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Updated Jan 7, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Business Analyst at Bain & Company
Posted Jan 7, 2012
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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 Dec 2011 in Gurgaon, Haryana (India) (took 4+ weeks)
I got the interview through Campus Recruitment. The selection was a 4 step process:
1. CV Submission and Shortlisting: They looked at a balance between academic prowess and extra curricular achievements, the cover letter should reflect the same.
Bain & Co. are extremely helpful throughout the process, they're eager to answer your questions and guide you. They even conducted case workshops and an interview guide.
2. Written Round: Data Interpretation (Reading graphs and assigning tags, etc. Mostly multiple choice) and arrangement of slides in a logical coherent order and writing out an executive summary.
3. 1:1 Interviews: Two interviews of guess estimations. The interviewers were nice, though one seemed kinda mean and disinterested.
4. Final Round: Panel Interview with 6 Senior Analysts, consisting of Case Interviews
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.
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Business Analyst at Bain & Company
Posted Nov 5, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 (took a day)
My interview was a first round interview which took place on campus. The interview was separated into two 30 minute interviews with consultants who had been with the company for a few years. There was no fit questions, and very little breaking the ice, basically just sat down and they game me a case. The cases were moderately difficult and the interviewers did a lot of guidance through them. The interviews ended with a time to ask questions and that was it.
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Business Analyst at Bain & Company
Posted Nov 3, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in New York, NY (took 2 weeks)
two back-to-back, one-on-one interview with an analyst from the boston office and new york office respectively.
they interviewed a lot of people on the same day, so don't expect they will give you the time of the day to either explain their own backgrounds/ listen to your story
went straight ahead for two case interviews, each 30-35mins, and 5 mins for q and a
one case on whether or not to purchase a shop from a friend, and another one about a manufacturer.
honestly, cases were not difficult, but the attitudes of the interviewer could sway the entire mood / flow of the interview. i had a wonderful flow with the first guy, but the second girl was simply awful. mainly because she seemed disinterested to interview you in the first place, looked around while conversing with you, and second of all, she threw a case out from her head - meaning, i did not even know whether she was playing around with me or... she just knew the case SO well.
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Business Analyst at Bain & Company
Posted Sep 29, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 (took a day)
- Two cases with minimal behavioural upfront. Very smart individuals running the cases, with one in particular absolutely drilling me on my logic and assumptions.Came out feeling positive, though unsure of whether I would get a second-round offer
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Business Analyst at Bain & Company
Posted Aug 14, 2011 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 (took a day)
Basically 1 great interview and 1 bad interview.
Great interview was great, nuff said.
Bad interview: basically, had an impossible interviewer. My recruitment was off-cycle, and this interviewer sounded like they had much more important things to do than to interview a candidate, especially juxtaposed with the previous interviewer. No small talk -- totally fine with me. Answered all my questions with one-word or two-word answers -- would not make conversation. Needless to say, they gave me a ridiculous case which I proceeded to screw up.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Business Analyst at Bain & Company
Posted Apr 7, 2011
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 in New York, NY (took a day)
Focus was on how to value debt investments; namely evaluating the cash flows (ie, coupon payment); discussing effect of external interest rates on the value of the bond (ie, inverse relationship); etc
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Business Analyst at Bain & Company
Posted Feb 16, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 in Houston, TX (took a day)
I did a first round interview with Bain. They were very nice and professional. Several consultants contacted me via email and phone calls before I interviewed to answer questions and practice case interviews. The interviews themselves were case interviews along with a behavioral question about my resume. They contacted me a day or two later by phone to let me know the results of my interview.
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Business Analyst at Bain & Company
Posted Feb 8, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2008 (took 2+ weeks)
Nice Human Resources, but a bit deceptive about the process and the clarity of the job. Seems like a lot of good people. A lot of focus on completely arbitrary "thought process" questions that make me question the sanity of the firm (how many sheep on an island with a T-Rex kind of questions).
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Business Analyst at Bain & Company
Posted Sep 10, 2009
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2007 (took 2 days)
First off I was invited to a workshop session with a group of peers. Here we would go through several case studies and were assessed upon that. A week later there were a larger event, where we met all consultants and were asked more generic questions.
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The interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview and a Presentation.
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