I moved to Colorado recently and would like to get the WSO community's help in understanding the business landscape in Colorado. I am a senior consultant with an MBB firm but don't know much about CO, moved here for family reasons.
Which are the real successful sectors in CO? Top companies to look at? I am not necessarily asking for well-known names like DaVita but more like those that are "well-kept secrets" ... offer good work/learning and pay well. As an fyi, DaVita does not pay well. If you're a consultant you likely have to take a pay-cut to work at DaVita.
You're leaving consulting for industry...you're probably taking a pay cut on a gross basis, unless you're going into finance.
In terms of tech, Digital Globe and Zayo come to mind as companies which might be a little below the radar.
Colorado is known for metals, mining and energy. That is the sweet spot. Denver has grown enough to support everything but some other stronger sectors are consumer/retail and travel/lodging.
Consulting in Denver? (Originally Posted: 07/12/2011)
Hello All,
I am currently an undergraduate business student interested in management consulting. Ideally, I would like to stay in Denver if possible. Unfortunately, I have noticed that most consulting firms do not have an office in Denver as it is so small.
However, I do know that Deloitte has an office in Denver but am unsure if that office has a strategy consulting practice or is strictly audit/tax. They do have a couple of current technology consulting positions advertised but nothing along the lines of the Business Analyst program right now. I seem to have spent forever wandering the Deloitte website trying to solve this mystery, but to no avail and was hoping someone on here could possibly help. So, if anyone on here has any information about the Deloitte Denver office, I would greatly appreciate you help.
Additionally, if anyone has suggestions of other firms in the Denver area, I would appreciate that as well. I would love to get some feedback on Denver firms from real people and not a bunch of random firm ranking lists!
Thanks Everyone!
Interested as well. Anyone know of IBs with offices in Denver or Salt Lake?
It's a United hub. There are consultants.
abacab-now also a Southwest and Frontier hub. But Frontier's going out of business and Southwest doesn't have Economy Plus or SWU's.
Apparently you're not familiar with consulting. Do you think it really matters if they have an office in Denver? You'll never be there anyway, you'll be on an airplane to some place else. Some firms literally don't care where you live (not sure about MBB, but old school Diamond comes to mind), i.e. you could live in Denver but be an employee out of the Chicago office, and you'd fly to NYC every M-F because that's where your client is (contrived example).
Does that actually happen? That's a lot of time in a 31" by 17" economy seat.
People don't consult in a city. Maybe Bain does, maybe people who consult to an industry focused an a city (high-tech in CA, i-banking in NYC). Everyone else consults for a firm.
You won't be going to Chicago every week, mostly DEN-NYC-DEN each week. That's about 5-6 hours flying time/week?
More like 8 a week. Wouldn't you be going to the Chicago office for meetings at least once a month though?
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