I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at McKinsey & Company in Jul 2011
Interview
First, candidates were pre-filtered by a on-campus writing test. It was straightforward. We only had to know how arithmetics should be applied in real life. Very usefull skill, by the way.
On-site interviewing process was pretty standard: 3 interviews with 3 senior consultants one by one. Every interview tested soft skills and hard skills. Hard skills is usually my strong side but not in that case. I cracked all cases OK but messed up with the numbers. Nevertheless, my leadership stories satisfied my interlocutors and some of them were really impressed.
After reject, I received a very valuable feedback from a consultant regarding my behavior on the interview. She advised me to apply a year later and it seemed like she really wanted me to do so.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You graduated from a very quantitative school, why do you do math so bad?
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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