McKinsey & Consultant interview experience

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United StatesPosted Nov 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I got rejected after the first round, and it centered on two case studies with behavioral questions at the beginning.

The second interviewer was friendly, but the first one’s demeanor was really unsettling—seemed uninterested and didn’t provide hints during the math portion.

During that math section, not getting any guidance threw me off. I fumbled as the problems built, and I could feel my confidence draining in real time, which made it hard to recover in a way they’d consider acceptable.

Even though I didn’t move forward, the rejection felt directly connected to that early math struggle rather than something unclear. It was a tough lesson in how much the interview environment and interviewer engagement

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