Thoughts on Berkeley Research Group?

They recruited heavily at my school. Seemed like a younger, highly intellectually curious group of people. Solid people culture from what I could tell, and certainly some of the sharper folks I interacted with during recruiting.

In terms of the work, they will sell a bit of management consulting work here and there but the majority is econ/litigation as alluded to above. Clients are primarily law firms and day-to-day is around building complex models and dashboards (using things like excel, SQL, Python, Alteryx, Tableau, etc.) to quantify the economic or financial implications of a legal dispute.

The work can be VERY interesting (e.g. building a machine learning model to tell a lawyer how much $$ the trade secrets that Google stole from Apple are worth for their bottom line) or much more mundane (e.g. analyzing accounting data to look into anti-trust activity in the utilities sector) -- it is a mixed bag