Deloitte consultant stereotype

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Anonymous wrote:What does the fed need consultants?

Do you mean why does the government need consultants? Because we are woefully understaffed and it's hard to get people with the specific expertise that we need.

Yea true but they come in, have no clue, do “requirements gathering”, make terrible recommendations, then leave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Deloitte has 457,000 employees. McKinsey has 30,000 people. Use that as a reference when comparing firms and likelihood of personalities.

Deloitte has 30,000 people as smart or smarter than Mckinsey does?

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Yikes, so many jealous people here.

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We’ve jumped the shark to stupid trolling. I think we’re done here.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain this to me from a DC angle?

Average frumpy midwit strivers from large public universities who "fell into it". Many try to seek out a more prestigious university for their MBA because they're painfully insecure about their degree mill BA. No kid goes to college dreaming of becoming a consultant, let alone a consultant at freakin' Deloitte.

How else can a frumpy midwit striver make a 6 figure wage by 30 and squeeze into UMC lifestyle by hanging in there long enough?
I mean this is one way this society allows us to climb out of plebs life style, I am taking it no matter what glamorous high wit genius like you say 👻

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There are simply too many employees at top consulting firms for any of them to, on average, qualify as "very smart," or really to possess any common desirable characteristic. They are fine, that is all. In fact, there are so many merely above average people that end up at top firms that I'm not sure employer or position means much of anything. Source: I have taught thousands of students at three universities who end up in these positions, both at the undergraduate and graduate level.

Actually, I should add one exception. If there is any characteristic jointly shared by people at top firms, it is that they are good at managing impressions (self-presentation)

That’s part of winning genetic lottery and have upper social economic resources (shy kids going to private school, shorter kids get to pay for less popular sports classes, knowing how to interact with different people with confidence).

What I was suggesting is that they did not win the IQ genetic lottery nor the critical thinking genetic lottery. Nor the EQ genetic lottery lol

IQs don’t matter that much. I won the lottery on that one (won state math olympiads and majored in theoretical math/physics) and I went nowhere in life.
Winning a combo lottery that allow you to move up in consulting (200k as manager+) by age 30 is a much harder game to wing than winning IQ or critical thinking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain this to me from a DC angle?

Average frumpy midwit strivers from large public universities who "fell into it". Many try to seek out a more prestigious university for their MBA because they're painfully insecure about their degree mill BA. No kid goes to college dreaming of becoming a consultant, let alone a consultant at freakin' Deloitte.

How else can a frumpy midwit striver make a 6 figure wage by 30 and squeeze into UMC lifestyle by hanging in there long enough?
I mean this is one way this society allows us to climb out of plebs life style, I am taking it no matter what glamorous high wit genius like you say 👻

A state school striver can make $200K by age 30 or 35 in countless fields, most of which are far more fulfilling than a grifter at a mid tier consulting firm. $150K-225K is frankly not much coin, especially in an pricey coastal city. 10 to 15 years consulting at a mid tier firm is throwing the prime of your life away on...nothing. It's...pointless. Especially if you held off on marriage and/or kids, you will look back and realize how pointless it all was. A total waste of the best years of your life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are simply too many employees at top consulting firms for any of them to, on average, qualify as "very smart," or really to possess any common desirable characteristic. They are fine, that is all. In fact, there are so many merely above average people that end up at top firms that I'm not sure employer or position means much of anything. Source: I have taught thousands of students at three universities who end up in these positions, both at the undergraduate and graduate level.

Actually, I should add one exception. If there is any characteristic jointly shared by people at top firms, it is that they are good at managing impressions (self-presentation)

That’s part of winning genetic lottery and have upper social economic resources (shy kids going to private school, shorter kids get to pay for less popular sports classes, knowing how to interact with different people with confidence).

What I was suggesting is that they did not win the IQ genetic lottery nor the critical thinking genetic lottery. Nor the EQ genetic lottery lol

IQs don’t matter that much. I won the lottery on that one (won state math olympiads and majored in theoretical math/physics) and I went nowhere in life.
Winning a combo lottery that allow you to move up in consulting (200k as manager+) by age 30 is a much harder game to wing than winning IQ or critical thinking.

Consulting lifer at a shop like Deloitte is not a hard game. It is about the most cowardly risk-adverse path a striver can take. Low entry, any nitwit can fall into it at 22, keep your head down, pick up an MBA in your mid to late 20s, get promoted and just stick around like an obedient drone. Smart and agile strivers with ambition and balls don't stick around Deloitte for more than a cup of coffee.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain this to me from a DC angle?

Average frumpy midwit strivers from large public universities who "fell into it". Many try to seek out a more prestigious university for their MBA because they're painfully insecure about their degree mill BA. No kid goes to college dreaming of becoming a consultant, let alone a consultant at freakin' Deloitte.

How else can a frumpy midwit striver make a 6 figure wage by 30 and squeeze into UMC lifestyle by hanging in there long enough?
I mean this is one way this society allows us to climb out of plebs life style, I am taking it no matter what glamorous high wit genius like you say 👻

A state school striver can make $200K by age 30 or 35 in countless fields, most of which are far more fulfilling than a grifter at a mid tier consulting firm. $150K-225K is frankly not much coin, especially in a pricey coastal city. 10 to 15 years consulting at a mid tier firm is throwing the prime of your life away on...nothing. It's...pointless. Especially if you held off on marriage and/or kids, you will look back and realize how pointless it all was. A total waste of the best years of your life.

$150-225K isn’t that much?

[Anonymous]

Does anyone choose Deloitte over the Big 3? Deloitte is a solid company to work for but it isn't going to impress many in or out of their industry. I don't think there is a Deloitte stereotype in the same way as there is for McKinsey.

[Anonymous]

I truly don’t understand the animosity toward a random company. Have the employees all destroyed your marriages or stolen your jobs or run over your dogs?

I literally cannot think of any company/org someone could say they worked for that would illicit this kind of response from me (although I’d judge someone who worked for the NRA I guess)

A job is a job. If it pays the bills for these folks, great! They aren’t destroying the rainforest as far as I know…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone choose Deloitte over the Big 3? Deloitte is a solid company to work for but it isn't going to impress many in or out of their industry. I don't think there is a Deloitte stereotype in the same way as there is for McKinsey.

Mediocre and unremarkable is the stereotype.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I truly don’t understand the animosity toward a random company. Have the employees all destroyed your marriages or stolen your jobs or run over your dogs?

I literally cannot think of any company/org someone could say they worked for that would illicit this kind of response from me (although I’d judge someone who worked for the NRA I guess)

A job is a job. If it pays the bills for these folks, great! They aren’t destroying the rainforest as far as I know…

A lot of partners at Deloitte end up divorced actually.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I truly don’t understand the animosity toward a random company. Have the employees all destroyed your marriages or stolen your jobs or run over your dogs?

I literally cannot think of any company/org someone could say they worked for that would illicit this kind of response from me (although I’d judge someone who worked for the NRA I guess)

A job is a job. If it pays the bills for these folks, great! They aren’t destroying the rainforest as far as I know…

A lot of partners at Deloitte end up divorced actually.

A lot of people end up divorced, regardless of their employer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain this to me from a DC angle?

Average frumpy midwit strivers from large public universities who "fell into it". Many try to seek out a more prestigious university for their MBA because they're painfully insecure about their degree mill BA. No kid goes to college dreaming of becoming a consultant, let alone a consultant at freakin' Deloitte.

How else can a frumpy midwit striver make a 6 figure wage by 30 and squeeze into UMC lifestyle by hanging in there long enough?
I mean this is one way this society allows us to climb out of plebs life style, I am taking it no matter what glamorous high wit genius like you say 👻

A state school striver can make $200K by age 30 or 35 in countless fields, most of which are far more fulfilling than a grifter at a mid tier consulting firm. $150K-225K is frankly not much coin, especially in a pricey coastal city. 10 to 15 years consulting at a mid tier firm is throwing the prime of your life away on...nothing. It's...pointless. Especially if you held off on marriage and/or kids, you will look back and realize how pointless it all was. A total waste of the best years of your life.

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