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How often is tableau used in MBB ? WHat level of expertise needed to survive ? thankyou
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Hello,
Tableau and Alteryx (often used together) are often used for visualization and processing heavy data. How much you will have to use it depends on the area and expertise you will work, but many consultants never use them if working on classical strategic case. The tools are, however, used heavily in data driven case (e.g. promotions, pricing, insurance, etc.).
In any case, Tableau nor Alteryx is not expected to know prior joining and you will be given training to learn it once onboard. From my training experience of newly joined Associate and Consultants, they truly enjoy it!
If you would like to progress and explore both tools out of MBB i recommend Udemy's courses, which I have done myself (I needed advanced level quickly) and worked perfectly well for me.
Lucie
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Its a common visualisation and analytics tool now used by many clients and consulting firms. They will train you + you can self-learn as well unless the role you applied for requires Tableau skill as a pre-requisite. Depending on the type of role and maturity of client basic to intermediate skills should suffice Generally speaking. You can Always ask for help should there be any advanced implementations.
Dont approach this as “survival” rather enjoy and thrive. It will be a new tool and skill for you (sounds like it), so look forward to learning it and achieving some mastery.
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Hello!
I would say quite rare.
However, Tableau is very very simple, and they have a series of amazing videos in the official page that teach you in very little time everything you need to know.
If you want to deep dive, I used to teach a subject about this in IE University, happy to send over materials
Hope it helps!
Cheers,
Clara
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Hi there,
I can speak for McKinsey - not often. I've only used it heavily once (maybe 1 out of 10 projects). And the only time I used it I relearned everything from beginning (this shows how rare we use it), and I was the only member in my team who is willing to relearn it! The rest of them stuck with excel. Of course my slides look the best since Tableau does provide better graphs. :)
Hope this helps!
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Hi there,
It's used every few projects I would say. Remember two things:
1) Tableau is very easy to both learn and use - you'll pick it up in just a few days
2) MBB provide on-the-job training (and learning materials) for these types of things, so don't worry too much about knowing Tableau beforehand
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Probably 10-20% of the cases, but not everyone in the team needs to use it. So the chance of you having to learn it is not high.
As the other coaches said, you will learn everything you need on the job, so you don't really need to spend your time learning something that you may not use in the end - but of course, if you think it's something you would like to learn go for it. Just be aware that you don't really need to.
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