Associate applicants have rated the interview process at McKinsey & Company with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 73% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Associate roles take an average of 41 days to get hired, when considering 605 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 Associate according to 605 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 32%
Skills test: 16%
Phone interview: 10%
IQ intelligence test: 9%
Personality test: 8%
Presentation: 7%
Group panel interview: 7%
Background check: 6%
Other: 3%
Drug test: 2%
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The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at McKinsey & Company in Feb 2008
Interview
2 interviews in the first round, 3 interviews+test in the second round.
Overall people were on top of everything. I was impressed how smooth the logistics were.
First round: very structured. half case, half behavioral. Some people assume behavioral is fluffy and does not need preparation. Wrong. It is at least as important and no less intense. They really dig for details to the point of: what did you say? what did he reply? what exactly did you do? very friendly interviewers. One of them called me to give feedback which was very useful for the second round.
Second round: with senior people in the office. Much less structured cases. One of them did not even give me a case: it was more business problem discussion. My personal impression: in this round behavioral questions and overall personality treats become more important. These guys do not have check boxes, they go with what impression you make on them.
test: fancier version of GMAT. you have 1 hour and ridiculous number o questions. Not hard, but almost impossible to finish in time. really need to pace yourself and make a call when to just make a best guess and move on.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is it that you have done that you are most proud of?
I applied in-person. I interviewed at McKinsey & Company
Interview
Website, online, teams meeting, in person meet up.
It was pretty straightforward and they knew what they were looking for. They had to do a couple of interviews to get a better understanding of my skills.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How many army generals in the northern hemisphere?
I interviewed at McKinsey & Company (London, England)
Interview
CV upload and then some basic numerical and logical reasoning skills. Computerised games to assess numerical skills. SOLVE questions. Psychometric tests and GMAT-style questions. Very simillar to BCG an Bain.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at McKinsey & Company (Cambridge, MA)
Interview
they let you prep for cases and do what the book says. this is only a question of how hard you prepared. then they take the people one by one and repeat again and again. sometimes the people who give you interviews have been there for less time than 1 yr