Geography Gurus
This country is famous for its Eiffel Tower and is known as the "City of Light."
What is France?
This acronym stands for the entry-level consulting role at McKinsey, typically filled by recent undergraduates.
What is BA (Business Analyst)?
This is the feature in Outlook that allows McKinsey assistants to check the availability of all attendees before scheduling a meeting.
What is Scheduling Assistant?
This tool is McKinsey’s primary platform for managing travel bookings.
What is "Concur"?
This Netflix series follows a group of kids in the 1980s battling supernatural forces in Hawkins, Indiana.
What is Stranger Things?
This African river is the longest in the world, flowing through 11 countries before emptying into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile River?
This is the term for a client engagement or project at McKinsey.
What is a study?
This is the term for a placeholder event added to a consultant’s calendar to reserve time for a potential meeting.
What is a tentative hold?
This tool allows McKinsey employees to reserve desks, meeting rooms, and collaboration spaces in Boston and Bengaluru.
What is "GoSpace"?
This rapper, whose real name is Marshall Mathers, is also known as Slim Shady.
Who is Eminem?
This U.S. state is the only one made up entirely of islands and is located in the Pacific Ocean.
What is Hawaii?
At McKinsey, this term describes a period when a consultant is not assigned to a client engagement.
What is "on the beach"?
This is the term for when a McKinsey assistant categorizes to visually organize different types of events on a consultant’s calendar.
What is calendar color-coding?
This tool is McKinsey’s primary platform for tracking and submitting timesheets to ensure accurate time allocation for projects.
What is "MyTime"?
This is the largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
This landlocked country in South America is home to the world's largest salt flat, the Salar de Uyuni.
What is Bolivia?
This ritual, often conducted at the start of a project or engagement, ensures that all team members align on goals, roles, and ways of working together effectively.
This is the term for when a McKinsey assistant schedules a meeting with both in-person and virtual attendance options.
What is a hybrid meeting?
This internal platform offers employees access to training programs, workshops, and courses to support professional development and continuous learning.
What is "LearnNow"?
This is the fastest land animal, capable of reaching speeds up to 70 mph (113kmh).
What is a cheetah?
This country, whose capital is N'Djamena, is bordered by Libya to the north and Sudan to the east.
This is the term for the McKinsey mentor assigned to help guide a consultant’s career development.
What is a Development Group Leader (DGL)?
This is the term for when a McKinsey assistant schedules a meeting with a strict end time to ensure it doesn’t run over.
What is a hard stop?
This platform provides employees with access to firm policies, risk management resources, and region-specific guidelines for managing compliance.
What is "Firm Policies (Risk Portal)"?
This K-pop group, known for songs like "Dynamite" and "Butter," has a global fanbase called ARMY.
Who is BTS?