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I think MBB to Banking is possible but I’ve seen many many more people do banking to MBB. Reasons for leaving are:

1) don’t like the people / culture of my group very much and feel an extremely strong fit at Bain

2) think like 5% of banking work is interesting / a lot of learning whereas from talking to folks it seems like a much higher percentage of consulting work is interesting

3) ability to work on one project at a time with one team and really focus vs. trying to keep your head above water on 2-4 things at any time

4) not as sold on PE as I was before banking. Consulting likely opens a lot more doors to cool industry exits - I did a personal “research” project looking at where C-level folks in big Consumer and Retail companies started their careers - for those that didn’t start in the industry from the outset, consulting was by far the next most common starting point (Nike CEO, Pepsi CEO, Dominos CEO, etc)

 

Hi OP, I have an interview coming up for experienced AC. Is it possible to chat with you about your experience? No worries if not

 

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