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McKinsey & Company Hi all! Any fishes at BCG and/or McK have time to chat sometime within the next few days/weeks?
I’m a consulting analyst at Accenture, really interested in strategy work (mainly tech/software clients but open to all backgrounds) hoping to make the jump some time next year. I’d very much appreciate connecting to understand your journey with the firms and the work you do.
Thanks in advance, and happy holidays!
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Who said our S&CF is relatively small… Strategy work is the bread and butter of Mckinsey. You work with every industry (Oil and gas on their restructuring through energy transition, pharmas on optimizing their product portfolio, etc) with all the rungs of the laddar (F500 and privately owned). You sometimes have overlap work with PEPI (our PE group) in helping the acquisition targets/portco optimize their operation.
Don’t think S&CF’s external reputation matters bc it is mckinsey at the end of the day. Internally, it is considered one of the challenging practices (right behind PEPI) in terms of work hours and WLB, but you learn crazy a lot in short amount of time. I would say culture is relatively draconian (a lot of really intelligent hardos with a very specific way to doing things and they always expect you to deliver since the stake in strategy work is high). Exit opp is great ( seen a lot of people go to corp strategy or UMM/LMM PE)
How does one work 80-90 weeks in consulting? I understand in banking when you work weekends but doing that many hours with protected weekends and light fridays seems like an exaggeration (or the weekends aren’t protected)
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It is the opposite of small. If you’re looking online, it’s likely underrepresented because work is often published under the industry instead of the S&CF practice.
They work on corporate strategy, growth strategy and M&A, CEO/CFO excellence, etc. Much of it is the work McK originally built its reputation on. Culture varies since it’s such a big practice; hours are higher on average than implementation work.
I know this is highly variable but what would avg work life balance / hours look like within a generalist program vs. S&CF?
Mentor
typically, ShaPE (public sector) > Travel (airlines hotels resorts etc) > GEM = TMT > M&S > Advanced industries > Consumer products > Financials and Insurance > S&CF > PEPI from best to worst WLB. To elaborate, ShaPE can range from 50-65 a week. For S&CF, 60-80; for PEPI, 66ish- 90.
I (and nobody) can speak for exit opp because we don’t know what you want to do in the long term. In terms of “prestige”, PEPI/S&CF are best if you wanna go out to PE/VC/Corp strat; TMT are best if you wanna go out to tech. The exit opportunity is pretty self explanatory for the industry you are interested in; you gotta answer what you want for yourself, not us
Mentor
easily 16 hours a day (12 hours with team, 4 hours alone when you get back to hotel). They try their best to protect the weekend. but in PEPI, S&CF, you will almost always have one weekend on your study where it’s not
Wow I assume these long hours are consistent for all MBB firms? Is there any difference between the firms? McKinsey seems to get a rep as being the toughest
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Would working for the S&CF practice qualify for MBA sponsorship?