Boston Consulting Group reviews

- Management is filled with old people who just want to play filthy politics with little kids. Holding back promotions of people who deserve them and just depending on their own flawed perceptions to award and reward people - Random decisions taken arbitrarily. No transparency whatsoever - Researchers are treated like nothing in the world. Nobody cares about them. SR's take credit for the good work done by researchers and management doesn't bother to cross check. - No complexity of work. Busy pleasing the likes of KT and CT - SR's are super busy all the time. Not working but Gossiping. Management meetings are all they do. Overpaid and underworked. - Management needs to learn to stand behind their people and encourage kids. People coming from C- grade universities (every person in senior management) are busy telling prospective IIM candidates how awful the B-schools they aim to go to are. It's hilarious. And why do they do this? Because they just want you to get discouraged and stay in their team for the rest of eternity - over hiring. Sick of training people.

Of all the top consulting firms, BCG is by far the most focused on short-term profit per partner at the expense of all else. During the decade I was at BCG, I saw WAY too many decisions that were very bad for clients and non-partner consulting staff that got made to enrich current partners. Very smart people can come up with rationalizations for their actions, but at the end of the day what I saw take place very regularly at BCG was dishonest. As someone who served in leadership roles, was active in the CDC, etc, I still feel very guilty for some of things I was involved in. Every large company has some "bad apples", but at BCG, the "bad apples" gain more and more power because they the ones who are least apt to demonstrate any restraint or remorse for focusing purely on short term profit. The individuals who I saw lie, cheat and steal the most are now in enormous positions of power. I regularly hire consultants now that I'm an industry exec, but I would never hire BCG unless/until the current regime turns over.