McKinsey & Company Employee Reviews
Out of 247 McKinsey & Company employee reviews, 85% were positive. The remaining 15% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping McKinsey & Company improve their work culture.
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Learn how to say no in order to protect your people
Truth, honesty, transparency and reputation
Stop over promising to our clients
treating humans as humans not bots
There is too much absentee leadership
Review from Operations Dept
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
We have very long hours
For employees who have previous experience and joined in a junior role, Re-evaluate salary when they get promoted instead of gradual increase.
My male counterparts are paid more in base and bonus with lower ratings than me.
Compensation for consultants is great. However, if you are not a consultant expect to make a very mediocre salary below national averages.
Compensation average or even low compared to the market and the expectations they have from employees
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
A culture of meanness, opacity and vindictiveness from bosses and managers means rank and file are no longer interested in voicing their opinions. Everything is now about protecting the bottomline, talent, aspirations etc. be darned.
Honesty, integrity and the ability to be transparent.
Not being over-competitive at all cost
Review from Operations Dept
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
Workaholic culture, believes you have to work tons of hours to have a promotion
Dont let negative people manipulate others
not being micromanaged and have little say on what you can do
Leadership introduces unnecessary stress and low-value add churns just to fill their insecurity and ego
Review from Operations Dept
What would you improve about your company's interview process?
Interviews are unecessarily long and drawn out and the recruiters and hiring managers who are the face of the company to prospective candidates are not trained well to be at their best. More than once, I was ghosted by an interviewer or was rescheduled AFTER joining the interview call.
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
The ultra high stress from partners is killing team's well-being and morale. McKinsey need better leaders who are not solely focused on their egos and need to justify their over-compensation. This is a structural problem caused by the very skewed compensation system.
Review from Operations Dept
What would you most like to see improved at your company?
office Location should be increased as pilot version
A more cohesive unity between the offices and best practices.
Greater focus on generalist approach over time