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Boston Consulting Group

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Significant responsibility but long hours and unpredictable time off - Senior Associate Boston Consulting Group Employee Review

5.0
28 Apr 2026
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Pros

As a Senior Associate, you are given significant responsibility early on. You transition from just crunching numbers to truly owning your own modules and driving the strategic narrative for major clients.

Cons

Despite firm-wide initiatives to improve predictable time off, the reality on the ground highly depends on your case and your MDP. 80+ hour weeks are still common, making weekday personal plans nearly impossible to keep.

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Pros

Education on AI Fluency and access to the latest LLM models. My immediate team who energizes me.

Cons

BCG isn't what it used to be. Former CEO Rich Lesser cared about Innovation about deep IP and expertise, truly about unlocking the human potential that powers us. Current CEO and leadership trickles down commercialization message, everything is about metrics, what's the business impact, how many cases did this work touch, what is the trend. Often times appearing shortsighted. Lots of politics, lots of words, limited action from PA leadership, largely because they are unable to make a decision, going back and forth on priorities; Every MDP wanting to own something, with too many chefs in the kitchen, and not enough true clarity. Incentive metrics are broken, and asked to do more, An innovation unit is not recognized.

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