I managed to get onsite interviews with apple/Goldman Sachs/amazon when I was a senior in college. Now three years later, I got rejected without interviews for most of tech roles. Sad life 😭

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lol and you picked PwC, wtf?

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Don't worry! I got rejected from BCG twice before getting the offer :)

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Welcome to consulting - in a few years you will be completely unemployable.

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I am worried the same will happen to me. Sometimes I wonder if big 4 actually cheapens my brand, coming from an ivy league and interested in maybe going into tech. Oh well.

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The level of interview offers i got when i was at accenture was 1,000,000 times better than when i was at pwc.

You just need to come to grip w the fact that pwc doesnt have a reputation for delivery or technology

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Because they obviously rejected you before...

Don't work for the machine, surf the good life

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Switch quickly.

^lol. Is that so?

@E2, if you have an Ivy League degree, why aren't you in Parthenon?

^because my GPA wasn't high enough. I can't transfer internally, but maybe wanna give me a referral to strategy&? 😂

So you're saying it won't be all too hard for me to switch to Deloitte ? Because I'm looking for a nice

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