It's a confidence trick. Is there really a good track record of McKinsey actually making good calls? Weren't they against mobile phones and said blockchain tech with ML will change everything?
I know one guy at Mckiney who thought he didn't want to make extra money because he'd be in a higher tax bracket: he didn't realize taxes are marginal. These are the genius business minds?
Is there any actual proof they provide value, or is it more a prestige trick to get people in suits to come along and help the CEO justify firing half the workforce?
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Low end retailer folks surely being more coherent than you are being here.
Then theres the post mba MBBs. It is much easier to get into a non H/S m7 mba than it is to get into any ivy+ undergrad. From there the level of "business acumen" will drop significantly. Considering anywhere from 30-40% of your class can land mbb from even say Kellogg or Columbia, you see where this is going.
Regarding impact major firms have had: things like inventing the barcode, helping nations roll out successful vaccination programs, etc are only a small portion of the work that we do. Most of our work is confidential because our client base is confidential.
To those saying we’re a means by which execs to justify decisions: I’ve personally been on projects where we’ve gone 180 on the original plan our clients wanted, and seen genuine impact once our recommendations were implemented.
I used to work as an SWE at a MANGA company and I can say without a shadow of a doubt that my work now is much more impactful than anything I did as an SWE
Internet things part of some OSI layer with a number less than or equal to 7, one of them retransmits and the other is best effort.
--Staff SecEng transitioned to management and that's most of what I can tell you without Google. Enough to dazzle an interviewer who is either more senior and less technical or equally senior and equally bullshitty as myself.