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anonMcKinsey

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    Comment #47354037

    The product that I am referring to that companyX makes was probably used today, in some form, by >80% of the global population this morning. Everyone would recognize it. Cartoons h…

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    Comment #47349293

    Often the B+ students are way sharper but have poor incentives to work for the As. This creates bad work habits for them. The As, then, are better at the game. Once you've become a…

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    Comment #47345052

    I was a B/B- student from a foreign top 100 university. I don't know how I got accepted to a top 5 engineering school in the US. I accepted and ended my PhD with a 3.3. Im not very…

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    Comment #47344074

    "US produce... mostly not very bright people?" The top universities are not setup to mold intellectually rigorous and curious people. It's setup to make hard working, and increasin…

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    Comment #47343678

    99.9% of the world doesn't live in the US with a 4.0 GPA from a top ten university. They're not very bright, most of them. But they're very hard workers and high achievers. They st…

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    Comment #47343652

    Not really when you normalize by hours you are expected to work. You're also surrounded by spineless sycophantic keeners without an original thought in their heads who would throw …