What are the pros and cons for working for a firm that exclusively consults for PE firms ?

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all work, no life, less pay than just joining your client.

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SM1 makes it sound like 100% cons lol.

Pros - opportunity to exit into PE, but more likely an ops role than an investment one. Opportunity to consult for relatively smaller businesses doing value creation vs. only doing classic corporate consulting. Consistently doing projects that are intellectually stimulating vs. getting stuck on long term and boring implementation projects.

Yes more work, worse hours, etc.

I’m sure there’s more pros, but felt compelled to at least share a couple.

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