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McKinsey & Business Analyst interview experience

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Czech RepublicPosted Nov 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After I applied, I was invited to complete the McKinsey Solve game, which was supposed to evaluate critical thinking.

I’d read what to expect, but there really wasn’t a way to prepare the way you can for an interview question set. A few weeks later, I got invited to a virtual first round that ran as two long sessions with two firm members each. Each session had a behavioral piece (PEI) of about 15 minutes and then a case part of around 45 minutes, and the PEI prompts were given to me beforehand so the interviewers could drill deeper into what I was thinking and how I handled the emotions inside the scenario.

Two weeks later, I moved into the second round. The structure stayed the same, but it expanded to

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