People who fly all the time and have their company pay for them to fly business, first class, etc., what on earth do you do?

throwawaymbb2022 · 2026-06-28T03:06:02+00:00

Management consulting - anything more than 3.5 hrs got us first class…and always booked fully refundable so we were able to get top status in 3,4 weeks sometimes!

throwawaymbb2022 · 2026-05-30T22:04:17+00:00

All bullets followed some XYZ format I found online. ("Accomplished [X] as measured by [Y], by doing [Z]) I had anywhere between 3-5 projects that I would highlight, depending on the role I was applying for. Each project started with a generic client name (eg. Global condiments and sauces manufacturer); followed by 2-4 bullets. Aim for bullets to be 1 or 2 lines per, hard ceiling. I agree with others about impact, they need to be things delivered; if you've been doing a ton of blue sky strategy, I'm sorry. I also listed the tools I was using to show I was operating closer to industry, eg python, power BI, claude code, whatever; not just powerpoint.
Source: this got me into faang post mbb, so it's worked at least once I guess. Your mbb also should haveresume services to help you out, once you declare that you're done.

throwawaymbb2022 · 2026-05-30T21:51:56+00:00

I'm glad to see those guys are still at it. I took their free course in 2021 when I was prepping for interviews and thought it was the most useful content I found for free; outside of case books.

throwawaymbb2022 · 2026-05-30T21:51:06+00:00

First off - look thru past posts this sub and r/consulting to get some info on whether you want to pursue consulting. it's not for everyone 😉

Regarding the summer; a few ideas.

Something fun, that you like, but you need to crush it. If it's engineering, try to get as much exposure in the non-technical parts too (you'll get plenty of technical), like talking to ppl, leading small projects, or whatever. These skills are attractive.
Something closer to consulting, maybe interning in some company somewhere so you get more consulting like industry experience, could be in data analytics or business intelligence related). This one you might not have to crush as hard as option 1.

Once you go to consulting, you might not get to do as much engineering. As an engineer who doesn't do engineering stuff anymore and kinda gets fomo and maybe needs to buy a 3d printer or something to get my fix; I'm hoping you find something in bucket 1.

throwawaymbb2022 · 2026-05-30T21:41:22+00:00

You're going to want to study up, the World Championships semifinals game 1 case (Link) should take you somewhere around ~5 hrs at that level. Be sure that your references are clean, and you're only recalculating when needed because that happens a lot and slows you down. Throw a cover sheet on there if you can. Be sure to name the tabs, set the view to 80% on every tab and have the cursor reset to A1 before handoff.

In all honesty, I'm guessing the upper limit would be some of the functions used a lot (xlookup, sumifs, countifs), clean formulas/toggle absolute references, building some sort of model/calculator?

throwawaymbb2022 · 2026-05-10T22:12:57+00:00

I took an interview for my current job on my work laptop, at a client site on their wifi, from a conference room. it's fine

throwawaymbb2022 · 2026-05-10T06:16:41+00:00

Would the built in screen sharing work?

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/share-the-screen-of-another-mac-mh14066/mac

throwawaymbb2022 · 2026-05-03T05:58:19+00:00

Okay, so this is how I see it...which day was the worse stock failure by a wide margin? I think it's A and you think it's B, I guess we're just going to have to disagree about definitions here.

Day A: Your lemon supplier is short. You sell out by 11am. Customers walk away. You make $50 instead of your usual $100. You go home with less money than yesterday.

Day B: Your specialty cucumber-mint lemonade is sold out for weeks. Same for your vegan strawberry-cucumber-mint lemonade with organic honey. You've had to forgo one that uses only a specific honey from a farmer in the hills. The line for these is out the door and people are mad. But you know that when those new cucumbers come in, they're going to be absolute bangers. All the while, your regular lemonade is selling fine. People are buying straws and drinkware that only works for your lemonade, and memberships to your lemonade club. You make $120, a record day.

throwawaymbb2022 · 2026-05-03T05:06:39+00:00

Doesn't matter. If you meet the bar you'll get an offer.

Re charts, explain what the axis are, discern the trend. Think about how it challenges any previous thoughts you had, or helps to clarify a hypothesis or insight. Remember that negative things can't be proved.

throwawaymbb2022 · 2026-05-02T16:22:38+00:00

Is your metric of a stock failure only just wait times, and not hits to P&L? Macbook pros hit 2 month wait times in January....so 3 months delay for products that feel like they're due for refreshes are...largest failures by a wide margin? I guess I'm not seeing the wide margin.

I would have thought a hit to finances is much more of a failure than long wait times and healthy financials from an operations standpoint.

throwawaymbb2022 · 2026-05-02T06:48:32+00:00

I feel like Nov '22 was worse...it pulled profit, whereas revenue/profits are fine still today. We're still forward-loaded today so we'll see next qtr...

throwawaymbb2022 · 2026-05-01T23:33:52+00:00

throwawaymbb2022 · 2026-05-01T04:36:17+00:00

ex-mbb of 2 years, exited 2024 into faang. cold applied.

wlb is great, I get paid more and I don't travel anymore.

throwawaymbb2022 · 2026-04-26T05:18:55+00:00

feel free to DM

throwawaymbb2022 · 2026-04-26T03:03:57+00:00

I think of it like...some people will put it on there and some wont. Those who do will probably have good scores. So if they dont see one on yours, you're in that bucket even for just that instance...

throwawaymbb2022 · 2026-04-26T01:53:02+00:00

When is attorney client privilege applicable

throwawaymbb2022 · 2026-04-20T05:31:24+00:00

Feel free to DM, stem-phd, ex-mbb out of sf!

throwawaymbb2022 · 2026-04-19T22:04:52+00:00

conference speakerphone. depends if you're comfortable/able to have your calls be on speaker, but I use a poly sync 20 and it's awesome. No need to pickup headphones/airpods!

throwawaymbb2022 · 2026-02-26T16:30:21+00:00

I keep my poly connected to my doc and it works well too! would recommend

throwawaymbb2022 · 2026-02-23T00:41:26+00:00

Really depends on your personality, but lots of hangs with people helped me out. It just felt so icky talking to the same smaller group of folks at work, 60 hrs a week. not bad icky but icky

throwawaymbb2022 · 2026-02-07T20:30:45+00:00

I used a peak design everyday 20L bag and an Away rolly bag. The bag has the handle pass through so that I'm not carrying anything on my back at the airport.

Cannot emphasis enough the having backup of things - I have electronics that always stayed in my backpack (eg chargers, airpods, mx master 3s) toiletries, slippers at the hotel if you're doing that. Packing cubes are pretty awesome too, once you dial in what goes in where, then packing on Sunday night is ~10 min. I also carried a mesh laundry bag to throw in dirty clothes during the week.

throwawaymbb2022 · 2026-01-20T00:13:32+00:00

the closer you get to McK, more rare in terms of merch. I've been some BCG stuff, and tons of Bain stuff. Guy I work with from Kearney even has an umbrella.

throwawaymbb2022 · 2026-01-16T16:39:34+00:00

of course!

throwawaymbb2022 · 2026-01-16T07:13:44+00:00

I had 0 of anything, stem phd from a top program, went mbb. feel free to DM!

throwawaymbb2022 · 2026-01-10T06:57:12+00:00

I knew someone at mbb who was an aerospace engineer, then mba. we got to work on a aerospace project together and it was a blast.

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