Return Offer at prestige Econ CO firm?
Hi everyone,
I’m going into a role this summer as a summer analyst at a top Econ consulting firm (AG, Cornerstone, Nera) and am wondering what typical return offer rates look like — is it like MBB where you just have to show up, get the work done, and not behave like an absolute moron? Or is it like IB where the entire thing is essentially a hyper competitive trial for relatively few slots. I have every reason to think I’d perform well and have no intentions of blacking out at company functions, but curious what people have found in the past.
I was an intern at Cornerstone who didn’t get a return
It’s definitely more similar to MBB in the sense that you’re genuinely fine if you can do work and not cause trouble.
I think a couple things that I didn’t do extremely well were
1. Asking too many questions(generally searchable things or repeat questions). Didn’t seem like a big deal to me at the time, but definitely wasn’t a good look in hindsight.
2. Not fully checking work. This is super important in Econ consulting and something that I should’ve done a better job of.
3. Being slow/bad with R. I definitely didn’t fully grasp R as I should’ve and was likely an indicator to them that I might’ve not succeeded.
Thank you so much for this input. Did you feel at all caught off guard by the lack of an offer? It sounds like it wasn't the best fit for you and I hope you were able to find somewhere that was a better match. I'm curious whether it felt like the writing was on the wall and like there were warnings, and whether it would be appropriate to approach my managers for check-ins about this type of stuff.
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