Bain & Company Consultant Interview

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.