Can someone please explain the kind of work MBB firms perform in the federal space? I just can’t see it being widely different than the other big 4 firms in federal. Ex: most work is systems driven (implementation) is that still true for MBB? Thank you!!

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If you're more interested in core mission work than thinking about all the consulting "tiers" of work, "strategy" supposedly being the best, you're better off targeting particular teams within the firms. ACN, Deloitte, and Booz all go after and win core mission work (data science examples include machine learning for clinical diagnosis at a health agency, optimizing postal routes, finding bad guys for a security agency; they also do win real strat work too) . But it's really about finding these specific teams within any one of the firms, not designating a specific firm as your home.

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Our work for federal or any government is no different than our work for private industry. So we’ll do anything from procurement to org design to operations performance improvement, etc. it’s definitely not limited to systems implementation.

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MBB does way more interesting federal work. Source: worked in big 4 and now MBB

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