(Asking for a friend) Friend has just graduated college and has a choice to go into a top-tier consulting firm, or a small tech startup in a junior product manager role (~30 FTEs, never taken funding, profitable and growing, been around for 6 years). Friend feels internal/external pressure to take the prestigious consulting role, but also feels like they want to take a risk and go with the start up. Salary is similar but WLB and culture is significantly better at the start up. Any thoughts?

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As someone who moved from the consulting world to the startup world, startups are a huge unknown when in the recruiting stage. The startup I was hired by ended up having a pretty dysfunctional leadership team, poor processes and procedures in place, and lack of clear direction with the work/role I went into. It's important to remind them to vet their options properly (talking to other people at the startup is a great way to gauge what they'd be going into.

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Which consulting firm?

And what's the comp from the startup along with their valuation?

How they're handling economic downturn is vastly different between firms in the US, that's the difference

No equity, no point, consulting is probably safer

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