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Good place to learn professional dynamics and gain experience in different industries. You can also learn a lot in project, stakeholder and scope management
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Toxic workplace and management

BCG does not care about the BST staff. Employees are doing the work of 2-3 employees and are told there is no money for backfill then spend millions for the consulting staff. Toxic managers that create constant turnover. You would expect that after multiple people leave, they would change management. Unfortunately they do not care. Stay away if you want to work less than 70 hours and not get a consultant level salary. Not worth it.

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No work life balance, toxic management
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Great place to work, but avoid Miami office

ProsBCG promises to invest in their employees' growth & professional development and they 100% deliver. I got tons of feedback, regular reviews, and training at key points within my career trajectory. Everyone who I worked with cared that I was developing and building my skills on a case. Working at BCG was a great way to get exposure to a lot of different industries and project types.ConsThis review does not focus on the standard difficulties consulting (such as occasionally unpredictable client work and long hours), but rather on why I’d suggest applicants specifically avoid Miami and recruit for other offices.To quote a friend of mine in a different office – “I’m really sorry, Miami really doesn’t sound like the BCG I know.”For context, BCG’s model of governance is federalized, placing significant control of operational and management decisions at individual offices. While this is typically a good model, Miami’s leadership has a reputation for being more inflexible than leadership elsewhere in North America. A few major examples:- Against North America policy, leaves of absence denied because they were not solicited 6+ months in advance, even if for mental health of family reasons- Staff discouraged from pursuing staffing assignments with teams outside of Miami – implicit expectation that ever incoming new hire will spend 6+ months in retail. Office leadership literally says “the model does not work when people work for other offices.”- Mobility options are less flexible than those in other offices – need to return to Miami for 12 months after any secondment (other - 
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Tough but mostly worthwhile for a bit

As expected with consulting, crazy hours, no worklife balance, no respect for personal commitments or boundaries. But nowhere will you learn more, be pushed more, and grow more. High reward for a miserable time.
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Freaking mess

Think chicken with its head cut off. No one knows what’s is going on and leadership is too busy inflating their own ego to give a care about anything else. Stay away!
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Productive, constantly changing, transformation in excess

What is the best part of working at the company?medical Benefits and salary is competitive What is the most stressful part about working at the company?Micro management for autonomous positions.What is the work environment and culture like at the company?Local office teams about their entire team What is a typical day like for you at the company?Adhoc, new projects daily, constant change and flow of projects
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Cutthroat but great comp

Expected to make the WLB trade off for high comp with great benefits. Recent moved back to high forces attrition are making the company culture a little toxic.
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Great place to gain global experience, however toxic people are tolerated to the detriment of others

Good place to gain global experience but don't stay too long! There are good people at BCG, but the firm tolerates bad behavior and, in some cases, rewards it. Long hours are expected. These conditions lead to stress, mental health issues and burnout. Benefits are great as are the opportunities to work with very talented individuals around the globe.

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Free benefits and opportunities to work with global colleagues

Cons

Toxic work environment, long hours, leaderships' failure to address bad behavior.
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Inclusive community with myriad opportunities for advancement

It seems cliché to say that our company culture is what stands out to me, but it's true. I have made some of my very closest friends at BCG and I feel so supported in both my work and my personal life. I feel like I am learning new things and growing in my career every single day, and there are so many opportunities for continued learning and personal growth in formal trainings, mentorships programs, guest speaker series, and health and wellness programs. I am surrounded by some of the smartest and most innovative people in the world, and it's truly a global company and culture. For example, I transferred from Atlanta to London through BCG's excellent mobility program and I have developed extremely close relationships (and friendships) with people from SO many different backgrounds, cultures, and experiences that I would have likely never crossed paths with otherwise -- and resulting in an incredible diversity of perspectives. I feel proud to work for a company that aligns with my values, is uniquely positioned to help make a positive difference in the world, and has a leadership team that strives to put people first. For example, during the pandemic, our global, regional, and local leaders were extremely transparent from the outset and took every precaution to protect jobs, give people flexible options, disseminate generous stipends and extra bonuses as soon as the economic outlook improved, and also provide unique opportunities for employees and their families to learn about the benefits of the vaccines (e.g., extremely informative webinars with government officials and pharmaceutical - 

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INCREDIBLE benefits package, opportunities to transfer to other offices, global community, opportunities to change your career within BCG

Cons

Competitive nature of the industry
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Second-rate experience for BST role

Benefits are great but that's about it if you are BST as you are treated really poorly compared with Consulting. I would say they need to start "walking" the "talk" they use with clients.The internal culture is really toxic and they are really poor on inclusive leadership and policies (evidenced by really poor diversity in top levels). Constantly resolving every demand but make no strategic progress, not very motivating to work for,

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Internal culture, non-inclusive leadership
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Crazy hours and expectations. Toxic culture and extreme disorganization makes it very hard to do your job. Constantly putting out fires. The only positive about working here is the benefits.
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Rife with Nepotism!

BCG prides itself on being a Fortune Best Employer but it is only good PR. On the business services side (non-consulting), all of the plum management positions are filled by former consultants with no experience in that job/cohort. Quality BST management is never promoted, unless it is whomever is the biggest a@$ kisser to the senior partner/leader they report to. And boy, there are a lot of them! People who con management and don't bring any real value to the company, tend to be the ones that get promoted. This company treats its longtime employees terribly. Nice offices cannot mask the inequity and rife nepotism that pervades the culture at BCG. Run!
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Only consultants need apply

Many support functions are not paid market rate nor supported by HR and management. Always encouraged to keep going but no compensation or promotions to reflect accomplishments.
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Great learning, amazing people

People here support you to grow. The work is meaningful. The team is open and management responds to feedback! The company is increasing recognizing flexibility and work-life balance.
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great culture

company lives by its culture and values. great place to work. stay effecient and management will support you come what may. you should be proactive and go-getter. if they have to tell you what to do, you have lost half of it already.
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Fun place to work, but has its downpoints

lots of comraderie and opps for social interaction--very young culture which can be good or bad depending on how you look at it. Lots of beer and wine functions, happy hours, and brought in food/treats--which is nice. --management is spotty-can be aloof, removed and unsupportive. some department's employees definitely "suffer alone" bc all are expected to get it and run with the ball and no one wants to be seen as not knowing.

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food, happy hours, office parties, coworkers are very collegial

Cons

upper management tend to be shortsighted
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Sharp contrast to last consulting environment

I transitioned to BCG from a large, publicy-owned consulting firm where I was also in a strategy consulting role.Virtually everything about BCG is concretely better than my experience at my previous employer. The two most visible differences to me are (1) how strongly the firm's values are demonstrated and how openly leadership discusses both their successes and where they're still working to improve, and (2) the willingness for projects to pay for reports or services to avoid grunt work and emphasize the "thinking" side of consulting. Both of these stand in sharp contrast to my prior role.The current staffing model for North America is the only drawback I've seen, as not all staffers do their part of the job very effectively. That said, I have every confidence that feedback on this is being heard and that things will improve.

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Generally interesting projects, management, great pay, great benefits, great offices...etc...

Cons

Culture varies a lot office to office, staffing model change is a hopefully-temporary hiccup, hours can be aggressive but no more so than other firms
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Great benefits, but pay is low for a business support role

Great benefits like $5 co-pays with company paying all premiums for you and all dependents 100% but the pay is low for a administrative assistant role. The benefits seem like golden handcuffs.But I think it has best work life balance compared to other admin or EA roles at other companies. It depends on who you support though.

Pros

$5 copay and no deductible and paid premiums for health, vision, and dental, lots of learning opportunity, free LinkedIn learning, nice coworkers

Cons

There is a divide in treatment of consultants vs business support staff. Getting better during Covid, but still there are benefits to be on the consulting side, admins severely underpaid for the amount of work they get, management is not really transparent about decisions and promotion track etc
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Great place to work and learn, if you can last

The number of project types at BCG is enormous and the impact of the projects hits very close to the top of Fortune 100 companies. You'll learn every day on the job, but your personal life will suffer. You'll never be surrounded by a more congenial group of workaholics anywhere else. Managers change with every project so you'll see a new management style every ~8 weeks. Hardest part of the job is logging off. Someone is always asking for you to do something and the culture of ultra-hard workers makes it feel impossible to say no. And if you do set boundaries, it is time to consider moving to another profession

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Travel in style, learning and development, exposure, alumni network

Cons

On the road a lot, long hours
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High pressure, poor management by management partners

Poor skills of management partners. Poor handling of the team (yelling at team). No worklife balance (90h/week)! Team/ people are great! Management above PL mainly don‘t care about people or are not interessted in devlopment of young professionals!

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Good salary

Cons

Non-respectful treatment of employees
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Highly demanding, old fashioned business style and processes. Great benefits.

Overall interesting place to work but could be much better with some key changes. Managing Directors/Partners have old fashioned sense of entitlement -- continues to maintain an old boy's club culture where bad behavior is overlooked or tolerated. Lack of business discipline and process is considered acceptable due to private firm status. Work demands are often unrealistic and unsustainable. Salary is low for the demand but benefits are great and several employee perks still exist. People tend to be smart but are often arrogant as well.
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