Alle Fragen zum Tag MBB preparation using VC's resources and Case in point - Consulting Q&A - PrepLounge.com

Great to see you guys leveraging this platform (apart from your b-school consulting clubs) to find partners and crack cases. While you get into the intense prep, do take care of the following:

- Get your basics/knowledge base right. Core subjects in grad school/MBA need to be thoroughly understood

- Do not neglect FIT part, work on it and practice it during your networking conversations with consultants/ case cracking practice sessions

- Practice case cracking - At least 50 before you interview with any company

- Ensure case diversity while practicing. Let the issues come from different sectors, fucntions, geographies. Few strat, few ops, few finance, few marketing; similarly few interviewer led, few interiewee led etc.

- Periodically ( thumb rule : after every 8th case ) practice will a consultant or ex-consultant. Cases cracked with batchmates do not give you a true indication of your improvement curve

- Most importantly; see if you are enjoying these practice sessions. If you are not, probably you might not enjoy the consulting role.

All the best!

Agree with Guennael.

So every office will have their own culture. (WARNING: Stereotypes ahead!)

• Berlin - lots of hipster beards
• Munich - posh, skiing and Oktoberfest are the two most important seasons of the year
• Hamburg - posh, but less in your face about it than Munich.
• Köln - probably the mellowest, go crazy around Carnival. People are quite open and approachable. A lot easier to make friends there than in Hamburg or Munich.
• Düsseldorf - quite similar to Köln, just a bit posher. Carnival is true there as well
• Frankfurt: Why would you go to Frankfurt? ;-)

As you will have guessed by now, there are pointed over-generalisations. However, each office does have their own flavour, which comes from the city it is based in (and obviously the people self-selecting to that office/city). Every office is proud of its city and probably considers it the best / coolest / nicest city in Germany. But it's usually just friendly banter. Except for Cologne and Düsseldorf, they're mortal enemies ;-)