Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Goldman Sachs and Engineering Consulting Firms

The Fortune annual 100 Best Companies to Work For was released this month.  Investment banking giant Goldman Sachs was #1 - engineering consulting firms Burns & McDonnell (#14) and Kimley Horn & Associates (#73) also made the list.

This is great observation from Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfien on what type of individual makes it in their culture:

"You don't have to be the smartest person, but it's probably the highest combination of smart and interesting and interested-in-the-world kind of people."

The engineering consulting community should take notice - hiring for smart, interesting, and interested has long-term competitive advantage (and especially so, per the article, if you can get smart, interesting, and interested for 70-hours per week).

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