Leaving Consulting after 5 Months
Hi All,
I am in bit of an internal struggle recently as to what to do. Some Background:
My education is in tech and I was a SWE in undergraduate w/ experiences at F500's to startups. I Made the decision 1.5 years pre-grad I would try to shift into consulting. Went through the casing process and swung offers at B4, a boutique life-sciences consulting firm and a fairly new to the US, but well-established in europe in-house strategy consulting firm.
For better or for worse I chose the in-house consulting job thinking it would be an extremely unique opportunity over the B4 firms and boutiques. The team is roughly 15 and relatively new to the U.S. I was sold on the pipe-dream of more external clients, a larger team(maybe some fault of my own but it was always communicated that the team was ~100), and strong training.
Flashforward, I received 0 training, have been consistently berated with minimal guidance, and find the value prop of the in-house consultancy in the US to be questionable. (There are no true experts in any specific vertical.) As an AC/BA w/ 5 months of experience, I am on a project w/ another C also new to the firm with a PM staffed at <50%. Another problem is if you don't get along with a PM, it is inevitable you will work with them again due to team size. I don't find the consulting processes here to be tried and true and instead find them to be more process-focused vs market-focused. I am seriously considering leaving ASAP but question what jumping ship 5 months in looks like.
I am pretty focused on joining a startup but am questioning my pitch to go into a bizops/PM role if most of my experiences in the past were of a strong technical background.
Another poster summarized it as "My experience in MBB was a bit like the Wizard of Oz, when you're promised magic, but behind the curtain, it's just a little bald white man making up shit :)" and I find this to be consistent coming from a hard-sciences highly-technical background
Thoughts? Opinions on leaving/jumping ship early? It always seems people in the forums wish they would have left earlier.
What you described sounds miserable. I'd leave. People overstate how bad short jobs look like, insofar as it doesn't become a trend (i.e. make sure you exit to something you'll be in for a couple years)
Also remember that worst case scenario you can always just leave the job off your resume/LinkedIn
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