Nick Arnett wrote: >>Behalf Of Gautam Mukunda > > >>The big news that I couldn't write about is that in September I >>will be taking a position as a Business Analyst in >>McKinsey & Company's New York Office. > >McKinsey is a great, values-driven company. I've worked with them a >number of times over the years and did a fairly large project with >them just last year. You'll be surrounded by very smart people. > You'll also be surrounded by people who work on Christmas Day, New Year's Day, etc. McKinsey pays incredibly well, but expects 12-14 hour days, work on weekends and holidays, etc. Get ready to work, Gautum. :-)
Jim Sharkey Heh, I should be so lucky :-). When you add in the change in my cost of living from moving from Boston to New York, I calculate that my actual standard of living is going to go _down_ significantly when I join the firm. McKinsey's offer for me as a Business Analyst was actually significantly _less_ than my offers from A.T. Kearney and Booz-Allen Hamilton (last year) - and those were for working in Boston and Chicago. And at the moment I'm only working about 50 hours a week, total. It'll probably ramp up to 60-70 when I'm there, and that's not counting time on the road. A friend of mine was just going off for vacation with her kids to Florida for Spring Break and she asked me when my next vacation would be - my answer was "June 2004". :-) However, I can't complain about the workload too much. My future roommate in NYC works for Goldman Sachs (how's that for a Harvard stereotype - one at McK, the other at GS) and his _average_ workweek breaks 90 hours. He once called me on Saturday at 11:30 pm _from the office_. My current boss also served as a company commander in Vietnam and told me that while he was there he spent a span of, I think it was 14 months, where he never worked _less_ than 90 hours in a week. Of course, this is a man so tough that he once told me that in 40 some years he had missed only 14 days of work - for injuries including _two_ broken backs. Not, let me be clear, that I am complaining _at all_ about anything in the way they have treated me. So far McKinsey has gone incredibly out of its way to accomodate every single request that I have made, including ones that imposed a considerable hardship on them. I have nothing but praise for The Firm. Gautam
