Any interviewing tips to share for MBB candidates? What is the most effective way to prepare?

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Practice enough so that you're "fluent" in cases and the mechanics/ebb and flow are second nature to you, but not enough that you are over rehearsed and prescriptive. Being rehearsed and using canned frameworks is worse than giving a simply bad but original and organic answer tbh

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Even though I bear no ill will against you, I think it's systematically unfair to give solicited interview advice because it disadvantages those without network connections. I support meritocracies and level playing fields. Not a popular opinion, but it's how I think about things.

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thanks BCG 2 and 3, appreciate your feedback.

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thanks BCG1, this is helpful.

Live case prep. Give and receive. Accept no substitute.

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