Bain & Company Backstory:
Rejected BCG to join Deloitte. Worked at Deloitte for a couple of years in technology consulting and going back to industry.

Thought:
Pretty sure the consulting experience that I got at D is not the one that I was expecting but think there are better places out the.

Ask:
Anyone at McKinsey & Company or BCG Digital Ventures or Bain & Company wanna chat to discuss their experiences and help me understand how they differ from Big 4?

P.S. Bucketing firms for the sake of discussion

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This seems deeply stupid… but maybe we don’t have full context?

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Hind sight 20/20. But at the time that I was considering these offers, I was looking at the strength of the analytics practice of each org and for bcg it felt like it was a strong bet on internal products a space being disrupted by a bunch of other startups and Deloitte head a mix of product offerings and some strategic moves into data strategy and partnerships. I was excited about these and joined D to essentially have an impact on this future. But as much as tried to get into these I realized it was marketing fluff and no actual work is done here and the strategic shift from build and sell to sell and build essentially made the firm compete with other services firms who have been major players in this space(think Accenture, TCS, Wipro etc). These are the reasons why I left as well! But I still see the product is the focus in BCG and McK (though they are venturing into services ?) so curious how that experience is in comparison to whatever I had and if there is indeed area to growth and essentially build this practice to scale.

Why would you do that

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Just to clarify, Reason for McK was their acquisition of Quantum Black !

Did you actually have the BCG offer or is this one of those instances where you were likely to/ about to get the BCG offer

Because seems like a pretty irrational decision to me

Bain2 any thoughts here ?

Sounds to me like OP is phishing for an MBB referral and using this “BCG offer” to entice someone to refer them.

I just can’t see how someone would make such a decision without anyone around them guiding them to do otherwise.

M1 any thoughts for the questions above ?

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