thowawaybcg1

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by thowawaybcg1 5y ago
We don't deal so much with process mapping PPTs (still a lot of PPTs though). Except for PPT "beautification", we don't ship work to India. In the few occasions we end up outsourcing something, those are usually well pai
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by thowawaybcg1 5y ago
Those fresh grad are supported by managers and, partners with global and deep expertise, and a small army of back-office research staff. We generally avoid "body leasing" kind of work, even when client is OK paying for that. Attra
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by thowawaybcg1 5y ago
What? You know a team of 5 from McK/BCG/Bain costs about $180K/w right? These 500 will run for ~$70M/month. Likely more, we never have 500 consultants available on a short notice. Maybe you're confusing with staff a
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by thowawaybcg1 5y ago
BCG/McK/Bain are not Big4 consulting. It's not all roses, but I'd argue that they operate pretty differently - the fact they charge 2x-3x more should tell you something.
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by thowawaybcg1 5y ago
Kind of. There are conflict rules so consultants don't share specifics about clients. We tend to share general trends and stick to long term relations. I've seen situations where the partner has been consulting for a client for lo
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by thowawaybcg1 5y ago
This guy knows. Unlike in other high paying professions, from day 1 in consulting you're dealing with C-level people. You learn how they think, how they talk, how they make decisions. Learning to consistently convince people in power i
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by thowawaybcg1 5y ago
Don't buy this anectode. BCG is too expensive to be hired by managers to convince executives. There are cheaper ways to do that. Most common scenario is that the executives want to prioritize between 100s of managers' pet-projects