McKinsey Offices/Regions Ranking
There have been other threads on the topic of ranking McKinsey offices (https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/which-are-…) but many of them are from 2011 or earlier. The general consensus in 2011 was:
NY > SF > Chicago + Boston + London > LA > Seattle > Atlanta/Austin/Dallas/Philly/etc. > Miami/St. Louis/Cleveland/Houston/etc.
and
NYC+SF>Boston+London>Chicago>LA>>Atlanta/Houston/Dallas/Philly type cities
I was wondering if anything had changed? I am interested in applying to a regional office (Philadelphia, Austin, Dallas, Atlanta, Charlotte, Miami, Houston, etc.) How would you rank those offices? Would you still consider Atlanta/Austin/Dallas/Philly to be ranked above Miami/Houston/etc.?
Thank You!
Is this serious?
Tier 1 offices are understood as NYC, SF, Chicago, Boston, London. After that, there's a bit of a drop-off.
That said, nobody inside McKinsey could care less about these distinctions since the firm has a global staffing model (so your office matters way less compared to Bain/BCG).
Would you say for the Bain/BCG offices it follows the pattern above? Or something different?
It's the same pattern
You guys will come out with rankings for your grandchildren one day
Actually made me lol
I swear like 50% of posts on this website are just ranking things
Plus hairsplitting distinctions about no-account school in rural Germany or flyover America is better if you want to work at Goldman in Milan.
The first ranking you listed sounds more correct than your second ranking.
You would consider Atlanta, Dallas, and Philly higher ranked than the other regional offices?
Not really I mostly looked at the first half, I don't really know how to distinguish between any of the smaller offices....I imagine most people don't
Honestly, the only thing you should care about in regards to the offices is which industries are prominent in that region. While McKinsey has a global staffing model, preference is given to local consultants.
The "Tier 1" cities for McKinsey that you're describing happen to have basically all industries available locally. So if you were to go to New York, Chicago, or London (the 3 biggest offices at the Firm), then you'd have the ability to work locally on a bunch of different projects. By contrast, a place like Houston would be more Oil & Gas focused.
At the end of the day though, your network supercedes geography. Do good work with good teams and people will know your name when staffing cycles kick up for you.
Would you consider Atlanta, Dallas and Charlotte to be like Houston, where they have one sector they excel in?
I can't say, I'm not in those offices; I only knew about Houston because of a colleague on one of my teams. If you go on the local websites you should have a sense based on Leadership's profiles and the listed industries for that city.
Honestly though, I can't stress enough how much more important it is to have people know your name. My current project happened because the EM was friends with an old EM I had worked with, so he immediately tried to lock me into his study within a few hours of us speaking.
How is the Denver office?
bump
NY, SF, Chicago have the most options in terms of cases and exits.
How would you rank the other cities, such as Atlanta, Houston, Dallas and Charlotte?
How’s NJ vs NY? Really into retail but it seems that NY doesn’t have a focus in the retail or consumer goods practice
Second this, how is New Jersey office in terms of size and industry? Is it easy for consultants in New Jersey to get staffed on projects in NYC?
Curious about NJ office as well. Also are SF and Silicon Valley offices regarded as one and the same?
What a stupid discussion. Everyone asking "buT whAt ABouT random office"... what are you guys expecting? People to come in and tell you that it's great or you'll get any exit you want from there?
This is just a dumb validation exercise for everyone. There's no difference across offices for anything, whether that be your performance, exits etc. Stop looking for easy validations and go hustle regardless of office or another stupid yardstick
Not sure why he was downvoted. There is no significant different between the office within the US. Just pick the city where you want to live and apply there. If you like huge hubs - Boston, NYC and Chicago. If you like small intimate feeling and want to know everyone - DC, Atlanta, Miami. You can always try to transfer at some point if you are good performer and really want to move.
This. Offices have different cultures and cities have different costs of living but if you're ranking based on those factors, it's essentially the opposite of what you have. Otherwise, nobody cares where you live and people transfer all the time.
Chicago is the best office for each MBB firm: healthy/collaborative/kind Midwestern culture, massive office with lots of opportunities across many industries (as mentioned in another thread, McKinsey was founded there), good cost of living, etc.
But also this is kind of a silly thing to be ranking...it's MCKINSEY!!
At McKinsey, you're office is completely irrelevant. Pick the city you like the most, you won't be in the office much anyways. In terms of exit ops, it makes no difference either.
I wouldn't say completely irrelevant: the two largest offices (NYC and Chicago) tend to have a bit more diversity in terms of building out your network and projects of interest from your home base office. It's a valuable advantage to have, at least for your first 1-2 years.
If you're primarily networking and doing projects out of your home office, you're doing it wrong.
Any info on Asian offices (Tokyo, Singapore, HK)? Anyone know the language requirements
Bumping this as also interested. Not in MBB but my understanding is English is fine for Singapore and HK, while you need Japanese knowledge for Tokyo (at least at a junior level)
Tokyo requires Japanese proficiency. Hong Kong technically requires Chinese and/or Cantonese proficiency, but I've met juniors that aren't. Singapore is English only, but everyone will speak at least one other language, so monolingual is an instant disadvantage. I got hired into a DACH office despite not speaking native German. As long as you can do your interviews in the office language then you'll be fine.
one thing tho, I've read a news article that Mckinsey greater china (including Hong Kong) had nearly 400k application last year. 400k. nope that's not a typo.
they sent out around 140 offers. I think that statistically makes it the hardest job to get in the world (that I know of)
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