Anybody ever jump from Big 4 to a management consulting firm? If so, how was the process?

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If they did, they wouldn't be in this fishbowl anymore

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I went through the interview process with a boutique consulting firm and it wasn't what I thought it would be. They interviewed me about 5 times with 5 different people, then said to be hired by them I needed to interview with one of their clients to see if the client liked me enough to staff me on the project. If the client didn't like me, I would essentially have an open offer from them for a few weeks or months until they found a project that did. Since I wanted a new job sooner, I left the process.

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That is a really interesting interview process EY2. Sounds kind of annoying honestly lol.

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Hahaha woops, that's true.

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