McKinsey Using Recruiting as an Advertisement

“There is an opinion that McKinsey’s recruiting approach is very different from BCG’s and Bain’s in the following respect: for the same number of final offers McKinsey interviews much more people than the last two companies. This means that it is easier to get interview invitation from McKinsey than from BCG or Bain, but the odds of getting a final offer after you go through interview process are lower. There is an opinion that McKinsey intentionally invites too many people to interviews as a sort of marketing itself to potential future clients. Do you think it is true? I ask this question because I have been invited by McKinsey to the second round after a remarkably weak performance during the first round. I simply cannot understand why I was invited. The only explanation I can come up with is that they have a target number of people whom they want to interview in the second round, and they are going to interview this number regardless of the quality of people. D” *** D, I will answer each question and point you have raised. “There is an opinion that McKinsey’s interviewing approach is very different from BCG’s and Bain’s in the…