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I finished BCG R1 late this week and now I am obsessively checking my phone. Do recruiters ever call with interview results on Saturday/Sunday, or should I just stop thinking about it until Monday?
Recruiting communication timing varies by office and cycle. Weekend calls can happen, but they are not something you should expect or interpret.
Do not infer your outcome from silence over a weekend. Interview teams may still be consolidating feedback or recruiters may simply wait for business hours.
If you were given a timeline, use that. Otherwise give recruiting reasonable time before following up.
Please enjoy your weekend. I wasted mine refreshing email.
Mine came Monday afternoon.
I know McKinsey is more interviewer-led, but I am confused about how passive you are supposed to be. Do you still suggest next steps, or mainly answer the question they ask and wait?
Interviewer-led does not mean passive. You still need to show structured thinking, initiative, and judgment within the question you are given.
I can use profitability / market entry type frameworks, but when the case is unusual I struggle to build a clean MECE structure from scratch. How do people get good at this without memorizing 50 templates?
Start from the decision the client needs to make, then identify the few questions that must be true or understood to make that decision.
Someone senior at BCG who I spoke with earlier sent me a quick 'good luck' note before my R1. Is that just being nice, or should I read it as a positive internal signal?
It is positive that they remembered you and chose to reach out, but do not convert that into an assumption about the interview outcome.