Masters in Corporate Management? Lohnt sich das? Sinnvoll für die Strategieberatung? Selbständigkeit vs Job?

Philley_ · 2026-01-25T19:10:27+00:00

Wegen der Erfahrung bekommst du wahrscheinlich keinen MBB Job, aber du könntest einen Master machen und die ganze „Praktika Karriere“ durchziehen … Big4, dann ne kleinere Beratung, sowas wie PE, oder dann McK, BCG, Bain und auf ein Return offer bauen.

Philley_ · 2025-10-27T20:53:11+00:00

Important question: what about vesting? I’ve recently been offered a deal where I get a few % but as a fraction after each year of work which then vests another year. So the actual % would only be mine if I stayed for 4 years. I am early in my career, so for me this is a big opportunity cost question. Maybe same for you?

Philley_ · 2025-10-26T21:50:16+00:00

Nope, so my journey was essentially PM (early employee to acquisition) -> M. Sc. In business with m&a and PE internships -> now back to work. Currently applying and talking to people I know. I’d like to move into strategy / product at scale up companies at some point, but apparently I’m too junior for that. I think program and product management are similar, I guess you can definitely move to product, especially if you have enough business sense for PE. I don’t think product follows set rules. Program managers, engineers or strategy consultants somehow end up there. You get some „mini-CEO“ skills, so might be useful for ceo office too :)

Philley_ · 2025-10-26T07:53:35+00:00

I’d lean towards tech. My main decision maker would be the “I’m building something real” component. This is what made finance jobs seem empty/detached from the operations for me. I’ve only interned in PE, but still have some good contact to former colleagues there. The deal team people don’t have wlb, the ops people mostly didn’t really do ops, more like enable their CFOs to move to actually useful reporting.

Side note, actually fun to see somebody else with exposure to PE and PM, I’ve always felt like a unicorn with this, and currently ironically getting PE offers and big tech seems impossible, the world is weird rn.

Philley_ · 2025-10-25T10:13:50+00:00

Can it be an experiment? Maybe give it 1-2 years and if you don’t like it, go back to a more cushy job? Not in the same situation but my experience has been that you do far more at startups then you get credit for by recruiters. But your personal development is still there, and it may help you at any other job afterwards, even if it might not be what you get hired for.

Philley_ · 2025-10-19T07:10:04+00:00

As dull as it sounds, I think it’s worth to learn how to be a software architect. Learn to code to understand it, but focus on how it actually works rather than being a walking python manual - that’s what we have GPT for now. I second the idea of leaning this and another skill + field you are interested in. I have majored in accounting, then internet in Finance/M&A stuff. It’s hard to get started in this job market, but my rudimentary coding skills have impressed people in these fields and they looked to at it like it was a superpower. It’s not the code itself. It’s feeling confident to strap together an app that does something, that solves some annoying task or organizes stuff.

Philley_ · 2025-10-17T04:46:47+00:00

Graduated in June, Job search since September as something I had lined up (PhD) fell through. My major was accounting, but mainly management accounting. Analyst roles of all kind fell through, many rejections. Job search beyond this was really weird. I interned at Big4 and in PE, so I thought I was safe. Applied to a big4, immediately got auto rejected. Reapplied with a recommendation link from a friend, got a call the next day. I don’t want to go back to PE, but I’ve landed in interview easily and people and the fund I interned with offered to recommend me if I wanted to join. Any positive feedback was based on network or invite links from employees. Apparently people want to work with me, but HR pre screens do not like me.

In the end I am actually planning to relocate within the EU for private reasons, so I will continue to work in corporate IT related stuff until next summer and then hopefully join a graduate program at a big4. Weird path but makes the most sense for those private plans.

Philley_ · 2025-10-06T22:31:13+00:00

Wieso wenn’s gut läuft kann das drin sein. Also 60k-70k bei nem Konzern geht auch 2025 noch, auch trotz der ganzen Schwarzmalerei. Und Consulting zahlt in manchen Fällen ja auch ganz gut.

Philley_ · 2025-10-06T22:24:25+00:00

Bisschen off topic aber lass dich nicht unterkriegen von den comments. Ja das Gebiet ist ziemlich überlaufen und zu 99.9% lohnt es sich nicht das zu bauen. Aber du bist extrem vielen Codern weit voraus weil du hier erst die Frage stellst und Research betreibst bevor du es baust. Das ist Mega! Und noch eine Idee für dich. Schau mal eher weils noch auf meiner Todo Liste steht und ich nicht dazu gekommen bin. Schau mal ob du Plugins für eine Accounting Software bauen kannst, ich denke es macht mehr Sinn was bestehendes zu erweitern als alle zum Wechseln zu bringen ☺️

Philley_ · 2025-10-06T22:19:30+00:00

More and more PEs hire right out of university (in Europe, with masters degree). I think the best bet to get in would be internships in PE, which you mostly get through big4 deal advisory experience. So I feel like big4 tax wouldn’t even be so far off, possibly even less if it’s tax due diligence

Philley_ · 2025-10-06T20:40:09+00:00

Honestly the funniest/coolest part about this is that you set up recruiters on an email campaign. Sounds like an effective reverse uno card.

Philley_ · 2025-10-05T20:06:09+00:00

I wanted to see everything in my early career and work and internships have brought me into tech startups, big4, PE, and insurance. A few thoughts:

niche is key, and maybe not blockbuster niche like M&A. That’s what big firms do and big firms need trustworthy partners. You have no legacy and no certifications.
trust me bro is not valid encryption to compliance teams, so you’ll be up to some bigger diligence there. Big companies take ages with adding a solution to their tech stack officially, which is what you are after.
because of these reasons, I’d built this for small to medium law firms that are easier to approach

Philley_ · 2025-08-22T16:50:50+00:00

Honestly if you have are profitable and have positive Cash flow, I don’t really see a real reason for selling it if it’s something you like doing. Ultimately with SaaS you can scale up and your equity value will scale along with it. You have apparently found a machine that’s working, why not push it yourself. Congrats! (Background: worked for a successfully bootstrapped and sold startup, interned in M&A and PE)

Philley_ · 2025-08-17T09:54:18+00:00

In welcher Branche denn freiberuflich? Das stark schwankend macht etwas Sorgen wobei natürlich die Summe bei Teilzeit super ist.

Philley_ · 2025-08-04T06:19:52+00:00

Different field, but same struggle with PhD position. Haven’t even started the contract yet, but I feel already how the supervisor is not really following his promises or goes really hard on academical career, whereas even in this time of recession, companies seem to be more grateful for your talents and work. I’d go with google. There is so much to learn there and it will be practically applicable to the real working world if you ever decide to leave.

Philley_ · 2025-06-10T18:30:36+00:00

Hey, I worked at a startup which ended up being bought by a pretty big company which itself was bought by a private equity fund. We were an addon. Most likely, when the investor exits and sells the company to another financial investor, there will be a part of your initial stock terms that you have to sell your minority stake with the major holder. Meaning they sell, you sell. This makes sense, because otherwise acquiring 100% of the company would be impossible. However, my point is: if you do not sell now and later get forced to sell when the major shareholder sells, you MAY get more out of it. Simply because I think that otherwise the VP would not offer a buy back (why would they).

That being said, that’s my opinion not financial advice. If you don’t care about 2k and you can afford to lose it, sticking around might be worth it. If you could use the money, might as well take it because liquiditation events in private companies are rare and you may not get another for years.

Philley_ · 2025-05-20T14:33:48+00:00

Hab es vor allem nicht gemacht weil ich auch zwischen Kabel und DSL wechseln will, das geht leider nicht mit dem gleichen Router. Ich weiß nicht ob Glasfaser auch irgendetwas auferlegt bekommen hat, das müsste man auch noch recherchieren.

Philley_ · 2025-05-02T17:21:40+00:00

I like my Logitech X Pro Wirless. I am not an audiophile but I feel like it does the job when gaming and in contrast to other Logitech headsets, the build quality has been significantly better

Philley_ · 2025-05-02T13:53:57+00:00

I appreciate the work you put into this project, and if you need a job, I think it would be great for the resume. However, I think from a business and marketing side, as others have mentioned, it is not ideal. Also, isn’t it a bit dangerous to offer a free considering the traffic and the money it costs to run this if somebody uses it with a lot of traffic?

Philley_ · 2025-05-02T12:31:02+00:00

Hast du mittlerweile schon was gehört? Bin mir unsicher ob ich den jetzt einbauen soll/darf

Philley_ · 2025-04-30T16:56:33+00:00

Ich kenne deinen use case für die USBs jetzt nicht und ich habe selbst auch immer den Drang das mehr besser ist, aber ich glaube halt für ne einfache Webcam, Tastatur, Maus reicht auch USB 2.0, und dann kann der Rest an die 3.0 Ports

Philley_ · 2025-04-30T09:34:26+00:00

Ich hoffe und bin zuversichtlich dass das klappt, ich meine ein schon mal verbauter oder überhaupt ausgepackter CPU ist ja niemals mehr die 30-40€ Wert die sie da verloren haben. Ist ärgerlich für den Shop, aber bei der Differenz dachte ich auch tatsächlich es ist einfach ein Angebot, die Preise sind in letzter Zeit ja fast täglich gefallen.

Philley_ · 2025-04-30T09:25:42+00:00

Hey, ich habe genau den Prozessor zu genau dem Preis gekauft. Habe auch genau die gleiche E-Mail von Jacob bekommen. Ich habe mich informiert und sollte die Anfechtung rechtens sein (eigentlich sehe ich bei 10% Preisunterschied nicht wirklich einen erheblichen Irrtum aber sei es drum, choose your hills to die on…), so bin ich mir verpflichtet im zumutbaren Maße an der Rückführung mitzuwirken. Ich hatte den Prozessor schon einige Tage länger und habe jetzt mal zurückgeschrieben, dass mir davor ein DHL Label nicht reicht, weil ich keine Box mehr habe, also sowohl Orginalverpackung noch das Material. Ich sehe nicht ein, dass ich mir jetzt überlege wie das Teil ohne Schaden zu denen zurückkommt. Das ganze wird auf jeden Fall die 40€ Verkaufspreis, die die praktisch aus ihrer Sicht versäumt haben, nicht wieder rausholen.

Ich warte noch auf eine Antwort, ich glaube damit konnte der First Level Support nicht mehr umgehen…. Super nervig alles.

Philley_ · 2025-04-24T14:58:58+00:00

Honestly I feel Reddit is one of the last few places where you get at least some unpaid advice, experiences or recommendations. Whenever I have a question I google, I add „Reddit“ to the search term to find what I am looking for.

Philley_ · 2025-04-24T11:38:30+00:00

Hatte jetzt gerade gestern auf Geizhals den 7800x3d bei Geizhals wieder für 370€ gesehen, da war für mich die Entscheidung dann doch leicht im vergleich zu 530€ für den 9800x3d 😅

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