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5.0
11 Oct 2016
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Pros

Most incredible development opportunity for a young professional. You will be well set up for any job you take in the future after a few years as a BCG consultant. The humility and intellectual rigor of the staff sets BCG apart from peers. The people are some of the smartest, most interesting, and good group of people you will come across. Incredible benefits packages.

Cons

Long work hours and lots of travel, disproportionate for the job to be done in some instances (having moved on to a client organization it is even clearer how the slides do not always need to be perfect). Business services team (BST) treated as a less viable and prestigious career pathway than consulting, which is illogical when you consider the infrastructure that is required to run any other company, and importance of roles like head of HR, finance, recruiting, real estate, etc. This limits options for consultants who want to take an internal role as a career path.

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5.0
8 Jul 2026
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Pros

Great place to work if you’re on the right team, however there are lots of pockets of resistance throughout the organization, whether in consulting where people are still clinging onto billable work that slowly dying or in IT where people still think ITIL and exit gates in waterfall is still applicable in the type of work we do now you're going to run into friction and lots of people that are trying to earn a spot not by competence, evolution, and change but by clinging on to processes that are antiquated. IT definitely needs a reboot

Cons

Not many. If you're on the right team. If you're on the wrong team, get ready for bureaucratic hell

3.0
3 Jul 2026
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Pros

Education on AI Fluency and access to the latest LLM models. My immediate team who energizes me.

Cons

BCG isn't what it used to be. Former CEO Rich Lesser cared about Innovation about deep IP and expertise, truly about unlocking the human potential that powers us. Current CEO and leadership trickles down commercialization message, everything is about metrics, what's the business impact, how many cases did this work touch, what is the trend. Often times appearing shortsighted. Lots of politics, lots of words, limited action from PA leadership, largely because they are unable to make a decision, going back and forth on priorities; Every MDP wanting to own something, with too many chefs in the kitchen, and not enough true clarity. Incentive metrics are broken, and asked to do more, An innovation unit is not recognized.

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