Am I wrong for thinking some of my MBB colleagues are incompetent

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Yes because they probably think the same about you

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Big4 peon ^

If they're MBA hires it's probably true

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Considering the posts I see on this app day in and day out from MBB OPs, there's a lot of incompetence amongst your peers. Then again, "always Deloitte" isn't exactly a fallacy.

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No. I blame case studies. You can study and do well but when faced with a real world problem and are developing unique solutions you have to get creative and be critical and a lot of people lack the ability to do that on their feet.

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I don’t get it. Isn’t the entire point of case studies to allow students to think through a whole real problem, rather than have them study theoretical academic concepts?

I feel incompetent seeing my peers.

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Yes because you should see some of the people at Deloitte

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