McKinsey Phone Case Interview
My friend has applied for the position of Fellow at McKinsey Atlanta in Product Development and Procurement. He is done with his HR phone screening and has a phone case interview coming up in 10 days.There is an abundance of resources online and he wanted to follow a structured approach. Any suggestions regarding the same are appreciated. It would be awesome if someone could help out with a mock case interview. Thanks! #consulting #MBB #mckinsey #managementconsulting #recruitment
Things may be different nowadays, but here’s my advice. Phone case interviews are very short 15~30min max and they’re looking for a few main things: 1) organized thoughts 2) quick math skills 3) articulate speech Need to be solid in all of those areas or your friend is screwed. This is a wild guess, but I’d wager that the case is going to be a mix of a market sizing + light P/L case. So your friend should brush up on those two case types, and if he has time prep the other types as well. Once he gets past that and is doing in-person case interviews, they’ll be waaaay more complicated. Tends to come with a docket of information. Not sure what McK is up to these days during covid but I’ve heard that ZS and LEK are screen-sharing powerpoints instead of having people come into the office.
1) McKinsey Mind - teaches problem solving 2) Case in Point - practice real life problems 3) Read a lot of blogs and articles about product dev experience - remember their stories 4) interview questions - read them up for this role on glassdoor, watch YouTube videos etc. 5) Talk to people at McK - ask they why do they like to work there and use what you like for "why McKinsey" question 6) make a list of meaningful questions to ask the interviewers at the end