Q for the fresh consult joinees, ideally Co22 or 23  about what inside the firms looks like right now. Are you working, how are the projects, toxicity/anxiety?

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Fresh MBA grads in Consulting. Hows it looking?

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With the news about McK also offering severance based voluntary attrition, wanted to get a sense of how are things across MBB in India?

The hiring has been over optimised, the batch of 2024 and the summer intern batch, count of new hires should go back to 2019 levels

How is the promotion scene looking like? Are you hearing of headcount rationalization in the India offices? 

Folks were expecting natural attrition will help with HC nos, I don't think it has really played out that way

How is your MBB/ mgmt consulting looking right now

Hi! I'm graduating this semester and would want to get some work ex before pursuing my masters. Should I go for the BCG Training Program? It's an 18 month paid stint in their GS office. Would it increase my chances of getting placed as an associate at BCG after those 18 months? Or is working as a consultant/ analyst in a (much) smaller firm better?

A fresher looking to venture into consulting

The batch of 2022 was one of the largest, and it's unlikely the system will be able to absorb so many associates/ consultants. How is the morale at your MBB, what is the gossip/ rumours

Folks 1.5yrs into MBB, how is the promotion to Associate/ Consultant looking like?

Fresher looking to venture into consulting

Hey guys, I've been working in top tier consulting firm for a year and I'm just bored of making decks. What exit opportunities exist for me?

Exits after consulting?

Consultant

were you forced to go for a mba due to career stagnation or lack of opportunities? 

referring to 3Y degree, bcom,bba,bsc people(not t1 btech folks)

trying to understand and gauge the landscape here

folks who got into management consulting post undergrad, how are y’all doing?

Business Analyst

I am very fascinated by Management Consulting and been speaking with ex consultants. All of them are critical of it, but agree the money is good 🤤

Need advice 

- Do these companies take lateral hires? I have seen only IIM candidates freshly graduated being taken in
I'm not IIM, but MBA with 6 years of work ex

- MBB have shittiest WLB and highest money. Which comes down as per tier. Which is the best tier to get into, so I have best of both worlds (less shitty WLB with lesser money)

Getting into Management Consulting

Hey. I'm a post graduate from a tier 1 MBA college currently working as a management consultant in one of the Big4s (<1 year). Compensation is good (~30 lpa), can't complain. Work has been stagnant for a while firm wide though and have just been focused on upskilling myself.

With the interactions I've had till now, I don't really see myself building any hard skills other than data analysis in excel, power BI and business acumen here. (I might just be ill informed here, but are these transferrable skills I can take to the industry? I know data analysis is the bread and butter for business everywhere but I'm talking about specific software and whatnot used in companies) 


1. I'm just worried about the exit opportunities that I might have later on. Can anyone shed some light on what kind of exit opportunities one can expect?

2. Let's say I want to get into the operations side of the industry. Is there anything I can do if I'm not necessarily involved in such projects?

Exit opportunities for business consultants?

I'm a 25F recent MBA grad (fresher, Top 10% of my class, UG- old IIT). I started working with  this MNC right after my graduation but the last 5 months have been very disappointing. I was asked to shift cities to my base location but have been mostly working from home since I've joined. I've not been receiving any communication from my team except ad hoc calls for short term projects where my only job is to change slide colors or copy data from one sheet to the next. I've tried being patient and I've tried talking to my senior-ups but have now come to realise that I don't want to pursue a career here at all. 

I've been looking for jobs for a while but am facing the following problems-
1. Vague job descriptions and job requirements
2. No call backs/ rejections despite having referrals. 

I'm looking to break into finance but am also open to strategy/ CEOs office/growth/ PM roles.
My primary criteria for a job are a steep learning curve and having people around me that I can learn from. 

Any advice/ perspective is most welcome.

In case you feel very strong negative emotions towards this post, I would appreciate it if you don't express it or at least tone it down. I'm not in the most perky of minspaces these days and don't wish to feel worse. Thanks!

Fresh IIM ABC grad, want to switch jobs ASAP.

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Hello Folks,

I'm currently working at Google, and I'd decided to soon quit for getting an MBA (expecting admits to IIM-A/B/C) to break into consulting, specifically MBB or even Product Management.

Honestly, I'm interested in it for industry exposure, the chance to climb the ladder quickly, and, let's be real, the fat paychecks. 

But then I did a lot of research and, dang, it's all doom and gloom. Is the work-life balance in consulting really that bad?
 
I'm starting to question my plans. Anyone out there got some real-world experience to share and some genuine insights?

Reddit, do your magic!

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Can a fresher get into management consulting, if yes then how…

Consulting

A bunch of us fresh MBA grads who got into T2 consulting were wondering how do we figure out what we really like. The old work ex isn’t relevant anymore and the new one will be general maybe?

Does it get better? How do we experiment? Thank you, and apologies for the generic ques!

How to find what you like to do?

I currently work as a senior analyst in risk management and analytics at one of the big 3. Don’t really like the work or long hours. What are my exit options? 
Can I move to tech in some product or strategy roles?
Or can I get a VC or PE analyst role?

Appreciate if anyone can share their experience of post exit from consulting.

Yoe 3
MBA tier 2

Exit opportunities post MBB experience.

Founder

Hello grapevine folks,

I am a 2024 batch btech Cse , general male candidate from IIIT( 10 year old).

Class 12th - 97% (ISC)
Class 10th - 96.4% (ICSE)
Btech Cgpa - 9.415 (till 6th sem)

I am thinking of giving CAT next year but in dilemma that should I go for work experience or not . As iims do prefer people having work experience. 

And what percentile should I aim for getting admission in old IIMs.

Thanks in advance.

MBA Guidance

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I joined CN with some hope to do strategy work after working for long in the Tech Consulting space. But here the work is pathetic and doesn't even come close to the work I used to do earlier. On top of that so many teams by industry , functions and whatnot and such cut throat competition of staffing and credit. What is this madness. All the people who are long timers here have totally no skillset , I can't fathom how they have survived so long here .

Accenture Capability Network is a scam !!

It seems like the bear market effects are down upon consulting firms now too

Got to know from multiple people that were joining top consulting firms that their onboarding is deferred by 6 months (across places like Bain, McK etc)

Already enough existing employees aren’t on active cases, and so it seems like they’ve hired more than there is demand for cases, people who have actually been sitting on the bench for months 

If demand does not return, this could really stack up and lead to a problematic situation

Delayed onboarding across consulting firms (MBB too)

Ironic that consultants aren’t able to manage their hiring demand better 🤔

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Analyst

How is the bench scene like? Are promotions likely to be delayed? What are some rumours

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Graduated from NMIMS in 2023- BSc Finance. Interned at some marquee IB firms and startups. 

Working at an NBFC in an MD's office role- Strategy Consultant since then.

Having done multiple projects for the company, I now want to switch to a consulting company where I can have a more diversified set of projects. 

But the market being the way it is, I'm not able to find reasonably good opportunities on LinkedIn. 

How do I go about the whole thing then? Would be grateful for any suggestion or referrals.

Looking for some guidance

Any HR from Deloitte here ? What is current situation of onboarding MBA grads. Got lot of queries regarding late joining and no update on offer letters

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