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In consulting, at any firm, and at any job. There is a hierarchy and politics involved. You will not always enjoy your project, the work you’re doing, or the people you’re doing it with. EY is one of the top firms to work for in the world. AKA it’s a “Big 4”There are plenty of different groups/projects to network with and find what you want. B/c unless you can figure out what you want no firm will be able to give you the experience you want.
OP- apply to other firms and interview. And do NOT speak evil of your employer or manager at your next interview regardless of how horrible an experience you have had. The interviewer will assume you’ll sell out the next firm the same way if something doesn’t go your way and will not be willing to extend an offer or progress you to next round of interviews. Just a word of advice if you may!
If you didn’t enjoy your experience try elsewhere. It can’t hurt to see how you like other firms so network with them.
Based on the responses you got from your former colleagues, I can see why you might not have enjoyed your experience
I guess McK took the easiest route - victim mentality as opposed to making arguments grounded in sound logic. You tried to make it seem like the EY culture was toxic. However maybe it was the team the intern worked on or maybe the problem is the intern himself/herself who had a bad attitude. Introspection goes a long way and I’m not saying either suggestion is correct
Are you the same person that hated your internship experience at EY because you thought you did a great job but you were not extended a return offer?
In response to EY2’s suggestion, OP, if you hate the internship, then you shouldn’t stay. Hoping that it’ll be different experience in other practices involves the same risk as just applying elsewhere
Totally depends on who recruits at your school, I would say S& is an amazing option with MBB 😉 but we only recruit undergrads from our target schools, and I assume it’s the same for many other firms
We’re a small firm (relative to a lot of the others) so we only have maybe a dozen undergrad target schools and we fill all of our slots from those schools.
You should be re recruiting anyways. It gives you another chance to up your salary and potentially move into something that you like more. After my summer at the Big 4, I initially felt that as well.
What I would say to you now is to really dig deeper into why you were so unhappy. I personally found the type of advisory consulting my team provided to be mind numbingly boring (PMOs). I also wanted a generalist staffing model for the next few years. etc...
Once you figure that out, you can re recruit with confidence because you'll know what you're looking for
I found people to be very understanding. Many people are trying to do the same. I would say start aggressively networking with alumni, big 4 people who jumped to strategy consultancies you like, and other connections ASAP.
Entire weight last fall into recruiting. I really want to make it up for myself this year. I’d like to get an understanding of what good consulting firms there are after MBB. And if their reputation varies east coast/west coast