Would you rather work at McKinsey or in a Product Manager role at a company like Cisco / Indeed / Atlassian as a new MBA grad?

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McK for a couple years then industry. I’ll say I’ve built a sick skill set in 2 years. None really related to any specific content but more on the ability to live in abstraction and offer structured and well presented solutions. Content stuff comes later in career

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If you want to do product then going into a product role directly makes more sense. You don’t gain technical skills like that at any consulting firm.

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Where do you want to take your career?

Being in tech and working close to product is my ideal - therefore would prefer Indeed or Cisco. I actually applied to both (well…technically Duo Security)

McK will probably be better for most non tech roles

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Product is not considered a biz role in most bigtech. Biz roles are pmm, bizops, sales, partner managers/biz dev, program mgrs, solutions eng, back office ops/analytics

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You either work in consulting just to go to tech or start in tech. Why opt for the middleman. Start with tech

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