What do people think of this place? Does it focus on hiring overly pretentious mba/business school morons (I went to Harvard like 6 generations of my family before me and my name is <first name> <wasp/asian/jew last name> the third), genius stat and applied math phd’s (I won the national math competition in China) or just really good software engineers? What is work life balance, tc like? How good are exit opportunities and what are they? I know people go to McKinsey to become execs or go into private equity and are typically the from the first category but how different and technical is quantumblack? Is it better than fang and why for software engineers? Very interested since I found out about it.
I highly doubt it's better than fang. You're going to have to answer to consultants, thus probably working some long hours alongside them while also getting paid less (because you're not McKinsey's bread and butter). Also keep in mind that you'll be working on problems for clients, meaning you may be limited on projects to your clients' capabilities and problems they choose to tackle
Dude. The best place for software engineers are software product makers - Google, Microsoft, and the like. Why do you want to join a consulting firm? (Obviously, engineer exit options will be worse than FANG. Not sure if TC will be higher.)