Which consulting firm in the US is most difficult to get into, for international students/non Americans? After correcting for sponsorship needs

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inb4 Deloitte

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Most likely: any small shop. Large companies like Big4 and MBB have a low marginal cost for the immigration issues, plus will be willing to have some extra effort to snatch top talent

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At an M7 now. Only a handful of international students from my school got US consulting offers across all the firms. Some firms (KPMG Strategy, S&, etc) straight up said no sponsorships

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Indians and Chinese are stuck in years long backlog for green card so no worries on the jumping ship end after Green card for these nationals.

Bain

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Would disagree here! We don’t distinguish during recruiting, and so many of my colleagues thought Bain was incredibly supportive in visa-related processes

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Bain is the most difficult to get into, period. If you’re applying to M, you’re also applying to B and B. And Bain is the smallest of the three.

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