If you're not smart, don't bother - Anonymous employee Booz Allen Hamilton Employee Review

4.0
4 Feb 2010
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Really smart technical people with reasonable technical management to Level 4 (Senior Associate). Reasonable benefits and pay. Promotion within technical slots good up to associate level, but nearly impossible above that.

Cons

Once you get above level 4, management becomes arrogant and self-isolating. Working for a body shop that management doesn't seem unaware is a body shop. Poor support for administrative functions. If you're looking for promotion, work/life balance is a joke. No technical track for advancement above level 3 (Associate), which seems odd for a company run by an engineer,

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