McKinsey Risk Practice... thoughts?

Have an offer with this practice group in an office I'd like to be at long term, but not necessarily in the Risk group.

1) Is the Risk group good for exit options? Seems like a lot of compliance work is involved.

2) Can I exit out of the Risk group? I'm only doing it for the summer, before a FT offer is extended. Can I finnagle out of that into a generalist role somehow? Or can I reapply for a generalist position in the same office and do the interview process again? Ideally I'd want to do strategy/operational work.

3) Anyone have any thoughts on the work? I have a regulatory background so it's up my alley, but not sure if I want to do it long term or post-McKinsey.

4) How does McKinsey rank in the Risk group? Vault doesn't have a category for that.

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As there are just a small smattering of threads about risk consulting, I'm stating it here, do you know guys any further about Risk Consulting in more driven strategy firms?, not Big4, a friend of mine want to know specifically about Monitor Deloitte, here in Germany have a service called Regulatory strategy, and he thinks it can have a taste of Risk consulting, I do not know at which level as Deloitte has its own ERS team.

 

Here you go http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/mckinsey-risk-practice-thoughts

In terms of interviews, Mckinsey is horizontal at all grounds, all divisions/lines of services have the exact same interviewing process, PST(if you're running for an Analyst post) and 2 rounds of interviews, probably you could expect some cases a bit more related with the topic (Risk, CF, ... depending on the service line).

 

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