Has anyone gone through Bain's hypothesis planning case interview. Are there any available resources out there for this?
Hi there,
I think you just mean Bain's case interview?
Anything out there titled “case interview” is a resource for this!
Give yourself at least 1-2 months to get ramped up before your interview given you're clearly starting at 0!
Not sure what you mean by “Bain hypothesis planning case interview”.
Bain uses case interview. And uses “answer first” as problem solving method (which can be seen as similar to “hypothesis based approach”.
So… not sure what you are refering to.
Hello,
Not sure what you mean by the “hypothesis planning case interview” - is this just their standard case interview? If so, Bain's cases are fairly standard and there are lots of great resources to get up to speed on them on PrepLounge - I would recommend checking out some of their Bootcamps to get started.
Hi!
I'm not sure I got your point. Could you give us more context?
Best,
Anto
Hi! I just got an offer for Summer Associate Bain - SEA office and I did get this hypothesis planning case interview (which judging from the comments here, everyone is pretty much clueless as perhaps this is a new format from Bain - probably enacted starting 2021 across SEA region).
So basically you are given 30min to plan out either in scratch paper (then you take a photo and send it to your interviewer) or you can make some 1-2 ppt slides outlaying your hypothesis to solve a specific project workstream - then you are given around 30 min to present your cases
During those 30 min presentation, you are being challenged on how you would test your hypothesis. A bit of example (not real interview):
Project workstream:
How do you increase productivity of sales people for our banking client?
Say one hypothesis you mentioned that it is due to “low salary or wrong incentive structure”, then you should explain that you can do the validation analysis by looking at salary industry benchmark, glassdoor report, etc as comparison
then there will be follow-up questions on how would you implement this? probably prepare an answer of how you would discuss this matter with the HR and Finance team, and do this A B C steps.
I hope that helps,
Sincerely,
ST
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Congratulations! One of my coachee also got the same thing, and had exactly the same format. She got an offer from Bain London office.
Hi Stanislaus Thank you for your explanation. What is the best way to practice this kind of interview? Thank you
Hi! Do continue your usual case practice, but with a twist: 1) get a friend who had a real work - ask him/her to layout one of his/her workstream as a case. 2) Give your time to build the framework (instead of 2 min, now do it for 30min) . Be 2 levels deeper from the usual framework 3) Use paper and start drawing issue trees, questions to ask to get answers on your hypothesis, and what data you might look at. In my case, the AP who interviewed me drill down these two questions: "What data you need to disprove your hypothesis - what specific metrics" "How will you obtain the data" Good luck! P.S. sorry for the weird format, I think it is due to the how this website works
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