1. How many Ping-Pong balls would it take to completely fill a Boeing 747 airplane?

2. If McKinsey were to hire you, and then you were to become a leading Democratic Presidential candidate, would you reveal to the press that we’d had you fill a Boeing 747 airplane with Ping-Pong balls?

3. Follow-up: What if you knew that Boeing’s employees were depressed about their company’s planes malfunctioning, and the executive team thought that an airplane full of Ping-Pong balls might cheer them up, because that’s not a thing you see every day, you know? Then would you maybe consider not talking about this on CNN, or at least not making it such a big deal? Hypothetically, of course.

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4. How long would it take to relocate an average-sized mountain ten miles using an average-sized dump truck?

5. What if the mountain were located in Saudi Arabia?

6. What if I told you that McKinsey had been doing some undisclosed work for Saudi Arabia, and I gave you the strong impression that this mountain needed to be moved before journalists could find out what was buried inside of it? Would you be able to speed up the dump-truck process?

7. Years later, if you were asked about your work in Saudi Arabia, and how, exactly, moving a mountain ten miles with a single dump truck fell under the description of “management consulting,” would you say:

a) “I worked on a number of cases, and I don’t remember all the details of a specific project from many years ago.”

b) “Every night I lie awake, haunted by what I saw in the soil.”

8. Speaking of sleep, what is the profit margin on the average mattress?

9. If you had a friend who was in charge of interviewing potential hires at a formerly prestigious but now controversial management-consulting firm, do you think your friend could get a job at a mattress startup? Or is his résumé too tainted?

10. If you were planning a McKinsey retreat in the desert, in Kashgar, China, how many chairs would you bring?

11. Would you bring more or fewer chairs if you found out that the retreat location was less than five miles from a Uighur internment camp?

12. Hypothetically, do you think that a company party taking place in the shadow of a U.N.-condemned internment camp would negatively impact an H.R. employee’s chances of getting one of those mattress-startup jobs?

13. If McKinsey were to hire you and, after you had signed an N.D.A., you found out that McKinsey had also worked on projects like “turbocharging” sales of Oxycontin or helping ICE cut down its food budget for detained migrants, would you think:

a) They were all bad guys.

b) There were some good guys, like, for instance, the guy who interviewed me.

14. Final question: You wouldn’t happen to have seen a plane full of Ping-Pong balls anywhere on your way into the office, would you? Boeing 747, tail number N4337? No, of course not. Thanks for coming in.