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Usually how much % do they give for a generic rating? ICICI Bank HDFC Bank Limited Kotak Mahindra Bank Bank of America Bank of America JPMorgan Chase
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Rising Star
My wife started as an M at Accenture earlier this year coming from industry. I’ve never worked at Accenture or any b4, but I had to explain to her how up or out works. She also didn’t know that she came in with 24 months at level and what that meant. Really surprised none of this was communicated during hiring or by her manager.
Wtf is this lax traffic right now
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Recommend LEK if she doesn’t know what she wants to do after college.
Chief
If she wants to avoid banking go to LEK
Would go LEK. Probably has the broadest skill set development and exit opportunities out of the 3.
Amex.
First of all, disregard JPM - private wealth is a joke. Ppl here are saying LEK because it’s the consulting bowl. Amex has much better brand than LEK outside of consulting if she ever wants to do anything else. Also, in my T10 undergrad, the most qualified people interned at Amex, and they all got great FT roles (2 at McK).
Chief
What does she want to do career wise? They’re different jobs
Subjective responses totally fine
If you want her to enjoy her 20s and still make decent money with no stress take Amex. Prestige and short term pay increase always comes at a price
Rising Star
Consulting bowl may lean towards LEK
She’s not entirely sure career wise. Knows she doesn’t want to do something too analytical (banking)
Ok then probably not Amex
Personally would pick LEK, but if you asked this in the banking bowl you would definitely get different answers.
LEK
LEK will keep her options open
Amex. Can always get into consulting after Amex
I think I would go LEK if it was me, but if looking for a wide variety of opportunities I think Amex has a great rotational program for post-college
JPM is an instant no due to private wealth. Would be more difficult choice if investment banking. Depends on the role at AMEX. Is it product or strategy related? I’d choose LEK to keep options open.
LEK. If she doesn’t know what she wants to do now, she likely won’t be senior fall. It’s also too late for her academically to make hard pivots into CS or a hard science, so she’ll probably still want something that’s generic business. She’ll want to continue to keep her options open and therefore end up in consulting one way or another. LEK prepares her for that path with maximal comp and exit opps.
Amex is a fossil and good for impressing the grandparents. Great company, not the best place for new grads. PWM at JP or elsewhere is generally a joke. It’s what you settle for when you fumble IB/S&T recruiting but still want to pretend to be Jordan Belfort.
Biased here, but would definitely take LEK. The summer associate program is small but close knit and you get a real view of consulting through working on live cases as part of the team. And consulting is the career for people who don’t know what they want to be when they grow up. Maybe if she were set on FS as an industry, Amex could be attractive, but LEK is a better path into almost anything else.