someone made a comment that BCG is way more cut throat than Mck and Mck has better WLB and culture so now im questioning is it worth re-recruiting for M or B ? Only been at BCG for 1 year - anyone thats been at both or has reference point is it worth it?

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I’ve worked at both. McKinsey is waayy more cut throat. Especially at the more senior levels.
WLB is the same but at least BCG cares 🤷‍♀️

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Because it’s client services and no matter what it’s going to be hard.

But hearing “hey I know this sucks, but can we chat at 9 PM tonight for 20 minutes” is a lot better than the expectation that that phone call is ok.

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It’s fine - there’s a bunch of salty people online - don’t take them as representative

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BCG is a lot of kool-aid prior to joining to compensate for our lack of personality. We also do a lot more execution and agile work than we like to admit. Oh and WeLcOmE tO tHe GrOuP!

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Makes sense but that also the market - McKinsey ive heard does the same too so between the two I cant really use it as comparing metric

Been here for almos a year now and so far my throat is unscathed

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Haha my BA class hangs out with the local BCG ASC class and I can ensure you WLB is equal all things considered. I wouldn’t say either Firm is cut throat, but obviously you get a lot of overachieving individuals.

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Hence why some people talk about blue team green team red team… more or less the same

McK and BCG are way more similar than people make it out to be

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Come to Bain, way more chilled (ABNLABF)

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Bain 1 - I do actually struggle with that, it’s a low level copy of “The Firm” from Mck (which is also very cringe)

I mean....you've literally been there for a year. Aren't you in a position to judge for yourself whether it's a cutthroat environment?

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Not good experience you mean BCG3?

Did the person give an example of how we’re more cutthroat? I don’t really feel that in my day to day so I’m curious if others are just having very different experiences

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McK WLB is definitely worse than BCG in the US. Bain is the best in this regard (unless you get stuck with a bad PEG team).

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Joining soon and now worried 🥲

Eh I would say pretty easy to get interviews now days - hard part is passing them

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