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Hiring these firms is a major "cover your ass" move. If you're a CEO and you hire McKinsey, your board is going to likely approve as they are from the same East

by adam 8y ago

Hiring these firms is a major "cover your ass" move. If you're a CEO and you hire McKinsey, your board is going to likely approve as they are from the same East Coast/West Coast Ivy League fraternity as McKinsey consultants. And because they only hire people from those schools or recruit former executives from their clients, there is a strong signaling mechanism that you're hiring "the best and the brightest." Then if things ever go wrong, you always have the out of "I hired the best, what did you want me to do?"

brootstrap 8y ago
100% of my experience with McKinsey has been trash. Just started working with new company and they wanted us to talk with these guys. We are reviewing some database systems and this guy is a literal joker. His suggestion to speeding up our database "well we can use REDIS, REDIS is fast because it's in-memory". So we want to put how many TB of data into REDIS? We are talking about tons of historic data that never changes. And we are going to load it ALL into REDIS because it's fast. These McKinsey folks spend months talking about the data lake and it turns out data lake just means a bunch of shit on s3. It's like if you paid someone $50,000 to help you find a good car. Client wants a fast car. Oh you want a fast car? Buy a ferrari they have big engines and can generate tons of horsepower. Job done, can i collect my 50k now? Mind you this guys linkedIn and resume read like a CEO wet dream. AI and machine learning data science all over... We spent months dilly dallying with different tech before they just left cold turkey , havent heard from em since. And our 20% complete projects experimenting with all kinds of DB tech have done nothing.
- ackbar03 8y ago
  This is hilarious. Did they site the falling cost of ram at least
- pradn 8y ago
  Somewhat related: as I've been interviewing candidates for SWE jobs, I've found that many will talk about their recent machine learning projects. And the way they can talk about that problem has no bearing on how well they do on a simple programming question I give them later. You've gotta view big data/ML/AI expertise with extreme scrutiny given how hot that stuff is. Best to just ignore the candidate's assertions.
- raincom 8y ago
  So, McKinsey is becoming another Deloitte!!

by adam 8y ago

brootstrap 8y ago

100% of my experience with McKinsey has been trash. Just started working with new company and they wanted us to talk with these guys. We are reviewing some database systems and this guy is a literal joker. His suggestion to speeding up our database "well we can use REDIS, REDIS is fast because it's in-memory". So we want to put how many TB of data into REDIS? We are talking about tons of historic data that never changes. And we are going to load it ALL into REDIS because it's fast. These McKinsey folks spend months talking about the data lake and it turns out data lake just means a bunch of shit on s3. It's like if you paid someone $50,000 to help you find a good car. Client wants a fast car. Oh you want a fast car? Buy a ferrari they have big engines and can generate tons of horsepower. Job done, can i collect my 50k now? Mind you this guys linkedIn and resume read like a CEO wet dream. AI and machine learning data science all over... We spent months dilly dallying with different tech before they just left cold turkey , havent heard from em since. And our 20% complete projects experimenting with all kinds of DB tech have done nothing.

ackbar03 8y ago
This is hilarious. Did they site the falling cost of ram at least
pradn 8y ago
Somewhat related: as I've been interviewing candidates for SWE jobs, I've found that many will talk about their recent machine learning projects. And the way they can talk about that problem has no bearing on how well they do on a simple programming question I give them later. You've gotta view big data/ML/AI expertise with extreme scrutiny given how hot that stuff is. Best to just ignore the candidate's assertions.
raincom 8y ago
So, McKinsey is becoming another Deloitte!!