Consulting vs Google Offer

Having been in consulting for a year, and knowing what I know now, I'd do Google.

Google, hands down.

Consulting enables you to join PE or strategy departments of corporations.

At Google Marketing you will adapt Adwords, contact youtube uploaders with many views, keep relationships with websites. I cant see how Google will put you in a better position. If you were a programmer I would say join Google and innovate, but as an business major I would always go consulting.

Google - marketing is probably the best position there out of undergrad (outside of engineering), and Google's name will do more than AT Kearny.

You will want to move out of either firm after a few years (Google's promotion rate is mind blowingly slow, largely due to the flat structure; if you go Kearny, you will probably want to move to a better consulting firm or a CorpStrat department). I am reasonably sure that Google would offer better MBA placement.

This is just general advice though. If you strongly prefer strategy, go AT Kearny; if marketing, you should do Google.

I actually forgot to add that I interned with Google this summer, so I could have the possibility of coming back after consulting in a more prestigious strat role, idk if that changes anything.

This isn't even a discussion. Go to Google. Get your organic grass-fed chimichurri steak tacos and your free massages.

Don't go to a second-tier consulting firm where you will fly out every week to sit in shitty temporary cubicles eating from the vending machine and formatting powerpoint slides to help clients stuck in the 1980's enter the 1990's.

Go to Google. After a few years at Google you can swing MBB if you really want to go for the exit opps. This would give you a far stronger CV and credibility.

Yeah dude. I spent a summer at Google. It's the shit.

how often do you search for Brazzers?

I'd take google for better work life balance, all the free food, great amenities, and likely similar b school exit opps for more enjoyable life. I had a lot of college friends to a few years in consulting to later quit cuz the money ain't worth traveling to some backwards ass areas like Cleveland for 6 months out of the year (NO offense if your from Cleveland!).

Google is literally the best (large) company in the world to work for... I'd take that offer hands down.

edit: you'll get to play foosball and ride around on tricycles while kicking beach balls half the time

Thanks for the responses guys, this will definitely be a tough choice! I am now starting to think Google is a better option.

I worked at Google for 3 years.

APMM is an elite program with many perks, so that's a plus. That said, I think marketing at Google is generally kind of lame. It's a lot of writing blog posts, project management and conference events. Some marketing jobs are more traditional, but I think most of them are like that.

That said, Google is a super fun place to work, great brand recognition and APMMs often go on to do interesting stuff after. It'll be way more fun than working as a consultation imo, and you can always try to transfer internally after the 2 years or get a marketing/PM job at another company.