I had a McKinsey Phone case interview (not first round) on Tuesday afternoon. The interviewer mentioned that they will get back to me within 21-48 hrs. I think I did a good job. But it’s end of Friday now, no one contacted me since then. I have followed up with my recruiter this morning and no response. Are they considering other candidates performance or I failed the interview?

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I did the experienced hire phone screen and didn’t hear back for about a week. I went through the same thought you did...yet here I am. Relax and you’ll be ok no matter what happens.

For reference we don’t compare one candidate to another, we compare them all to our objective evaluation criteria to prevent either a group of great performers knocking each other out because of some sort of mentality that “we can only take the top 3 this week” or similarly passing a group of poor candidates because “we need to take the top 3.”

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Thank you so much for this detailed reply. This is really helpful. Hope I will get it!

Relax OP. Perfectly possible that they had work come up due to which they were unable to call you or that they’re trying to figure out additional details before calling you

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Thanks. Finger crossed 🤞

My friend heard back after a weekend! So I wouldn’t count yourself out. They are busy rn with campus recruiting

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Thankyou

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Here I am a month after applying still waiting to hear back if I’ll even get an interview 😕

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Good luck. Hope you will get a reply soon.

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