MBB in Japan?
Does anyone have any insight into MBB consulting in Japan? Do they conduct business in strictly Japanese? Do they hire from US colleges and any insight into the culture?
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I've heard hours are absolutely terrible.
Confirming ^^^. co-workers (MBB) had a project in Seoul as well. team barely slept.
P/S: You do realize all of the MBB in Asia Pacific have brutal hours right?
I had a first-hand experience as an intern. Actually 90-100 hour weeks. Client site Mon.-Fri. 9am-2am everyday then weekends at home office 10am-1am or so. I would easily take a top tier 2 gig (OW, Booz, LEK) over MBB in Korea. No question about it
interesting.
what about the travel - do they usually serve clients just within South Korea? I ask this because international consulting firms have local offices in Japan, China and they speak different languages anyway.
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From my experience at BCG Korea, you don't "have" to be fluent in English. You just need to be able to speak it well enough. My manager wasn't fluent by any means, but he could carry on a conversation.
Consulting in Korea is really two fold: 1) 90%+ of the projects at BCG were in Korea and probably over 60% of them were in Seoul. Only a few big companies can really afford MBB in Korea, places such as Samsung, LG, Hyundai, etc. and those place are all in Seoul. 2) Consulting in Korea (even at MBB) has more operations than strategy (probably 60-40 split). No one in Korea has this mindset of strategy>operations. At the end of the day, all the partners care about is that they're making enough to not get fired.
Korea is bull, IMO. A lot of these big companies (Samsung, LG, Hyundai) have internal consultants who have the strategy in mind and simply need the consultants to confirm this strategy. Also, of course the need for the CEO to go to the board and say "BCG said to do this...."
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I got my BCG internship through family connections. I'm really not ashamed to admit it because although BCG Korea "has an application process", every undergraduate consulting internship in Korea comes from some type of connection. Dead serious. Try to get one yourself in Korea if you don't believe me.
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