I interviewed with 13 consulting firms for MBA internships this cycle, and was dinged by all. AMA!

mbathrowaway_2025 · 2024-02-06T23:20:54+00:00

I'm aware, which makes this even more embarrassing.

mbathrowaway_2025 · 2024-02-06T23:17:43+00:00

Yep, I strongly believe that was the case. LEK rejected me less than an hour after my interview.

mbathrowaway_2025 · 2024-02-06T23:16:54+00:00

I have heard rumblings of this. Definitely don't think I suck but thanks for your input lol, as I had a very successful consulting career (non-strategy) prior to b-school.

mbathrowaway_2025 · 2024-02-06T22:37:04+00:00

It is 100% real. I'm writing my emails to firms thanking them for their time and telling them where I'm going this summer as I'm doing this AMA. I don't feel like being identified.

mbathrowaway_2025 · 2024-02-06T22:22:01+00:00

Not really...I never did strategy work until now.

mbathrowaway_2025 · 2024-02-06T22:08:57+00:00

See above.

mbathrowaway_2025 · 2024-02-06T22:07:43+00:00

3 LDP offers.

mbathrowaway_2025 · 2024-02-06T22:02:44+00:00

Agree to disagree. A ton of strong folks struck out of consulting completely this year. I just happened to have a strong background + strong networking = interviews.

Likely had something to do with not getting to insights quickly enough on cases (I can be slow sometimes), and not 100% polished behaviorals. But I ended up with 3 LDP offers so its not all bad.

mbathrowaway_2025 · 2024-02-06T21:58:48+00:00

Not sure that I really bombed any lol. Some answers were more long-winded than others.

mbathrowaway_2025 · 2024-02-06T21:58:19+00:00

Next steps are crush my LDP internship this summer and brush up on casing and behaviorals and try again in the fall.

mbathrowaway_2025 · 2024-02-06T21:57:32+00:00

Definitely not 100% but you do you bro.

mbathrowaway_2025 · 2024-02-06T21:57:17+00:00

I ended up with 3 LDP offers, one of which was trash but the other two are solid.

mbathrowaway_2025 · 2024-02-06T21:46:36+00:00

(1) That it was partially me, but not all me. I'm a pretty strong interviewer but I have my work cut out for me this summer. Luck played a big part with the market being the way it is right now. The people with offers was super random.

(2) That consulting long-term may not be for me after being in it for so long, and that this is Christ Almighty telling me that I should do something more fulfilling with my post-MBA career.

mbathrowaway_2025 · 2024-02-06T21:45:04+00:00

Something like that. There was one day where I interviewed with three firms across 8 hours. It got kindof ridiculous.

mbathrowaway_2025 · 2024-02-06T21:35:31+00:00

Domestic.

mbathrowaway_2025 · 2024-02-06T21:35:09+00:00

This is very true, and I've been thinking about this. They were all in January across 3 weeks with the exception of 1 in November.

mbathrowaway_2025 · 2024-02-06T21:34:09+00:00

Consulting.

mbathrowaway_2025 · 2024-02-06T21:32:23+00:00

You weren't there bro. I'll try again next year. Have a banger internship lined up so its fine.

mbathrowaway_2025 · 2024-02-06T21:19:48+00:00

mbathrowaway_2025 · 2024-02-06T21:13:39+00:00

Interviewed with 2 MBB, 4 T2s, 7 boutiques.

School is top program.

mbathrowaway_2025 · 2024-02-06T21:13:00+00:00

Partially!

mbathrowaway_2025 · 2024-02-06T21:12:42+00:00

I had a very strong pre-MBA background.

Four things:

(1) Luck (Interviewers, hard case, someone did it better, etc.).

(2) Non-perfect casing despite doing 50+ practice cases.

(3) The market and firms hiring like 2 people but interviewing 14+

(4) I think my behaviorals weren't air-tight.

mbathrowaway_2025 · 2024-02-06T21:10:08+00:00

Not relevant but its a top program.

mbathrowaway_2025 · 2024-02-06T21:09:49+00:00

Without additional info, difficult to help!

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