Big 4 is like the state school of consulting

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I like our big4 friends, they are funny

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Am I an elitist poseur who enjoys feeling good about himself for working in a niche segment of an industry almost nobody cares about?

Yes.

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State school -> B4 = fun, enjoyable teens/20s
Ivy -> MBB = difficult, lame teens/20s

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I can get behind this

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That being said, if we're being honest, KPMG is more like a community college.

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Money and ~80% remote before the pandemic started. Kpmg was about 15% over EY and ~20% over Deloitte.

The state school to Big 4 pipeline delivers moderately intelligent analysis and sports-related small talk on tap

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This hurts me to my core

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Checks out.

MBB is peak “Do you know who my father is?” aka Ivy vibes, T2 is the solid private school that isn’t actually better than the top state schools but has more money.

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I see no lies

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So that makes Accenture and IBM 12th grade AP English, no?

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We bought you once we can do it again.

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Whats Big4? Im new here lol sorry :/

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A1 Thanks Enron am I right?

Deloitte is harder to get into than Harvard, so you kind of don’t know what you’re talking about

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What’s Accenture? University of Phoenix?

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I’d much rather be at big 4 than a tier 2, wtf is Oliver Wyman?

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Just curious…why would you not want to be at Oliver Wyman?

Is that bad?

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Agree PwC1. Odds are OP has generational wealth and connections too. One of those “why don’t the poors just get better jobs and stop being lazy” people.

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I’m cool with it - never thought I’d be making what I do at 28 🤷🏽‍♂️

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230ish - not ivy money but hey I’m chillin’

Huh I guess OP never heard about the Deloitte/Harvard comparison

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Idk I think splitting hairs over two of the top universities in the world is a bit asinine, but you do you.

T2 are the small, private, liberal art colleges in the Northeast - Colgate, Bowdoin, Hamilton, Middlebury

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State schools are fun though

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For sure

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Soooo what is WITCH

Wendy’s, in-n-out burger, Taco Bell, church’s chicken, Hardee's

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I went to a state school..

You’re like the Big 4 of McKinsey then

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Tracks. Left Big4 for a small European institution and much prefer it.

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