Hey all,
I'm a university junior looking to pursue consulting full-time (MBB). Right now, I'm debating between a management consulting internship w/ Accenture and an internal strategy group at an F10 company. Ignoring the specifics of each, which looks better on paper when looking at the top management consulting groups?
Thanks
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Don't think you can really go wrong here but would be curious to hear others' thoughts.
Do you have any idea if the Accenture internship is for their strategy practice or more generalist within MC?
It'd be a generalist role within MC
In that case I'd personally go with the F10 if you're interested in the industry. Accenture has really done a good job of separating out their strategy practice over the last few years. Which means that perks, compensation, b school placement and exit ops are going to be concentrated there. If this was the strategy group at JC Penney it would be a different story.
1-2 years in consulting never looks bad on a resume but when your accenture cohort is re-recruiting in 2 years a top F500 strategy group is going to be very hard to land, I wouldn't assume the same option would be there at that time if you don't take it now.
Accenture has a reputation of being fairly siloed between their practices so if you are not within their strategy group you won't be doing strategy. Since the internal consulting group will likely be more pure strategy, I would recommend going in that direction. Also, you will likely stand out a bit more in your application (a ton of kids come from tier two consulting firms trying to break in to MBB.)
Accenture is a shit hole outside of strategy. Run. Take F10, even if it's HR...
I'm a bit confused about this – what exactly is so terrible about an internship with Accenture MC?
Accenture MC is fine and their tech is strong... it would just be very difficult to get into a solid strategy group from there.
I would also add that rerecruiting from a strategy internship would be very easy. Your story would just be that you liked the work you were doing, but you wanted to try out other industries. I would say that’s arguably a better story than going from consulting to consulting.
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