I’m an MBA who just interned at one of the MBBs this summer. Overall great experience, but questioning if the WLB sacrifice is worth it compared to tech for example. The location I’m at though, MBB beats almost every other job except IB for comp in the first two years out of B-school. The sign-on bonus will tie me in for 2 years.

Thoughts? I’ve never been insecure professionally, but fear that I’ll end up alone in life (late 20s, gay guy here, for context) if I work too much.

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A lot to unpack.. If you come to MBB single, don’t expect dating to be easy. I doubt you’ll be able to find a partner for the first couple years. Most people coming in from business school are already married/ in long term relationships.

I know nothing about tech.

Weekends are well protected here too, but it isn’t much time to have a social life. Friday you may be too tired to do anything but unpack/catch up on house things, and Sunday afternoon you might be flying out/packing/getting ready for the week. So you basically have 1.5 days, which goes by fast.

Really depends on your other options: if you have an offer for PM or Corp Strat at big tech, I personally would take that in a heartbeat, but tech is not hiring much right now, so it would be extremely risky to turn down MBB to recruit again.

It is difficult to have a social life at MBB, but I wouldn’t worry about being alone forever. Most people start here 2 years and then go on to jobs with better WLB.

I’d ignore comp. For 2 years in the scheme of your life, the marginal difference in comp doesn’t matter much. Career trajectory/growth opportunities are way way more important.

Keep recruiting and see if you get a new job and reneg on mbb if you get something better

Walk away dude

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