Q&A With BCG Digital Ventures Employees

Mediocre. This place is intense and demanding. You have to love what you do here.

Expect to suffer

It's like high school. whoever is the most popular will get promoted. not at all merit based. Someone other than yourself "represents" you to a committee (most executive board) who know nothing about you and have never worked with you. They analyze what your representative says about you (supposedly based on feedback from peers you select from projects you've worked on, and what you describe as your overall strengths, weaknesses, and goals). The actual work that you do only accounts for 1/3 of your overall score (which honestly is ridiculous because for members not on the Business Services Team, you are always staffed on projects with insane deadlines). The other 2/3 comes from "Impact on company culture" and "Thought Leadership" (another way of saying how are you improving the company/department you represent by doing internal work) You then get a score, 1-5, and if you score 4 or higher, you will get promoted. As long as people think you're doing well in all areas, you're fine.

Not objectively- you have to be a favorite of three of the top people. Not based on merit

Generally not transparent about travel requirements or demands of the work environment

Political self interested fraternity types

Not objective and controlled solely by the two women who run HR

Appeal to a fraternity culture

Lack of accountability

Frenetic but misdirected

Haphazardly and without clear merit

It is pure consulting and doesn’t know much about entrepreneurship

Leadership is all white male

Dark and uninspiring

Understaffed, underutilized, undervalued

DIsjointed and ineffective

Subpar

It's rare to switch cohorts but it happens

Consulting is growing

Disorganized