Hiring managers - have you ever hired an MBB that turned out to be a dud?

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I have a friend that has worked as a management hiring manager for two different F100 firms and she said they would rather burn through 5 MBB hires to find a good one than hire a good non-MBB candidate once. The preference was THAT strong among the executive ranks at those two companies. And they aren’t even super desirable F100s.

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Yeah, I see entire innovation teams staffed with MBB consultants. What’s interesting to me is how people who don’t understand consulting talk about it. I’ve heard one person mention how a colleague was MBB and they were so lucky to have gotten them...but, when I looked into that person, they had an internal role for about a year. Talk about frustrating.

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Glad to hear there are plenty of mbb duds. I’m personally a dud and would love to transition to mbb

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B&C1 care to give me a referral?

MBB folks come and go pretty quick in my VP’s domain (product management). They come with limited tech skills but we have some pressure to hire externally.

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I have an analytics background and am acquiring more tech skills - but not from MBB. It makes zero sense to focus on MBB if they don’t have the right skills.

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Google1, is there an overall strong preference towards MBB over other firms such as T2/Big4 at Google?

I know software developers at G that only had associate degrees, making a ton of $. People should stop limiting theirselves and looking at what they lack; start looking at all you have to offer and keep trying.

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