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Ralph W. Shrader
I worked at Booz Allen Hamilton full-time for more than 3 years
Pros – Get experience in Strategic Consulting
Meet executives in various industries
Learn how to work in teams with high-level consultants
Create strong connections with peers
Cons – Long working hours
High-pressured job
Travels outside town and very often
Exhaustive and stressful
Difficult to enter and stay
Limited choice of clients and area of expertise
Advice to Senior Management – Listen more to consultants to try to improve work-life balance
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2012-09-30 14:14 PDT
2 people found this helpful
I worked at Booz Allen Hamilton
Pros – Highly professional environment
Some of the brightest people on the planet
Excellent teamwork
Lifelong associations and friendships
Cons – High pressure for performance
Heavy travel in the early years
Advice to Senior Management – Management has done an outstanding job of growing the company. Keep it up.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
2011-08-08 05:51 PDT
I worked at Booz Allen Hamilton
Pros – prestigious firm, international, world-wide, great opportunity
Cons – travelling, long working hours, competitive
Advice to Senior Management – you can only grow as big as your staff
2009-02-21 14:13 PST
I worked at Booz Allen Hamilton full-time for more than 7 years
Pros – Intelligent, hard working, professional group of people. Highly dedicated and mission focused.
Cons – Known to overwork mid-level professionals
Advice to Senior Management – Focus on listening to mid-level professionals, mentoring and work-life balance
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2013-06-16 18:53 PDT
I have been working at Booz Allen Hamilton full-time for more than 7 years
Pros – Career opportunities, education opportunities, client diversity
Cons – Work/life balance can be difficult to maintain
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2013-06-16 18:53 PDT
I worked at Booz Allen Hamilton full-time for more than 3 years
Pros – Good compensation, interesting work, a fair number of opportunities for different projects
Cons – Generalized reviews for the entire company that are more tedious than average, no technical track, management sometimes disconnected with everyday employees
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
2013-06-13 09:24 PDT
I worked at Booz Allen Hamilton full-time for more than 10 years
Pros – Move at your own pace. Resources are unlimited. Great place to learn all aspects of consulting. Internal resources are nearly unlimited. Plenty of ways for personal and professional development.
Cons – Low salary compared to the work expected of you. Hard to get promoted. Leave structure sucks.
Advice to Senior Management – Be flexible.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
2013-06-09 12:27 PDT
1 person found this helpful
I have been working at Booz Allen Hamilton full-time for more than 8 years
Pros – Incredibly smart group of folks here. Good salary and benefits.
Cons – Executive leaders disconnected from reality of "front line" workers.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
2013-06-08 18:47 PDT
I have been working at Booz Allen Hamilton full-time for more than a year
Pros – - Capable Staff
- Good compensation for junior staff with hard skills (e.g. engineering)
- Relatively good job security in stronger market accounts
- Very collegial environment
- Front-line managers and Program Managers are generally very capable
Cons – - Front-line / contractual leadership ability may vary across markets
- Future outlook for the company may seem "poor" for markets or services hit by sequestration
- Opportunities to showcase/build certain skills have been impacted by current market conditions
- Not a good environment for folks who desire constant direction/oversight
- Cultural shift due to the firm going public is noticeable
Advice to Senior Management – The staff understand that these are lean times but sometimes it isn't transparent as to what leadership is doing to stabilize current and secure near-term opportunities to provide job security for current staff. With the government going to larger contractual vehicles that take a long time to award in certain markets, more seems to be at stake with each new competition. Also, more could be done to combat business leaders building fiefdoms instead of utilizing capable staff who are on the bench and aligned to another market.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2013-06-11 20:39 PDT
I have been working at Booz Allen Hamilton full-time for more than a year
Pros – Good benefits and salary for employees
Cons – Stress can get to you
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
2013-06-05 04:57 PDT
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