McKinsey & Company Employee Reviews about "smart people"

Pros

Smart people, interesting problems, good comp

Cons

Demanding hours and too much commercial focus

Pros

Worked with very smart people

Cons

Very fast-paced and long working hours

Pros

Good learning opportunity and very smart people

Cons

Terrible work life balance and overbearing partners

Pros

We work with the most ambitious and smart people (nothing is impossible), gain diverse experience. As a designer have high impact as we work directly with c-suite, and you work as a "full stack designer" - from setting business strategy through customer and market research to implementing solutions (designing and developing) and consulting on hiring design professionals to our clients (e.g. chief design officer). It also gives you the leadership skillset and sets you up for success after McKinsey.

Cons

Fast passed environment, exhausting, lack of focus on social and ecological problems (but slowly getting better on this front, so staying hopeful), lack of diversity in leadership possitions

Pros

Smart people making the teams. Challenging Broad Global Excellent People

Cons

Work hard Long hours Competitive Behaviour between colleagues unfortunately

Pros

Very smart people, great perks, some cool projects

Cons

Crazy long work hours, often quite mind numbing work for analysts.

Pros

+ Very smart people + Very varied work + Great first job - it will teach you to do fast, efficient, high quality work and to think about issues strategically + Opens amazing career opportunities

Cons

+ Very long hours and all too frequent travel - very difficult to reconcile with family life + Many people have an 'insecure overachiever' personality and don't dare taking risks / standing up to the client when needed + The most inspiring and interesting people often leave after a few years

Pros

Pay, smart people and high standards

Cons

Highly dependent on EM Value creation is in doubt

Pros

Smart people, challenging work, great learning

Cons

Life style, balance can be challenging. Not great for people who don't like networking all the time