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Man, the NYT really has it out for McKinsey. Anyone know why?
by theNJR 8y ago
Man, the NYT really has it out for McKinsey. Anyone know why?
- FabHK 8y agoWhat's the saying about journalism? “The job of the newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”
- brootstrap 8y agoall of my experience with McKinsey has been an utter waste. Worked with multiple contractors on multiple backend database projects. They work like a walking ad for AWS services but dont actually know shit. We have a 10+TB dataset (growing by gigs each day) that is spread across a few postgres servers. These servers are decent but foreseen as bottle neck in coming years. This guys suggestion is to put our data in redis b/c it's fast and in memory. Looking up hosted REDIS solutions, (redislabs, we use for other smaller cache redis things). To put 1 TB of data in standard redis server would be ~50k/month :p
- cubecul 8y agoFormer McK here. You asked the wrong folks to come in...I'm not sure I would ask b-school grads (my former colleagues - love them to death) to talk technical stuff.
- doktrin 8y agoNobody with any technical competence is inviting a place like McKinsey in the first place. Because of course not. Unfortunately McKinsey is quite happy to talk a big game and sell sub-par technical services to their customers who are either too dumb or too craven to see through the charade. Same goes for big-4 technical consulting in my experience, but less extreme.
- rchaud 8y agoA newspaper article about a powerful consultancy is "having it out for McKinsey?" NYT must have a long list of enemies in that case.
- theNJR 8y agoThey've had at least three reports about McKinsey since December.