McKinsey now makes some candidates debate an AI avatar in 10-minute interviews
paulnovosad · x · 2026-10-14
Per WSJ, McKinsey has started using an AI avatar in some consulting interviews: the AI plays the client while candidates hold 10-minute conversations in McKinsey's real offices, with partners or assessors observing.
Derek Thompson frames it as more evidence that "AI is disrupting the job-application market much faster than the job market": AI-amplified application volumes, HR-side AI filters narrowing the pool, AI-avatar interviews, and now these AI debates with humans in the room.
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