Feeding your potential
When I graduated, the economy was doing well and there were plenty of jobs around. Yet McKinsey was the only organization that was recruiting potential rather than established skills. Little did I know what an all-round experience it was going to be. From day one, my work was being used as the basis for decision making by the boards of multinationals. I grew like never before; my thinking got sharper; I was constantly having to communicate clearly and succinctly. McKinsey took the structured, systematic thinking process I had developed in my engineering degree and gave it purpose and focus.
Shrinking the planet
What surprises me the most about McKinsey is how seamlessly international it is. You work for the first time with a colleague from a completely different culture, and you don’t miss a beat. The firm’s investment in training and the ease with which it allows people to go anywhere really shrinks the planet. It’s no big deal to finish a project in Europe, hop on a plane, and wake up in South America to kick off a new project. You only realize this isn’t how the rest of the world works when you tell someone else. My wife is still not fully convinced I’m not a spy.
It’s all about the people
To this day, when I’m asked to describe McKinsey, I go back to a simple principle. It’s like everywhere else, but with a higher concentration of interesting people, all from diverse backgrounds, and all with the common goal of constantly striving to improve themselves. McKinsey recognizes potential, and motivates individuals to grow, and to generate new and creative thinking for the client, every day, everywhere.
Education
| Stanford University |
MBA |
| Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto |
Undergraduate degree in computer engineering |