Has the hiring criteria dropped significantly at MBB? Earlier I wasn’t getting an interview even with referral. But now was reached out by 2 different recruiters and just received an offer for EM although I wasn’t super interested anymore due to an industry offer.

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Bain hired me so I’d say the bar is lower, but we are a tier 2 firm after all

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I just graduated high school with a 2.4 GPA but I told them I did Excel once in a basic computing skills class and they were like HIRED here’s $105K TC we’re despy

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They’re supposedly “casting a wider net”, I am interviewing off a referral but never would have gotten a look before with the state schools on my resume.

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Bar is not lower
Wider net
I’ve seen at least half a dozen people I helped case prep not make it through. They were from target schools and had really good backgrounds
And as an interviewer I judge the same

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Nah, I am an experienced hire myself. Where do you think my conviction was coming from otherwise?

Business is running hot and we’re all explicitly looking for more “diversity”.

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What’s your background OP? YOE? MBA? Level at KPMG? It’s competitive for employers out there right now… not a lot of talent in the pipeline so ya, seems like the bars lowered somewhat.

If I had a penny for every time this question was asked 😂

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