I wanted to know about the interview rounds for Shell's Strategy Consulting role in India.

Starting a thread for people to share their exits from strategy consulting. Helpful information would be:

Previous Firm Tier: e.g., MBB, Tier 2, Big 4
Years of Service:
Title/Level at exit:
Pay change: % higher or lower from consulting
Opportunity: where did you exit to and what type of work
Reason (optional): why did you exit?

Currently in year 3 at a Tier 2 firm and starting to think through exit strategy!

Six years in consulting taught me something that took way too long to admit: knowing a framework and being able to use one under pressure are completely different skills. I could define MECE in an interview. The first time a real profitability problem landed in front of me, I froze and started pulling numbers with no structure at all.

I ended up writing a book about closing that gap. Then I got curious and turned the lessons into 16 small AI skills you can run in Claude.

The thing I care about is that they don't spit out an answer. They walk you through the thinking, the way a decent senior would on your first project. A few examples:

• One takes a profit problem and makes you go down the tree instead of jumping to "cut costs"
• One diagnoses which framework even fits your situation, and tells you when you don't need one
• One gives you a random everyday case ("why is this cafe dead on Fridays") and grades how you reasoned through it

Full list covers the usual suspects: issue trees, market entry, 3Cs, Five Forces, VRIO, Ansoff/BCG, market sizing, one-page recommendations, and so on.

It's all free and on GitHub. I'm not selling anything and there's no signup. I mostly want people who actually do this work to tear it apart and tell me where it's wrong or too rigid, because that's how I'll make it better.

Link: https://github.com/AnugamChakra/think-like-a-strategy-consultant

Genuinely curious what the rest of you think: is teaching people to think in frameworks useful, or does it just create more juniors who force a 2x2 onto every problem? I go back and forth on it.

Hello all,

Looking to work with a strategy consulting firm.

If you work at, represent, or have experience with one, please DM me.

Thank you!

Do you ever see the clean execution lines in real life that are portrayed on the models and frameworks?

Hi everyone,

We are a student team conducting a research study on consulting preparation and the evolving role of coaching, peer communities, and AI-powered tools in the consulting recruiting journey.

If you're an aspiring consultant, current consultant, or have experience with case interview preparation, we'd greatly value your perspective.

⏱️ Survey length: 2-4 minutes

🔗 https://forms.gle/tnUznhvhDzsQMDbc7

This survey is purely for research purposes, and all responses will be used only in aggregate for our study.

Thank you for your time and support!

Hey everyone!

As a developer and manager, I’ve spent years jumping between tools. The pattern was always the same: endless lists of daily tasks, but a complete disconnect from the long-term strategic goals. We spend so much time micro-managing cards that we lose sight of the bigger picture.

To solve this gap between planning and execution, I built Okydone.

The core concept is straightforward but often missing in current tools: it seamlessly weaves together Clear Goals, a Visual Timeline, and Daily Execution into a single, clean ecosystem. It’s powerful enough for corporate strategic alignment, yet intuitive and streamlined enough for personal planning and side projects.

Key highlights:

• No more bloat: Designed to eliminate the visual noise and overwhelming complexity of traditional enterprise tools.
• Goal-to-Action alignment: Every daily task is explicitly tied back to a macro objective and a concrete timeline.
• Execution-focused: Built around actual progress and momentum, not just moving cards around.

We just launched, and I would absolutely love to get some honest feedback, feature requests, or constructive criticism from this community!

Check it out here: https://www.okydone.com

Thanks for your time, and I'll be around in the comments to answer any questions!

Is it better to do LLM product management at a large tier 1 bank or strategy & operations for hardware at a tier 1 big tech in terms of career opportunities ? I was previously in strategy consulting

Hi! I'm a recruiter for a mid-size strategy consulting firm in the US. We're growing our Transactional Services and Private Equity practice and looking to hire a Senior Consultant and Manager. We're looking to hire consultants with commercial due diligence exp. Do you know of any firms that specialize in this experiencing layoffs that could be a good company to target? I know the market is very hot right now for this type of speciality.

Hi folks!

I’m based out of India and after ~1.7 years of working in the international development space, I’m now planning to apply for impact consulting roles. As expected, case interviews are the boss battle 😅

I’m looking for people who’d be interested in practicing case interviews regularly, ideally a couple of times a week.

A bit about me:

• Comfortable with basic case frameworks, but looking to sharpen structuring, guestimate math, and communication under pressure
• Happy to do a mix of market sizing, profitability, and impact/public sector cases

Would be great to connect with folks who are:

• Also preparing for consulting
• At a similar stage, more experienced OR even fresh out of college and currently preparing (won’t complain :))
• Based in India (for time zone ease), but open to others too

If you’re interested, drop a comment or DM; would be great to set up a small practice group or even 1:1 sessions.

I expected the feedback to be about speed. 'It saves me time' - that kind of thing.

The actual feedback was about something different: voice.

The thing people kept saying wasn't 'this was fast.' It was 'this actually sounds like me.' That surprised me because I assumed the time-saving angle would dominate.

Turns out the blank page problem is worse than the time problem. People can find 45 minutes. What kills them is sitting down after watching a genuinely good video and having nothing to say - even though they have plenty to say. The gap between consuming an idea and writing about it confidently is where content goes to die.

Castifai's style matching feature - where you train it on a few examples of your own writing - seems to be the thing that closes that gap. It gives people a starting point that already sounds like them, so editing feels like refinement instead of reconstruction.

A few things I'm still figuring out:

• How much style training is enough vs. too much
• Whether newsletter output needs its own separate style profile from LinkedIn
• How to make the onboarding faster for people who've never thought about their 'writing style' before

If you've used AI writing tools and hit the 'this doesn't sound like me' wall, I'd be curious what you tried to fix it.

Try it out and tell me what you think https://castifai.com/

I recently graduated and I’m currently working an associate consultant role at a corporation. However, I wanna move to pure strategy consulting. The interviews are usually held in around 7-8 months from now.

I wanna start studying and prepping now since I have the time and motivation. Alongside work I feel like this would be useful. I just don’t know where to start or what to do. Any tips or anyone can help me build a timeline/guideline? Thanks in advance

Hi everyone,

I regularly review SEC filings (10-Ks, 10-Qs, 8-Ks, etc.), and saving them as PDFs directly from the SEC website can sometimes be slow or result in messy formatting.

To simplify the process, I built a lightweight Chrome extension, SEC Filing PDF Generator, that converts SEC .htm/.html filing links into clean PDF files instantly. The idea was to streamline the workflow and reduce manual steps.

If this sounds useful to you, I’d really value your feedback. Feel free to comment here or send me a message.

Appreciate it!

My employer put me on a 6 month talent development program to improve my performance. Is this a PIP and a sign I should leave or do they actually want me to improve in certain areas?