What geographic region dominates in Consulting?
For example, you'd want to be in NYC if you want to do IB or Finance. I'm not familiar with Consulting much, but does the same thing hold. How would a place like LA be?
i hear great things about the yukon
More or less the same places are all big- Boston, NYC, San Fran, Chicago, DC (more policy work), Atlanta. MBB all have LA offices (99% sure on that), and I imagine it would be alright- similar to how it is as a finance spot- not totally lacking, but definitely inferior to some of those other places.
I've been wondering that too since I'm here in LA. Looks like a lot of the LA offices are all smaller, with only a few consultants and smaller teams. All the big firms even past MBB(Deloitte, OW, LEK, etc) have offices for sure.
The Bay isn't all that bad though. And probably has bigger offices.
I'm mostly basing this on some placement figures I've seen online and also their company websites. I could be way off and someone who works in consulting in LA comes here and says the offices are huge.
Found this list. Not sure how reliable it is but I assume it's somewhat accurate:
http://www.consultingcase101.com/forum/Thread-List-of-consulting-firms-…
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i work out of LA.
I think you'll find the offices are smaller. I think Bain's, proportionately, is bigger. McK I think used to do a fair amount in SoCal, and it was a hub for their manufacturing focus, but it has shrunk in the last few years? I think their office is in Orange county now.
Either way, being on the west coast I think is tougher, on average, for consulting. Here are some reasons: (1) less openings thus harder to get in
(2) You're a few thousand miles away from the economic center of gravity of the country.
(2a) Expect a fair number of engagements on the east coast, or at least in the middle of the country (chicago, denver). (2b) Unless you want to be the guy who doesn't roll up until 3pm on Monday (or worse, I had one small town in virigina where if I took first flight out, earliest arrival was ~5pm), expect to take redeyes sunday night. If you're headed all the way east to DC or NYC, you might get a solid 5 or 6 hours of sleep. What kills you is flying to places like chicago over night, and then working normal consulting hours (12-16 hours) on Monday. (2c) You can probably fly business class, or use a Y-upgrade to get business class, on these flights. Our firm policy is anything > 3.5 hours you can book tickets one class up. Faster mile accrual, too. I made 1k on united by like June this year. (2d) Expect to be lame on Friday night. On those east coast engagements, you'll basically be waiking up at 3am or 4am west coast time during the week (6am or 7am eastern time). I found myself sometimes being pretty tired on Friday nights. You get the hard work exhaustion that most consultants get, plus the 3-hour hurdle from time change.
OK, those are my rants. Hopefulyl I didn't paint too bleak of a picture. Soryr for the rambling --figured you'd want more info rather than less.
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