I'm a graduating college senior and have offers for entry level analyst/associate at L.E.K. (Boston) and Accenture Strategy (NYC). Looking for thoughts on differences in reputation, type of work/projects, culture, WLB, or anything else to help me decide! L.E.K. Consulting Accenture

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Go with L.E.K. Consulting - no brainer.

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No offense to Accenture folk but when it comes to strategy consulting, L.E.K. is far more reputable. Not to say Accenture doesn’t have a name in other things but just not for strategy imo

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Two of my coworkers are former ACN interns— both disliked the bureaucracy and size of the org and switched to LEK for ft. Obv a very biased sample tho

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Feel free to DM - interned with ACN and currently at LEK full time. Very happy w the swap.

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Do you want to work on/exit to tech/digital stuff (ACN) or private equity / life science stuff (LEK)?

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5 years ago this would have been a no brainer with LEK. Still think the answer is LEK given your options. Have a good understand of what a CDD is and If that is something of interest to you.

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Congrats OP!! Those are two great firms.

From what I hear LEK has much deeper exits - like qualitatively better. ACN Strat might be a more widely recognizable name.

For variety ACN might be the way to go, but for quality of exits, b-school placement, and comp progression I’d say LEK from what I’ve heard.

Caveat being I’m not super familiar with ACN Strat.

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Yeah just currently advising FAANG no rep in strat

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Feel free to DM if you want to chat about LEK! I’m currently an Associate

ACN Strat here - happy to talk if you want help with your decision

My advice - follow the money. I think our biggest differentiator is that I feel we have the best WLB.

But, pay will be the best determination of what your company views you as being worth.

I’m willing to bet your accenture offer is higher, but if I’m wrong run with LEK.

To add onto that, if you end up sticking around LEK eventually significantly outstrips ACN

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That's awesome you have offers with both, I'd kill to even have a chance to interview with either. I'd say LEK if you want pure strategy work. Though Accenture is really cool if you want techy opps later on.

LEK is very little strategy work, mostly due diligence

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