Please help me choose between offers
Hey guys. I am still having a tough time choosing where to start my work after I graduate. Please provide your feedback on what offer you would choose, and explain why. That would be very helpful.
Background: Econ major, senior, about to graduate in 2 months.
Offers that I am choosing from:
1) IT consulting at Accenture/ IBM/ Capgemini type of firm.
2) 'Strategy consulting' at a medium-sized boutique consulting firm. I am not sure exactly what kind of work I would do at this firm, but my guess is that I won't get to do 100% strat consulting, but also some operational/ IT consulting as well... since this firm is no MBB or Monitor -level strat consulting firm.
3) In-house analyst position at a F500 company doing corporate strategy. The company is a top tech firm headquartered in Silicon Valley, CA. (think Facebook, Google, Cisco, HP, Amazon, Intel, etc) I honestly thought I didn't have a shot at this job since they were looking for people with some M&A experience, but I somehow managed to get the offer and the fact that I had a MBB summer internship helped me, I think.
The pay are similar between all these offers, so the differences in comp is negligible. The job in #2 pays the most, however the difference is 6k per year so it's not that big of a deal.
I am looking to work for 4-5 years and hopefully go for a top MBA program. So, I would appreciate your feedback on what job would position me the best for an MBA application.
So, your thoughts?? Plz help!
If your goal is a top MBA, I'd say go with #3. #1 probably doesn't have great MBA placement. However, boutique strat firms usually do well -- ask them where their analysts have gone to school.
Still, with #3 you get good bschool placement + a brand name to start your career, assuming its one of the 6 firms you mentioned. FB and GOOG have amazing bschool placement, but Cisco/HP/Amazon/Intel are all giants too so you should be fine.
The 3rd one sounds great. I think it'd be fantastic to work at a place like Facebook, Google, etc, plus corporate strategy would actually be pretty interesting.
I'd say #3 as well. B-Schools like top brand names, and unless you're a whale-saving minority or olympic athlete, Capgemini/IBM IT consulting or a non-elite boutique strat firm isn't going to cut it.
I think the work would be way more interesting at #3 as well. If I were into tech, I'd definitely leave consulting for something like that (despite not being into tech, I almost left for one of those firms).
Guys, thank you so much for your helpful responses, so far. My suspicion is that the corporate strategy work at #3 would be more interesting than IT consulting at #1... since I am not really into programming/ IT type of work.
One thing I am wondering is would I have decent exit-ops out of job #3? One fear I have if I choose #3 is that I could be pigeonhole into that job at that company for my career, since it's an industry job, not consulting/ banking job.
Thanks, and please keep the comments coming cuz I need to decide on my offer within one week!!
Glad that ivy league degree is paying off. Kill it!
You'd have a good shot at business school after working at Facebook/Google/etc, like others mentioned, and then if you want to do something else later, you could switch into it then.
Why you such a girly man?
i would not choose one would personally choose 3 unless you can provide more specific info on the firm of 2
if its a prestigious MM consulting then that might change things
Enrique, you have just solidified my dislike for you. Accept an offer and than continuing interviewing. Be an adult and man-up for your decisions. If you don't want to do IT-consulting / non-MBB strategy work than don't accept an offers from those types of firms and take a risk.
You are so entitled it is unbelievable.
I don't know why you have to be an ass hole towards me every chance you get. Look, I just came to post this because I was having a hard time choosing an offer. That's it. If you don't have anything to offer, don't post.
How is it that someone who has supposedly interned at MBB can say something as stupid as: " I won't get to do 100% strat consulting, but also some operational/ IT consulting as well... since this firm is no MBB or Monitor -level strat consulting firm." All the top consulting firms do a lot of operations work. The billing rates as well as difficulty are on par to strategy work. Moreover, Mckinsey is known to be the best at Ops and arguably gets the majority of its total revenue from Ops work (they sometimes brand supply chain operations as supply chain strategy, but at the end of the day it counts as operations).
Theres probably a reason you didnt get invited back to work at any of the top consulting firms. Or you're just a troll.
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