Pros
Booz Allen spends a lot of time recruiting and hiring talented people, so the caliber of people you work with is always exemplary. Teamwork is very much a part of the culture at BAH and it shows. With the recent divestiture, however, it seems that people here will forever be stuck working in the government. Projects are sometimes really fun and interesting but a lot of them are staff-augmentation gigs. This is somewhat market dependent, too. For example, DHS has mostly staff-aug work. Security is a bit of a mixed bag. The civil and health businesses typically offer more interesting work. And of course, what overseas opportunities we still have are always fantastic, but good luck getting one of those! Overall, it is a good place to work but it takes at least a year to get used to how varied your projects can be, assuming of course you actually work on more than one during your first year.
Cons
A lot of the projects are staff-augmentation and employees often feel they might as well work for the government agency they have as a client. While being on-site is a necessary part of being an effective consultant, the fact that we are always on-site really starts to demean how we feel about BAH. "Do I work for gov't agency X or do I work for BAH?" I have heard this more times than I can count. Another downside is the lack of any rotation program. There is absolutely no introduction for new staff about what, exactly, consulting is. Oh wait, we no longer are a consulting firm; we are now a contracting firm. The divestiture was a horrible idea and a lot of people will probably leave over the next few years, especially because we all know Carlyle will take us public as soon as the clause against it expires. Why wouldn't they? They only care about making more money. I mean, I do too, so I can't fault them, but that isn't what has kept this firm in the top tier for all these years. We've simply become too big.