Dear all,
Yesterday, I had my interview n°1 for the first-round interview at McKinsey, and I have a mixed feeling between: “it was okay” and “I am worried”.
Indeed, the interview began pretty well: question about my motivation to join the Energy Insight division + PEI on the Entrepreneurial drive segment.
I prepared very well these parts, so I think that it was quite good. My first concern is that the interviewer asked me a lot of questions to understand my process to face this PEI challenge. My first question to you is, is it a bad thing? I answered his questions “easily”, but I am worried that maybe I did not prepare well enough… (reasons why he asked many questions about my story).
The second part of the Interview: the Case. It has 3 questions: structure/brainstorming/maths. The structure was quite okay (entry market) + the interviewer challenged me about it, and I think my answer was pretty good because it was a part of the 2nd question. The second one, was also okay, but I think I could have done better.
However, the maths question was difficult. My logic was good, but 2/3 of my computations were wrong due to stress and fatigue! Unfortunately, we were running late, and he stopped before I could address my mistakes. Indeed, the case prompt was very long + I asked many clarifying questions because I did not know the industry and its English accent was difficult for me to understand (I often asked him to repeat the number).
In general, my feelings are quite mitigated. He challenged me a lot, and I kept my calm, serenity, and enthusiasm to give the best answers.
So, my questions are:
- How do you think it was?
- Do you think that he considers the prompt length and the fact that I was asking a lot of questions? In my opinion, it justified the fact that I was late.
- Do you think I can move to the 2nd round interview if I succeed with all questions for the interview n° 2 first-round interviews? Or I can “allow” myself to make another mistake,…
Many thanks in advance for your answer
And sorry because my text is quite long.