Sundar is also a McKinsey dipshit.
He did his MS in Materials Science at Stanford.
Also, plenty of STEM background people join McK later in their careers (especially in the electronics space) because there is plenty of demand for Strategy and Management Consulting in the industrial world, as LDPs aren't as popular anymore
Today it is 2,500 people versus 45,000 people, and I would guess it is still probably true that a greater proportion of DE Shaw is technical than McKinsey.
An Petroleum Engineer, Materials Engineer, Industrial Engineer, Chemical Engineer, Biopharmaceuticals Researcher, etc will always have the option to work at an MBB, as those industries heavily use McK to help with their own businesses.
On top of that, McK hiring even at the undergrad level skews STEM. If you attend a feeder school like MIT, Stanford, or Berkeley, it's EECS/Applied Math/Physics majors that land Associate interviews, because management is much more technical now. McKinsey literally has recruiters devoted only to candidates from Berkeley and UMich Engineering for strategy roles.
It isn't the 1980s anymore when some random schmoe with an Econ or Business degree can land an MBB role anymore.
I quit and don’t regret it at all, everybody I talk to there basically just says they have zero inspiration and shuttle between pointless meetings and are only there for a big paycheck. In my view, that’s a pretty miserable existence - one needs passion to thrive.
Kodak was also doing great, until suddenly they weren’t. My own personal experience of the last year is my search engine use has about halved in favor of GPT, with most of my friends reporting the same.
If Google is ever forced to admit in an earnings call that search volume is down the stock will crater on the spot.