Besides being ‘most prestigious’, what are MBB stereotypes perceived from other consulting firms? Furthermore, what are stereotypes *between* the different MBBs you know or have heard of?

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Stereotypes perceived in business school
McKinsey behave as superior
Bain think they are a secret society
BCG the nerdy engineers

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From what I've seen at Google: McKinsey people take themselves very seriously. BCG folks are chill and Bain people are collegial.

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If I had a dollar for every time I heard the term “collegial culture” during the MBA consulting recruiting process I would have enough money that I would not have started consulting.

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I don’t know if these stereotypes still apply to McK and BCG, both firms have changed a lot over the years with additions of tech/data focused offerings. Not knowing what the goal is here I’ll refrain from throwing more into the cliché machine. This shouldn’t be how people form an opinion.

My goal is nothing more than curiosity how people perceive ‘us’. I was talking to a colleague lately and realised I don’t have all these consulting friends who work at other firms and have a specific stereotyping of us... so just pure curiosity.

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