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Boston Consulting Group

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Great people and interesting work, but long hours - Associate Boston Consulting Group Employee Review

4.0
7 Mar 2014
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Pros

-Intelligent, passionate colleagues -In-depth training in hard and soft business skills -Opportunities to do high visibility, high impact work as a young professional -Clear performance evaluation standards and promotion track

Cons

Work-life balance is always a struggle with client service jobs, so don't be surprised to have long hours and frequent travel depending on your cases. During your first year, you don't have a ton of influence in selecting the projects you're staffed on.

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Pros

So much learning and great culture

Cons

Decently long hours, lots of travel

2.0
14 May 2026
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Pros

BCG has top tier benefits, really smart colleagues, good in-office perks, and has a great company reputation. This was a huge part of my experience and has made me go back forth about my decision to leave.

Cons

This is speaking as someone who is not on the consulting side. On my particular team, office politics were very strong with little to no opportunities for people outside of the inner circle to assimilate. More broadly, I feel like the salary trajectory was a little slow, there is a lack of location mobility and and promotions can be hard to come by. Even so, I have personally seen exceptions be made for certain people. More broadly, being located in North America can be difficult since new roles are being open in other regions which is making internal mobility next to impossible. If you have any dissatisfaction with your current team, title, or level - there's a real possibility that you will have to wait multiple years before being able to make meaningful shifts towards your long term career goals.

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