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Any Tips for preparing of Mckinsey Digital lab operations case interview( Experienced hire)?
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Hi,
First of all, you should ask the HR in detail what to expect on the interview. McKinsey Digital labs has various roles. Some of these roles require a case interview. Based on the experience of my candidates and friends working in Mck Digital:
- Product engineering, design, digital marketing have function-specific interviews with no cases.
- Data science, agile transformation roles will require case interviews.
In the second option, you should prepare in the same way as for regular McKinsey interviews, plus have relevant expertise in a particular field. For example, I've seen many agile transformation cases for these roles.
For the regular McKinsey cases preplounge will be most helpful. I also recommend reading McKinsey articles about digital on it's website (Hundreds of them if you google by key words "agile", "Digital", etc.)
Good luck!
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Hi Ankit,
If you are applying for the 'consulting' track (vs. specialist such as data scientist or program developer), a similar question has been already addressed in this thread:
https://www.preplounge.com/en/consulting-forum/digital-cases-948#a1850
The same rule applies to McKinsey.
On the other side, if you are applying for a specialist position (e.g. data scientist) the interview will test as well your technical expertise; unfortunately I do not have much visibility on it.
Feel free to reach me if you have any additional question,
Cheers,
Jacopo
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I also applied the similar role and for agile transformation, now in round 2 interview phase.
So cheers and finger crossed... haha!
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