I have worked at a boutique firm for the past couple of years and the lack of talent and competency across team members is astounding. I have worked on a contract where 2 people hired into a SENIOR role were fired for incompetence within the past 6 months. Do you all think that this is less of an issue at larger firms? I cannot comprehend why incompetent people are hired and why it takes so long for them to be fired.

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No. Talent at boutiques is spotty. Jump to big 4.

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I worked at a boutique for 3 years. Unfortunately you have a mix of both high caliber and low caliber. Always a good start if you aren’t target but as soon as you can move to T2 or MBB!

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Incompetent people exist in all firms. Reducing the fraction of incompetent people is more a function of eliteness not size. Accenture, big 4 and IBM are all much bigger than MBB but their average quality is a little lower. However, the MBB bar is higher in that they practice up or out so someone is much more likely to be asked to leave in a year than would be the case at accenture/ibm/big4.

Sounds like your boutique either has terrible hiring/interviewing processes or just really bad luck.

They do have a terrible hiring process!

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