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Knowledge Analyst - Anonymous employee Boston Consulting Group Employee Review

2.0
9 Jan 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Benefits of the company in general are fantastic!

Cons

Knowledge Team most unprofessional. KT teams thriving on the legacy and brand built by world-class consultants. They themselves are merely a support function. New ideas/processes take a long time to be heard. Team lead(s) lack professionalism and fail to work under pressure. Bureaucratic and highly political work environment. Heavy micro-management within the KT teams. Less focus on knowledge building and collaboration, more on individual shortcomings and pointing out mistakes. Unnecessary pressure created by internal politics. They pick and choose who they allow to advance based more on politics than hard work and skills. There is no rhyme or reason to most decisions they make; if they like you, you're set. If they do not like you, you are either harassed into quitting or you get terminated. It's also a very sexist and racist company.

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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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