How has the 30 minute phone case with McKinsey been for people who have gone through it recently? I have mine on Friday and wanted to know how many questions typically get asked and how hard the math is.

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That be very subjective not sure how much that would help.
But I personally didn’t find the math even during the normal cases hard whatsoever

For me I had 4 questions: framework, math and two brainstorming. Math was relatively straightforward

Profit loss - simple math

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