Could you share your experience of joining corporate M&A team from consulting? Quality of work, hours? Thanks a lot in advance?

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Hours and wlb are great. Like all M&A, it’s cyclical depending on where you are in a cycle, but still nowhere as intense as consulting.

You (likely) won’t be working with a bunch of driven, type A consultants so it can be a challenge moving at deal speed and getting shit done.

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Very different, typically an inexperienced team and lack of maturity when I comes to deals. If you are willing to change your approach a bit and learn to meet the team where they are at, you will do fine. But it will be an adjustment.

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