MBB consultants do you regret working as consultants?

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Nirvana31

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Nirvana31
Dec 20, 2020 10 Comments

If you had a chance to start over would you join MBB again or would go with a different career now?

Maybe you have missed some great opportunities which you see now due to MBB?

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  • Lyft
    gyfdtyh

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    gyfdtyh
    I’m not going to say which MBB I was in but I’m making 2-3x more in tech with about 60% of the hours on just as interesting work.

    F**k consulting. Most of my old colleagues have reached out about referrals.
    Dec 20, 2020 2
  • Wrong app. Almost everyone here will bash MBB in a heartbeat. Anything non-FAANG is a sin and people like Sundar/Sheryl were stupid for wasting their precious years at MBB.

    There’s a purpose for everything. If you want to work on cutting-edge ML or build the next AWS, of course MBB is a bad place for that but if you want to move to COO/CEO/CFO (notice how I omitted CTO), you need to learn how organizations work, how to drive change, how to retain talent, where to cut costs, where to delegate etc and MBB is a terrific place to learn that.

    Many of the “F**k consulting” tech bro crowd either don’t know what an MBB role entails or they worked there with a wrong set of expectations.

    Before you bash the entire MBB universe as PPT junkies, try to learn what we do. I have never personally opened a PPT at McKinsey, let alone working on it. Tagging all consultant as “PPT monkeys” is same as “All Indians eat curry” or “All Russians drink vodka”, just shows your arrogance and ignorance.

    Finally, if consulting was THAT bad, FAANG wouldn’t do it but all the Solutions Architect/ProServ (Amazon), gTech (Google), Solutions Engineer (Facebook) and Software Architect (Apple) roles just prove the opposite. They all want a slice of it.
    Dec 21, 2020 0
  • BCG
    ATId41

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    ATId41
    I’m glad I started here, but definitely trying to get out soon. Consulting is something to get over with not to stay in
    Dec 21, 2020 0
  • New
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    People on the Fishbowl app (consulting crowd) also want to leave for FAANG as soon as possible.
    Dec 30, 2020 0
  • You're posting this question on app where everyone in tech has a holier-than-thou attitude and will hate on anything consulting related. If you're absolutely sure about what you wanna do, consulting may not be the right path. But it opens doors to unique opportunities that tech doesn't, and it's possible that one of those is where you wanna end up
    Dec 21, 2020 0