McKinsey Toronto R1 Interview Experience

An undergraduate subscriber to The Consulting Offer shares his experiences using the material to interview at McKinsey Toronto. He is now preparing for his McKinsey  final round interviews which are 6 days away. Hi Michael, So, I am going to be doing my second round Summer interview on Friday at McKinsey Toronto. Some points from the cases today, if you are interested (number 3 was interesting): 1. The first case was a retail banking case from South Africa. Although I had some knowledge of the business landscape in South Africa, and particularly of other African nations, your own podcasts on the Johannesburg office and Sub-Saharan gave me some great perspective, conversation, and judgment. 2. The second interviewer was a former investment banker from McKinsey Toronto BTO. He did not appreciate the broader issue trees and always forced me to narrow down to only one bucket for the analysis. In speaking to the third interviewer (he did not interview me, but we have had great conversations in the past), he noted that this interviewer was the opposite scale on the MBTI scale as were we: very specific, regimented structure. This was something I realized early and luckily adjusted to, after noting the…