I just got in from ATL last night and I'm still tired. 4 cross country flights in 4 days is no joke! Unfortunately, I don't think I did very well on the McKinsey second rounds. I was there interviewing with 3 of my classmates and they didn't think they did really well either. The common theme was that we thought that we performed well on 1 or 2 of the cases, but struggled on at least two of them. I guess I should talk a little about the format to make it all easier to understand.
The second rounds for McK involve four separate interviews: 3 standard case/fit combo joints and then a special one called a McKinsey Day 1 interview where we are given a slide deck that has a bunch of blanks in it and a separate deck with data in it that we were supposed to use to fill in the blanks in the first deck. The office space at their ATL office is gorgeous and the people there were so nice that I could see myself fitting perfectly, but I might have to wait a year to get that chance. All of my interviewers were nice folks and didn't really give away whether the times that I slipped up in my analysis were killers or not. One big difference between this round and the first one was that the cases were a lot harder this time around. Some people may say that they were easier, but I was knocked back flat by a couple of the ones from yesterday. I'm supposed to hear about how I did by Monday, but I hope they hit me up today so I can enjoy the holiday weekend and plan for more job hunting if that turns out to be necessary.
On the BCG front, I got a voicemail message from the NYC office recruiting coordinator asking me to call him bck, but it was after 10pm EST by the time I received it. His voice didn't sound excited to me, so I think he was calling to give me the bad word on how my chances at BCG stand. I really hope he doesn't want me to call back to get dissed when he could have told me that on the voicemail, but I realize that companies like BCG don't leave that sort of information on messages. He may just want to talk to me to give me some feedback that might help me next time around. Who knows...as soon as I find out, y'all know that I'll put the news up on here *stressing out*
Posted by marquis930 at February 19, 2005 07:48 PM