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I have multiple offers in hand from the below-mentioned companies.
Need your inputs and suggestion regarding which company would be better to join in terms of career growth and opportunities in Data Engineer role.
ITC Infotech
Telstra
Teklink International
Factspan analytics
Bosch
All companies are giving offers around 18-20(Fixed +Variable).
YOE - 3.4 years
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If you are looking for career growth and better compensation benefits, then I would go for Kearney. Oliver Wyman has flexible hours of work and culture is less demanding. They are both good but personally, I'd go for Kearney.
How far off in comp benefits would you estimate the difference to be
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Weird that there are only people talking about Kearney here.
So as someone who had offers from both of them, here is my 2 cents:
Tl;dr: OW will give you more access to other practices outside their core, culture is very subjective, comp is better at OW for top performers but lower for all others, aux services at OW are better
OW: OW is a firm that currently has a lot of flexibility - but don't confuse that with better WLB. In OW you can somewhat choose your wlb by choosing the practices and, depending on your level, the parterns you wanna work with. From a culture standpoint, and those are always tricky because it's kinds subjective, but OW has a chillier culture (if you like it or not it's on you). Being part of MMC won't have any meaningful impact on you untill you reach the principal level
Kearney: Kearney is a firm that is very dependent on the culture of each office. I've heard mixed things based on friends in different offices (both in US and international). They seem to be a down to earth people and management is really transparent, but (and this comes from a lot of people I've heard) they really don't seem to care much about low level people. Kearney also has something going on where they seems to not being able to grow - they have the smallest growth over all top consulting firms (Kearney used to be #4 in the world in terms of revenue, now they're #6)
In terms of practices, it's very straightforward: if you wanna focus on supply chain, Kearney is your go to, no questions asked. In contrast, Financial services and Aviation, it's OW (in those, both firms are even stronger than MBB). But, and I assume it's the most common case, you're still not interested in focus on only one practice, OW will offer you more access to other practices compared to Kearney
In comp/aux services:
- compensation: OW top performers will get more money than Kearney to performers (even considering profit share), but low and medium performers at Kearney will get you more (this is for US, for Brazil/London/middle east OW pays more, for China Kearney pays more). This happens due to how bonuses are structure at OW, which makes your TC the equivalent of the level you ended the year performing as, not the one you started.
- aux services: it looks to me that OW has a better structure on those, but neither firm are like McK where they outsource their excel (although I've been told its similar to Bain, not sure if it means Bain is lacking or OW is doing good on this case)
OW1, completely agree except the growth piece. Won’t get into specific numbers, but growth is very much happening and is expected to only go up over the next few years (especially within the Ops and Analytic groups)
OP, if you’re looking at Ops then look no further than Kearney. I joined specifically for the supply chain / analytics practice and couldn’t be happier. You’ll work with some of the best operators in the industry, and our Ops work is truly strategic. I have since left the firm, and within the ops world, the Kearney name carries some serious weight
Kearney has a stronger reputation for operations and I would assume that operations isn’t as central to the firm in terms of team sizes, IC etc at OW
In case you want to stay in consulting long term: Kearney is a partnership while OW is part of a larger org
What kind of background in Operations you have? From true operations and supply chain perspective, Kearney is the best. You can have various flavours in terms of different industries, project types (ODDs), etc.
Con- At least when I was there would be wlb and SOP (Operations Practice) within Kearney is little political imo
Can’t comment on OW. I am ex-Kearney
I fear sharing more will not keep me anonymous any more given how many folks we send to firms like GS :)
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