I applied through university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at McKinsey & Company (Lisbon, Lisbon District) in May 2012
Interview
I did not apply to McKinsey but got invited to an assessment test due to my University (Nova School of Business and Economics) that share the CV's of their students with the main local companies.
After achieving the assessment test I was invited for a round of 2 interviews with Associate. Both tackled my previous experience and some personal questions before moving on to the business cases:
1. Belgium's Ministry of Health are facing budget problems with costs growing disproportionately to revenues;
2. Pharmaceutical company is analyzing the expansion of their business
Ofrece muchos recursos a tu disponibilidad para preparar las entrevistas como reuniones online para explicar el proceso, y grupos de ayuda. El proceso es largo, pero lo merece para pertenecer a esta empresa.
Gave assessment. Waiting 1st round. But, here the assessment and resume are scored together to reach next round. Might take 1-3 weeks for invite. Assessment has only 20% - 30% weightage.
The recruiter was great! 2 rounds of 5 interviews, first was 2 associates, second was 3 partners. My first round, the interviewers spoke absolutely broken English and made it extremely difficult to understand what they are trying to say. My second interviewer was extremely rude as well. Honestly comes down to who interviews you and the case selection that will determine your fate