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Management consulting firm criticized by an employee for hiring people who lack basic knowledge of history, politics, art, and even finance.

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"America's first female president will be a smoking hot chinese american who went to boarding school, then harvard, then worked for mckinsey, then got elected directly to the senate/house"
"Just had dinner with a few colleagues. They have no grasp of history, politics, art or even finance tbh. Got talking about the Cold War and no one knew what the Cuban missile crisis was, no one had heard of Full Metal Jacket (and most didn't know who Kubrick was)."
"I'm a scientist and work for a company you've all heard of. Some young MBAs hired McKinsey 22-year olds to spent three days on site, and 20% of the employees are now out of work. We're told it is about increasing EBITDA not performance issues."
"Fortune 500s pay McKinsey consultants billions to figure out ways to maximize profits. It ain't a coincidence that the bland, corporate friendly pop of the 00s is gone."
The rise of reggaeton is a gift to corporate America · u/BillGatesDiddlesKids · ↑336 · 2024-10-07
"The fact is most people who wear suits now are part of the class that serves the upper class, most men with those cheap black suits look like they belong more as servers in high end restaurants than in high powered role working for McKinsey."
"It boggles me that someone paid McKinsey the money (that couldve just gone towards the charity lmao) to justify why people who cant cook for themselves will feel so inclined."
Would you like to round up 50 cents for the children's hospital? · u/SecretWasianMan · ↑115 · 2026-01-20
"When I am rarely able to speak with them it is solely on a numbers basis. Achieve this figure, or McKinsey will."
The Scapegoating of the UHC CEO · u/ObamaShrekFoot · ↑99 · 2024-12-07
"Recruiters will tell me to do a McKinsey style presentation analyzing the company, industry, who we should sell into and even the hiring manager's boss looks like he wants to deepthroat a loaded Mossberg."
It's crazy how so much interviewing is being a chill dude. · u/SecretWasianMan · ↑57 · 2025-11-03
"but that party is gone. people like biden killed it and replaced it with something different in the 1970's and 80's. all you can do is read about it in history books, which ofc most people won't. but educated people do. and that's the problem. so they think the democratic party is this thing from th"
the real problem with democrats being the party of the "educated" · u/mouthcouldbewider · ↑56 · 2024-11-18
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