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McKinsey 2nd Round - Experienced Hire

McKinsey 2nd Round - Experienced Hire
Most recent answer on Feb 18, 2022
The best answer (on Feb 12, 2022) is from:
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McKinsey offers w/o final round interviews - 100% risk-free - 10+ years MBB coaching experience - Multiple book author
Hi Anonymous, First of all, congratulations to your great performance in first-round interviews! Apart from technicalities who is interviewing you (which are more senior folks, usually on partner/director level for McKi ... (read entire answer)
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McKinsey 2nd Round - Experienced Hire

McKinsey 2nd Round - Experienced Hire
Most recent answer on Nov 14, 2020
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Hi Bashir, It greatly depends on with whom are you having an interview. Engagement managers (1st round interviews if you think of phone interview as round 0) generally use Mck casebooks and normaly make interviewe ... (read entire answer)
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What are the differences between first round and final round at McKinsey?

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Most recent answer on Oct 27, 2020
Anonymous gave the best answer on Sep 14, 2017
Hi mate, I've recently accepted an offer for McKinsey Sydney so I can give you a more recent assessment of the differences. I'll breakdown my assessment into the Case interview and the PEI section. The case interv ... (read entire answer)
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McKinsey Australia Final Round

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Most recent answer on May 31, 2020
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McKinsey / Accenture Alum / Got all BIG3 offers / Harvard Business School
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Hi, It has no difference with the final round McKinsey interviews in any other country. In the final round, I would expect a bit more structured and demanding approach to the fit part. The partners in the last round ... (read entire answer)
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List of popular ways in which MBB interviewers like to challenge candidates?

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Most recent answer on Feb 02, 2020
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Hi Anonymous, I agree with Vlad, the points you mentioned are quite standard and you may expect in the majority of the interviews. Additional points where you could be challenged are: Graph interpretation – provid ... (read entire answer)
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McK PST for Engagement Manager Candidates

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Recent activity on Dec 21, 2017
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Project leader BCG, Bain and A.T. Kearney / 200+ real interviews
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Hi, MBB generally use written tests for entry-level candidates. I have personally gone through the McK recruiting process for a Senior Engagement Manager position (at a European office) very recently and I was not ask ... (read entire answer)
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