McKinsey Final Round feedback not heard back

Hi there,

before offer decisions are communicated, they have to be aligned between HR and the interviewers in the process. This can sometimes take time for various reasons. A few common ones are listed below for a general overview:

• internal scheduling conflicts between HR and the interviewers, especially when partners need to be involved
• the firm is still conducting more final round interviews with other candidates and they might want to wait for that to play out to look at the full candidate picture before extending final offers
• offers have been extended to “first choice” candidates and the firm is trying to keep “backup” candidates on hold until they know who accepted and who declined their first batch of offers
• holidays or year-end shutdown delay the decision-making and communication process
• there is uncertainty internally around budget and the exact headcount they can actually hire so they are trying to buy time

I know that this is unsettling and every candidate wants to have clarity on the status sooner rather than later. Unfortunately, you'll always have to wait for the official word. 

However, it is best to just assume a rejection and continue with the recruiting efforts with other firms until you have a written offer in your hands. That way you at least won't lose time.

Best

Hi Anonymous,

this is unusual for McKinsey, as it is normally quite quick with feedback. I would recommend to call HR directly to verify the reason of the delay.

Best,

Francesco

Hi,

Why don't you just e-mail / call the HR directly? Most probably the partners were too busy ti sync on your feedback

Best

Hi Anonymous,

The best way to proceed is giving your HR contact a call. I see again and again many candidates waiting for feedback via email - yes, finally also those get answered, but it's an asynchronous media and it might take a while until somebody can get back to it.

Also corona virus adds a bit to the hassles at the moment and might increase turnaround time - many clients already stopped coming consultants on-site personally, and all non-essential internal personal meetings with travel involved were cancelled in some European offices. As you can imagine, that brings quite some turbulance in otherwise smooth processes...

Hope that helps - if you, please give it a thumbs-up with the upvote button!

Robert

Hello!

Agree with the fact that it is unsual. However, doesn´t have to mean that things didn´t go right, could be simply that partners have been busy. 

Best thing is to call HR directly, or even pay them a visit if it´s in the same city. 

Good luck!

Best, 

Clara

Hello there,

One week is quite typical, especially for final offer stage.
Usually, it can extend between 2-4 weeks.

Note that there"s a lot of elements coming in on formulting an offer, such as which Partner will you be put under? What is the team composition given an new member? How can you best contribute in terms of knowledge creation,etc?

Keep calm, constantly try to contact the HR, and fingers crossed you"ll get your positive news soon.

Kind regards,
Nathan
 

Hello,

It can happen that internal processes take really long and it's not something strictly related with your performance. I would suggest to call the HR and try to push a little bit. If you need to know it within a short time, you can think of tellinh them that you have another offer to be answered.

Best,
Luca