For the managers at MBB, how do you evaluate your senior consultants/associate/consultants (whatever designation you give) for promotion. Please provide pointers! Thanks much!

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At McK US, basically you get promoted to manager after actually having managed ~2 projects (more nuanced but close to this).

So at the end of the day, I don’t evaluate the consultants for promotion.

They need to convince a partner to put them as manager of a project, while they are not yet officially a manager, after they do it twice, they become one.

That’s pretty much the only promotion that happens here for more junior colleagues in the US, as people don’t get really promoted from BA to Sr BA, it’s just based on time.

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Managers don’t decide promotions, a separate committee decides it based on the feedback received on your cases. There’s various factors like independently driving your workstream, quality of work and insights, clear and concise communication, engaging with clients, etc. The exact framing of these dimensions vary by firm

Interesting! We have a similar system at AWS, I feel there’s less room for bias as it is more data driven.

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