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NYC is the unofficial HQ of McKinsey - many of the top directors work in that office. London is highly regarded as well - the former MD worked out of London. Nowadays, though, McKinsey's focusing a lot on Asia - the newest MD was chairman of Asia.

BCG and Bain are both headquartered in Boston, so those offices are historically very significant.

I wouldn't be too concerned about trying to pick the "best" office for any of these firms. MBB are truly global firms with unified cultures and largely autonomous offices. You'll get pretty much the same experience working in NY as you would in Jakarta.

 

Chicago London New York

Larger cities are always going to be the best.

If you want Government projects then go to DC.

However, as a consultant most firms will allow you to go any project team around the world. So, city does not matter for projects/cases/engagements.

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Is the difficulty in getting these jobs in other offices high ? What would the GPA requirements for good school undergrad be for like the KL, singapore, or manila office be etc ?

 

London will offer the best projects. It will simultaneously therefore be the most competitive with a higher standard (hence harder to get the return offer). From my understanding they offer a considerably higher salary than any regional office.

 

Both bullshit.

1) Number of return offers is very very high given that internships are far harder to get than FT offers. Number of internship offers is very low, but those who get one generally get a return offer.

2) London salaries are lower. Offers have not been indexed for the fall of the pound and CoL is very high.

You should tackle this question differently and ask where you can actually go with only English. This is as far as I know only the Nordics, Amsterdam, UK offices of the developed ones. Then there's South Africa and Australia for the less developed offices

Good luck on the application

 

Here's what you're gonna do:

1) Find work easily in Southeast Asia because there's so much going on here.

2) Set up base in Singapore and pay 17-18%ish in taxes... MARGINAL rate.

3) Get to live a comfortable lifestyle anyway without having to worry about silly things like kidnappings and petty thievery because... crime? What on earth is that?

4) Enrol your daughter in the very strong Singaporean public schooling system.

5) Let your wife hang out with the wives of all the other expatriate businessmen here, and enjoy being in an area that's got one of the highest concentrations of millionaires in the world.

 

Although you might see things differently because you have a kid, I think in your situation I would consider "safe" emerging countries like Brazil, Turkey or, as you mention it, Russia.

I've got a few friends who were in London, NYC and Paris who moved there, and they all love it. Career-wise it's a good move because many major companies are developing their local practices, it gives you amazing credentials for when you feel like coming back home ("oh, he's worked there!") and the lifestyle is pretty good (except Brazil where they seem to actually work a lot).

Bear in mind we don't have kids, though

 

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