What’s it like to work at Accenture, Deloitte, McKinsey, etc in product design, PM, or client mgmt?
I’m thinking about trying to move into Deloitte Digital, Accenture or McKinsey leading client accounts or consulting on product design or product management. Anyone have experience with this or thoughts on why it’s a good or bad idea? TC: 250k YOE: 10 yrs Not in Bay Area #Deloitte #Accenture #McKinsey #bcg #apple #meta #google #amazon#tech
It sucks, you will be surrounded by less intelligent people and you will be a salesperson
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McKinsey is in a different bucket than the others you mentioned.
i work at D and agree with all the other comments. With your current position you’d probably be taking a pay cut or very similar TC. They would bring you on as a manager or senior manager and you’d be in that role for 5+ years before eligible for PPMD and the people you’ll be working with aren’t that smart. Also would be a lot more hours. Only benefit would be the increased exposure and changing clients so it’s not super repetitive work
What PPMD?
PPMD stands for partner, principal, managing director
I can’t agree more with the last comment .. Don’t come to work for D as there most senior people are less intelligent and only know 1 thing talk crap with no substance
If you think about it, a business profits from its products and its the core of their business. Why would they subcontract that out to a consultancy. I seen some small consultancy do it once in an engagement. They hated it. Client gave all the steer, product was seen as slow and client has final say which is always get things out the door now. I want X,Y and Z asap. The product manager just some research and presents them.
I wouldn’t move from Rivian to any consulting company honestly - you have good TC and better growth opportunities- they won’t be able to match it here.
Rivian keeps laying people off
Avoid consulting at all costs
I would agree with some but not all in the Deloitte comments. There have been to solid year long projects over the last 5 years that were akin to what one would expect in a product company. However it is consulting so that accounts for 20% of the clients. Overall the practitioners at deloitte think they know more than others however I tend to see that trend with the junior to mid level and the M, S, and PMDs are focused on sales . If you have never done consulting and mid career it may be worth exploring even if for a short time. I loathe consulting but am good at it so I am sticking with it. Got offers from Meta and Salesforce in the last year but the in hand money was better than the strung out TC RSU game.
Sounds like hell