Anecdata: the two ex-McKinsey people I've worked with were both decent.
I have skepticism of management consulting in general, and concern about the opioid thing, but I don't want people lumped in with that undeservedly.
I have skepticism of management consulting in general, and concern about the opioid thing, but I don't want people lumped in with that undeservedly.
(1) being absolutely intoxicated by their own old-money-fueled prestige academic/career path, which gave them a
(2) vastly overrated sense of their own knowledge, ability, wisdom, capability, importance, and general superiority to anyone not in possession of these stellar academic/prestige institutional credentials which was
(3) completely unfounded in every way.
I'm no longer impressed by Ivy League or any of these prestige institutional credentials.
Having seen it first-hand, I can only agree. There's so much privilege at these institutions, it's almost sickening sometimes. I don't want to throw everyone in one pot, there's certainly genuine, decent people there. But there is so much self-importance and arrogance floating around, and just this casual and unquestioned attitude of superiority.
What I do want to say is that pretty much everyone I met there had a base-level above average smartness and/or work ethic. But I also mostly hung out with STEM people. Didn't get to know many managerial or related types.
We do love to keep our historical memes alive despite the economy having nothing to do with them. Physical statistics are what keep enough TP and food on shelves so the people do not riot.
Not an endorsement for Mentava, but there’s an indictment of our education system when their program is resulting in kids being fluent in AP math by 5th grade (or so they claim): http://mentava.com
so the ones that left?
Probably a lot easier to keep their salaries relatively low as well?
That's fairly recent, though.
They play ball with all sorts of shitty regimes (including the united states) McKinsey has way more crimes than the opioid epidemic.
This is a company that has fueled (among other things) the Enron scandals, opioid epidemic, Saudi repression of dissidents.
Some of this is--as a big consulting company--it has its hands in a lot of things, so some of those things are bound to be unpleasant. But it's also clear that there doesn't appear to be much of an ethical filter for what work it takes on. I honestly would be more surprised at this point if McKinsey hasn't helped plan out a genocide.