Hi all,
I saw someone ask whether Mckinsey's cases (from their website) was representative of a McKinsey interview.
I'd like to ask the same about Bain and the cases on their website. They are very straightforward and seem sort of low-difficulty.
Hello!
Yes indeed, they are, and cases from websites are great -but a limited resource, unfortunately, since they are little-.
This said, it´s very different to have it written than making it as a life interaction with someone, and furthermore doing so in a high-stress situation as the interview is.
Have you seen the cases here in PrepL library? Particularly if you focus on the coach ones, that are recent, you will find representative cases made by people who are totally in touch with the interview world on a daily basis.
Hope it helps!
Cheers,
Clara
Hi there,
The short answer is yes.
That said, please please please don't think "If I can just do the limited set of cases on their website, I am ready for the interview".
Be ready for anything. The cases on any company's website are inherently going to be at the easier range of what you'll see. Make sure you're getting cased on advanced-level cases, across the key math formulas, industries, case types, etc.
Yes, I can confirm they are representative. If they seem easy to you, keep two thing in mind:
First: Interview cases are easy - not necessarily the process of interviewing, but the actual content is pretty straight forward. No interview case that I have ever seen would have made an interesting - don't speak about complex - article in a business newspaper. Reading about a case's content question does not give you a feeling of the difficulty of an actual interview.
Second: You're not graded against the case, but against other candidates. Everybody can solve the case. The art is to solve it efficient and focussed enough to give the interviewer the feeling you're among the 10-20% smartest and most talented people they have every interviewed with this case.
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