Bain hypothesis planning case interview

Question

Has anyone gone through Bain's hypothesis planning case interview. Are there any available resources out there for this?

Answer 1

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!

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

Hi!

I'm not sure I got your point. Could you give us more context?

Best,

Anto

Answer 5

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