Is there a difference between applying to 'Digital' Mckinsey and Mckinsey?

Hi,

I'd agree with all of Vlad's comments on what to expect and how to prep. I'd add:

McKinsey Digital is a body inside McKinsey, with over 1,000 people belonging to the org worldwide. It is growing, and growing fast. Therefore, assuming the expected content of studies (projects in McK lingo) is appealing and exciting to you, I'd consider the growth factor.

This could prove helptful in a variety of ways: interesting opportunities to set up as demand from clients may outpace available consultants and even in pace of promotions further down the line.

Good luck!

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Hi all,

I totally agree with what was said previously in this thread. I would just add that McKinsey has a tendency to hire an increasing amount of specialists and experts for McKinsey Digital. Again to be clear, at McKinsey Digital you have two tracks:

1. Generalist: the process is fairly similar to a generalist interview path at McKinsey. You will have more IT related cases.
2. Specialist/expert (Marketing, Analytics...): the process differs from a generalist process.

Indeed if you come into an interview process on the expert path you will have:

• Normal case interviews: standard interviews with PEI and case
• Expert interviews: special interviews that are reviewing your expertise and PEI questions

Hope this helps,

Hi there

Great to see a fellow Aussie on this thread - I used to work at BCG in Australia, spent 70% of my cases working with BCG DV and now work at Uber Strategy in SF.

I am not super famililar with McKinsey Digital but it sounds like it does it covers a broad range of tech topics. BCG DV's primary focus is in product development and building new businesses - typically the mandate is what is a "big idea" for a new business or product that a client should invest in. BCG DV usually does the customer research, innovation, product design / development, BCG will help with business strategy, investment case, operations set up.

The closest role at BCG DV to a generalist BCG consultant is Venture Architect, but historically they have come from BCG side or were ex-entrepreneurs. Other major roles are Product Manager, Strategic Designer.

Hope that helps

(editiert)

For BCG the interview process between BCG and BCG DV is the same but interview structure is same if applying for consulting role within both (vs. for example UX/UI engineer or architect specialist). However, as you correctly assumed, cases have all a digital component since this is what you will be doing.

In case of BCG, BCG and BCG DV are part of same company but moving between the two is exceptional and not the most easy/straightforward process.

Hope it helps,

Andrea

Dear A,

Actually there are not that much different, by Digital McKinsey Implies that you would be able to solve IT related cases, and IT topics, including agile system and principle.

In other is more less the same.

Best,
André

Hi, 

Applying for McKinsey means that you will get in as a generalist consultant which can work an every industry/type of project.

Applying for McKinsey Digital meant that you will exclusively work on digital-related projects.

The application process is identical but your day-to-day job will differ in terms of functional focus.

Best regards,

Jorn

I have the same question. Trying to decide which I should apply 

The only thing I'd add is that Digital McKinsey's process isn't very different from the generalist process. It's sometimes slightly more competitive given the types of people interested in technology, but process-wise it's the exact same.

You're given a case and you do the PEI. The case may or may not be on digital topics - Digital McKinsey consultants do 50% of their work as generalists (at least as BA's), so you need to be able to do cases beyond just your typical digital topics.