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Consultant at Bain & Company
Posted Mar 28, 2010
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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 Nov 2009 in Chicago, IL (took a day)
It was a standard case interview, 1 per consultant, exactly how they said it would be. The financial case was ok, but the operations case was what tripped me up. I thought I was prepared, but the operations part was a weakness for me, and I was unlucky to get a tough case in that subject. I was disappointed in the result but don't have any complaints about it.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Skills Test.
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Consultant at Bain & Company
Posted Feb 17, 2010
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 (took a day)
Case Interview was very abstract: "How should Company X grow" --> now expand on that thought. 2 1on1 interviews. One interviewer was very firneldy and helpful but has some technical issues with his laptop. The other was was kind of cold: did not ask A SINGLE question. Expected the inerviewee to fire away a thousand questions. Unpleasnt experience.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Consultant at Bain & Company
Posted Oct 22, 2009
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2009 (took a day)
Interviewed on campus, two one-on-one interviews. Both interviewers were very nice. A couple of behavioral questions (generic - e.g. tell me about yourself), then a case problem, then asked if I had any questions about Bain. Cases were different from what some other interviewees got that day. Both cases started with some open-ended questions, and then had a math portion where we had to calculate something such as revenue change or break-even point. First one asked about ways a University can cut costs and increase revenue, then asked you to calculate how many new students they could add to increase revenues $xx. Second one asked if a car auction company should hold an antique auction - you had to find the number of cars they needed to sell in order to break even.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Consultant at Bain & Company
Posted Oct 7, 2009
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2009 (took 2 days)
Two half hour case interviews. 1st - acquiring a firm (including market sizing) 2nd - turnaround. Seemed to be a "good cop, bad cop" situation with two interviewers. 1st - very helpful and genuinely wanted you to succeed. 2nd - checked blackberry the whole time and when you made an error in an assumption offered no help and seemed to enjoy seeing you struggle to figure out where you messed up. One interview was a mess while the other went fairly well. I don't think I ever had a chance with the "bad cop" as they started it off by just throwing the info at you and then watching.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Consultant at Bain & Company
Posted Mar 14, 2009 — 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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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2007 in Toronto, ON (Canada) (took 1 week)
Very professional, quick follow through, interim feedback between interview rounds. Clearly mapped out process.
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Accepted an offer in another consulting firm
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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