The consulting club in my MBA program is toxic. So weird it’s driven by 2Y MBA students who have only interned with consulting companies this summer yet managed to bring along the toxicity of the firms they interned for. I worked in consulting pre-MBA so I can recognize the same style 🤡

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Toxic af, and the irony in my year was that none of the consulting club folks ended up getting full time consulting offers

Meanwhile the students behind the music club were very chill and all went mbb after graduation 🤣

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Yeah man people need to chill i swear

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Probably Deloitte interns

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It is harder to get into than Harvard, so they have a right to be that way.

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These young whippersnappers need to check their egos at the door. Yeah, I just unironically used mid-Atlantic 1920s vernacular to describe toxic consulting traits.

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Consulting is not even very prestigious anymore. Most tech jobs, even Amazon, are arguably better.

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Maybe that’s what you do but what is considered consulting now is a very large umbrella. It’s can be very exciting to work with well known businesses to solve unique challenges.

What are the most prestigious jobs these days? Expect it’s still consulting (MBB)

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Ah yeah, also tech! I’m recruiting for tech and consulting. Yet forgot about it lol. Could be that tech folks are a bit more humble/approachable than the other groups

I bet they act exactly like college seniors after their consulting internship (Kinda @ing myself here)

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Funny thing is that fresh MBAs are a pain to work with

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Totally agree. I made a conscious decision to behave myself 😇 I also just came here for a semi-2-year vacation

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Oh damn . That sucks lmao. Screw them tbh

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At a T10…everybody in the consulting leadership group got an offer from MBB

Not all fresh MBA’s are a pain.
I’m a pretty chill person to work with. If they’re hiring at your place DM me

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