Pros
Working with Bain & Company is a terrific way to start your career, because it opens so many doors, both into other professional fields as well as t business schools. If you are interested in working in Private Equity or general management down the road, management consulting is an ideal path to take. Within management consulting firms, Bain & Company is among the preeminant firms. It also provides a unique experience from competitors such as McKinsey & Co or The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as Bain tends to hire more young associate consultants. That gives the junior employees a network to work with and to spend time with out of work, while still giving them the top notch work experience.
Cons
Several downsides are that salaries are flat across regions and the hours and travel can be brutal. Wherever one works in te country, salaries and benefits are equal, which means that, financially speaking, locations with the lowest cost of living, like Atlanta or Dallas, make a lot more sense than high cost places, like New York or Boston. They tell you to expect to work around 60 hours a week, which is generally accurate but there are several notable exceptions that can be pretty brutal (a friend of mine was sent to a foreign country for a week, and ended up there for 6 months, and had to quit to be able to come home).
