Summer Business Analyst applicants have rated the interview process at McKinsey & Company with 3.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 74% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Summer Business Analyst roles take an average of 25 days to get hired, when considering 114 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 Summer Business Analyst according to 114 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 48%
Skills test: 12%
IQ intelligence test: 8%
Presentation: 7%
Phone interview: 6%
Personality test: 6%
Background check: 4%
Other: 4%
Drug test: 3%
Group panel interview: 1%
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The Interviews, in both R1 and R2 were standard. Expect to have your PEI prepared and be case prepped. R1 was virtual and R2 was an in-person superday. Good Luck!
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Tell me about a time when you set an ambitious goal and worked hard to achieve it.
I applied online. I interviewed at McKinsey & Company in Jun 2012
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I completed McKinsey's test in which you have to score above 50% and passed it. The test seemed to be composed of pretty much very difficult questions with doses of added ambiguity, I usually have a solid gut feeling when it comes to these tests but had literally no idea how I did here.
The next step was the interview phase during which I completed three interviews in one day. Each consisted of a background chat, the most interesting of which was with a former clinical psychology PhD - only later did I realize I was being evaluated in ways beyond my imaginations here:) The cases themselves were not as difficult as with BCG where you are given a very brief intro to the problem and left to venture wherever you deem fit. McK consultants guide you through the process to places where they want you to go and explore. I had one life situation based case (guess with whom), a simple banking/interest case with one of the partners and an operations/process case with charts handed to me with a more junior consultant.
I was told to re-apply without getting the offer due to lack of maturity, which I later realized, despite being disappointed, was fair. The whole process was fine but they do very much keep their distance in communication before and after which I guess is natural given the amount of demand there is.
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Background info, why consulting, one case with each of the three interviewers. One case operations/process improvement/bottleneck removal; another case asking what sort of interest I should charge as a bank given that I expect some default rate from a random hundred clients which I cannot screen for credit quality (follow up question of how I would screen for credit quality); third case cost-benefit analysis for life from doing an MBA.
Two 45 minute sessions, each started with 15 minutes of behavioral questions then a 30 minute case. The interviewers were very nice and walked me through when I got stuck. Overall pretty solid experience. Called me the next day to go over it and tell me why I didn't move on.
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Questions are all on their website, mine was a question about a time I had a conflict on a team.
- Was very well organised and genuinely intellectually stimulating.
- Contrary to what you think, interviewers genuinely want to help you succeed and want you to show your best selves.
- Expenses were reimbursed and I came out of the interview genuinely wanting to work here. You get the impression that people here are talented but humble.
- I felt very taken care of as a candidate.
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Several case studies interview as well personal fit interviews. You can find most of the questions online.