Big 4 internship -> MBB full time?
Hi!
I am a UK graduate with 2 spring week experiences: one IB firm, one of the MBB's and a summer internship in management consulting at one of the Big 4's. All of these in London. Do you think I stand a chance of getting picked by MBB full time given my profile? I'm coming from one of the target schools with strong differentiators on the leadership side.
Are you kidding? Absolutely!
For sure. MBB take more ft students that didn’t do the summer relative to IB. In that case, the best possible work experience you can have is banking or consulting (big 4 and other tier 2 firms).
I will say that the interview process is a bit of a crapshoot. One of my classmates had a top cv with strategy consulting experience. He didn’t get an interview for one, got rejected from his spring firm and got an offer from the third.
Long story short, getting 2-3 interviews should he quite easy. After that it’s all you and as with banking, luck will play a role.
All the best
From some LinkedIn searches it seems that most of the staff at Associate/BA level in London do have summers in IB or some sort of PE/Hedge Fund experience. Do they always shoot for that?
idk if you've seen the leaked BCG CV scoring guide but basically they give you a score on multiple sections of your CV i.e. academics, extra curriculars, work experience. For work experience to get maximum points it was a summer at a "top tier institution" I think they called it which was basically a front office summer at BBs/EBs, Top tier Law internship, Top tier tech e.g. FAANG etc
Can you send the scoring guide? I'm curious
Can't find it now but it's on a thread somewhere on WSO.
To get full points on academics section it was a 1st from oxbridge, imperial or LSE and one less point if it was a 2.1 from oxbridge, imperial or LSE or a 1st from UCL, Warwick, Edinburgh, St. Andrews, Durham, Bristol + a couple others.
To get full points on extra curricular it was a leadership position e.g. president of a mainstream university society e.g. finance society, sports club. Lesser points was for lesser positions and less prestigious societies.
There was a section on "Oustanding achievement" or something which was points for competing at a high level of sport or academics e.g. math olympiad or something.
And the work experience section which I mentioned before.
I have no idea what the threshold is of points but you can probably scope out people's linkedins who work there to get an idea. Reminder this is just a score for your CV which they use as a filter for who to invite to interview.
Edit: It's a while since I saw it so I can't really remember but I think there was also a lot of points for non profit work or founding a business in work experience section.
Disclaimer: The leaked document was from 2016 so things might've changed now
Hope links work on WSO
https://imgur.com/a/rPftI2d
https://www.docdroid.net/NxeiN0e/copy-of-bcg-screening-criteria-pdf#page=3
Nothing relating to summers in other consulting firms? What was considered a top-tier institution there?
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