Bain & Company Reviews

Likes

People, Job fit and company concern towards employees

Dislikes

Non frequent market correction, heavily reliant on foreign markets for budget allocation

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Likes

Pays well.

Dislikes

Very biased towards industry hires. Too much empowerment at junior level ( average age 23 years), pay attention to immature and entitled demands of the junior pool. Project Leader is a sandwiched position between the manager and team. Manager never supports the PL to maintain a good upward feedback. The PL is often disrespected and ignored.

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Rotational Shift (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Helpful people, positive & open culture, better work-life balance among other top consulting companies through policies such as no weekend work, early fridays, cool-off days

Dislikes

Lower perks compared to other top consulting companies, limited independence on work-pieces

Work Details

Work policy: Depends on project, client requirements

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within Country.

Likes

Perks, medical insurance. Some good sets of smart people can be found.

Dislikes

Culture, leadership is into politics, work quality is very bad, juniors are hired from same colg and they create their own lobby, gender biased alot, girls are preferd more and more. Work satsifaction is worst thing that in market you cant tell clearly what did you do exactly other than making ppt.

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

1. Great culture- generally helpful people who try to make consulting sustainable as much as possible 2. Good perks in the office and other benefits 3. Comparatilevly lesser travel - you generally get assigned projects in your base location

Dislikes

1. Poor work-life balance 2. 2023 has been tough year with low number of projects and hence promotions have been delayed. 3. Lesser compensation than BCG and McK at all levels

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within Country.

Likes

1. Good learning oppotunitiy 2. Good and smart people to work with 3. Exposure to problem solving

Dislikes

1. Absolutely not recommended for lateral hires. You will forever be an outsider and will end up quitting 2. Work life balance has only worsened as the firm became desperate to get new projects

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within Country, Travel Within City.

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

Good money and work culture

Dislikes

Hectic work life

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves International Travel.