Why I Left Engineering for Consulting at McKinsey

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@gluecksdrache2054 Ай бұрын

That's a really great channel, Anna, which allows the viewers to accompany you at your epic journey. And between the lines there is a lot of wisdom and food for thinking.

@nisterror 3 ай бұрын

Great video, thanks for sharing your experience. While attending engineering school I actually attended many consulting club meetings, and found it very interesting. To me, consulting has the problem solving of engineering but applied to companies not technical concerns, so doesn’t surprise me you made the jump. It is definitely a path I keep in the back of my mind if at some point I feel the desire to switch careers. Please keep the videos coming on this subject, will be highly interesting. Oh and congratulations on landing a job, I know from the club meetings it is not super easy to break into the industry. 👏👏👏

@theannareich 3 ай бұрын

Thank you :)

@okaythankyoubyeee2501 3 ай бұрын

This seems like a really logical career progression to me!! The major consulting firms are some of the highest paying and most prestigious jobs on the planet and set you up for a potential unlimited upside if you eventually decide to leave. If you have the skillset to do well at it I think it's an amazing opportunity Congratulations and I look forward to more content in the future!

@theannareich 3 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@shaifuzzamankhan3173 3 ай бұрын

Can't Wait for your consulting series Anna. You are doing great job.❤

@theannareich 3 ай бұрын

Yay! Thank you!

@ahmedalshalchi 3 ай бұрын

You didn't leave engineering but you joined a broader application of engineering area ...

@hassosigbjoernson5738 Ай бұрын

For me engineering stands for mechanical design, structural calculations, simulations on parts, production lanes and stuff ... What Anna described is more like management for engineering. But I think it still is another thing to think like an engineer and being into tech.

@easybuckets9740 3 ай бұрын

You absolutely made the right decision in leaving north volt with the way things are going there

@k.yashwanthreddy7433 3 ай бұрын

Why? Will you please explain. I wanted to join in that company

@jakoblindelof92 3 ай бұрын

@@k.yashwanthreddy7433 what? They have gone, more or less, into bankruptcy.

@cathye9270 3 ай бұрын

Hallo Anna, ich habe den Transfer in genau die andere Richtung gemacht. Ich habe Mathematik studiert, bin also keine studierte Ingenieurin. Ich habe im Consulting (nicht McKinsey) 1,5 Jahre als Werkstudent und Praktikant verbracht und hatte oft das Gefühl, dass tolle Dinge woanders passieren, aber nicht bei uns. Bzw alles was passiert, passiert digital und ich sah durch meine Arbeit keine Verbesserung. Von fraglichen Praktiken ganz zu schweigen (McKinsey ist zum Beispiel auch dafür bekannt Hiobsbotschaften zu überbringen). Im Ingenieursberuf habe ich das Gefühl, dass aus meinem Wissen und Berechnungen auch Anlagen gebaut werden können, die später von Nutzen sind. Den Punkt mit strukturierter Anleitung habe ich genauso wahrgenommen im meinem ingenieurwissenschaftlichen Beruf. Kurz gefasst: Niemand weiß irgendwas, also muss man sich selber behelfen :D Das kann natürlich zu Frust führen. Bei meiner Consulting Arbeit dagegen wurde jeder Text und jede Codezeile von oben korrigiert. Das sind zwei verschiedene Welten. Dieser Text ist keinerlei als Kritik für deine Wahl gedacht, aber ich wollte meine Meinung mal aus der gegenüberliegenden Perspektive schreiben. Ich wünsche dir alles Gute!!

@theannareich 3 ай бұрын

Danke fürs Teilen! Wie du es beschreibst trifft es sehr gut - in der Beratung wird alles wird von oben entschieden und überwacht. Im Ingenieurwesen ist man deutlich unabhängiger, wobei das auch sehr von Unternehmensgrösse & -alter abhängt. Ich werde in ein paar Wochen ein Folgeupdate geben - das wird bei dir vielleicht mehr resonieren 😅

@dacioferreira7127 2 ай бұрын

Cool, I'll provide some feedback. However, I hope it serves as just another perspective. Working as an engineer is spectacular. You were in a cutting-edge field-batteries. It seems to me that you managed and performed your job very well. Working in manufacturing is incredible and extremely important both for the economy and professionally. In this field, you need to be highly skilled and productive. As a mechanical engineer working in production, you could transition into various sectors like aerospace, automotive, or semiconductors because you have the education and hands-on experience in manufacturing. Now, in consulting, you lose that. You become a bureaucrat, leaving the industrial field to enter the services sector. Working in consulting is exhausting-not because the work itself is as challenging as in the industrial field, but because they demand that from you. Consulting, and the financial sector in general, doesn’t have much real productivity and doesn’t contribute to the economy as meaningfully as industry does. Nevertheless, I hope your career is very successful, and I wish you the best. I’ll also remain a member of your channel.

@rickross5299 3 ай бұрын

Great video - how exactly did you switch from engineering to consulting? Most people say get an MBA, which seems like a huge investment. I've been working in engineering for 5 years and have some expertise, is there a way I can leverage that? Ideally, I would like to build upon what I have already done as an engineer.

@theannareich 3 ай бұрын

I didn't do an MBA but I was able to leverage my experience in the battery industry and I applied specifically for Operations Consulting which is more related to engineering, especially if you've worked in production. What industry have you worked in and what kind of engineering?

@nokotshehla2616 2 ай бұрын

I'm going to be you soon. I'm graduating soon and I want to do consulting

@LeandritoDendrito 21 күн бұрын

Anna, I'm really curoius how you see this video today

@theannareich 20 күн бұрын

I actually made this video after leaving McKinsey, so not too differently. Obviously, I didn't get exactly what I expected from the job change but I'm glad about the learnings it brought me and I would not be on the path I am on now without this experience. Thanks for asking :)