Pros
• Nice office, casual dress, and everyone eats lunch together; there are lots of smart people at the company • Analysts and associates become friends quickly mainly bonding over their complaints about management; some go out to happy hours together but company rarely covers these • The clients are fairly interesting and there are some interesting projects as well • You will be thrown into the mix and given a lot of tasks to do, so there is the chance to learn a lot • Joel is kind, smart, respected and seems to be the only exec who seems to care about his employees, but he is rarely involved in projects that you’re on • Nice holiday party event
Cons
• Long, stressful hours with little to no respect for your personal life; always expected to be in the office and face time is very important. Terrible work-life balance • Turnover is extremely high, leaving teams understaffed and inexperienced • Don’t expect to leave the office before 6 or 6:30pm even on light days, many unexpected late nights, forced to work on weekends • You don’t feel like you’re contributing but rather whatever the boss says you must follow • Constant micro-managing, projects are exhausting and BSG often self-imposes tight timelines and over-promises when there’s little reason to do so • Despite being a “progressive company” compensation is terrible and raises are small; year-end “bonuses” are insultingly small • Partners and managers are very difficult to deal with and can be rude, degrading, and borderline inappropriate at times • Very rarely, if ever, thanked for your hard work; small mistakes aren’t treated as learning opportunities • Not a supportive environment where you feel comfortable bringing up frustrations • Doesn’t do a good job at promoting employees quickly enough • Hire and fire people randomly putting employees on edge • Cons are recognized but never addressed