> do you work in consulting? mbb, i did 3 years at mckinsey. mining, energy, banking are big over here. mining and heavy industry is good at mck because a lot of the young girls / women don't like doing it. they are pushing hard to try and make more girls do it so anything you can do to avoid them is handy.    > kek, when i left university i didn't go into m&a, it's not to go into buyside two years later. that sucks. i got lucky to get on a couple of diligence pieces early on which let me do a bunch of buy-side work.   > when i worked for deloitte, all we did was assign five associates wherever two were needed and charge way more hours than were actually worked. this is why people hate consultants. mckinsey charged us by the day. we billed 7 hours to the company (internally) and were expected to work ~7am to midnight as "core" hours, with anything before or after that as required by the work.   > isnt this extremely wasteful? like, if you are an expert in a type of compamy, should you not advise many companies of the same sector? companies get cagey about the idea of their secrets being shared. we manage it as best we can, and usually split people over geographic regions. e.g., if you're a telco guy, you can have a telco client in singapore, malaysia, new zealand, australian and indonesia, but not more than one in any of those.   > i've never seen an assignment where we've added real value. i've seen a couple but i'll admit they are rare. consider how retarded normie employees are though. you doing the work at all is already a cash saving vs what the company would have paid a team of people to not do it very well.
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