What can you all tell me about PIP out of Australia?Anyone interview with them? Any info. on their case questions?Anyone worked with them? What are they like?

Never heard of these guys. I browsed through their website and they don't quite look like a typical MC company. What kind of position are you applying?

They'll milk you along for 3mos, provide material for the case-interviews that will only serve to confuse you, so you'll pick up a case-interview book that will give you a better idea. And then they give you case-studies that are really strange (e.g. I had one regarding a mining process plant and the solution was scattered between employees taking smoke breaks and how quickly they could get the machines back on). Both case interviews I did were NOT like McKinsey, Bain, Deloitee. Rather, the interviewer would lead you away from the answer (e.g. in the process plant the interviewer said 95% utilization rate of the machines, nothing here really) and down a garden path (other interviewer kept asking how the client could reduce operating costs when the answer she was looking for was increase market share, but this client had such an advantage in their own market that it would be silly to price-match a competitor and then increase market share in adjacent markets that would cost them extra to develop distribution channels and different product offerings). To top things off the recruiter - sent me an "email" that they didn't have any openings in my area so they weren't proceeding. I made several requests to discuss this over the phone with her (i.e the overall process and what areas they were looking for) she did not respond to any of my emails or phone calls. After networking with several PIP employees I found out that the 95% of their work was fly out Sunday, fly back on Friday and so my recommendation would be not to waste your time with this MC firm.

PIP are heavily focused in the resources and heavy industry sectors. While they take a lot of ex: McKinsey/Bain/BCG strategy MCs, a lot of the work is actually operational improvement work at remote mining operations. Case studies are peculiar when compared to McKinsey etc because of this operational focus. PIP engagements are typically 3 to 9 months.If you end up on a remote site the pay is typically well above average for the level to compensate for remoteness of the location. It is also a great learning environment, my 4 years at PIP set me up and I have been able to leverage it into some exceptional senior roles since leaving.They do have high turnover due to travel burn-out (it's why I left). I've heard that they have made some changes in the last year or so to reduce travel stress but their client base and type of work will always make travel a key factor.I thoroughly enjoyed my time there and I highly recommend them as a firm to work for.

Thank you for bringing to my attention the experience you have had in the PIP interview process. This is definitely not the experience we are aiming to provide! Please do contact me at [u]careers@pipint.com[/u] so I can address your concerns.Please accept my apologies in the meantime.

Thank you for your response – it’s great to know as a PIP alumnus you are finding your experience valuable in your career in industry. Are you already on our email distribution list? If not, please drop me a note at [u]careers@pipint.com[/u] so I can add you.You might be interested to know that over the past financial year, 36% of our work in Australia was in capital cities, growing to over 40% by the end of the year.Our target is to have PIPers home on Fridays. Our first priority is still fast sustainable results for clients, though, so travel will remain a requirement of our work, to ensure clients get the right support to achieve them.