Always nice hearing good news from friends

A young follower just copped a job with McKinsey. With only Bsc from a Nigerian public school (1st class) + small experience from one of the Big 4 (the experience there must have helped him).

Went thru the famed McKinsey PST test and
5 levels of interview, including with their foreign partners.

McK has one of the toughest recruitment processes in the world and this experience of another friend (who unfortunately didn't get the job) should give a clue into how tough getting into McK is
The experience shared in this 2013 article. Hopefully, will get the young friend that just got in to share his own recruitment experience too for publication on JarusHub

jarushub.com/ysr-my-mckinse…
The young man got a first class degree in engineering from one of the first generation universities. And he said he also read the article above while preparing. In his view, what he went through was even tougher than what David narrated in that article. Hav asked him to write too

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Profit = Revenue - Expenses

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