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Updated May 22, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Associate Consultant at Bain & Company
Posted Jun 24, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in Sydney (Australia) (took 3 days)
Case study interviews- both small (e.g. what is the revenue of a gym in Sydney) and large (data and handouts, lots of calcs for a holiday resort case with multiple questions on performance and scope for performance improvement).
Cases looked for a clearly structured, linear logic. Take a minute to collect your thoughts- when I spoke off the top of my head it was less well received than calmly sitting back and thinking.
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Associate Consultant at Bain & Company
Posted Jun 26, 2011
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3.0
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2009 in Boston, MA (took 4+ weeks)
There are two rounds of interviews. If you are offered a second round interview, your odds of getting an offer are quite good. Each round of interviews consists of two back-to-back 30-minute interviews with a senior employee. Each 30 minute segment consists of about 15 minutes of "fit" questions and about 15 minutes of a practice case. The interviewers, like the vast majority of people at the firm, are very pleasant and encouraging.
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There was no real negotiation on the associate consultant level. There is a standard package that you either accept or reject.
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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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Intern at Bain & Company
Posted Jun 16, 2011
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 in New York, NY (took 2 months)
-One good interview, one mediocre; you have to excel at both parts to land the internship, I'll bet. Nice people, and good overall experience. Would apply for a full-time position here.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Help Desk Technician at Bain & Company
Posted Jun 5, 2011 — 1 of 2 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 in New York, NY (took 5 days)
Two interviewers; supervisor and manager, one by one interivew. Interview was very straightforward and professional. Basic questions about customer service and problem-solving skills. My background experience is in web development and knew that I was over-qualified for the job, however they chose to continue their search without an exact reasoning. Some questions: why baine? what do you look for in a supervisor? give me a situation where you went above and beyond. explain the steps to troubleshoot a user with no internet connection. what is a team to you? what is your ideal working environment?
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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BEL Program at Bain & Company
Posted May 22, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 (took a day)
quick turna-around. app submitted, 3 days later, invited to interview in 2 days time. next day after the interview, called with an offer
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nothing
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Associate Consultant at Bain & Company
Posted May 16, 2011
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Interviewed Sep 2010 in San Francisco, CA (took 2 weeks)
I attended both the information session and the coffeehouse chats that Bain held on-campus prior to my interview with them. In my experience, you can tell a lot about the priorities of a company with regards to how they feel about their human capital through their interview process. That said, Bain has NO behavioral interview for its first round. It consists of two separate case interviews with two different interviewers (senior managers or partners). Practice your cases with friends, by yourself, with your significant other, and anyone else you can wrangle before you step into the interview room. You will NOT advance to the next round on the merits of your looks and charm alone. That said, they do genuinely want you to do well and to not be too nervous. They provide you with a mock interview workshop in their office a few nights before and assign you a resource (who, for me, was very pro-active about reaching out) who is currently an AC and usually a relatively new hire who can give you good advice and empathize.
Unfortunately for me, I was cut down by a bad case of the flu the night before my interview. Moral of the story: don't forget to take care of yourself during recruiting season. Get your rest, wash your hands often, and make sure you get your vitamins.
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BEL Program at Bain & Company
Posted May 1, 2011
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in Chicago, IL (took a day)
There were two 30 minute interviews. During the first, I was asked a business problem-solving question. The second was more of a character interview to see if I was a good fit for the company.
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Junior Analyst at Bain & Company
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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Interviewed Dec 2010 in Brussels (Belgium) (took 2 weeks)
After submitting my resume online, I was invited to the offices for the standard consulting interviews (case-driven). The process consists of 3 rounds, with 2 interviews per round.
The interviewers are consultants themselves, no HR-people. The further you get, the more senior they are.
The first interview and case went wel, but I got stuck in my second case. I must say that the second interviewer was way less helpful, and actually confused me more than he helped me.
So there is an important subjective part to the recruitment process...
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Intern at Bain & Company
Posted Apr 18, 2011
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in Zurich (Switzerland) (took 2+ weeks)
Basically, you apply online by sending the usual stuff (CV, motivation letter, grade transcript, etc..) Then I got a call rather quickly asking me for my availability to do an interview. I picked a date (usually they have recruiting days every Monday) and since I was not in Switzerland at the time, they arranged and paid for everything (flight and hotel). For an internship there is only one round with 3 interviews (1 in English, 2 in German). Two were consultants and one was a manager. You always have some questions about the CV, then the case and finally 5mn to ask question about the firm.
The atmosphere is very friendly and they gave me a detailed feedback (only upon request though).
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Consultant at Bain & Company
Posted Apr 16, 2011 — 1 of 2 people found this helpful
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2009 (took a day)
I had interviewed across all of the big consulting firms, including some boutique firms. As a grad student finishing a PhD, I was a bit of a fish out of water, but fared well . . . in other words, I made it to the final round interview at multiple locations and accepted a job offer at one - things have worked out extremely well in the years since. So I'm you're a PhD student reading this, don't be intimidated by the interview process.
This introduction is a bit self-serving, but the purpose is to state the case that I had a very positive interview experience overall, especially for a non-traditional interviewee; I had a very poor experience with Bain. This is the only firm where I did phone interviews. I was scheduled for 2 30-minute cases back to back. As I struggled through the first case - yes, it didn't go very well - the phone interviewer (rudely) interrupted me and told me to stop after ~10 - 15 minutes. He snarkily (is that a word?) recited the 'answer' and proceeded to hang up the phone, leaving me ~15 minutes to sit in silence and wait for the next call, which was the last thing I wanted at that point. If you're wondering, the interviewer hung up the phone without saying goodbye, or giving me a chance to recover my poor start to the case, or ask any questions about Bain. Didn't I still have 15 minutes to turn it around?
You're interviewing me, I'm interviewing you, I get it. If someone presents a poor interview, you don't want to waste your time, I get it. But after a couple of successful years in the industry, I know to conduct myself graciously and professionally, even during interviews, as I and everyone else I work with is an ambassador to my firm. You are Bain, and everyone wants to work for you, I get it. But the level of respect i received at BCG, McKinsey, and all of the other interviews that I gave was not even close to the lack of class and professionalism that were presented from Bain. Blessing in disguise; no job offer from Bain.
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