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Bain & Company Is it truly easier to get in a smaller MBB office?
Have heard a lot for different opinions on these. The logic is that it’s easier because there is a lot of supply in cities like NY, Chicago and SF, but the counter argument is that the offices with less supply are also way smaller and have a lot less demand.
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McKinsey & Company Hey folks!
Was wondering what sort of life sciences projects does usually the Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey & Company take on?
Commercial, access and pricing, M&A, transformation, implementation? (all of them perhaps?)
Basically, what would someone with an LS background be mainly working on in these firms on a day-to-day basis?
Thanks!
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Bain hired me so I’d say the bar is lower, but we are a tier 2 firm after all
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
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
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”.
Mentor
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.
Mentor
If I had a penny for every time this question was asked 😂