For those who interviewed at McKinsey and didn’t get an offer, what was the feedback? Prepping for my interviews and want to get a sense for what may go wrong

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I don’t really fulfill these requirements to answer, but the most common feedback interviewees get is on structure. If your structure isn’t well defined, it won’t matter if you somehow solve the case in spite of it

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I didn’t get too much feedback - my first round told me to take ownership of what I did in my PEI stories more. Nothing from the second round / offer

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Get to the level 2-3 insights. Was told my structure was sufficient (semi generic) but my issue wasn’t I didn’t hit those deeper insights consistently- I was also new to casing and only had a week to prep via a txt book I bought

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