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SUPER tight nit offices at Bain. Even in larger ones. So many friends, you know everyone, often people become roomates or hang at each other's places all the time. Huge community feel.
At higher levels there is also a culture by practice, but that doesn’t really come into play until senior manager
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In McK there is a matrix between office culture and practice culture.
Practice culture matters more in your projects because that’s the common denominator between the people. For example PE projects will often be burners, Ops Transformations will usually be more chill.
The office culture factors in to your time outside of projects - the atmosphere on a Friday in the office, social events, office retreats, etc. It tends to be influenced by the culture of the city and the size of the office. New York is going to be less personal and tightly knit than a Cleveland will be
I would say that this is similar to BCG, with the added factor that many cases are staffed by region so your teams even across practices will likely have a lot of familiar faces. I come from a smaller office, Seattle, and think that our office culture is one of the biggest selling points.
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At BCG I’d say we have system dependent culture as we typically staff system by system, so the Midwest/South/WC/NE offices have their traits. I’m in the Midwest and feel like we have a relatively more relaxed/laidback culture that comes top down from our partners