Bain & Company Can anyone comment on the differences between working at Alvarez & Marsal and McKinsey & Company Boston Consulting Group or Bain & Company ?

Insights that aren’t shared through a recruitment ad would be great.

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Benefits are terrible at A&M and phenomenal at these others. You can get paid well at A&M if you are billable but the actual work/life balance might be better. Go to MBB if you are young, A&M if you have a family. People are less pretentious but also resumes are much less impressive (at least v Mck) at A&M, but the quality of work is on par.

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So if you want more structure to your work and want to work with some methodologies rather than organized chaos, go MBB.

A&M cuts out the fluff and fancier things

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I work at A&M and my husband at MBB. Would only got to A&M if going to PEPI. PEPI will pay more than MBB if highly utilized, but benefits do not compare to MBB. Would not go to A&M CPI - worse pay, worse benefits, and WLB isn’t that much better than MBB.

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Go to PEPI if you go to A&M. As an SA you can make well over $300k. As a Director you are over $500k. Things have been slow for the past 18 months but anticipate things really breaking loose with the new admin

At A&M, also at Pepi as an SA. Not sure of 300K based on the recent economy but sth around mid 200s are more reasonable numbers to clear even at a stagnant economy.

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