I was Interviewing with McKinsey (BA) and didn’t make it past the Case Interview. I’m a little disappointed, but not necessarily shocked. I did make 2 mistakes during the Case Interview - giving revenue instead of net income (was quickly corrected) and not initially saying incentivize workers to increase sales of items (did have other reasons). My question is, how are mistakes judged during a case interview? Are these mistakes usually detrimental? Could I have walked through my process more?

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Likely yes, they’ll expect you to mention the obvious motivators such as money and knowing profit vs revenue. Keep doing your best and you can get invited back for a second attempt the following year/cycle

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The ultimate purpose of the case interview is to show you can think in a logical sequence and perform accurate analyses.

If your thought process and logic is very clear to the interviewer - they will certainly understand if the mistake was more mechanical than not having a clear structure to your answer.

I’ll have to say those things go hand-in-hand though - mistakes many times happen because your structure and process was not clear to begin with and let you miss some items.

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Not sure you can recover after mixing up revenue and NI. Even if you correct it. Very different mindset needed to think and talk about top vs bottom line

How long did it take them to get back to you with results?

Yeah. Is that a normal turnaround or was that really quick?

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