It’s not that bad. Plenty of boutique do genuine very specialised work and both MBB and Big 4 have both interesting missions and rubber stamping ones. Consulti

It’s not that bad. Plenty of boutique do genuine very specialised work and both MBB and Big 4 have both interesting missions and rubber stamping ones. Consulting is very uneven and as a new hire, being assigned to one or the other is mostly down to luck. That’s fine because at its heart consulting is mainly about managing your clients and their expectations and that’s something you can learn in both kind of jobs. A big difference between small and prestigious consulting firms will be how insufferably full of themselves your colleagues are however. It has a significant impact on how the job feels on a daily basis.