Is MBB diluted post-MBA vs IB? Have offers from a bulge IB & MBB, but feel like there are 10,000s of MBB consultants globally now, vs. only a few bankers relatively speaking

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This is a moot point in your decision to join IB vs MBB. You should be thinking more about the type of work you want to do in the future.

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Choosing a job based on what’s most exclusive is the lamest thing ever

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Please go to banking with this mindset.

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Could it be that you, as a consultant, know more consultants? And you only know a few bankers bc you’re not a banker?

My recent experience in bschool tells me both are comparable in terms of popularity considering the large proportion of each MBA class recruiting for consulting and banking internships.

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Completely depends on what you want to do in your career. Stop chasing just prestige.

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I don’t care about prestige, I care about risk adjusted exit oops & always having a good job. My fear is if everyone is a MBB consultant, the cache goes down

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my mindset is I see super talented and smart people around me at MBB so I feel motivated and that I’m in the right place.

For context a lot of people in my office recently joined pe buyside and growth equity so definitely the ops are there. I am pre mba fyi

But for post mba I’m pretty sure IB is much more diluted and not worth it compared to pre unless you’re specific path might require it. Honesty pick based on what you wanna do. You wanna do finance pick IB, if you wanna do tech do tech, etc

If you think there are only a few bankers out there, I have news for you…that being said, going into banking post MBA has declined hugely in popularity since the early 2000s, I would only do it if you want to be a career banker

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