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I worked at a T2 before Bain. It’s largely similar, but the cases are “better” at MBB on average for sure. That being said, because of the luck of staffing, you could go a year on T2-esque cases and not see the cool stuff.
Strategy work at MBB is more likely to be with more senior stakeholder - CEO agenda and enterprise wide as opposed to rolling up to an SVP, for example (not always, of course).
You also definitely get more of the “edge” cases - the type of stuff that just doesn’t come across consulting firm desks very often at all. I ddi a case that was the first of its kind in the clients industry - I’d say that work is mostly MBB (but is a small % of volume, so you’re still unlikely to get staffed on them). I think it’s fair to say that the lions share of *critical business issues* go to MBB.
I know plenty of people across MBB who had more mediocre case mix than what in saw at my T2. There’s a lot of luck involved, but odds are better at MBB.
@Consultant1, yes. That is correct
The latter.
According to my convos with classmates there, our experience and exposure with “interesting” projects seem similar.
But MBB is 5-9x revenue compared to S&, so just by volume, there should be more interesting projects at MBB for their larger workforce
More interesting projects =/= higher revenue
On average yes, but significantly depends on luck
S& to bcg here, the short answer is yes.
Of course it varies by region, by practice area, by office yada yada but overall it is true. Yes, there will be DD projects at M&A teams (like deals strategy/ peg/ pipe) and there will also be longer Transformation projects at all of the firms. The difference lies outside of these specialized domains. Here most other non-m&a, non-transformation projects are 90% some sort of strategy cases that require case interview style hypothesis driven problem solving. At S&, it was maybe like 30% for me
I worked at a T2 before BCG, largely work in the industrial goods space. Case mix/kind of work is comparable, but client counterparts and size of clients have changed quite a bit for me.
Most of my T2 work was with lesser known clients, with Directors or VPs as project sponsors, while BCG has been mostly with F50/F100 clients with CxOs and executive VPs as project sponsors.
I have also seen a decent number of “cool” projects at BCG vs almost none at my previous firm. You know, those ones that they market as “you’d read this in the newspaper next year” kind of projects.
Here’s a spanner. The most interesting cases are often the worst to work on.
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on average I’d assume the cases are “better” and more strategy oriented or potentially for more senior clients.
there are some p cool cases even during the downturn