""McKinsey was a dream job for me when I went to business school, partly because I was an engineer before business school," Walia tells Fortune. "And I thought, 'Look, what a great place to be to learn about business in the broadest way-and, of course, the most intense way.'" Walia spent nearly five years at the consulting company as a senior engagement manager. He stepped into the role after a couple of stints in management and tech;"
""You really get pushed into difficult situations [at McKinsey]...You have to always have a clear bent of mind to be very analytical, to really distill out the problem to its core. It's a skill you learn, and that's the hardest thing in a big job," Walia continues. "You become a better person by being pushed around by the environment of a lot of other smart people.""
Amit Walia built an early career in management and engineering, serving as a senior officer at Tata Steel and a senior engineer at Infosys. He earned an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management and then spent nearly five years at McKinsey as a senior engagement manager. The McKinsey experience emphasized intense, analytical problem solving and confronting difficult situations, fostering the ability to distill problems to their core. That training and exposure to high-caliber peers helped prime Walia to lead $7.6 billion Informatica as CEO beginning in 2020.
Read at Fortune
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]