McKinsey & Consultant interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

New York, NYPosted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

It started with an application and then a phone interview.

After that, I was invited to an in-person interview where I completed a case study. The case itself took about four hours, and it was followed by a debrief where we reviewed the results of my presentation.

The long, seated case work was honestly the part that stuck with me—four hours is enough time for you to second-guess your structure, but also enough time to show your reasoning end to end. Once I presented, the debrief felt like it was less about repeating the whole case and more about analyzing what I’d produced and how I got there.

I didn’t receive an offer, but the experience felt

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