McKinsey & Company Reviews in Shanghai, China Area

Former Employee – worked at McKinsey & Company full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Competitive salary (unless you want to compete with banking/ hedge fund); variety of projects that you may explore; travel to some new places (depending on your projects); working with some really smart and driven people; meeting senior executives in both private and public sectors

Cons – regular traveling is tough (nights away from home, flight delays); long working hours especially in Asia Offices; not always have flexibility with projects you want (guess that's part of being an employee though)

Advice to Senior Management – Hire more competent professional development/ HR staff who will not annoy the consulting staff from time to time with offensive emails

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at McKinsey & Company full-time for more than a year

Pros – exciting study opportunity , high exposure

Cons – very bad work life balance

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at McKinsey & Company full-time for more than a year

Pros – continuous learning; different industry/ function exposure

Cons – Long hour; Poor per hour salary

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at McKinsey & Company as an intern for less than a year

Pros – professional and efficient, group work, very respectful

Cons – aggressive, leadership oriented, overtime, and pressue

Current Employee – been working at McKinsey & Company full-time for more than a year

Pros – Opportunities always there for people who prepared;
Great platform for your future career.

Cons – Many competent R&I are not fully valued

Advice to Senior Management – Industry/function focused R&I should also be consultant

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at McKinsey & Company part-time for less than a year

Pros – Nice food and environment, snacks also provided

Cons – Pressure, boring jobs, too stuff

Advice to Senior Management – If you like consulting then do it, otherwise don' t die for food.

Current Employee – been working at McKinsey & Company

Pros – It is a place with very intelligent persons

Cons – Life style not that satisfactory

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at McKinsey & Company

Pros – One of the best places to work in the world.
Full of talented people.
A lot of fun and challinging work.

Cons – Normally poor work/life balance.
Lack of industry expertise.
Sometimes people are too aggressive and think they are too smart in a stupid way.

Advice to Senior Management – Focus on only one or two areas and become true industry/world changing leaders.
Keep work/life balance for your subsidiaries and don't give too much useless directions when you don't know nothing at all.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at McKinsey & Company

Pros – 1. good working environment
2. professional peers
3. Abundant learning resources
4. Interesting work to do as long as one seeks the opportunities

Cons – 1. work-life balance requires extra efforts
2. pay is not competitive as it used to be

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at McKinsey & Company

Pros – Great overall culture, good training, good supporting system, less hierarchic, big exposure, global knowledge sharing, international transfer opportunity, smart and nice colleagues

Cons – Too big as a strategy consulting firm, turnover rate very high, not able to know the firm members and culture,

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend