I have interviews coming up with both BCG and McKinsey.
I have been mainly preparing for McKinsey cases but I have done today a case with a friend of mine who works at BCG. I got hammered.
I didnt have time to build a detailed framework. He said there's no time and no need. I need to solve the case in 25 min.
It was a market entry case and there are so many factors that were ignored ! it turned out to be a pure profitabilty calculation.
I am used to McKinsey cases. I have been working really hard on developing my ability to come up with a framwork with 2 layers of insights. I am finding out that at BCG, you just have to write down the first layer, and speed through the case to find the lead that takes you to the conclusion.
Do you guys confirm that ? All the work that I have done on frameworks is not useful for BCG ? I just say I want to look at these 4 buckets, explain a little bit the logic why, and then I just go ?
Thanks