Bain Boston vs BCG New York

When you're deciding between any MBB firm culture is the biggest thing, especially when the location differences are Boston vs NY. Boston is a huge office and isn't held to a lesser regard than a NY office. If this were BCG Detroit vs Bain Boston I'd say Bain without a doubt, but Boston vs NY, location is solely which one you prefer because the prestige is the same.

Bain has a slight leg up in terms of PE recruiting, whereas BCG has more alumni in every other area. Bain has office-based staffing, whereas BCG has a mix of local/regional/global staffing. Bain operates in fewer areas than BCG. BCG has more offices abroad if you're looking to do a year in a foreign office. BCG also has a slightly higher salary. The stereotype is that Bain has more of a fratty culture and BCG has more of a nerdier culture.

I was slightly more biased towards the end with BCG (offices and salary), but overall it depends on which place you like more. If you vibed better with Bain, choose Bain, especially if you have no preference towards cities. If you're solely looking at exit ops, and nothing else matters, for PE I'd pick Bain, for everything else I'd pick BCG. But in real life you don't choose things based solely off of one factor, but on many, so you have to weigh all of these things to find which fit is right for you. If you don't like the choice you made, it's probably more so not liking the career, than not liking one firm over the other.

Congrats on the offers, you're in a really great situation