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McKinsey cases - Questions on the 'opening' of a case response

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Anonym A fragte am 21. Mai 2018

Hi all, I am preparing for my evaluative phone case interview with McKinsey, as an experienced hire. I've done ~12 cases so far and here are some issues/questions that still persist, need some guidance:

1. Firstly, even when the case is being given, I am missing out some pieces of info as I am unable to jot down everything at the interviewer's pace. How do you folks capture everything the interviewer is saying (or most of it)? What short cuts or tips do you have for this piece?

2. In the interviewer-led format, after you clarify the case quesiton and objectives, do you actually get to think for a couple of mins to present a structure to solve the case, or do they immediately follow-up with their first question soon after presenting the case overview?

Thank you!

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Hi!

ad 1) For sure it's just an educated guess without having had a coaching session with you - it sounds like you are taking down too many notes which you would remember without putting it down on paper. So try to distinguish between some specific facts (which might be worth noting down, particularly numbers..) and the narrative of the case outline (which you will remember without your notes as well).

ad 2) If you ask me for a rough guess, I'd say that in 9 out of 10 cases you also get in McKinsey cases some time to think about your structure (although for sure not a couple of minutes!) - since the first question oftenly is something generic like "How would you go about structuring this issue for the client" etc. However, it makes sense to also practice a case scenario in which you don't get any time for preparing your structure upfront, in which case you will need to develop your structure on the fly while discussing it with the interviewer. At the end of the day it's not that much of a difference, it's just not thinking about the structure in silence, but walking the interviewer through your rationale and thoughts in real-time.

Hope that helps!

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