Pros
- Its part of McKinsey (Good branding, access to their e-learning resources and best non-Salary benefits and health insurance). Networking opportunities if you try - Supportive and fun team mates - Good working culture - Steep learning curve at the start. Good learning opportunity for newbies and career switchers - Unique data driven insights from huge data base can impress clients - Responsibility given and client ownership even as an analyst - Management tries to care about your wellbeing - Good working hours compared to McKinsey consultants
Cons
- Although part of McKinsey, the culture, operations, management, values are separate. Training is not as thorough, less committed to your personal and career development (compared to McKinsey) - You have to be extremely detail oriented working with large data sets to do well in this job - No travel - Can be exhausting and mundane to do the analyst role of collecting and checking client data especially after multiple changes from client. Processes are long and still very manual, it's easy to be bored after awhile. Most of project time is spent doing this instead of the actual analysis. A lot of room for errors - Data base is huge but not well organized - High attrition rate can affect morale - Long notice period limits exit options - Internal moves within McKinsey do not seem to be encouraged