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Updated Feb 9, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Associate at Bain & Company
Posted Feb 9, 2012 — 0 of 2 people found this helpful
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in Milano (Italy) (took a day)
2 interviews with principal and director following the same format: 10 minutes talk about motivation and experience, 1 business case. interview with hr about motivation and experience, pretty classic questions
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Associate at Bain & Company
Posted Jan 22, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in Shanghai (China) (took 2 weeks)
Initial 1:1 interviews at Chicago office, with fairly standard cases. One deals with credit cards and the other about call centers (how to minimize the cost, calculating the benefit/dollar invested etc.). Then final round in Boston, meeting with Bain people from China. Not so standard questions which require knowledge of local market. Very concrete examples, so a good knowledge base will be very helpful.
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Associate at Bain & Company
Posted Oct 24, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Los Angeles, CA (took a day)
Bain & Company rarely interviews PhD candidates for associate positions, so I was surprised and flattered to land this interview at all. I attribute my success mainly to meeting a partner from Bain & Company for coffee who was one of the first PhD hires ever at Bain and also an alumnus at the institute where I am pursuing graduate studies. This partner was so impressed with me that she/he told me I had to apply.
The interview was standard consulting fare. There were two back-to-back case interviews. The first one with with an engagement-manger level associate, and the second one was with a principal level consultant. I had great rapport with my first interviewer; he even told me about the time half the office dressed up like vikings and "pillaged" the other employers with plastic weaponry. My first interviewer even remarked that I was not their typical interviewee, but he noted that the partner I met had recommended me.
From the start, my second interviewer seemed disinterested in me in general. He gave me a case, but he preceding it by telling me it would not very serious or structured. He delivered on his promise and the case was pretty open-ended. He didn't even ask me to sum up my findings when it was over. We had some pleasant Q&A after the case, but I could sense that he was just clearly not interested in hiring me.
The nicest thing about Bain & Company is that they call you right away. They don't leave you hanging in any sense; I got the rejection call that same evening--I was expecting a rejection of course. My first interviewer made the call--no doubt since he actually like me. He told me it was great to meet me, but that I wasn't "at the level they needed me to be at" for a call-back to interview for round two. I'm not sure that feedback was particularly helpful, but I did appreciate the quick phone call.
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Associate at Bain & Company
Posted Oct 2, 2010 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 in Singapore (Singapore) (took a day)
There were two phone interviews back to back for 1 hour each. The first was a behavioral interview where I was asked to give an example of a time when you... The second was a case study. Mine was on the semiconductor business, which I was quite unfamiliar with. My advice is that you should familiarize yourself with every sector and understand the basics of how business is conducted in each. I had a solid understanding of business but because I was unfamiliar with semiconductor, I missed some of the basic questions that could have been answered with a simple review.
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Associate at Bain & Company
Posted Jun 1, 2010
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2010 (took 2 weeks)
I applied to Kiev office in April 2010 by sending CV, CL and Recommendation directly to their recruitiing email. A bit more than in a week i got the invitation to first round interviews which consited of two 1x1 interviews 1hr each. Both sessions were pretty much standardly structured (experience, case, QA). I think i've done well in first parts of intereviews disscussing my past work and activities. But when it came to case studies, i got nervous and took the wrong path to solve them. The cases were really standard, as in WetFeet publications - declining profit and revenue drivers. I chose appropriate frameworks both times but was too concerned about the structure so couldnot get to the solution.
I received a call two days later with a usufull feedback.
My advice would be not to concentrate on the framework you use. After you choose the structure how you're gonna tackle this business problem, spend all your thinking on solving the problem and finding doable recommendations.
Overall interview experience was great - smart people and interesting tasks. But the rejection was a bit upsetting, as the interviewer said that after the half time of interview he thought he would recommend inviting me to the next round, but in the second part i messed all up.
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Associate at Bain & Company
Posted Mar 13, 2010
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2009 (took a day)
It was pretty much as expected. Market sizing question in one case interview, and then a sales question in the other. Feedback was that I didn't really show enough enthusiasm about consulting! So make sure you smile plenty and seem excited!! Other than that I think I did ok, and the interviewer didn't have much else to tell me. D'oh!
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Associate at Bain & Company
Posted Oct 30, 2009
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3.0
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2008 (took 2 weeks)
The interview consisted of two one on one interviews. Each interview was thirty minutes long and consisted of some personal questions and then a quick case. Interviewers were very polite. There were other students interviewing at the same time throughout the whole day. They let you know the results the next day.
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