After 20 or 30 cases, most candidates plateau. Peer practice starts reinforcing habits rather than correcting them, because the people you practice with can't see what an interviewer sees.
This session names the gaps that survive months of preparation and tend to go undetected right up until the interview. On the case side: defaulting to frameworks instead of first principles, reading charts for description instead of insight, underweighting the math, and mishandling the moments of failure and recovery that interviewers watch closely. On the behavioral side: telling project-management stories instead of leadership stories, failing to genuinely understand the opposing side of a conflict, and selecting stories without enough real complexity to hold up under probing.
Drawing on my experience as a former McKinsey interviewer, I'll show you the standard these gaps are measured against — so you can close them before your interview does.
For candidates who are already deep in preparation and want to know what they can't yet see. Open Q&A to close.
