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Hindsight |
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PEI: type of person/culture |
| Date Posted: |
02/23/2006 |
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Secondly, take the PEIs very seriously. The Firm is definitely looking for a certain type of person and the PEIs are going to be a big part of letting them know that is you. Your answers to the PEI questions need to be incredibly structured. The answer needs to have an interesting title and a clear outline. If the structure of your PEI answer is not obvious you need to redo it ?? this is middle school writing technique.
Third, as hard as it is you have to try to relax during the interviews. Thank god that I didn??t do my first case interviews with McKinsey because looking back I see how tense and anxious I was. That said, the key to relaxing on these things is practice. Then when you go into the interview just think of it like another practice case with a friend. I also found it very valuable to get a workout in before the interviews. For me personally I always feel better after a workout and I was glad to get the blood and muscles moving.
Obviously get a good night sleep before hand (I didn??t bring my own sheets like outlier_APD as the hotel sheets were probably more comfortable anyways) and eat a good dinner/breakfast before the interview ?? nothing too heavy.
I found the first and second rounds not to be too taxing but the third round I found most arduous. It was the longest of the three and along with a difficult test I found this round to have the hardest cases.
I can say that all the firms I interviewed with were very different but I think McKinsey has the most consistent culture of any of them and I never met with anyone at the Firm that I was not very impressed with.
Thank again to everyone who posts here on Vault. I looking forward to seeing many of you in the Firm.
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| Message: |
Hi Back2Boston & All:
Could you please shed some light on the kind of person that McKinsey is looking for. I am assuming that this would be more or less similar across all major consulting firms.
I would appreciate if people can throw some light on work culture in consulting firms.
(I am an engineer considering an MBA leading to a consulting career and researching it to see if it would be a good fit)
Thanks
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