Hey guys, I was hoping you could help me make a decision on which offer to take.
I was fortunate enough to get some great interviews and some awesome offers but now I'm having a lot of trouble deciding which one to accept.
My offers and some details:
EY – Business Advisor Program – NYC – Finacial Services Office
- Type of Work – Works seems to be the most interesting, mixed bag or risk, operational, governance and reg. consulting. (+)
- Industry – While I like financial services – I would also love to be involved with some technology companies. (Push)
- Location – NYC!! Cost of living though…. (Push), Massive office (push)
- Culture – a lot of " I work hard and play hard brah" attitudes. They seem to really like bashing Assurance and Tax service lines. (-)
Deloitte – Business Risk – Large City in SE US
- Type of Work – They tell me little to no IT control work (+)
- Industry – They also tell me I would have to choose either Financial Services or Everything else pretty quickly. (-)
- Location – Decent size city and growing – Low cost of living! (+), Large BR team (push)
- Culture – Nice enough, Toxic relationship with Deloitte S&O Consultants which sucks because I'm sure the feeling is reciprocated by S&O which would make networking more difficult. (-)
PWC – Risk Assurance – Small to Medium Size City in SE US
- Type of Work – Heavy on IT controls and audit support. (-), ACE Program – Encourages associates to work in both Audit and Risk (+)
- Location – Medium size city and growing – Low cost of living! (+), Risk Team is small (push)
- Industry – Diverse Client – Including tech companies, banks, and manufacturing (+)
- Culture – Audit people are pretty awesome, Risk people are very IT-y (push)
KPMG – Risk Advisory (Internal Audit) – Small to Medium Size City in SE
- Types of Work – Internal Audit, Risk and Process controls
- Industry – Diverse Client – Including tech companies, banks, and manufacturing(+)
- Location – Medium size city and growing – Low cost of living! (+) Risk team is small (push)
- Culture – Best thus far. Seem really cool from entry level to manager to directors (+)
Fortune 50 – Finance Rotational Program – Small to Medium Size City
- Types of Work – Narrow function but rotated out every 6 months. Possibility of corp. strategy and corp. development rotations (push)
- Industry – Technology (push)
- Location – Medium size city and growing – Low cost of living! (+) Large finance presence (+), managers are across the country (-)
- Culture – Techy culture, work from home types, "40-50 hour/week and I'm checking out" (-.. for me at least)
At the moment, the only offer letter I have received is from PwC for 50-52k. The remaining offers were communicated to me over the phone after my recent office visit but no salary details until next week.
I've compiled a much more comprehensive decision matrix in excel with 16 categories ranked 1-5. 1 being the lowest and 5 being the highest. The current ranking order :
- 1) EY – Score 56
- 2) PwC – Score 54
- 3) KPMG – Score 53
- 4) Deloitte – Score 50
- 5) F50 – Score 49
As you can see they are all pretty close. So I was hoping the GC experts would be kind enough to provide their insights and inputs.
Thanks!
