How is the final selection decided ?

Hi

Absolutely, you need to perform well across all interview discussions to maximize your chances of selection. This is extra important for candidates with experience, because you have been shorlisting for discussion keeping in mind your relevant experience and competencies.

As an experienced candidate you will be measured across the following :

1. Your Expereince

- You will be assessed on your leadership, client management, and team skills

- Structure your communication to highlight your strength and keep it brief and to the point

- Leave feeders/ stress on your experience areas where you want the interviewer to pick on and ask you questions. Eg. Digital Transformation, Customer Exeperience esp. is you have worked on those with Accetnture

- Be tactical and highlight the impact created by you very objectively

2. Communication & Contexualization

- Exhibit confidence in your communication by not stickying to a Q&A but taking things at a discussion level with the interviewer. This would help you strike a rapport and engage the partners well

- Share your expereince examples with clients and industries to substantiate your views. They want to hear those references from you becuase that would help them identify what incremental value you may bring to their team and firm

- You may also get scenario based question based on your expereince. eg. you are meeting the CEO of a retail chain planning to inititate a Digital Transformation, what will you tell him ? Such questions are targetted to determine your industry or functioanl competenies along with your approach.

3. Case : Analysis and Problem Solving

- Partners usually have measured a candidate in the first 10-15 mins of the disucssion.

- Cases with partners esp. for expereinced hires are not the straight forward. Most likely you will get a case that has been picked from one of their real world engagements. Something that might be aligned to your expereince. eg. We are working with the CEO of a telecom company and he wants to revisit the bonus structure of his enterprise sales force to drive new revenue streams/product offerings. What will you suggest him ?

In short, you will need to leverage your expereince to give them the confidence that your experience will add value and they can put you in front of the C-Level clients as a subject matter expert or as an expereinced candidate.

Hope this helps and all the best.

(editiert)

Hi Anonymous,

unlike what has been stated in other answers, you will NOT necessarily be tested in McKinsey dimensions (leadership, impact, drive) in your fit interview at Strategy&. This could happen, but it is not the norm (I helped several candidates for Strategy& specifically for the Dubai office and they shared the questions received with me).

The bar to get an offer depends on several factors:

• Demand for candidates
• Performance of other candidates
• Your specific background as experienced hire

Partners are also likely to ask about your general experience in your previous sectors and your client management skills.

I would not recommend to discuss the position with the partner, rather wait to receive an offer and then potentially negotiate.

Best,

Francesco

Hi,
you will be assessed through 4 different dimensions during your fit interview and business case: personal impact, entrepreneurial drive, problem-solving skills, leadership abilities. I have supported tenths of experienced professionals in crafting impactful stories and enhance the case resolution abilities, happy to deep dive it in chat to understand if can I help you.

Regarding the doubt about the position I recommend to ask to HR and not to partners.

Best,
Antonello

Dear A,

I also got and offer form Strategy& Dubai couple of years ago as an experienced hire, but I rejected to take this.

From my experience, you need to perform very good in both interviews with partners.

Regarding your Q2, yes, just mention, clarify and negotiate you future position and financial package with a patner. There are some rooms for negotiation. But the pay is really-really good.

I was proposed for a manager position smth about 220K all in.

Hope it helps,

Good luck,

André

Hi,

With strategy&, especially for experienced hires, the process is not well structured. You need to get good reviews from both partners, and it will not be really formalized

Again, since it's more informal, I would recommend defining the role with the partners here

Best

Hi,

As a rule of thumb, you need to perform well in each of your interviews in order to secure an offer. For experienced hires, there is also another element of "fit", and thus even if you performed well during the interviews, you may still fail because of the fit (whereas this is not very common for graduate hires).

Best,

Deniz