I applied through college or university. The process took 6 months. I interviewed at McKinsey & Company (Lisbon, Lisbon District) in Jun 2012
Interview
I took the interview process after the written test and when I arrive at the agreed date for the interview, no one knew about my interview or why I was there. They scrambled a rather disgruntled team of consultants at the office at the time who conducted a most unprofessional interview where I felt almost insulted. Before the interview, one of the consultants was most extensive and ostensive about his personal views on strikes and protests by the public servants which he loathed.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me about credit card tiers. A company had basic, silver and gold credit cards. Would it be pertinent to create titanium, platinum and diamond new grades for new special cards? They asked for me to elaborate based on the plafond values for the present cards. As the interview was not planned, they weren't sure what kind of information I needed and at some point, started quarreling about what be relevant or not.
I interviewed at McKinsey & Company (New York, NY)
Interview
A standardized test followed by 2 first round, 3 final round. Case-style interview. All interviews were done onsite in the local office. People were perfectly nice and recruiters coordinated everything. Overall, it was a good experience.
It is a difficult process, it is often not very clear what the exclusion factors are in the case interview. Behaviour interviews are as described on the website. Recommend being very familiar with their style of case interviews
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time you had to face and outgrow a challenge.
I interviewed at McKinsey & Company (Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi)
Interview
Application/Interview process: Applied online for a Business Analyst role through Glassdoor. Was invited to complete the McKinsey Solve online case assessment (a gamified problem-solving test, roughly 80 minutes). Completed it and received a rejection email about two weeks later, before any live interview stage. I requested them to share my test score and got a reply 2 days after that i scored a 10th decile and 537 points, despite this they didn't consider me for the HR interview round. This made me really confused and they refused to share any further information with me.
The real reason why they rejected me is still unknown.
McKinsey & Company interviews FAQs
Business Analyst applicants have rated the interview process at McKinsey & Company with 3.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 69% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Business Analyst roles take an average of 45 days to get hired, when considering 992 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at McKinsey & Company overall takes an average of 40 days.
Common stages of the interview process at McKinsey & Company as a Business Analyst according to 992 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 34%
Skills test: 17%
Phone interview: 10%
IQ intelligence test: 9%
Personality test: 9%
Presentation: 7%
Background check: 6%
Other: 3%
Drug test: 2%
Group panel interview: 1%
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