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Bain Offices |
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hmm |
| Date Posted: |
01/08/2006 |
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Hi guys,
this may be a controversial topic, but I was curious about parity in ACs throughout North America, especially between Boston, NYC, San Fran,Palo Alto as a group compared to the other offices - Atlanta, Dallas, Chicago, LA, Toronto. Looking at the Bain AC profiles, most ACs in the Northeast and NorCal are from top-tier universities (Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, MIT) while the other offices seem to recruit from regional U's - Emory, GTech, Texas,etc. While those schools are great and I'm sure their students are very bright, they may not be in the same league as the others. Is this also seen by ACs at Bain? |
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"Looking at the Bain AC profiles, most ACs in the Northeast and NorCal are from top-tier universities (Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, MIT) while the other offices seem to recruit from regional U's - Emory, GTech, Texas,etc"
duh, MIT/H/P are the local schoools for the east coast schools, same w/ stan and west coast :-) geography does impact where offices recruit, and hence impacts the input (candidate pool).
Maybe it does impact the output (hiring requirements are small because of small office, bad economy driving lots of demand etc. and
candidates who get in are on average even higher in quality than the proverbial minimum "bar"), maybe it doesn't (not enough good candidates or really high number of available slots, so everyone who meets "bar" gets in and quality is the same across offices), but unspoken rule is that once you are "in" you are in. Bainies, at least from the offices I worked with, don't somehow mentally rank their colleagues etc.
Just for info, I'm from Europe (but worked with lots of NA bainies), and same points above are valid.
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