Deloitte consultant stereotype

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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 👻

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.

Like tech? Tech only started making big bucks after 2015…

Tell that to the Microsoft millionaires in Seattle. Microsoft made so many employees millionaires in the 1990s that Seattle's biggest growth industry was philanthropy as the 30 year old Microsoft millionaires wanted to give away significant sums of money in a responsible manner. Folks actually hired counselors for advice regarding donating money to charitable causes.

That’s 30 years ago, how about you tell the millionaires from 1500 who colonized South America.

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Anonymous wrote:I think people have a visceral negative opinion on Deloitte, ey, kpmg, Accenture, pwc, the old booz etc because they are the most midwit places to work on the planet

+1. Midwit striver drones.

Ohh the highwit superior human really hates to see others make a decent living 😆

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Anonymous wrote:I think people have a visceral negative opinion on Deloitte, ey, kpmg, Accenture, pwc, the old booz etc because they are the most midwit places to work on the planet

+1. Midwit striver drones.

Ohh the highwit superior human really hates to see others make a decent living 😆

You’re projecting, sweetie. But bless your mediocre consulting grifter heart.

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They rarely share these minor details with their flyover state family.

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Every woman under the age of 40 that I know who worked at Deloitte…had serious alcohol problems. I once thought “damn those Deloitte girls can pound back the booze” after seeing a group of them at a certain Tysons bar.

Is booze a big thing there?

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yep, especially at DU all they do is get lit, it's pretty pathetic....that twitter rant above couldn't be more accurate! Even after doing it ALL they find a way to promote those who are "favored" for the partner track and deny the others....

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Anonymous wrote:They rarely share these minor details with their flyover state family.

So you issuing offer letters on your team or what?

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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 👻

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?

I make 225, we have 2 incomes. we can afford a super nice house (10 year old, 3500 sqft), 36k tax, and I just paid for a nice trip to FL for the kids, it’s a lot of money, I don’t even have time to spend it all… just saved 109k last year in cash.

Sooooo impressive. Wooooowwwwwww

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Anonymous wrote:yep, especially at DU all they do is get lit, it's pretty pathetic....that twitter rant above couldn't be more accurate! Even after doing it ALL they find a way to promote those who are "favored" for the partner track and deny the others....

+1

This is true. I know one. She was passed out drunk, forgot to call her husband. Hungover, he almost called the police.

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Anonymous wrote:yep, especially at DU all they do is get lit, it's pretty pathetic....that twitter rant above couldn't be more accurate! Even after doing it ALL they find a way to promote those who are "favored" for the partner track and deny the others....

+1

This is true. I know one. She was passed out drunk, forgot to call her husband. Hungover, he almost called the police.

Agree it’s very accurate too, alcohol is pushed at every team bonding and firm event. I used to be envious they would all go out and not need to pay for drinks. But now that would be the last thing I want to do when I have kids to get home to.

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It's like a cult, that's why people don't like it.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a Fed and in my experience, Deloitte sells a good game and brings in all their top people to talk to senior Feds, but then brings in 22 year olds to do the work and the results are subpar.

Fed (15) and bullseye what you wrote.

Ding, ding, ding!

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Anonymous wrote:I still have no idea what a consultant does.

Nothing, especially nitwits at Deloitte. It’s a racket industry created from thin air in the Reagan 80s.

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Anonymous wrote:I still have no idea what a consultant does.

Nothing, especially nitwits at Deloitte. It’s a racket industry created from thin air in the Reagan 80s.

Eh, specialized consulting is completely valid (and I say this as someone who doesn’t care for it personally). I find the general college types worthless because they lack domain knowledge. They also don’t really have strong quant skills to do the data legwork. McK has data teams but they don’t get paid as much.

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Anonymous wrote:I still have no idea what a consultant does.

Nothing, especially nitwits at Deloitte. It’s a racket industry created from thin air in the Reagan 80s.

Eh, specialized consulting is completely valid (and I say this as someone who doesn’t care for it personally). I find the general college types worthless because they lack domain knowledge. They also don’t really have strong quant skills to do the data legwork. McK has data teams but they don’t get paid as much.

When my company retained McKinsey because some big boss wanted to, the McKinsey project leads spec'd out a market research project and then it was carried out by internal company staff. We essentially treated them like an internal company customer. Our experienced team listened to what they wanted, then we gave them consulting assistance and designed a market research project to answer their questions. We fielded it through our supplier, gave them the results, and then a recent engineer grad from Rice did some extra data analysis on his own (front-line project team analyst). The McKinsey project team then did some promotion of the research results and ran a workshop (bunch of talking, discussing, and prioritizing).

Not impressed. Did not need their expensive assistance. Completely lived up to the joke of "A consultant looks at your watch to tell you what time it is".

I have worked with specialized engineering consultants who provide actual technical assessments vs. "strategy". They add value, assuming the question asked of them has merit.

Basically what companies are paying for with strategy consulting is access to a set of people who might not want to work for their company because it's not a prestige employer. Or a company might not want to continuously employ a lot of high-priced talent. Then there are lots of political reasons for hiring strategy consultants - every reason you can probably imagine. Then there are execs' emotional issues/needs. One of them is insecurity..."What do those genius consultants know that I don't?" Another is..."I am friends with Consulting Partner X and want to do business with them because they are a really great/smart/interesting person."

I have seen and do understand the large-scale IT project implementations that bring in lots of consultants for a few years. This is basically paying a premium for specialized labor.

Employees at client companies who see the consultants at work know a lot more about the b.s. that goes on and how the consultants are doing than the top execs. A lot of times people in leadership don't want to hear it...especially when they made the decision to spend the money or there are political considerations.