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Week of May 4, 2026
- McKinsey: Round 1 interviews for the Business Analyst Intern role will start for the San Francisco office; final round interviews will take place 7 days after the first round
Week of April 27, 2026
- McKinsey - Apr 30: Round 1 interviews for the Business Analyst Intern role will take place for the Los Angeles office
- McKinsey - Apr 27: Round 1 interviews for the Business Analyst Intern role will take place for the Miami office
Week of April 20, 2026
- McKinsey: Round 1 interviews for the Business Analyst Intern role will take place for students at Washington University in St. Louis
- McKinsey: Round 1 interviews for the Business Analyst Intern role will take place for students at Stanford University
- Bain - Apr 21: Round 1 interviews for the Associate Consultant Intern role will start taking place for students across the United States
Week of April 13, 2026
- McKinsey - Apr 13: Rejection notices for the Business Analyst Intern role sent out to students across the United States
Week of April 6, 2026
- Bain - Apr 10: Interview invites for the Associate Consultant Intern role started to go out to students
- BCG: Round 1 interviews for the Associate (Experienced Hire) role will take place for the Brooklyn office
Week of March 30, 2026
- Bain - Apr 1: Digital assessment must be completed by Wednesday, April 1st, at 11:59pm PT for Associate Consultant Intern role
- McKinsey: Invites for McKinsey Solve expected to go out to applicants for the Business Analyst Intern role
Week of March 23, 2026
- Bain, McKinsey, Oliver Wyman - Mar 29: Applications due for undergraduate junior year internships
Week of September 29, 2025
- McKinsey - Oct 1: Round 1 interviews for the MBA Associate role will take place for the Seattle office
- Bain - Sept 30: Round 1 interviews for the APD Consultant role will take place for the San Francisco office
- Bain - Sept 29: Interview for the 2Y MBA Consultant role will take place for the London office
Week of September 29, 2025
- Bain & BCG: UG interview invites following September deadlines are being sent out this week and next for 1st round.
Week of September 15, 2025
- McKinsey - Sep 17: APD candidates are being invited to interviews for the Austin office. 1st round - Friday, September 26th, 2nd round - Friday, October 3rd.
- BCG - Sep 17: Invited U.S. MBA applicants are required to complete the CCA within a 12-hour completion window
- BCG - Sep 16: Invited U.S. MBA applicants are required to complete the Online Case (OLC) within a 12-hour completion window
Week of September 8, 2025
- McKinsey - Sep 12: Round 2 interviews for the Business Analyst role in the Detroit office will take place in-person
- BCG - Sep 10: Applications close for the Consultant role for 2nd-year MBA students
- Procter & Gamble: MBA recruiting begins (info sessions, networking, etc.)
Week of September 1, 2025
- Bain - Sep 7: Applications close for the Consultant role for 2nd-year MBA students
- McKinsey - Sep 4/5: First round interviews for the Business Analyst role in the Detroit office will take place virtually
- McKinsey - Sep 4: Applications close for the Associate role for 2nd-year MBA students
Week of August 25, 2025
- BCG - August 29: Final round interviews for full time Associate role in the Nashville office will take place
Week of August 18, 2025
- McKinsey - August 22: First round interviews for full time BA roles in NYC, Boston, and Darien (CT) offices take place
- Bain - August 21: Final round interviews for Associate Consultant Intern role take place for students at Vanderbilt University
- McKinsey - August 20: Final round interviews for internship roles take place for students at the University of Southern California (USC)
- L.E.K. Consulting - August 18: Applications close for the Associate role
Week of August 11, 2025
- Oliver Wyman - August 17: Applications close for the Entry Level Consultant role
- Bain - August 15: Final round SuperDay for Associate Consultant Intern role in Chicago office
- Bain - August 13: Final round interview invites for Associate Consultant Intern role going out across U.S. offices
- BCG - August 11: MC received confirmation that all U.S. MBA applicants are required to complete two assessments: the Online Case (OLC), scheduled for September 16, and the CCA, set for September 17. Both tests will be available within a 12-hour completion window. Every applicant will have the opportunity to participate in both assessments
- Bain - August 11: Offers for Associate Consultant role (Atlanta office) starting to go out!
Week of August 4, 2025
- AlixPartners - August 8: Applications close for the Performance and Technology Analyst role
- BCG - August 6-7: First round interviews for full time Associate roles take place across U.S. Candidates should expect to complete a 45-minute virtual case interview and a 40-minute asynchronous online case
- BCG - August 6: First round interviews for full time Associate roles take place for NYC and Boston offices
- McKinsey - August 4: First round interview invites for the BA role are going out
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Week of July 28, 2025
- BCG - August 3: Associate candidates have until 8PM ET to select their interview slot for the upcoming week
- Bain - July 31: Some candidates continue to receive TestGorilla invites, which are a precursor to first round interviews. We expect that this is happening in primarily 2nd and 3rd tier offices (e.g., Washington, DC)
- Bain - July 31: MC has confirmed that final round interview invites for West Coast offices are being sent to candidates.
- Bain - July 30: Candidates are seeing a mix of "traditional" and "creative" cases in their first round interviews. Creative cases don't necessarily require you to create a framework; instead, they are more discussion-based. We expect more creative cases to appear in final round interviews.
- Bain - July 30: Final round interview invites at Bain Atlanta are going out.
- McKinsey - July 30: A source at the firm indicates that all interview invites for Business Analyst full-time roles will be sent out by Monday August 4.
- McKinsey - July 28: First round interviews for the Business Analyst role in the Detroit office will take place virtually on September 4 and 5; Final round interviews will take place in person on September 12.