McKinsey Final Round

Hello,

I would advise not reading too much into this, especially given that it's only been 1 full working day from your final round. 

A lot of candidates feel like they did less well in one of the interviews relative to the other two - it will not definitively prevent from you getting an offer. The point of doing 3 interviews is to allow several people to assess you, so if the other two interviewers felt that you did a great job, a more lukewarm response from the third interviewer doesn't mean that you definitely won't get an offer. 

As to the time it takes for them to reach out to you with the outcome, it varies and has no correlation with whether you get an offer or rejection. All you can do at this stage is wait. Don't read too much into how long it's taking them to get back to you. If it's taking longer than a few weeks, you could reach out to HR and see if they have an update, but otherwise I would do your best not to worry about it.

Hi there,

First of all, congratulations on having gone through the final round at McKinsey!

This is indeed an interesting question which is probably relevant for quite a lot of users, so I am happy to provide my perspective on it:

• Generally speaking, chances you will get an offer are obviously higher than they were before your interviews. What I want to say is that you can only win, other than that, the situation stays the same.
• The second round interviews - whether with McKinsey or most other consulting companies - are mainly there to confirm the positive impression you have already made and to have people from senior leadership approve recruiting you.
• The fact that you haven't heard back from them does not have to mean anything. You were interviewed by senior employees who have very busy schedules thus it might take some time for them to schedule the decision committee.
• Moreover, even if you think you might not have performed that well in one of the interviews, chances are high that it was not so bad after all. Most of my coachees become more critical with themselves the more skilled they become.
• In case you will still get a rejection, listen to the feedback, think about it once again accurately (there are just so many reasons to reject a candidate that do not have to do with his performance in the interviews, unfortunately), and in case it still makes sense, improve upon it.

In case you have any more questions related to your (hopefully) upcoming offer, please feel free to contact me directly.

I hope this helps,

Hagen

Best strategy is to wait for communication.

No point in speculating and troubling yourself.

In the unfortunate event that you don't get the offer - try to ask for feedback from the interviewers and improve upon it.

Honestly, at this point, everything will be speculation. 

However, a more informed guess here is that all three of them will discuss your performance, and if the other two performances were able to offset the small issue you had, then you have the offer. 

Hi there,

If you well and truly messed up in one (as in, it was bad), you are indeed out of the running.

If you only think you messed up and you just did average, then you still stand a chance (if you did great on the other two).

Overall, the interviewers all need to decide and it's essentially a tug-of-war between performance and how much they each care/back you.

Try not to think about this - there is literally no way for you to predict the outcome. Sit back, move on, and forget about it until they call.

Hi!

Hard to tell. You usually need for yes but other situations may arise.

Good luck,

Anto