Hello! I applied for a full-stack developer role at McKinsey. After successfully completing 2 rounds, I have a case-based interview also known as the PSS round. Can anyone help me with what kind of questions could be asked in this round? Upon my research, it shows me a list of numerous business-related use cases. Does the interviewer expect that software engineers are familiar with finance/business-related terms? Any help here is appreciated. I am looking out for people who have given similar rounds so that I could prepare well before the interview.
Current McK DS here - in my experience they asked the same kind of case interview questions to me as they would for a regular business analyst/associate. I spent a lot of time on these and got coaching since I knew I had the math/stats and coding acumen, but no prior business experience. I am not sure if you will be doing any front office/client facing work, but I know that for all of those roles they do the case interviews, if not all roles. Regardless of if it is relevant for your first position at the firm or not, It is pretty standard for management consulting firms just in terms of a competency test, since obviously if somebody doesn’t do well in the cases they can very well find another candidate with the exact same background, who did do well on them.
You can check geeks for geeks for interviews experience for McKinsey. That should help. I don't think for a software engineer they should ask that kind of questions. It doesn't makes sense to me. For a managerial position maybe. They should teach you about finance once you join the company as part of the onboarding process.
Thank you for answering! I have applied for a L4 role. It is not managerial. I looked through geeks for geeks, but it doesnt give any insights to case interviews or PSS round