Re: LEK Consulting
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27 Aug 2010, 14:09
I agree that 10-12 isn't a ton for consulting. 12 is getting there though. Various LEK people told me that they average 60+ hours/week, but that weeks of 80-90 were not uncommon.
LEK does a lot of private equity work, especially diligence stuff, so it tends to be a lot of very short, very intense projects with crazy hours. In some respects, it's like working for an investment bank but getting consulting pay.
They are also strong in life sciences (again, a lot of M&A, especially "screening" type of projects), which reflects the Boston headquarters, and apparently transportation (their Boston headquarters as of last October had a really cool case study on strategies for airports) and media.