Boston Consulting Group reviews

Very competitive environment. If you don't progress quickly in the eyes of managers, you are fired. The hours and lifestyle are difficult. The traveling scheduling is intense, despite what they tell you during recruiting, you will travel a lot. They talk a good game about feedback, but in reality many managers don't give honest assessments of your work until its too late.

The biggest problem with BCG is the misalignment between the recuriting message and the reality of the job. During recruiting, BCG is sold as a strategy shop in which associates will be dictating to CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and making decisions that affect the face of global commerce. In reality, there are a lot of problems at BCG that I think stem from the fact that it is a client services job. There is overscoping which leads to unneccesary work (and late nights). There is iteration after useless iteration on output and wordsmithing. There is the desire to constantly over-deliver to the client while properly messaging and avoiding telling the client what it doesn't want to hear. Overall, BCG is moving further and further away from strategy and closer and closer towards a process-based firm because, frankly, there is a lot more money in process work. That means more post-merger integrations, delayerings, cost reductions and implementation projects (which are boring, tedious and contentious) and less strategy projects in which we help define the path and future of organizations.