As an MBB consultant, how long did it take you to prepare for the the technical / modeling aspect of the interview from close to knowing nothing about LBOs? (e.g, in terms of hours per day)

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Probably 20 hours of doing the multipleexpansion free ones over and over spread over two weekends, plus a practice the night before the modeling test, to get passable for UMM PE.

Some might be quicker on the finance technicals , I could already fly in excel, so might vary a bit depending on your background

Harder for me is actually the on-the-fly phone interview technicals - e.g. what happens to cash flow when we do X. Whereas LBO is memorize rinse and repeat

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Probably also close to 30-40 hours. I over indexed on misc technicals because similar to C1 I had a feeling that would be where I struggled more than the LBO given comfort in excel. I spread my prep out over a longer period ~2 months. Basically study an hour or two back at the hotel each night started with banking/finance technicals, then paper lbo, then excel lbo. Did a little behavioral each time I studied.

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