Is it typical for Recruiting at MBB to be a shitshow? Recently concluded a months-long interview process with BCG Platinion that left a bad taste in my mouth. Constantly having to follow up with the recruiter, lack of transparency in regards to role or level, contradictory feedback, and a rushed case interview. Also received a rejection notification AND an email stating the second interviewer was going to reach out to me to reschedule. Boston Consulting Group

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Nope mostly recruiting is great, plantinion is a different beast

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UH1 they (plantinion) clearly screwed up with OP here, and they are a separate team from classic BCG, which has pretty consistently great recruiting efforts

Please DM me, happy to triage this. Apologies for a poor experience, it is not representative of the day to day here

Recruiting at a lot of firms is stretched pretty thin right now. Don't have a bad experience with BCG, it just took forever for the process to progress (to the point where I just accepted another offer instead).

May be a specific case with your recruiter which is very unfortunate and not indicative of the work BCG / PLA does.

My PLA recruiting experience was very streamlined (similar to Core MBB + T2 recruiting, although some T2s were terrible in my experience this past interview cycle) so can definitely confirm you may have just encountered a bad apple.

Interviewed 5 times over 5 weeks at Platinion and was turned down for the job

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