Different regional MBB offices: WLB, pay and culture
I have offers from two MBB firms in my home country (ignore my profile title), but am strongly looking to relocate to a different area of the world. As such, I am wondering if anyone has any general insights regarding MBB WLB, pay, growth opportunities (e.g., for France I've heard you are pretty much killing your career if you don't know French), culture and easiness to transfer to/enter, as well as the general expat community life for any of the locations listed below:
- Hong Kong, China
- Cairo, Egypt
- Istanbul, Turkey
- London, UK
- Singapore
- Tel Aviv, Israel
- San Francisco, US
- Paris, France
- Rome, Italy
Realize that I am asking for a lot of information on a lot of different regions here, but just the smallest insights on any of these locations would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot in advance.
Bump
WLB:
- China, Korea, Japan all suck
- Non-english speaking EU countries suck (e.g. Italy and France suck, U.K. and Netherlands suck less)
- SF is good
comp in the asian countries?
Poor by US standards. On par with EU. At least for Greater China.
Hello,
Curious to know why France sucks ?
The average French person works 15 minutes per week and apparently it’s on the French MBB employees to get the average up to 40 hours
SF is best out of all you described (for WLB, exit opps and comp)
Transfers usually aren't possible until 12-18 months into your time at MBB and your ability to transfer is driven by performance. Focus your first year on doing a good job at work and then think about transferring down the road. Some of the offices you listed are either small across all MBB (Egypt, Turkey, Israel) and/ or require local language proficiency (France, Italy). Smaller regional offices should be avoided early on since there is usually a smaller client base and thus fewer projects, and offices in emerging markets usually don't offer great compensation.
MBB can be your ticket to see the world if you have the right language skills and focus on an industry that is inherently more international, but MBBs marketing themselves as an opportunity to engage in some sort of international wanderlust adventure are misguiding you IMO.
Your last sentence is probably more true for Bain than McKinsey, which is significantly more global
Your last sentence is probably more true for Bain than McKinsey, which is significantly more global
Total opposite. Bain is regional staffing McK is global.
Yep, other way around
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