M/b/b

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<p>Do consulting firms such as M/B/B usually look for GPA above a certain minimum mark even when hiring experienced professionals (such as engineers in their AP program)?</p>

<p>Many people seem to believe that companies such as Mckinsey only hire the very top of the class (>3.9 or such). My question is whether this is true also for people who go to management consulting much later in their career after gaining experience in their industry and long after they did their ug/grad school.</p>

<p>Also, in such cases, what type of companies mckinsey, bain, bcg hire from (only googles and apples of the world)?</p>

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<p>I have a college friend who had a 3.4 and was hired by Bain. Granted, our school has a reputation for being tough, but even so.</p>

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<p>It is still pretty hard to get in after gaining a few years of experience unless you have a “hot” job. Best way to get in after working for a few years is to get your MBA and go through the standard recruitment process.</p>

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<p>Even for post-mba standard recruitment, do M/B/B consider the pre-MBA gpa?</p>

<p>I know of one guy who did MBA after many years in technology sector in a regular non-hot company and did not have a top tier gpa. Post-mba he got a job with mckinsey. So mck must hire at least some folks without the topmost gpa, but then they must look for some other compelling attributes in such applicants?</p>

<p>I do not know of any person getting offer from mckinsey even from a hot company such as google, apple etc. Is it because no one from these companies tries for such jobs or because the opportunity does not exist?</p>

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<p>They only look at most recent.</p>

<p>Mckinsey does hire people who come from ordinary places but you are better off being in the norm ( hot job, top MBA ect ect) than someone without the standard criteria hoping to get in. There are people from all industries in consulting firms but the reason why you probably don’t see that many people from Google or Facebook or Apple is because their interests are different. People who work at Google usually meet other developers and then go and work at start ups or hot tech firms.</p>

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<p>You need a connection to get in as an experienced hire or get an MBA. It’s much much harder to network your way on as an experienced hire (especially if you’re coming from a run of the mill engineering firm). No hard GPA cutoff exists here to my knowledge - although a 3.5 was perhaps an informal cutoff based on what I’ve observed. Coming from a prestigious school helps but is not a requisite if your experience is interesting. This is all for getting your foot in the door. Acing the interviews is another matter.</p>

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<p>With so many new hires in Mckinsey, bain, bcg in countries such as India, is it easier to get in offshore and then transfer? </p>

<p>Mckinsey does sometime seem to hire with gpa in the range of 3.2 or so; a person with this gpa from my college now works at mckinsey after doing MS and some work experience in software. </p>

<p>Can a contact who is only a new hire at mckinsey, someone who may not have been there for a long time, be able to provide opportunity for an interview with the hiring department?</p>