Well, if you have an MBA from San Jose State, you will be hired as a low level analyst at Apple/Google/Netapp. However, if you get an MBA from Stanford GSB/Harvard BS, you can join as an associate at McKinsey/Bain/BCG, then jump to Apple/Google/Netapp as a VP/Senior Director of Strategy, thereby putting you in the elite class.
That's the difference, that's why there is so much competition to get into top three business schools. If one want to be a top level exec, go to a top three b-school, then jump laterally to companies.
>if you get an MBA from Stanford GSB/Harvard BS you can join as an associate at McKinsey/Bain/BCG, then jump to Apple/Google/Netapp as a VP/Senior Director of Strategy
This is laughably inaccurate. Or maybe the big three have done such a great job at marketing that people on HN think this. To bring things back to reality, your typical MBA associate joining a top 3 consulting firm is going to be at roughly the same level as an equivalent MS grad and/or someone with a few of years of tech experience joining FAANG. i.e., Someone in the L4-L5 territory based on profile variations. Nobody is jumping from associate to VP.
An associate is typically a fresh MBA grad or someone with a few years of tenure out of school.
Awkward imbalance of levels aside, I enjoy the consulting lifestyle personally. It’s interesting to work with many different clients and have enough political clout to get things done on a fast timeline.
They do. The client paid a load of money to hear what the consultant said, there’s a lot of incentive to act on it otherwise you’re the exec that hired a load of consultants only to ignore them.
