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      Implementation Coach Interview

      20 Aug 2014
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Chicago, IL
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at McKinsey & Company (Chicago, IL) in Jun 2014

      Interview

      I managed to get an interview with McKinsey through an alumni. I was very fortunate since McKinsey does not recruit at my school. However, since I did not want to pursue a career in consulting, I never practiced how to interview for a consulting role (ie. case study interviews). I ended up having to cram this knowledge in a week for my phone case interview and a week for my on-site interview. Process started with a call with the recruiter. Everything was very courteous, professional and on a timely manner. After my call with the recruiter, I was set up for a practice phone case interview with a former associate from McKinsey. There I was able to mess up and received feedback on how to improve, Then I had my real phone case interview a few days later. It was pretty straight forward (read up on McKinsey's interview format, since it's a bit different than other firms). I passed that and was invited to go to Chicago for two case interviews and two behavioral interviews. I flew to Chicago, where McKinsey put my in a nice hotel right by the office. They also had me set up a credit card so I can charge food and taxi rides on, which was pretty cool. Next day was my interviews, which again was the same format. 30 minutes behavior interview and 30 minute case interview with one interviewer. Then the same for the second interviewer. I messed up on the quant for my second interviewer (see below.) After that, I had to do my Problem Solving Test (PST), which was brutal. As far as I know and heard, everyone struggles with the PST. Unfortunately, I was not invited back for my final on-site interview (with the directors and partners). They were quick to provide feedback (mine recruiter actually was late by a few days, but still within a week). Feedback was that I had solid stories to tell on my behavior interviews but was weak on quant. Still, due to their professionalism and quick response, I had a positive experience interviewing with McKinsey.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Case study: Where I was to determine how much one factory needed to produce X to have the equivalent cost to tons produced ratio as another factory. Graph was given of costs (fixed and variable) vs tons produced of both factories.
      1 Answer
      10

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      Implementation Coach Interview

      4 Nov 2021
      Anonymous employee
      Houston, TX
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at McKinsey & Company (Houston, TX) in Oct 2021

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      27 Jun 2021
      Anonymous employee
      New York, NY
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      I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at McKinsey & Company (New York, NY) in Jun 2021

      Interview

      Interview process is very long, but most of that is due to the time it takes to prepare for the case portion of the interviews. Recruiters are very transparent and everyone goes through essentially the same process: 1. phone call with HR (mine had no questions just prepped me for what's to come) 2. required practice case with an alum 3. phone case (no personal questions just a case) 4. official first round - two interviews, one hour each, each interview was half case, have behavioral 5. second and final round - same structure as first round but 3 separate interviews Process takes a long time if you have never done a case before but the cases themselves are not super challenging if you have prepared. They are interviewer led which makes it easier and the math is not terribly difficult (i asked the partner if i should round and instead the partner just gave me the answer) Make sure you say the "so what" of the numbers and never just state the answer, say why it's important.

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      The behavioral questions are on their website, they are very transparent. In my first round I got an inclusive leadership question and personal impact. In my second round I didn't get entrepreneurial drive, I got: tell me a time you dealt with a conflict with someone tell me a time you had a project that was really challenging with a tight timeline that you are proud of tell me about a time you exhibited inclusive leadership You will be asked one per interview, and will be asked questions as you go. It's more of a discussion than an interview.
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      7 Apr 2021
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
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      Withdrew from the interview process
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