I don’t know who this person is but something tells me he is the son of a wealthy family who has connections to all of those brands.
How far off am i?
That job does not sound like a real job, it sounds like a job title that is a thinly veiled excuse to arrange perpetual exclusive socialism for the rich.
Thank you for reading my analysis, the bill, regardless wether i am correct is about 69.420mil
You aint wrong, McKinsey is the ultimate job farm for mid grade nepo babies and/or elite school graduates.
For example, Ursula von der Leyen hired McKinsey for German Army re-org…
then both of her children got plush jobs at the firm, her daughters 3 years there then leveraged into elite degree a Stanford
https://fsi.stanford.edu/people/johanna-von-der-leyen
Johanna joins the Ford Dorsey Master’s in International Policy from McKinsey’s Sustainability Practice. During her 3.5 years at the management consultancy, she advised private sector clients from various industries on sustainability strategies and developed reports on climate risk with the McKinsey Global Institute. During her parental leave from McKinsey, she received a Master of Philosophy in Environmental Policy from the University of Cambridge (UK). She also holds a bachelor’s degree in Politics and Economics from the University of Münster. At Stanford, Johanna hopes to deepen her knowledge in integrating environmental policies into the dynamics of international policymaking. Her academic interests also include nature- and climate-related risk assessment and adaptation, and particularly the role of nature-based solutions. Johanna is an outdoor enthusiast, a passionate dressage rider who participated in competitions on the highest national level in Germany, and she enjoys running and gardening in her spare time.
There is a club, and most people see it before their eyes and still somehow manage to not see it for it is.
Just work harder!
Wait, she went on parental leave from her job, as in having a newborn baby, and used that time to get a master’s degree? Either the baby didn’t spend much time with mom or the degree is a joke, because I have a really hard time imagining having the energy to work on a serious master’s degree in a year or less while taking care of an infant!
Prolly has a nanny tbh
There is a club
McKinsey is a company not a person
Companies are made of persons
Checkmte
Ackshually, they’re considered moral persons. ☝️🤓
I know, it takes a second for the vomit to slide back down one’s throat.
Mckinsey is a company with over 45,000 employees.
So many morons getting paid way to much money to make stupid decisions.
It’s management 101.
I wish I could be paid that much to be wrong all the time.
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For this sort of job, you need to be born to rich parents, get sent to a ivy league college, skip classes and make connections. Then you can start a business selling fake services to the stupid.
They’ve developed a perpetual consulting loop. Genius.
From my (fortunately) brief experience in software consulting, I can confirm that is an important unwritten rule of the job. It doesn’t matter what exactly you sell to customers, as long as they are willing to buy it and come back. It explains why a lot of software is dogshit.
“I can’t produce anything, so I’ll take money away from other people doing business” ~consultants
To be fair, every single one of those changes was probably done by an intern and approved by a boss that didn’t read it, but thought because the intern was young they had the “pulse of what’s cool” in their hands. Also, we don’t know know if what was done was the actual advice given. That would be a great game though, “guess who came up with that idea.”
A critical part of being a consultant is personally knowing rich people who will pay you millions of dollars for your advice, regardless of what it is. “Giving good advice” is barely relevant.
Consulting services rarely are there to help figure out what to do, they’re there to help convince other people that what you want to do is the right move.
Insane how quickly the HBO brand went from penthouse to basement.
Fuck McKinsey.
Well, consulting is often used because they need an answer to a question. That may be open-ended like:
“What moves should we make to expand our business?”
But other times they just want confirmation:
“Should we merge with Discovery?” (Sure, I guess. Here are some reasons you could. cha-ching)
“Should we split with Discovery?” (Sure, I guess. Here are some reasons you could. cha-ching)
Other times they just need to pay people to give them excuses to lay off people. McKinsey’s always available for that.
Sounds like a job that would be easy to replace with ChatGPT.
Other times they just need to pay people to give them excuses to lay off people. McKinsey’s always available for that.
What would you say… you do here?
Look, I already told you: I deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don’t have to. I have people skills. I am good at dealing with people! Can’t you understand that!? What the hell is wrong with you people!!
Get paid to do the work of someone who could be employed for a reasonable salary, but the board or CEO wants the answer to come from someone outside the company to avoid taking any blame.
Bob, Bob.
Naga-naga-nagonna work here anymore, anyway
How should we defend Athens?
Consultancy says “A wooden wall will save Athens”
We’ve been doing this forever…
When Chipotle got a new CEO (Brian Niccol, who has since become the Starbucks CEO) a few years back, they were headquartered in Denver. But the CEO lived in Newport Beach. So they brought in a consulting management firm to examine where the best place in the country was for them to have their corporate headquarters.
After weeks of analysis - surprise, surprise - they determined that the best place they could possibly have a corporate headquarters was in Newport Beach, where the CEO lived.
So they fired most of their corporate workers and moved the office to be closer to the CEOs house.
“Sorry we don’t do remote work and you’ll have to come into the office.”
“Counterpoint: …”
Starbucks has a mandatory 3 day a week RTO policy, but this same CEO did not relocate from Newport beach to Seattle.
Instead, he has the corporate private jet fly him 2000 miles round trip every week.
Seems like a solid solution. Why doesn’t everyone just do that?
I have experienced this where I work. There is a consulting company that gets rolled out to make packets full of “data”, graphs, summaries, and surveys that always manages to support the unpopular thing the boss wants.
McKinsey:
For when you have no fucking clue how to do your job, and want authoritative, plausible deniability about that.
When you used to work for them and hope to return someday as partner, so you push as much business their way as you can.
Yeeep.
Its all an incestuously club of referrals and nepotism at the top of corporate America, who would have guessed.
Obviously you should keep paying my $1.3 million annual salary. We just paid McKinsey $30 million to say how vital my department is
This company also advised multiple large opiate manufacturers.
So, this bastard and Zaslav are the reason I can’t watch older seasons of Expeditions Unknown on HBOMax. Fuck 'em both.
Isn’t the google ceo a McKinsey stooge?
I don’t care if you’re wrong, I will propagate it anyway.
I mean no need to spread misinformation. This information in easily verifiable.
Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, worked at McKinsey for ~2 years and then joined Google in 2004, eventually working his way into the position of CEO.
Pichai’s fuck ups are unlikely a result of McKinsey, at least not directly. That isn’t to say that McKinsey is completely off the hook. They work with plenty of “top” companies and I’m certain Google is one of them.
They certainly hire some “talent”
Pichai was so bad, even McKinsey didn’t want to keep him.
McKinsey likes to hire recent graduates who they suspect will wind up in high places. It builds them strong connections and lets them brag to potential customers as well as customers’ stakeholders that they have cutting edge talent and that they hire the best and to tell potential employees that a few years with them is part of how you move from an elite educational institution into high levels of business or politics.
The worst thing this says about Pichai is that he was the sort of person who seeks to be on the ladder to elite careers.
So is Buttigieg, but sharing that information seems to be unpopular.
Yes, he is. It explains a lot.
The real skill isn’t the advice - it’s convincing executives that contradicting your previous $100M recommendation somehow validates hiring you again.
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