MBB “Up or Out”

When MBB firms make presentations, they usually show how about 20% of their UG hires get directly promoted, another 25% or so is sponsored to do an MBA and then, the remaining ~55% goes on to other “opportunities”

There’s obviously a lot of people that simply move on to better things or decide they want to make career changes. My question is how many of these people in the 55% voluntarily left after 3 years of consulting?

 

People burnout from 40 hour a week corporate lifer jobs as well. To say that alone equates consulting decisions to IB on the basis of quality of life is pretty silly. IB is still far worse than consulting on that front. It's just that consulting remains quite difficult and far worse than your average corporate job.

 

The cases of up-or-out I've witnessed were mostly at the EM/PL/CL or Manager/AP level, not at the MBA level. There is indeed a lot of voluntary moves due to people not wanting to go through an extra ~6 years of intense work.

 
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