Bain & Company Gurgaon / Gurugram Reviews

Likes

There are definitely some good things about Bain but they are hard to recall as they are not significant. Apart from salary/perks and people in your team, nothing else comes to mind.

Dislikes

There are many, but most critical ones are: - Lackluster leaders (Senior Managers and above) who have poor people management skills and some of them know very little about their subject matter and don't even try to learn. Ofcourse there are exceptions! - Work culture is a big issue. Company masquerades as a progressive firm with employee friendly policies but policy implementation is poor. WFH requests are allowed but frowned upon. Leaders preach about DEI sensitivity but don't practice it themselves. People are judged based on their looks (at least in my ex-team). No sense of personal space - supervisors can call you at night and on weekends to discuss the most trivial things. You will have to stretch a lot and it can become taxing after a while. HR is aware of most of the issues but does not have guts to confront leaders (who think they own the company). Interns were treated with utmost disregard by the HR (with no clear communication on their PPO or lack thereof). Quality of work is not as good as people think. And this is true for most consulting firms. All of them are peddling the insights which they don't know fully about and frankly don't even care to do a great job of it. Partners can completely throw a wrench in your work plan and case teams are only worried about cost of the project (which is fine but it should not come at the cost of quality). Overall consulting work is a big sham which most insiders know!...Read More

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work timings: Flexible Timings

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Beside TSG, overall work culture of Bain is good.

Dislikes

Software development group is the worst group to be part of in Bain, worst possible leadership in this group, forget about learning anything in Bain TSG, the current leadership consider you as a monkey, people do not get promotion or appreciation based on the quantity and quality of the work they do but based on if they are part of events team, if they are chamcha of leadership.

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Breakfast

Dislikes

Less analytics, show off

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Really talented peers Good employee benefits

Dislikes

Toxic environment No Work life balance Huge disparity in pay at same levels Learnings may not help in other companies in the industry

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Work life balance

Dislikes

Toxic colleagues

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Likes

There is nothing to like about this place except salary and benefits!

Dislikes

Terrible management, they don't consider employees as human. Everyone is just a resource to clean up their shit! Overpromise to clients, and then make it hell for employees! There is work flexibility, which means you will start your day at 9 AM, but flexiblity is provided that you cannot end your day before 11 PM. Their definition of flexibility is just unending working hours!

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within Country.

Likes

There is a lot of learning. The firm also invests a lot on the infrastructure and its employees!

Dislikes

Home grown employees grow relatively faster than lateral hires

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Work Life Balance

Dislikes

Lack of transparency around leadership decisions

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Company benefits other than salary and culture are top notch.

Dislikes

Too much dependency on CoE lead, very little role of HR Bad hikes and promotion, top heavy

Likes

Culture

Dislikes

CTC; not upto maket standard for non consulting roles

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Great culture, and work life balance

Dislikes

Slow career trajectory, limited learning opportunities