Leave MBB just before manager promotion?

[u/ChurchLeague]

Anyone out there leave early and regret not staying for the promotion?

I’ve gotten high ratings while at MBB and will very likely be a manager come January. At the same time, I have a good strategy/ops role at a startup in hand that would be about the same base/bonus as I make at a non-manager level, but with equity.

I guess the big question is: how valuable is the title on a resume?

My hesitation is that I’ve done very well while at MBB, but if I leave now and someone looks at my experience down the road, they won’t know if I got managed out or if I crushed it in my time here. Manager promotion tells that story clearly.

Important context for the offer I have - it’s in an industry I worked in previously, but I don’t want to get pigeonholed there. I could see myself pivoting in a few years, and am thinking that the manager title would help give me credibility to pivot if I changed industries later.