Bain & Company "Senior Management" Reviews

Likes

The company is good when you consider the salary and benefits but as said, all that shines is not gold.

Dislikes

Everything that shines is not gold. The culture, politics, work life balance, ill defined processes, rigidity to change, lack of SOPs, non empathetic leadership, ill trained team leaders is a major issue especially in finance. Moreover the company has some long termed employees who command even above the leadership though being junior and make it difficult for new employees to settle down. Overall the culture, work life balance and job security are pathetic which ultimately makes it impossible for you to enjoy the financial benefits they offer. I will never recommend this organisation to anyone who is sensible....Read More

Work Details

Work policy: They do offer hybrid but they highly disrespect and mock you if you utilise this benefit.

Work timings: Flexible Timings

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Hybrid setup, good support from upper management

Dislikes

Working hours

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves International Travel.

Likes

Not much. Most of the function majorly do name cleaning or survey

Dislikes

There is no clear visibility from top management, specifically directors.

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work timings: Flexible Timings

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Likes

Everything is good

Dislikes

Managers do micro management sometimes particularly in our department

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

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....Read More

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

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....Read More

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

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!...Read More

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 no job security and there is no standard to run process. Bain is loosing their name due to current management. Pl don’t join bain finance.

Dislikes

There is no job security and middle management is licking boots of bosses to run there job. Worst place to work.

Work Details

Work related travel: This is a desk job.