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Neither of those will get you into MBB pre-MBA. Also, don’t get into consulting.
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Do an MBA if you want to lateral into MBB instead of wasting your time at either
If “exit” is your priority, then try to get into the industry that you like. Consulting is not a grad school that you must go through.
A&M 1 is right. It’s a lot harder now to lateral into MBB from those firms than it used to be a few years ago. Post MBA is where you could have a shot and both of these firms would be good catalysts to get accepted to a M7 program. Accenture pays for MBAs, not sure about SK. I would push back on consulting being a bad route as a first job out of college. Consulting is a great launch pad for a career. Your first job out of college sets the tone for your career. It’s sad, but mostly true.
Rising Star
SM1: Accenture Strategy has paid for MBAs for years
Former Accenture analyst- was there for 6 years before leaving as a manager
Take the higher compensation, brand names in this world is worth a lot less than your personal abilities - you’ll be paid less for the same outcomes in 3/4 years time at Accenture
Considering Accenture no longer has a “Strategy” practice, I’m not sure where you are going. I would pick SKP as it is somewhat of a T2 but I would not use that to get into MBB or corporate strategy. Plan an early exit and go to industry. It’s much easier to come back to consulting after time in industry and bringing real industry knowledge.
I would say think bigger than lateral move to MBB etc - see what interests you and plan for that. Because once you get to MBB you are again gonna looks for exists. Like this you are gonna spend 5-8 years of your career. Life/career can’t be just looking for exists - see what really interests you and want to do.
SK is known as a pricing strategy house and Accenture for tech/system integration. I would go with the primary directive of each firm and see which fits in the best with your interests.
Also, if you come from a technical/specialised degree like engineering - then go be an engineer for a couple of years, you can become a consultant anytime during your career but difficult to be technical/considered technical again.
Is the implication these days that’s Accenture is a better brand name? I always thought of them as slightly worse than any other big4, not including their pureplay strategy arms like strategy& ey-p etc.
I think SK is the clear winner here, it’s a T2/boutique based on who you ask but the real benefit is that there’s a higher chance to get strategy experience you can leverage elsewhere than say Accenture, which like someone commented before doesn’t really do strategy anymore. I met multiple people within Accenture strategy, all their work sounds like implementation and even they couldn’t spin it into something interesting. At the end of the day, it’s just about what experiences and stories you can draw from in future job interviews and anecdotally it seems Accenture doesn’t really give you much to play with.
SK for sure