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      Graduate IT Systems Administrator Interview

      Mar 21, 2014
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Praga
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at McKinsey & Company (Praga) in Aug 2010

      Interview

      The position was in Prague, Czech Republic. I had a 1st interview with their recruiter. Another 30-minute english language screening by an outsourced company. Another interview, 70-minute with 2 people on the phone: One to screen the technical background and the other to make a personality/psychological kind of profile. I had 35-minute with each, and the other one was also on the line, listening. After this process, I was invited to a "batch day" along with other 14 candidates for same or different positions. There was a break-the-ice time in the beginning, and then we were split in groups to handle some examples of projects. We did 2 such projects with different group mixes each time. All the time they were monitoring the behaviour of the individuals in the team. All this, lasted 3 hours in the morning. We were given a 1-hour break, and at 2pm we were back to be announced in person, who continues for next and last phase. At that point, I saw that only 2 out of the 15 candidates had passed to that next phase. The next phased comprised of another 3 private interviews which lasted till little bit after 5pm in the evening. The whole process was a bit exhausting, very long, and felt like reality show.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      You are traveling on a train and the passenger beside wants have a chat with you (something along these lines), what would you do?
      1 Answer