Description

A McKinsey final round is three back-to-back interviews with Associate Partners and Partners, each about an hour, each containing a case and a PEI. This is that day, run properly. Three cases. Three PEIs. Three hours back-to-back at real interview length — then 30 minutes of feedback. Here's why the format matters. What breaks candidates in a final round usually isn't any single case. It's the third one, after two hours of performing, when your structure goes loose and your PEI story comes out flat because it's the third time you've told a version of it that day. You cannot simulate that in a 45-minute practice session, and almost nobody practices it. That's the gap this closes. Why me: I was a consultant at McKinsey, interview-trained by the firm, and I led Midwest recruiting — which meant sitting in the room delivering hiring recommendations after on-campus interviews. I've run 250+ live cases since. I'm not going to tell you your structure was "good." I'll tell you where you'd have lost the vote. How it runs: • Interview 1 — one case, one PEI, roughly 60 minutes. We start cold, with no warm-up, because that's how it actually starts. • Interview 2 — a new case and a different PEI dimension, roughly 60 minutes. • Interview 3 — a new case and a different PEI dimension, roughly 60 minutes. By now you're tired. That is the entire point. • 30-minute debrief — a component-by-component scorecard across all six pieces, the specific moments that would have moved a partner's vote in either direction, and the two or three things worth fixing before the real thing. The cases are unseen and drawn from real McKinsey-style problems. The PEI questions rotate deliberately across dimensions, so you can't run the same story three times — which is the single most common way strong candidates lose a final round. Bought as separate sessions, three cases and three behavioral hours would run $2,340. This is $1,365, because the interviews are run at real length with the case and the PEI inside the same hour, exactly as McKinsey does it.