Went public, went bad - no more mobility across clients - Senior Associate Booz Allen Hamilton Employee Review

3.0
6 Jun 2011
Recommend
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Pros

-Good opportunity to learn from colleagues -Offers a good picture of government from the outside -Benefits are pretty good -Firm seems to continue to have a strong reputation among clients and subsequent employers

Cons

- Since going public, leadership has a short term focus - no longer makes investments - Top leadership is out to get the stock price up and then escape, compounding the short term focus to please wall street and shareholders - Much less functional expertise than ten years ago - because everyone is expected to focus on a single client "domain" and be everything for that client - The firm's leverage model went from 50:1 empoyees per equity-owning partner in 1998 to 200:1 or more now - so leadership is completely divorced from client work and daily reality (more time for politics), and employees have little chance to ever make the "partner" equivalent (they gave themselves a title upgrade at the same time they introduced two new rungs on the career ladder, so now partners are "Senior VPs" instead of just "VPs"

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Strong mission-focused culture with meaningful work supporting national security missions. Great exposure to diverse projects, talented teammates, flexible work arrangements, and opportunities to develop skills across security, intelligence, cyber, and consulting. Benefits and professional development resources are solid.

Cons

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