I’ve been with BCG for a while now and I’ve found the work not very much like the case interviews (less emphasis on MECE, Pyramid Principle, top-down etc.).

How’s the experience at McKinsey/Bain? Did your job match the case interviews?

I’ve heard that Pyramid Principle is strictly observed at McKinsey: EM/Partner forcing it? Do you find it fun/efficient?

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The interview cases are probably one of the best cases OPPL were staffed on, you can’t expect every case would be like that (welcome to PMO lol). For example, while we try to be MECE as much as we can, it’s very hard in the real world with many interdependencies and the time pressure makes it impractical to be exhaustive.
One thing I’m quite annoyed is that 80/20 isn’t applied. We try too much to perfect those back-ups that no one would ever see ugh 😩

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Not MBB, but regardless. You don’t ‘do’ MECE, Pyramid Principle, Value Trees etc. - you just try to grow into them. It should get you into that mindset, may not be exactly visible on your deliverables.

If your decks are not Pyramid and your work components are not MECE, you’ll struggle on several fronts unknowingly.

Not MECE = frequent scope discussions with the client
Not Pyramid = several avoidable questions during presentation
Not Value Tree = many ‘gotcha’ and missed scope elements

So on, so forth....

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MECE is a lie.

What's most of your job like then, if you dont mind sharing?

You get asked to do a piece of analysis and left to figure it out. You need to do it accurately and swiftly. Little hypothesis/MECE stuff that gets tested a lot in interviews.

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