McKinsey Plans to Eliminate About 2000 Jobs in One of Its Biggest Rounds of Cuts

Re:McKinsey Plans to Eliminate About 2000 Jobs in One of Its... by anonymouskimmer on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @12:24AM (#34891966)

> it is likely delivering some value to someone who is willing to pay for it.

I'm suddenly curious whether / how many of McKinsey's actual customers have a child in an MBA program that McKinsey recruits from. Get your company to spend money for a particular consulting firm, and then use that relationship with a particular consulting firm to get a leg-up for your kid?

Are there processes in place at the large consulting firms to prevent this sort of quid pro quo?

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Re:McKinsey Plans to Eliminate About 2000 Jobs in One of Its... by viableSprocket1 on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @12:30AM (#34891997)

i'm sure it's happened somewhere...I'm not sure but from what I've seen, incredibly hard to game recruitment. Even if you do, the kid won't survive long -- it's up or out every ~2 years.

Seems like a lot of work for not much payoff.

What is encouraged is treating everyone leaving whether regrettable/non-regrettable with a great deal of love and care -- placement services are pretty good. There is a good chance those ex-McK folk are future clients.

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Re:McKinsey Plans to Eliminate About 2000 Jobs in One of Its... by anonymouskimmer on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @12:41AM (#34892066)

And those ex-McKinsey executives are not only primed to hire their former colleagues, but assuming they've been doing a good job, they're McKinsey advertisements at their current job.

Now that's a good deal for McKinsey.

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Re:McKinsey Plans to Eliminate About 2000 Jobs in One of Its... by viableSprocket1 on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @12:44AM (#34892095)

yep. that's 100% a strategy.

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