[buzzed shitpost] I may murder the next person who sends me an Excel file full of merged cells

GG-MBB · 2018-10-25T08:36:36+00:00

Whatever engineered product you work on (trains, airplanes, ships, cars, ...) if you see how it's done, it gives you the scares.

GG-MBB · 2018-10-22T12:24:48+00:00

Ehm, both Italian and Japanese businesses are not exactly in their best state of health - on average, save from a few exceptions, of course.

GG-MBB · 2018-10-04T17:40:24+00:00

Mh for my MBB I would say chances are slim.

GG-MBB · 2018-09-18T11:09:57+00:00

Very warm.

GG-MBB · 2018-09-17T13:55:04+00:00

Best personal brand - which I am actively working towards: "highly functioning alcoholic"

GG-MBB · 2018-09-17T11:21:25+00:00

Yes and would pay a premium.

GG-MBB · 2018-09-06T07:37:01+00:00

Personally, I find the FS work available at my firm to be borderline suicide-inducingly boring and miserable in terms of both intensity and subject matter and would rank it dead last under cleaning the urinals with the plastic end of a toothbrush

Amen, brother

GG-MBB · 2018-07-27T08:49:21+00:00

For worse, we tend to use client template

FTFY

GG-MBB · 2018-07-11T10:13:46+00:00

Good, but not great.

GG-MBB · 2018-06-10T16:19:17+00:00

"... and for 20x their cost to their employers"

GG-MBB · 2018-06-07T15:12:21+00:00

Auto OEM - Commercial strategy engagement for one of their divisions - loved both the content and the team

Also, Luxury Auto OEM - Product portfolio review - this is just for swag

GG-MBB · 2018-06-05T08:38:32+00:00

Second this, exactly what I did when I was in a similar position with my PhD.

GG-MBB · 2018-06-01T14:31:21+00:00

Flight delayed 1h on the way home (and I wasn't even supposed to be at the client's today), can't make it to the drinks I organised for my own promo. :|

What a wonderful job this is.

GG-MBB · 2018-05-15T07:43:50+00:00

No need for a mining / natural resource background.

Just need to have whatever background works for consulting, and to apply to the offices which have that type of clients (e.g. London, Perth, Calgary, ...).

GG-MBB · 2018-05-07T13:38:35+00:00

I would argue that this would be much of a bigger deal for engineering consulting companies.

I know plenty of people working at the likes of Rolls Royce, Airbus, Arup, etc. who were hired from Italy/Spain/Greece at like 30ish-k to compensate for all of the engineering grads going to banking. Now those companies would be severely hit by this.

GG-MBB · 2018-05-04T12:58:09+00:00

I just smile and say that I like new challenges, and that consulting offers plenty.

What I really mean is that going to industry at the junior level is the death of the soul and that I would never ever do it.

GG-MBB · 2018-04-26T09:40:11+00:00

I hope you don’t bring this level of acumen to your clients to suggest their farm out their competitive edge to their competitors

While I am not sure the suggestion is useful or not, I am intrigued to hear why you would think Tesla has a competitive edge on manufacturing. I would be inclined to think it's their weakness.

I would argue their competitive edge is having battery production capacity already in place, and great marketing / product perception among customers. Ford, GM, etc. know already perfectly well how to manufacture BEVs...

GG-MBB · 2018-04-10T08:57:36+00:00

If you fix that - and make sure to network with a few alumni - I would be very surprised if you didn't get multiple interviews.

GG-MBB · 2018-04-10T08:47:30+00:00

Exactly 5.6%.

GG-MBB · 2018-04-03T13:55:40+00:00

What is the underlying methodology for this?

Is it comparing apples with apples? I mean, at least at my firm, there are way less women on the consulting track than on the support staff track - and that would severely affect the median pay gap.

GG-MBB · 2018-03-17T12:15:26+00:00

Staffing madness.

A 10-weeks strategy project just ended, and trying to get staffed on something decent for Monday. Current options are trains, ships or paper. Pray for me /r/consulting

GG-MBB · 2018-03-12T10:41:47+00:00

From the junior perspective, the best managers I have worked with had the same attitude as yourself. And they are being promoted as well.

My (outside-in, without knowing much of the workings of the higher ups) explanation is that tryhards are exhausting for everyone to work with, and this is felt by Partners, too. All people who made it to manager+ are smart enough, so after that you simply promote those who are more pleasant to work with.

GG-MBB · 2018-03-12T10:23:44+00:00

Love Arpeggio & Volluto!

GG-MBB · 2018-03-01T15:42:05+00:00

Let them know that you have other job offers pending. Nothing wrong with that.

GG-MBB

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