Category: Case Interview

Bain Case Interview: How to Shine

The Bain case interview has its own nuances and slight differences in focus. Not understanding these differences from McKinsey or BCG case interviews could mean the difference between landing an offer at a top firm, or not. Bain, like all management consulting firms, use a case interview format in their consulting interviews because case interviews mimic…

MECE Framework: Case Interview Example

The Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive (MECE) framework is an important problem structuring principle that consultants use to organize data efficiently and comprehensively. In this article, we will cover how to utilize MECE in a case interview setting. To watch a video of MECE being used in a case interview example, watch this case structure walkthrough…

Case Interview Prep in Spanish!

Buenos días, MC readers! We're excited about all 2018 holds for us; namely, more and more of you acing case interview prep and landing top consulting offers! 2017 was our best year yet, with almost 60% of our Black Belts landing Top 10 offers (compared to 3% industry-wide). We're insanely proud of the work you…

Bain Case Interview Tips

We're back this week with our one top tip for Bain case interviews. Watch as Jenny Rae highlights the differences between the Bain, BCG, and McKinsey approaches to a case, and what Bain specifically values in its candidates as they work through a case.   Interested in working with our 6 handpicked MBB coaches on…

McKinsey Case Interview Tips

Whether you've been casing for months, or just started yesterday, it always helps to get some expert guidance along the way. That's why today, we're bringing you the most high-level McKinsey Case Interview Tips we can. What's the one thing you should keep at the forefront when in a McKinsey case interview? Lisa Bright, a…

Top 3 Tips for Case Interviews

Welcome back to Part 2 of our new video series! If you missed Part 1, where we do a video walkthrough of a case structure, you can check that out here. Today, Jenny Rae (ex-Bain) and Lisa (ex-McKinsey) share their Top 3 Tips for Case Interviews. There is a countless amount of information (and misinformation)…

Case Interview Structure

It's crunch time. That's right...case interview season is here! For many of you, learning how to structure your approach to a case is the most challenging part of the entire case interview process. You've been practicing so much that your structurer is sore. Sometimes, it helps to stop practicing for a minute, sit back, get…

Introducing our Free Case of the Month!

Do you know what's better than practicing cases? (If you're like us, then your answer is probably "nothing"). But actually, the better thing is feeling yourself getting better at destroying them, and practicing with real-world business cases you're able to get for FREE. That's where we come in. Not only do our world-class coaches and…

Breaking Down Case Interview Frameworks – M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions)

Welcome back to the last in our series on breaking down case interview frameworks. You've almost made it to the end of our series! By the end of this article, you'll be well on your way to applying the mergers & acquisitions framework and becoming an M&A case framework master. Missed out on Parts 1-3?…

Market Study: Case Interview Frameworks

To continue our series on case interview frameworks, we bring you our personal favorite – and the most versatile – the Market Study case interview framework. This is the third article in our series on Frameworks! In the first article of the series, we gave you a brief introduction to frameworks before exploring Market Sizing…