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McKinsey & Company Any advice to help prepare for data science analyst role at top consulting firms (McKinsey & Company EY Boston Consulting Group etc)? Any materials, open source platform recommended to take on freelance data science project? When should I start actively looking and applying? I am a new grad who is working in tech as a marketing analyst I’m looking to pivot to marketing& sales data science consulting next year. Would like someone with similar backgrounds offer some practical tips.
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ugh. tomorrow is leg day.
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ask them if there will be any questions on ethics
Oh we all know there aren’t any 😜
Even if the professor says no phones, why I can’t a use a phone if the professor can’t see it? It would be much easier to take a test with a phone!
Mental math does come in handy on the job all the time. Obviously you can use a calculator whenever, but the skill being tested is when you’re in a client meeting and need to pull quick percentages or totals
Seems a silly rule when in reality we use excel to size opportunities and develop market models
I understand that people turn their cameras off for personal reasons, but it might be weird optics to turn your camera off during an interview where they know you need math.
McK does a good bit of mental math on the spot at work during problem solvings with partners. Like…a lot. You gotta have your mental math down eventually anyway
Deal with it while it’s a small elephant and not this huge one up close. Good analogy
If you can't do mental arithmetic, please don't join.
will they ask me to sum up my proposed salary and bonus target? I’ll practice that one real good
When I was interviewing, I was intimidated by the math, but it really isn’t anything too complex that you would need a calculator for. What I did was use a pen and paper to set up the problems and for some of the calculations just did the short-cuts in my head.
What region are you?