How does work-life balance at Boston Consulting Group compare between traditional consulting vs. Gamma? How feasible is it to go for BCG Gamma with a technical background and a few YOE in traditional consulting but no hard data science experience?

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Typically equal between Gamma and traditional, gamma might be slightly worse as it is global staffing, also European influence on working model

You will need pretty prolific technical chops to move into gamma they are pretty technical and get paid hella bread to be good

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Yeah pretty sure the pay is literally the same as classic consulting. In no way whatsoever does BCG view them as like non client facing data support people. The gamma ppl on my cases have built some wild models

WLB often better in Gamma but not always. Data science is much easier to learn than core consulting skills - track transfers usually do very well in Gamma, especially if they transfer below PL / LDS. Question to ask yourself is whether you want to do coding as your day job. If yes, Gamma may well be a good choice.

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One thing I heard was lateral moves to BCG can fail often due to matching up to BCG style of working (could be just anecdotes). Is that true for classic mostly? Or do you see that in gamma c/x?

We have a rotation you can do from classic to Gamma

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