Dear Community,
I would like to ask for your advise on the following situation I am puzzled with:
Having been invited to an MBB interview, I was targeting late May, but just found out I either do the first round in two weeks, or the next opportunity will be only in September. I feel like I am not prepared enough yet and will probably not change the world in two weeks, but September is quite a long way down the road. Which option would you choose?
To provide some context (also being aware that the numbers often do not mean too much):
- I have been preparing to case interviews a couple of years earlier, where I have done 90+ live cases, got into a boutique consulting firm and have been working there since then
- I re-started prepping for case interviews about 2-3 weeks ago, did some recap and about 7 live practice cases - expecting to have time to about 10 more in the remaining two weeks (and doing structuring and chart interpretation drills on the side)
- This is my only chance in my geography for an MBB offer, which would be the best offer I can land in my geography
- Have some other case interviews with Tier-2 and boutique firms scheduled shortly before and after this MBB as sort of ’live practice’.
I was initially leaning towards September, but at the end of the day based on regret minimization, in the bad scenario the two competing regrets could be the “I did not prepare enough, why did I not wait until September?” vs “I would be over this rejection if I did it back in April…”. So now I am more leaning towards the earlier date, but it also might be a silly choice, and would like to have an outside opinion.
Thank you in advance for your inputs!
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