Booz Allen Hamilton Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Booz Allen Hamilton full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – People, Benefits, and Learning Tools

Cons – Limited room for growth, Your team can really decide your fate, Limited business development opportunities

Advice to Senior Management – Ensure all individuals have the opportunity for career growth.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Booz Allen Hamilton full-time for more than a year

Pros – Training in how to write proposals, run a project, give presentations, and collaborate. Top-notch peers and exposure to major clients.

Cons – Long hours, stress, lots of paperwork, very stressed out bosses.

Advice to Senior Management – My understanding is that after going public, BAH began cutting back on perqs and increasing pressure on employees to prove their worth. This is so obviously and ridiculously suicidal it's a wonder the board is allowing it. Employees accept lower than industry wages because of the benefits and the exposure to big clients. They have all the stress they can handle. Reducing one and cranking up the other will not allow BAH to retain or attract the sorts of employees that made it an excellent company.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Booz Allen Hamilton as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – Vast contract and multiple disciplined opportunities as a consultant. Majority of work focus is military deployed systems of record where services are truly needed. A large volume of work outside Continental US. A winner and contract holder in almost all available Government contracts.

Cons – Large company with many cumbersome processes to get paid. Company is very tight on resources and will not carry personnel on overhead while waiting for new contract renewals.

Advice to Senior Management – Booz Allen Hamilton is a good company to work for; however, you must always be able to depend the "value added proposition" you bring to the table.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Booz Allen Hamilton full-time

Pros – Totally integrity based firm. Unlike many who claim it, they live it in all they do. Much less structured than most firms, they work together without artificially driven boundaries or turf drivers...but as a total team focused on exceeding client expectations in everything they do.

Cons – While their client delivery is beyond compare, internally, the firm struggles with how to manage itself, constantly morphing (rearranging deck chairs), and often overlooks the importance of developing specialty functions that could alleviate strain on their client delivery staff and grow business.

Advice to Senior Management – Find a basic model and stick with it for a while. Consider building non-billable, or minimally billable specialty positions such as BD and Proposal development leads to build experience and focus dedicated attention to areas that are crucial to building new and sustained business.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Booz Allen Hamilton full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Ideal for ambitious, business saavy individuals as there is no limit to the types of activities you can pursue. My managers were great to work with and actively supported my professional growth objectives. They were also open to some flexible work arrangements assist with work-life balance.

Cons – Pressure to remain billable while pursuing professional growth activities required a great deal of personal time to achieve goals. Company shift to hotelling office environment reduced interaction with individuals outside immediate project group and diminished non-project based collaboration.

Advice to Senior Management – Provide candid descriptions to candidates regarding what a typical day in the life involves to allow better manage employee expectations.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Booz Allen Hamilton full-time

Pros – Booz Allen has good salary and benefits.
The training programs they offer in the McLean office are good.
Influential and successful people who had careers in government service work for Booz Allen, which is good if you want to try to make a difference.

Cons – Advancement can be difficult.
The business model allows for hiring people even when the company doesn't have work for them to do, which can be really boring.
Booz has a reputation as being snobbish, which can effect how you are perceived when you work with people from other companies.

Advice to Senior Management – Booz Allen may want to look at leveraging their younger technical staff's abilities to create and market products, rather than only selling services.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Booz Allen Hamilton full-time

Pros – Work with smart, energetic people. Leadership does not micromanage and lets you take full control over your career. Multiple career paths to choose from and tons of resources internally.

Cons – Slightly difficult to find meaningful work at times. Mostly government clients.

Advice to Senior Management – More planning and communicating to staff in smaller markets with regards to market growth. Can often be stressful in small market with few opportunities which can cause turnover.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Booz Allen Hamilton

Pros – Reputation, challenging atmosphere, willingness to change, leadership opportunities early in your tenure, Centers of Excellence provide opportunity to continually learn and keep skills up to date.

Cons – Company seems to reinvent itself quite often, public oversight has created some separation of classes as it appears the approach on decisions is based more on what the analyst want to here than what we should deliver

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Booz Allen Hamilton full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Despite the government slow down the company is doing well.

Cons – There is uncertainty and you have to deal with that.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Booz Allen Hamilton full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Company has a very good reputation. Career Manager's are very engaged in your day to day life. Good social interactions eg) pot luck breakfast.

Cons – The burden rate at booz allen is too high and thus we get penalized with lower salaries then other contracting firms. Have less functions and provide higher salaries and you won't lose employees.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend