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Don’t be embarrassed. Consulting sucks.
Consulting is great
It’s totally reasonable to realize you didn’t want to build a career towards a partner vending advice for fees. You probably realized you actually want to own a tangible impact and lead larger teams towards an outcome year over year and not bounce around. You had to try it before you could be sure of this, but now you’re sure of it. Whether you got a return offer or not is not a relevant question to this story
Just don’t say anything and be excited about what’s to come. Also you can say that you may want to do consulting at a later time
Don’t be embarrassed. Happens to the best of us. You dodged a bullet! But in all seriousness, you
can either do one of two things - be open and honest and just say how you didn’t enjoy it and hence, it translated into you not getting a return offer.
Where it’ll get tricky is if you recruit for consulting again this fall. A) your classmates will all know the truth then, and b) you may not get a ton of traction as other firms will see that you didn’t get a return offer and so it’ll be a very steep climb to convince a firm to give you an interview let alone hire you.
I say take the former option and expand your search to other industries.
@D1 I’m talking about people with T2/B4 summer internships that want to shoot their final shot with MBB. I’ve literally know multiple people who have done this, although they were 2022/23 grads so not sure in this market. unless they lied about interning at Deloitte/S&/whatever and are also lying about now working at MBB.
I’ve seen although lateraling between MBBs is rare I literally know one person who did that - interned at BCG/Bain but re recruited for McK (but unsure if they got the BB offer or not)
I didn't get a return offer from Amazon and went into consulting where I had a successful career for over 7 years. I never told most people including recruiters that I did not get the offer. But I spoke to my experience at Amazon and how it helped prepare me for the role I was interviewing for
I like tech company B better. The answer is easy.
I wouldn't say completely different, although not exactly the same.
As for other students, you can just say your didn't get along with the lead partner on the project. Or the manager and it torpedoed your chances
Make something up no one will know
It’s entirely upto you to put it on your resume or leave it out
Honestly, congrats
Ping me, Happy to chat!
Was in the same situation a year back. Interned at one of the top consulting firms and didn't get an offer. Came back to recruiting and did 5 final rounds in top consulting firms with 3 offers. (Class of 23, so job market wasn't the best).
Maybe my journey was a lot of luck too but companies definitely valued my summer experience and why I wasn't going back almost never came up during interviews.