MBB Greater China vs LEK Chicago
I got these two offers I’m deciding between coming out of undegrad and I really am struggling w deciding, would love any advice. Long term goal would be to end up in LA/SF.
pro: Can office transfer after two years into LA or SF office without recruiting again. Get to spend time with family that moved to GC, live at home, and explore a new country I haven’t really lived in. I’ve also heard that straight to MBB after graduation is like a golden experience.
con: not building US connections, office transfer not guaranteed, lower pay, terrible hours in GC, my Chinese is also just not good at all (passable but might be a challenge)
LEK
pro: new city in Chicago I can explore, pay is better, better chance at being able to transfer to à LA/SF office without issue
con: not as prestigious, might want to rerecruit or akter into MBB which is just, I rly don’t wanna case anymore.
Just fyi office transfers are hard at MBB even for US-based people. Also your chinese being bad is kind of a big deal here, does your office primarily use English or chinese / what language did you do your interviews in? MBB is hard enough already in a native language not to mention in a language you are bad at - forget transferring in two years, if you can't speak it well you may not even be at the firm in two years... just being realistic here.
I LEK Chicago is a better option for you given your priorities and honestly not sure an MBB in China is even more prestigious than US-LEK.
thanks for the comment! Yea so my chinese is bad in the way that I’m more comfortable speaking in English, but I’m still totally fluent i just haven’t operated in a work setting in Chinese. I think the office uses both languages.
Yeah i think this is pushing me more towards LEK, but I was also told that the return offer after business school sponsorship is a global return offer, so I could technically go back to the US with that?
I had a lot of friends in my MBA program who were from non-US MBB offices. As far as I am aware none of them were just straight out allowed to transfer directly to a US office. Everyone who went from non-US MBB to US MBB had some hoops to jump through, ranging from it being only a temporary transfer to having to go through the US interview process to in one case a guy who just moved to a different MBB entirely because his firm refused to let him transfer at all.
Fair question is if they had citizenship in the US. If OP does and your MBA folks didn’t that could make a difference. More just curious.
Current MBB first year in an asia office who went through similar decision making process of leaving Europe (where I grew up) - dm if you want my info on my experience here at MBB in East Asia!
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