 24 and not married.... not otherwise

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Boston Consulting Group

Pros – Great learning, diverse case work, high level of responsibility and senior management interaction. Every six months you realize that you have transformed a lot as an individual.

Cons – Difficult to strike a work life balance at times. Further, your say in choosing cases is less at the lower levels.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Boston Consulting Group

Pros – 1. Great brand
2. Fun and really smart people
3. Good compensation and benefits
4. Challenging and meritocratic work environment

Cons – 1. Unpredictable working hours which usually end up being quite long
2. Lack of flexibility in choosing projects

Advice to Senior Management – Be a little more flexible as an office. It is great to preach to clients, but significant room for improvement internally.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Boston Consulting Group

Pros – Widens your horizons
the networks you build are great
level of agression is very enegetic

Cons – the job gets very repetetive
you loose your personal networks pretty quickly
the place lacks humility

Advice to Senior Management – ...

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend