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Takeaways: - McKinsey & Co. and Boston Consulting Group increased starting salaries for their new US hires for the first time since 2022. - Pay for first-year recruits without a…
by toomuchtodo · Oct 27, 2026
This is a bunch of regurgitated horseshit that business school grads repeat to each other like a game of telephone based off some PR puff pieces written about McKinsey in Fortun…
by pembrook · Oct 25, 2026
> But I don't think it's unique to any profession or individual that they tend to care the most deeply when it hits them directly. Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that. I just mea…
by Karrot_Kream · Oct 25, 2026
Who do you think knows the most about a business? The experts at the leading companies in that business? Or McKinsey? Assuming the sane answer is the experts at the company, why…
by class3shock · Oct 23, 2026
From my limited experience of working with McKinsey people, I would describe it as a Fortune 500 C-Suite incubator. The hire smart people, they are very well connected and the g…
by satnhak · Oct 23, 2026
I've never heard of McKinsey (I'm not in the US though) but we have a lot of Accenture consultants running around at work. They're generally a waste of space, just like the Delo…
by wolvoleo · Oct 23, 2026
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McKinsey & Company is an American multinational strategy and management consulting firm that offers professional services to corporations, governments, and other organizations. Founded in 1926 by James O. McKinsey, McKinsey is the oldest and largest of the "MBB" strategy consultancy firms. The firm mainly focuses on the finances and operations of their clients. Read more on Wikipedia