McKinsey is a management consulting firm with a reputation for being the best of its kind. McKinsey is the MBA employer of choice, though insiders say JDs, MDs, and PhDs are just as likely to be hired as B-school grads or undergrads. Past associates say their time at McKinsey offered “unparalleled opportunity” to "engage with clients, build out deliverables, brainstorm with partners" in a company whose name "opens up basically every door in the world."

McKinsey offers a Summer Analyst program for undergraduate students and a Summer Associate role for MBA students. Interns join the firm's offices and practices (e.g., Digital McKinsey, Marketing & Sales) around the world for 8–10 weeks, usually in the summer, to work in teams and directly with clients.

In both of these roles, you will work on the best teams to help the best organizations in the world—in private, public, and social sectors—solve their most difficult problems. You w...

McKinsey & Company is a privately owned management consulting firm. Roundly considered the most prestigious company of its kind, it has achieved a near-universal level of renown, despite a decades-long commitment to confidentiality that shrouds details of McKinsey’s work-and its client list-in secrecy. In its practice areas, it addresses strategic, organizational, operational and technological issues, always with a focus of doing what is right for the client's business, not what is best f...

2026 Vault Rankings

• “I traveled all but one week of my internship. I generally worked 8:30 am–9:00 pm, and that includes team events and dinners with clients.”
• “Long hours, and the environment sometimes can feel a bit suppressing towards your personal life. However, I feel the company still has a positive work-hard, play-hard culture and was not surprised coming in.”
• “You definitely work a lot of hours, and it isn't always predictable, but weekends are fairly well protected.”

• “Superday of three PEI (personal experience interviews) and three cases. Very selective and challenging, but worthwhile.”
• “Extremely selective. Round one: problem-solving game. Round two: two back-to-back interviews with associates. Round three: three back-to-back interviews with partners and senior partners. Despite the grueling and difficult process, all my interviewers were positive and made the experience better than what I expected.”
• “First round: two interview...