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Some of the Vault guides have gotten to be pretty good. The old Top 50 consulting firms book is a good read and mostly accurate.
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Will do, thanks.
Thanks Ramuman and Artisan Fan,
I ultimately want to get into one of the big VC/PE firms (Sequoia, KPCB, KKR, etc.). I felt like MC will give me a broader set of skills and experiences than finance. Going through the interview process is resource intensive for everyone involved and I didn't want to waste my time or theirs by half-heartedly interviewing for a financial firm.
Another "thank you" for this thread, AF. Lots of good information here.
What would you say the main value proposition of management consulting is for the firms that hire them? Can that value be monetized? Can lessons learned generate sustainable increases in EBITDA growth, and can lessons learned in one division be leveraged into other areas and transformed into increased EVA there as well? Discuss.
I ultimately want to get into one of the big VC/PE firms (Sequoia, KPCB, KKR, etc.). I felt like MC will give me a broader set of skills and experiences than finance. Going through the interview process is resource intensive for everyone involved and I didn't want to waste my time or theirs by half-heartedly interviewing for a financial firm.
In a strategy house...Bain/BCG/McKinsey:
There are not many ex-MC guys in VC. I mean yes, you can find examples, but vast majority of VC general partners are ex-industry guys / ex-CEOs. If VC is your ultimate goals then I won't consider MC the best route to get there.
That's probably true overall, but in my case, if I stayed in engineering, I had three options: Do a startup based on my research and hop from that to VC, enter industry and hope that I could move up quickly enough into some notable management position to let me move to VC, or stay in academia, and have little to no chance to get into VC in any short time frame. Banking work, at least what I'd be doing initially, didn't really appeal to me. In my last round of interviews, I was meeting with the partners/managing directors and they had specific examples of that move happening and my advisor's son also went from BCG to PE.