"Working all day, every day with different clients, who tend to be more demanding than colleagues, helped me develop my problem-solving and people skills. But your job is to give advice that the client may not implement, so it can be hard to define your impact. I found myself craving the ability to build and deploy a project and see the results."
"Before I went to college, I didn't know what consulting was. I studied economics at the University of Virginia and graduated in 2016. Through the campus hiring process, I got a full-time job at EY in New York City. I worked at EY for two years in total. I was unsure about the direction to take my career, so I thought consulting might open doors without pigeonholing me."
Mandy Liu studied economics at the University of Virginia, graduated in 2016, and joined EY in New York City through campus hiring. She worked at EY for two years, left the US because of visa issues, returned to China briefly, and later relocated to London for another year at EY. She worked at Meta from 2020 to 2023. Consulting developed her problem-solving and people skills through demanding client-facing work and frequent travel, but made it difficult to see the impact of her recommendations. Tech offered a faster pace, easier development of hard technical skills, and satisfaction from building and deploying projects.
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