How does Capital One stack up to full consulting firms?
Hey everyone. How does Capital One Strategy compare to full time consulting firms such as MBB, T2 and T3 firms with respect to factors such as Exit Opportunities, B-School placements, and salary (though this is not as important to me as the first 2). I've tried searching the forums but haven't come up with anything recent/relevant. If you had to rank its attractiveness/positioning power, which tier of consulting firms would you either line it up with or put it between or below? On that note, what are the other internal strategy/consulting roles out there and how do they stack up the the external consulting firms? Thanks for your help.
I actually used to work in the group until a few years ago and the way I would describe it would be that in recruiting, we very rarely won cross offers from MBB, we never lost a single cross offer to Deloitte S&O, and we would split the difference with OW.
And in all honesty, the people who ended up with offers rarely were people with cross offers at places like Accenture, IBM, PWC etc.
Another thing to look at is experienced hiring. Every person brought in from external firms was from MBB. Part of that is due to hiring people with explicit strategy experience which is heavily concentrated within those firms, as that is the work the group does, but another is an indication of talent bar.
When firms outside MBB and a few boutiques talk about “Strategy Projects”, the work they are describing is much more operational or downstream than the types of projects that the strategy group takes on and so the experience is often times less applicable. Honestly, “Strategy” has become such a silly buzzword that gets tacked on to the end of everything as people want to position themselves as “strategists”...
would you mind sharing a bit more about your experience there and the interview process? I've got a superday with them coming up
Madhatten How does the Business Analyst position at Capital One (not the Strategy group) stack up to consulting firms in your opinion? Especially Deloitte S&O?
Don't have info but interested too
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Have heard great things about the Strategy program, it's apparently a feeder to elite MBA programs
Following this thread, interested strategy @ cap one
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