We try to ensure we are as accurate and fair as possible when interviewing you. To help you prepare, we've put together a video to show some of the common things you can expect during a McKinsey interview. You can also practice some interactive case studies and play the Team Leader game, a game about working on an engagement team. During the interview process, we employ a wide range of interviewing methods. In particular, you should be prepared for the following:

• Case Studies: We believe the best way we can assess your problem solving skills is to discuss a typical McKinsey business problem with you – we call this a case study. Our interviewers are trained to use case studies which are fair to you and reflect the typical business problem solving challenges faced by our consultants. Case studies are broad, two-way discussions, rather than one-way tests and there is no perfect answer. You will be assessed more on how you go about dealing with the problem, rather than on the specific answers you come up with. Practice at case study discussions is recommended, especially if you are inexperienced at interactive problem solving discussions.
  
  
• Experience Interviews: When we decide to interview you, we are already impressed by your achievements to date. However, it is not just your achievements that are important to us – it is also the skills you used in order to accomplish those achievements. Our interviewers are trained to examine your past accomplishments in depth, in order to determine if the skills you possess would position you well for a successful career at McKinsey. Therefore, you need to be prepared to discuss your most important past experiences in a very detailed way, focusing on your specific role and describing the key actions that were critical to success.

These are the most common elements of our interviewing process. However, as you go through the process, you may also encounter other types of assessments. If this is the case, you will be informed at an appropriate point by a McKinsey recruiter.

Case studies are an important way for us to assess your problem-solving skills and for you to better understand what we do at McKinsey.

We’ve put together a couple of on-line case studies that we hope will help you prepare for your interview.

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