I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at McKinsey & Company (Boston, MA) in Sep 2016
Interview
If you are recruiting through university campus recruiting (my experience), you will submit your resume online (they have cover letter option but we were encouraged at the info. Session to not submit a cover letter)…5 days later, you’ll receive notification of a first round. The first round is two 45 minute back to back interviews. Each one is 15-20 minute behavioural and 25-30 minute case. The second round is three back to back interviews of the same nature as first round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The company cares a lot of digging deep into personal achievement/leadership/teamwork stories. Instead of asking many questions, interviewers ask one main question like "tell me about a time when you dealt with a conflict on a team, how did you resolve it, and what was your process and your impact?" The interviewer will probe as you respond and dig deeper to really see get a sense of your experience.
For the case...McKinsey is interviewer led, so expect them to have questions at the onset of the case. Create a comprehensive framework that is clear and logical...it doesn't need to be cookie-cutter, just something that is logical. Go back to aspects of your framework during the process, and keep your discussion anchored to it. Listen to interviewer cues. You will be asked to calculate the market, or to calculate revenue...probably calculating costs and revenues and then coming to a conclusion based on your calculations.
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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