Unlike Bain/BCG, I have read that in the US, McKinsey projects are staffed with consultants from all over the country (and sometimes across the world). If this is true, does it really matter which office a BA picks, other than a city they generally want to live in?
This would mean then that if your family is in Philly, then you could easily choose Philly over SF/NYC/Boston/Chicago despite Philly being less competitive since you would be able to work on the exact same cases. Is this correct?