Stories, experiences and feedbacks from consultant and ex consultants
Hi all!
Does anybody have some link about people that have been in consulting and tell their experience? I found just this: http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N18/dubai.html Unfortunately I have only one friend that worked for arthur d little and after a year he quit: he said they were just selling slides.
Anyone that wants to tell his story? Up to now I've just heard consultant in recruiting fairs...and of course they won't say bad things about their job in those circumstances...
thanks
http://managementconsulted.com/
my take...as an analyst at mbb
first point, consulting is NOT glamorous as it seems to be
you do a lot of random crap, pointless work, sometimes there are also people there just to bring in business and not add value to client
however, you need to compare with other jobs
i was an engineering major where you had to sit in a lab for 6 hours to wait for this result that might fail 60% of the time...then you do that for like 5 years to get phd, and end up at a research role where yes you work with cool technology, but there's always bullshit behind the scenes
i have friends who are teachers, marketing, sales, bankers, ....
in every industry you have dishonest people, the work is not that impactful, etc, etc
however out of my work, even though minority, i do get to work on high level strategy for multi billion dollar companies, and actually participate with senior directors who will listen to what i have to say
yes it is mostly frustrating.... but so are most other roles out there
not that i will be a consultant for life...but out of college this is one of the jobs that will allow me to reach my professional development goals in the shortest amount of time
Thank you very much 7S! That is the kind of feedbacks I was looking for, neither interviews to successful senior consultants (that are either in love with what they do - even though this does not mean they are not biased - or they can't just say the truth) nor opinions given by firms on their websites or in official occasions - that are FOR SURE biased.
Any other, or links to posts etc? Thanks everybody
This was already discussed a lot here:
http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/bcg-story-from-hell
Basically, this guy at MIT got canned after he posted about his client on twitter, facebook, etc. The article is sour grapes. From people who knew him at MIT, he wasn't a good fit for anything outside academia anyway.
7S, in my limited experience, I definitely second everything you said...if not from personal experience, then it's definitely what my colleagues have said (when they were being honest)
@ bigmuffin: thanks a lot, that's was exactly what I was looking for! (although it almost burned down my will to enter a consulting firm)
@petergibbons: although I may agree on the fact that some kind of geniuses then are not really good in human relationships and soft skills, I think many of the facts he told can't be so biased by his character/aptitude... Isn't it?
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