McKinsey & Company I'm a SY MBA fortunate enough to get 2 full-time offers from McKinsey DC and BCG Dallas. I'm interested in digital work. Would anyone mind sharing some thoughts on comparing these two offers? McKinsey & Company Boston Consulting Group

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Only absolute difference is that Dallas has no state taxes. What’s your current location?

Also McK needs a lot of BA/ASCs right now so you’ll have plenty of options to pick what type of work / industry you want vs being forced into something.

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This should not be underestimated as everyone gets the same starting comp and bonus.

Take us :)

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What do you like and dislike so far about McK?

Understand what office your leadership would be in. Face time is becoming increasingly important

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Bain. OP said they were interested in digital work, not doing strategic consulting work for the tech industry. But I suggest asking to speak with other digital people about what type of projects and staffing. Your contact should be able to hook you up. Also ask recent recruits, what percentage digital versus general . My first year at BCG all but one short 4 week project was digital.

Those offices have very different regional vibes. Our digital people in DC are no surprise heavy in public sector incl. healthcare, though plenty of other industries.

Obviously don’t know about BCG Dallas first hand but cost of living there (incl tax factor) would be more comfortable.

On flat / collaborative, I find McK people to be super collaborative - or at least for me, I find myself often collaborating to my own detriment, like I am hopping on extra calls and sending materials to teams all the time. Yes we give tough and real feedback but try to do so early and in private so you have a chance to improve. We are flatter purely in terms of levels btwn post-MBA to the senior partner rank, though anecdotally I hear our client teams also run flatter; a few MBA classmates said their day to day often stopped at the Prin/Partner level and only PL saw MDP/MDSP, whereas our SP are usually in at least 1 problem-solving per week with the team (of course depends on specific client situation)

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I’m from BCG DAL and while I like it-ish, being here is a mixed bag (let’s just say sell weekend is hiding a lot of skeletons)

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