Have a lateral offer to join McKinsey & Co in Karachi as a Business Analyst. I'm currently a SWE at a pre-IPO fintech company in SF. As someone with no ties to the region (I'm east asian), is the McKinsey name worth the significant pay and quality of life downgrade? Would FAANG hire a McK analyst from Pakistan into a product or strategy role?
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I have known people to be hired into product roles from McKinsey roles at Google, I have never known someone to be hired from a SWE role directly into a PM role.
In theory your SWE experience + management consulting experience could be interesting, but it would be more valuable to FAANG companies if you internally transferred straight to PM at your current job. There’s an oversupply of ex McKinsey people trying to break into FAANG. Unless you have something interesting to offer you won’t stand out. At meta we using to have a decent pipeline of ex consultants coming to internal strategy and trying to transfer to product, but that path has become harder. Strategy is a 2nd class role as well, with much lower pay.
Mckinsey Pakistan is shit
Not surprised, but could you please elaborate?
Some of university fellows work there. It is basically an outsourcing center for UAE/Saudi/Qatar offices. They pay Pakistani graduates abysmal pay when compared with the gulf countries. Maybe they will pay you more. The other thing is that Pakistan is not culturally going to suit you if you are not a Muslim (some non-Muslims can adjust, many can't). Karachi is a terrible, unsafe , polluted city to live in. Your peers even inside Mckinsey office would not be tolerant of some western values.
OP , you don’t love your life 🤔🤔 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-61144442.amp
Where’s the third option of ola Uber Pakistan ?
What is the TC offered by McKinney in Karachi?
McKiney managment consultant, may be. Why would anyone choose McKinsey business analyst over swe.
business analyst = management consultant, they're the same thing It's just the title for the pre-MBA level consultant.
Makes sense. But again all this only worth if you do MBA and become a management consultant. I do not know if faang considers pre mba business analyst for product roles.