Oliver Wyman Internship or Google BOLD Internship?

I have offers for both, and am hoping you guys can help me make the decision as to which offer to take. 

Here is some background info:

- These are offers for this summer (I'm a junior)

- I've always thought I wanted to go into consulting, but applied to the Google BOLD Internship on a whim and ended up getting an offer. Tech has always been something I've been interested in but haven't really pursued it seriously cause I fell into the whole bandwagon of consulting

- I'm interested in consulting because it's a great learning opportunity, I enjoy working in teams, I think traveling could be fun, and I generally enjoy solving problems. I also know the exit opportunities are great. When I think about what exits I might be interested in, strategy roles in tech is what comes to mind but I don't really know, so i was hoping consulting would help me figure that out

- The Google BOLD Internship would be in their OPG group. Don't know much about the group but not sure if it matters

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Not really sure what Google OPG is, but OW will be a good consulting experience and allow you to exit into S&O at FAANG or top startups. If you want to end up in a strategy role at a tech co, consulting is generally a well trodden path as opposed to lateraling internally (especially at a big company like Google)

 
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I made this same decision last summer. I got offers from Google in OPG and many T2 firms and decided to run with Google because of the name recognition and interest in tech. After my experience I ended up deciding to not go back to Google and recruited for consulting. Now I’m going to OW full time.

While I considered many things in this decision, for me it came down to 2 things -

  1. Google’s comp in OPG is really weak compared to consulting (15-20k difference off the bat)
  2. The work in consulting and path in consulting more easily leads to the type of roles I am interested. In the long run I want to do Corp. strategy or Corp Dev in the tech space and I knew that the OPG role at google didn’t have as clear of trajectory there.

Feel free to pm me and we can talk about this a bit more!

 

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