6/16 Anyone here worked in a business consulting company like McKinsey,
Accenture, or the like? Please share your experience. Thanks.
\_ My girlfriend works for BCG, which I think is one of the better
ones. They pay a lot of money to young people straight out of
college (so they don't really have any work experience to measure
themselves against), put them in a pool of other young over-
achievers, and tell them they're the best. That's the good part--
the bad thing is that they start thinking it normal to work 12 hour
days, that there are no real jobs outside of the consulting outfit,
and that they are some sort of loser if they get out of the "up
or out" system. Only the really strong ones manage to avoid a
total burnout. To be fair, a lot of the people I know at her
outfit are of above average intelligence, except when it comes to
saying "no" to being shat upon at work by managers and customers.
I also think that you have to be a singular kind of defective to
survive for long enough to get into senior management, so that
breeds some pretty evil culture. All the people I know who "left"
Accenture, PWC & co. were inevitably totally burned out and totally
dissatisfied at having wasted a few years of their lives. -John |
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