What are most popular industry/sectors that come up in case interviews?
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Anonymous B
on Feb 16, 2019
As I was told, the most common industries are in the following priority(sorted by probability of getting a case): 1-retail and CPG; 2-airlines; 3-Telecom; 4-banking; 5-natural resources; 6-tech
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Vlad
on Feb 17, 2019
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Hi,
The most common are those that you can observe yourself in real life:
- Retail
- CPG
- Horeca
- Airlines
- Banking
However, you can have the case in any industry including non-profits
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