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Hi there,

1- Hard no. Moreover, you don't need Victor Cheng either.

To clarify, read/use the materials that help you. Are you understanding? Is it hitting home? Or do your eyes glaze over and your head hurt? If Case in Point is working, finish it. If it's not, then move on.

Some people love Case In Point, some don't. Some love Victor Cheng, some don't. Decide for yourself!

Personally, I read about 3 pages of Case in Point, never touched Victor Cheng, and prepped on my own (this included creating/running "study teams" to research and deep-dive into Industries ourselves, create our own frameworks, etc.). Without any books I intereviewed at 8 companies and never failed a round.

To summarize: Do what works for you

2 - Take every case with a grain of salt. Much more important than the specific framework or solution is how you think. If you think the recommendation is ridiculous, ok. If you have a good reason/logic for why (which you do), even better :)

HI,

Quick tips on interviews preparation:

• Step 1 | Work on frameworks in books (e.g. case in point); amass content and build your tool box. Attention, the day of the interview in most cases you should not make a mapping between the frameworks you studied and the case stated by the interviewer. You often have to build a customized framework.

• Step 2 | Train with peers. In a case study we test the structure of course, but also the business sense and the ability to use the indices or the data communicated by the interviewer. It is not a 1-way talk but a real discussion between two people. Here is the real limit of training using books.

• Step 3 | Test yourself with people who have really been interviewer in consulting firms to benefit from cases that have been tested for real and feedback through the evaluation grids of consulting firms. Of course, I would be delighted to discuss it with you when will be in this phase of your preparation.

• Step 4 | Multiply the applications and therefore the real interviews. Nothing prepares better than a case study in a real situation. Morever, the more applications you submit, the more you maximize your chances of having one or more offers. I recommend on the other hand, to start with the firms that you target less and to keep top priorities for later.

I finish by reminding that it's compulsory not to neglect the fit which is often less prepared than the case study. So please do not forget that this part of the interview counts as much as the case study, so it is very important not to improvise.

Hi Anonymous,

ad 1) Doesn't matter at all. It's just theoretical prep which is necessary and beneficial to do - but the exact sequence and mixing them doesn't make any difference.

ad 2) If it's a non-interactive case (so without any real-life interview partner) chances are small that you will go exactly into the same direction and come to the same conclusion. When doing this kind of theoretical case interview prep, just don't expect that and rather try to look at it more from a procedural view on how to approach different cases. Still good to cover some theoretical cases like that again to absorb some basics, but it's not comparable to any learning experience with a professional interviewer/coach.

Hope that helps - if so, please be so kind to give it a thumbs-up with the green upvote button below!

Robert

Hello!

I laughed reading your post, since I tought the same thing many times!

However, here you need to look at it with a different angle. This a theorical exercise, hence, many times focused more on the process, logic steps, math associated, etc.

Agree with you that is nuts to believe you will be able to penetrate the market in that short period of time and achieve that level of market share, but if the problem steps guide you there... think that this is only theorical.

In any case, I would comment this totally in the conclusions had this been a real case interview.

Best,

Clara

Dear A,

1. No need to make all the cases. The real preparation is face to face. So I would recommend you to finish with all the books and courses as sooner as possible

2. Agree with Robert here

Best,
André