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Thought it was 3 to EM. Also, think exit opptys will consider age/exp not just title. Still a great deal for the 🎸 ⭐️ 's
Husband is at McKinsey. Can confirm 3 years is the earliest. Not possible at 2 years.
Most BAs go to business school after 2 or 3 years... after that they return as consultants and can make EM in 1 or 2 years. I only know of a handful of BAs that became EM without going to BS in 3 years
Won't the real McKinsey please stand up...?
Yeah haha we need some McKinsey weigh in above the Bain/BCG speculation
I heard that the making EM in 3 years thing was a new offering McK introduced just a year ago or so
Jump from Associate to manager is probably one of the most difficult. Just because you can own and manage a work stream / one resource doesn't always mean you can deliver a full project.
Think I've heard of one person making EM in 2 years but more commonly see 3 (out of undergrad). Out of curiosity, is it only rock stars or most on-par performers that can make EM after 3?
Girlfriend is a BA in McKinsey and has an EM who was promoted in 3 years. EM was a rockstar BA but not as great of a manager. Being good at analytics doesn't always mean you'll be good at managing other people, especially partners.
BCG4 that's true as well. Some people get to EM fast but then plateau if they only really learned to manage one kind of project, or one kind of client.
Don't they usually hire MBAs as BAs which would make the EM age more like 26-27?
No. MBAs are Cs. Undergrads are BAs.
Oops *Associates.
^also curious about this. I wonder if uncle Bain will make a path to CTL after SAC year?
I've seen people here at OW make EM after 3y out of undergrad. That's a really steep curve already and 2y seems far fetched. Most EMs take longer than 3y to get there of course.
OW someone told me that you can make partner in 7 years straight through at OW, that's incredible!
How does it matter - it's still managing a team at 25 or so...that's early af and really impressive
I think it's important to separate the possible from the expected. Not saying 3 years to EM or 7 years to Partner is the well-worn path, but yes both have happened, in cases that are extreme but not so extreme as to require policy exceptions or be unheard of. The things that allow this are mainly: 1) removing artificial barriers to growth, e.g. that you can only rise X notches per cycle max, 2) an environment where people occasionally get big stretch opportunities, with support from partners/EMs above them that recognize the nature of the stretch, and 3) an intake pool with a lot of really sharp, driven people who hunger for those stretch opportunities and want to make the most of them. Even with those things, these outcomes are upper-tail events but have happened when all cylinders were firing perfectly.
I know someone who made EM at McK in two years. Probably exception to the rule, but another data point for reference.