Bain & Company Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Bain & Company full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Work with sharp and down to earth people, both upwards and downwards. Amazing learning opportunities. Bias to action.

Cons – Lifestyle balance (Again, this is a given in management consulting, and I realize that it is better than some peers)

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Bain & Company full-time for more than a year

Pros – Some amazing and diverse colleagues
Ability to work across a multitude of industries
Good exit opportunities
New London office is a nice work environment

Cons – Long hours and little work-life balance in most teams (you can never make any plans outside work Monday-Thursday)
Training in London, especially on the job training/coaching is extremely variable. Often feels like luck of the draw as to the support/opportunity you get to develop
Pay isn't great when compared to the hours worked and the sums senior management are taking home
Hierarchical set up of case teams

Advice to Senior Management – Get in touch with the issues facing junior consultants, in particular, address excessive hours or increase pay to compensate for the lifestyle trade off, improve/standardise on the job training

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Bain & Company full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great people who really care about both their colleagues and solving client problems. It is refreshing how team-oriented people are. Excellent professional development opportuniities. Very motivating environment.

Cons – Hours can be long, although compensated for by recognition from managers / partners and rewarding work. Although you can influence which project/s you get to work on, you don't have full control - it is driven by business needs.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the good work

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Bain & Company

Pros – Incredible training opportunities
You meet a great network of fun and very talented people
Ability to work across a multitude of industries

Cons – Hours can be very long in a high pressure environment
Hierarchical work structure which is less collaborative than I imagined it would be

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Bain & Company

Pros – Great brand, good stepping stone into Private Equity

Cons – No creativity required, very top-down culture

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Bain & Company

Pros – Great exposure to industry and platform

Cons – work-life balance management and career management

Advice to Senior Management – Be more transparent

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Bain & Company

Pros – Bain has very friendly people, great internal training programs at frequent intervals , strong culture and brand, reasonably meritocratic,

Cons – Very very hierarchical especially in certain locations, not very innovative in IP, culture can be too dogmatic, top down, cult-like

Advice to Senior Management – be more creative in problem solving, more collaborative brainstorm process, less top down aswer driving methodology, more felxibility and focus on work life balance

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Bain & Company

Pros – Great for CV and network building. Particularly good place to start your Career if you are straight out of school. Exposure to many industries and great at learning how to break down complex problems. Training courses are great and can be overseas. Opens up many doors later on especially if you want to move into industry.

Cons – Not having a life! No time off. No real diversity in the office as most people have or are doing an MBA from 1 of ~5 schools, most people are not really aware of what else is out there. Quite easy to get caught up in the world of consulting. Not sure how well consulting equips you for executing real work in industry.

Advice to Senior Management – Pick more diverse employees, understand better where clients are coming from. That way you can really add value

Current Employee – been working at Bain & Company full-time for more than a year

Pros – +People are fantastic
+Learning is rapid, and the analytical tools you build are transferrable
+From a high-level, the work is very interesting, and you can get a lot of responsibility at a junior level

Cons – - Relative to other consulting firms, feels like junior people get less exposure to clients
- Promotions at the more junior level are tenure-based, rather than merit-based
- The junior level work can be very uninteresting, and you live in Excel/Powerpoint

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Bain & Company

Pros – Brightest people, interesting work, and great training

Cons – Difficult lifestyle, travel and long hours are not sustainable