great overall - Project Lead Boston Consulting Group Employee Review

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.

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.

- Access to the most interesting business problems - Working with bright people and clients excited about the opportunity to improve and change - Perks, pay

- Hours are draining, timelines are often unrealistic, work is often 'just paper' not real business change - This is the only place I have ever worked where I felt like being a woman was a huge liability to getting ahead; frequently experienced sexism from being asked to do proposals to give the impression of a gender balanced team only to be replaced by a man for the actual work, leadership teams cutting me out of social events or adhoc conversations when I was the only woman, opportunities given to men at my level with lower overall ratings and less experience in a topic area because of their bro-y, chummy relationships with majority male leadership teams