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If you know anyone personally who works at McKinsey, you know them to be brilliant, humble, hardworking, and unfailingly likeable. Think Pete Buttigieg. It's ha
by starpilot 7y ago
If you know anyone personally who works at McKinsey, you know them to be brilliant, humble, hardworking, and unfailingly likeable. Think Pete Buttigieg. It's hard to square this with the company's public reputation in anti-establishment screeds.
- boudewijnrempt 7y agoI guess you meant this to be sarcastic, right? Doltish, vainglorious, lazy and unfailingly boorish is what comes to my mind when I review the McKinsey people I've met.
- shantly 7y agoThat'd all go for about 80% of my exposure to same, can confirm. Doltishness and lack of self-awareness re: the same sorts of things the consult on for others were especially surprising to me.
- vincent-toups 7y agoThese qualities are not incompatible with being hatchet-men or giving shitty advice.
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