McKinsey is currently hiring a lot more for experience than they used to. My ex-wife works there as a manufacturing expert based on her decade of on-the-ground

McKinsey is currently hiring a lot more for experience than they used to. My ex-wife works there as a manufacturing expert based on her decade of on-the-ground experience inside chemical plants. Internal teams really fight to get her on their projects so that its not just "a bunch of ivy league/top uni graduates who are very intelligent but lack any real world experience who ultimately only deliver a slide deck". The culture may be changing, at least at McKinsey.