McKinsey & Company This week I’m having interviews with McKinsey & Company for Assoc / EM role. What should I expect for the process? How experienced hire process usually works for McK? Any tips are welcome!

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Each ASC interview is structured as:
• Personal Experience Inventory (aka PEI; “tell me about a time when”)
• Case interview (“Our client today is XYZ that’s having ABC problem…”)

You typically go through two rounds, the first with interview trained colleagues who have been at the firm for over a year and the second with partners in your office of choice. For me, I had 2 interviews in round 1 and 3 interviews in round 2. These were held on separate days.

There is a section of our website called “What we look for” - having been on both sides of the interview process, I can say that this is very accurate. I would read through it carefully.

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https://www.mckinsey.com/careers/interviewing#

Which role is it that you’re interviewing for?
Experienced hire process for Asc is the same as any other (couple of rounds, interviewers start from Asc and progress to Partners as you progress rounds, interviews include both PEI and Case)
Can’t speak to the process for Direct EM though…

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Thanks for the response. Very useful. They said it is for Asc role but exact role will be decided after the interviews.

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