Bain Capital Interview Questions

Application

I applied through an employee referral. The process took a week. I interviewed at Bain Capital (Boston, MA) in May 2011.

Interview

Case-based interview system. Two interviews in first round, 6 interviews in second round. Each interview is about 30 minutes. All of them are case interviews (e.g., We have a business that does X, Y, Z. How would you grow revenues?) Focus is on whether recommended action would produced suitable ROI - and therefore is it a good action / investment?

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Application

I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2+ months. I interviewed at Bain Capital (Boston, MA) in April 2011.

Interview

The interview was very straightforward. The 1st day was two 1-on-1 interviews: one was a relatively easy case interview and the other was data analysis (i.e. here's a list of bonds and their statistics, tell us what you infer from this and how would you go about structuring a portfolio from these and why?). I passed this and then had at least 5 more rounds, all single interviews, one-on-one with managing directors. They did this to accomodate my own work schedule which was very nice of them. Overall, I was very impressed with them. I liked that they were willing to overlook my slight lack of intimacy with credit markets and see my raw talent and interest in the field. All of the MD interviews were completely about fit, interest in what they do, behavioral questions, etc.

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Reasons for Declining

I did receive an offer but decided the role wasn't the best for me. I declined in favor of a top quant finance masters, feeling that the more quantitative route was a better fit for me.

Application

I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bain Capital.

Interview

Good overall interview experience. Interviewed with two managers within operations and discussed my past intern experiences. Basic behavioral questions, like strengths/weaknesses and discussing your resume. The office was very impressive.

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Application

I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Bain Capital (Boston, MA).

Interview

Interviewed in their office in the John Hancock Tower. Interviewed with 2 different people, the Direct Manager of the sector and the VP of that sector. Mostly asked about experiences and situational questions rather than technical questions. This was only the first interview so I assume that the technical finance questions would be asked in the second interview.

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Application

I applied through college or university. The process took a week. I interviewed at Bain Capital (Cambridge, MA) in September 2016.

Interview

Went through a case, then asked me why I was interested in the internship. I am a pre-med student so I just told the truth. Interviewer said case was solid and he could tell that I was passionate about the role, but my lack of background might hinder me in the process, which I guess it did.

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Application

I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bain Capital (Boston, MA) in May 2018.

Interview

Met with 4 different interviewers. Very straight forward questions, felt like they were trying to get to know me and see if I was a good fit. Nothing technical was asked

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Application

I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bain Capital (Boston, MA) in December 2010.

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Ask basic and advanced .NET development and Service questions on phone. 1on1 questions were technical with other developers, business with manager and client reps.

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Reasons for Declining

Found job closer to home.

Application

I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bain Capital (Boston, MA) in October 2012.

Interview

Very disappointed interview with them. Arrogant people, outdated technology, poor performance computer. I was approached by agent, and the phone screen run so well that they asked for onsite interview. I found out that it would take me one day off going Boston Backbay to take one hour computer based test, then go home and listen to the next step. I was a contractor and couldn't afford to lose one day pay with nothing. I insisted test and interview on the same day, but agent couldn't arrange this. I rejected the interview and gave up the opportunity. Then person from Bain Capital who interviewed me over the phone directly contacted me and convinced me that it was worthy to take a try. Then, he phoned me again and told me his managers agree to break the rule and let me take the test and then proceed to interview if the test result is positive.
 Half hour before I head to Bain Capital for interview, I received the sample code exam question from my agent. Apparently, they changed the game plan, instead of computer based questions, they would test by programming skill. It would be fair game anyway. When I headed to their office, I waited about 10 minutes and finally a person came and brought me several floors down. He gave me notebook computer that run a VM which is very slow (sticky mouse movement, and very slow response from key hit) that greatly reduced my productivity. At that time, Visual Studio 2012 had released, but the IDE on the VM was still Visual Studio 2008. The project was ASP.NET webform with ADO.NET data access, but my interests had shifted to ASP.NET MVC. There is no internet for helper, local help system missing the ADO.NET document. With all these curbs, I managed finished merely more than half of the work in 50 minutes. They did take credit of the slow computer, so I ended up with wasting my day for nothing.

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Application

I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Bain Capital (Boston, MA) in May 2010.

Interview

The interview process is fairly similar to most processes I've been on before. You meet many of the people you will be interacting with and further you interview with many higher ups that you will not necessarily be working with on a day to day basis. All the typical interview questions apply, it is mostly about fit, your resume/qualifications get you in the interview and the interview gets you the job.

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Application

I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Bain Capital (Boston, MA) in April 2017.

Interview

I sent my resume to my recruiter and from there he set up a phone screen and two in person interviews at the offices. The Bain offices were impressive, and the process went very smoothly.

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