Bad at case interviews....is this a bad sign lol of my capabilities as a consultant

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In rlly good at case interviews and a TERRIBLE consultant so

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You can’t be bad at case interviews and work at McKinsey as a consultant I don’t think

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McKinsey does a lot more than just strategy nowadays. So depends what you do and what you had to do to get the job

Sorry what? Don’t you work at McKinsey?

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I'm a BA and been interviewing for corp strat recently.

Tbh prob cause my handwriting is horrible...cannot read my data so I miss out on info or misread my numbers lol

i dont even know how to solve a case, nor had to 😂 been consulting for 5 years now

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Same.

You can absolutely be bad at case studies and work at MBB. LOL.

I think this is objectively not true. If you were bad at case studies you wouldn’t pass an interview

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I'm pretty "bad" at case interviews when the interviewer expects a cookie cutter thought process, but I'm considered one of the stronger strategy consultants in my practice.

When your hiring process is entirely subjective, a similar approach results in different outcomes

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At McKinsey it's not subjective. The recruiting people gone through great lengths to make it extremely unbiased / fact-based

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