Introduces himself briefly, talks about his domain and his professional journey to this position. Directly jumps to PEI – No introduction, no questions about my personal life or career Q: Tell me about the prominent situation when you faced a disagreement or different opinions in the workplace. Take two minutes Q: Follow up – What are the ideas and suggestions if you can elaborate for me, please? So that I understand better? (I was speaking about two Innovative suggestions/ ideas which led to disagreement between the colleagues, hence this question) Q: What are the reasons do you think was your Suggestion discarded over your colleague’s idea? Q: You would be disheartened by the fact that your process improvement suggestion hasn’t made it to the final cut. Weren’t you? Q: I am sure you explained how you could assist the team? What are the ‘other’ ways you employed to ensure that your Innovation strategy wins over your colleague? (I did not exactly understand what he intended to mean by other ways. But I suggested how outside the workplace I took help of Seniors/AM and kept on tweaking my model and kept on making it better and more feasible). Q: It is a difficult time when we face disagreement. How did your Relationship with this employee go about – post the strategy session? How did you deal with him at the workplace after the results were announced? (This was 45-50 minutes of the Interview) Moving to Business Case Studies – Only one Case study Went on for 45 minutes roughly Follow up questions as to how you will make this XYZ change which I had suggested - Answered it Q2. He started sharing screen for some pictorial representation of data. (Found out my first answer was on point at least as per the factors that were utmost essential to mention in the earlier question) - Answered based on the graphical view. Follow up question – What other factors than those on screen can you think about to help the firm? I mentioned two additional points that I could think of. Q3. Arithmetic question I moved very quickly. Interviewer asked to slow down. Then I had to make few simple to moderate calculations but took a little bit of time, the answer was correct. At the end got stuck a little bit, the interviewer redirected me to the right path. Answered both the math sums fairly.

Typical consulting and market sizing question, standard McKinsey format Emphasis on McKinsey PEI values