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McKinsey & Company Boston Consulting Group McKinsey & Company What’s the culture like at your respective Pittsburgh offices? Which practices are the strongest? Which practices do you see expanding/growing in the next 5-10 years?
Yinzer looking to make their way back home after a couple of years. Thanks!
what are McKinsey’s september start dates?
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My suggestion - apply to the Detroit office. Once you start working, you might just need a studio apartment in Detroit to keep an official correspondence within the US. I doubt anyone really cares where you will be during your personal time since you are likely going to be working at a client site when you are working most of the time.
If you have authorization to work in both countries, there won’t be any immigration challenges legally speaking, but I think it will be a time consuming pain to get your passport stamped every day when you cross borders… but that’s up to you…
Tax for you … that’s honestly a question for a CPA to answer (don’t know Canadian laws well enough and know for sure that you will owe state and federal taxes in the US).
Tax for the company, I think this becomes a great area - since technically you aren’t doing any / much work from Canada (since you are going there after your days work - at least on paper), is no different than going on a vacation daily to Canada… so that might workout fine (IMO)
That compromise sounds fine on paper but would you really want to live in Windsor? Have you been? Since there are MBB offices in Toronto, I’d personally consider recruiting there and optimize for enjoying both where I live and work instead of compromising to live between Windsor and Detroit, two cities with some of the highest poverty rates in their respective countries.
I’d only seriously consider Windsor if one of you already had ties there or in Detroit.
If I had to guess, I think OP is optimizing for US salaries. In that regard I think this is his best option.
Tax implications could be a potential deterrent.
It more that the firm doesn’t want to pay taxes in both countries. Your residence drives some tax payments and obligations on the firm’s part. There may also be employee protections in Canada that aren’t matched in the U.S. and the firm may not want to deal with unpacking what all of that means.
That said, I have to imagine there are many folks in the area who have pursued similar work arrangements.
Never worked at either of those firms but I had a colleague at ford in Dearborn whom worked in Dearborn but lived in Windsor and commuted it. His “trick” was to have a US P.O. Box where the business would send documents that needed to stay in the US. For folks not from the region answering here— I’d take their suggestions with a grain of salt. It’s very common for lots of businesses to do cross country talent swaps in Detroit with Windsor and it’s going to become more prevalent once the Detroit —> Toronto train finishes from Michigan Central.
Get an offer first and then check back in lol. There are no guarantees with MBA recruiting
Source: Went to T10 MBA
lol fair, just exploring my options because I understand that office choice plays a big role in the recruitment process
This seems like you’ll get a hard no
If you live in downtown Detroit, you can live less than 10m from Canada but earn USD. By far the best economic decision
I know someone has done it but also remember this being a giant pain with hoops to jump through and a lot of fun new issues people had to deal with. They were Canadian so if you're not able to get NEXUS, the border crossing may be a real concern.