- Misleading role definitions and job descriptions. The term “AI” in job titles here means they just use AI tools like ChatGPT. This isn't really an AI role. Engineers here are full-stack software engineers, ignore any job descriptions (or interview questions) that say otherwise.
- Low technical growth. There's a strong emphasis on solving business problems, spent more time articulating work to non-technical stakeholders and team members than building good software systems.
- Low career growth. Engineers can spend long stretches of time “on the beach” with little to no work. This was not good for my career growth.
- Exit opportunities largely limited to other technical consulting or forward deployed roles.
- If you still want a technical role at BCG, I'd apply for a Data Science (FD AI Scientist) role within BCG X. Much less likely to get long stretches with no work between cases, and you’ll be staffed on more interesting work first. Many “AI Scientists” in the region are essentially software engineers anyway.
Working in tech, I would've gotten more growth and less stress with the same pay at another company or startup.
