Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at McKinsey & Company with 2.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 20% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 29 days to get hired, when considering 5 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 Senior Software Engineer according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 30%
One on one interview: 20%
Skills test: 10%
Personality test: 10%
Presentation: 10%
Group panel interview: 10%
IQ intelligence test: 10%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at McKinsey & Company
Interview
Overall process took ~1 month to complete and consisted of 6 stages. A test coding challenge was also included in the process.
The interviews are covering both technical and general professional experience. They are focusing mostly on getting to know your professional profile and attitude to work.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain how you understand the difference of working in product company vs consulting company.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at McKinsey & Company (Lisbon, Lisbon District) in Jan 2025
Interview
DP Problem solving medium level leetcode hackerrank style
discussing everything like straightforward solution and optimization and what we can do here, interview overall experience was good
then some interviews like IQ
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain for me how to find paths from 0,0 index to N-1 AND M-1
I applied through other source. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at McKinsey & Company (Noida) in Jan 2025
Interview
I applied for Full stack role : They have the coding round on HR, in which a backend application was asked to develop and a movie booking app was asked to build in a limited time. If I would had some more time would have been possible to run many test cases.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Backend API's using node.js, Frontend App using react.js