It's been three weeks since my last McKinsey interview, now what?

Hi there,

You need to proceed as if McK will say no. Hope for the best but plan for the worst.

Propose a plan to your advisor that would have done without McK. If you end up having to change it, then cross that bring when you get there!

Fingers crossed for you!

Hi,

I have almost never heard of a 3 week waiting period post the final round at McKinsey. Did HR provide details as to why you are being asked to wait this long?

As to your main question - do what you need to do from a PhD perspective as that will be important in case McK does not work out. You can always push back the start date at McKinsey if that is the case.

Udayan

Top consulting firms are flexible regarding start dates. And asking them to wait 3 months doesn't seem to be unreasonable, even more so given the reason. Additionally, McK would probably prefer anyway that you take care first of whatever you need to do regarding your PhD than having to somehow plan to do it while you are already working for them. 

So your plan seems quite reasonable and I don't really see a reason why you wouldn't be able to manage the situtation if you move forward with it.

I believe you should give priority to scheduling your stuff for Ph.D. - it is a more important and (somewhat) inflexible parameter.

From your question it is not entirely clear what exact are you worried about. If you receive an offer from McK - then you can ask for flexibility on the joining date so that it works out with your Ph.D planning.

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