Hey everyone,
any tough questions out there?
Thanks in advance.
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Does anyone have some tough market sizing questions? (ideally real case questions)
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Hi A,
That's a good question!
From my experience, one of the most difficult questions candidates struggle with is to estimate the impact of traffic jams in New York.
Bear in mind that in interviews for MBB market sizing is just one of the part of a case interview (you have structure, graph analysis, brainstorming and recommendation as well).
On the other hand, if you prepare for consultancies at BIG4, solving solely market sizing cases will help you.
All the best,
Egor
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Have you checked out all the market sizing questions on preplounge?
there are some in the case library: https://www.preplounge.com/en/management-consulting-cases (topics->market sizing)
and Q&A: https://www.preplounge.com/en/consulting-forum/tag-Market+sizing
they helped me a lot
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There are some great ones here:
I've always liked "How many flights in a day" Or "How many planes in the air at a time"
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Hello,
Feel free to contact me, I can shar with you some good real examples:)
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Hi Egor, any chance you can provide the case in question (Traffic jams in NYC)
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