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Curious to hear your Bain war stories.

• anon291 4y ago
  Well unlike Michael, I left after six months. I thought the job was a lot of BSing (and I decided to work at Bain after my SW eng interships which I felt did not move fast enough and had a lot of wasted time; I can be very type A and demanding for constant stimulation). There was a lot of time spent basically making things up to satisfy customers. There was also huge pressure to spend ungodly sums of money as an associate, because everyone's posing to one up the others (I'm talking about.. let's go do a birthday in Cabo every other weekend). So I had decided I didn't like it, but wanted to last at least a year. Anyway, my colleague / mentor who's supposed to be helping me, instead tells me that I need to do better at making things up for customers essentially. It's quite the intense conversation. I can feel I'm not his favorite associate. Anyway, he ends his criticism by telling me not to jump out a window (we're on the 33rd floor). Well, a week later, an associate at Goldman Sachs (which had an office in the same building) does indeed jump out a window. A week later, I resigned. All in all, it was very enlightening. I got to see how the rich really live. And most importantly, I realized they're no different than anyone else, just willing to sacrifice more. As my actual boss told me... family was for when I turned 30 (I was engaged already at the time I joined Bain). I recently began listening to 'Woke Inc' by Ramaswamy, and he has similar experiences at Goldman Sachs. Including the fake philanthropy stuff.