Did my decision round with BCG and came out feeling meh. The interviewers pushed me a lot (made me brainstorm on where to start until I found the right place) and didn’t really work with me through the case (just let me go on even if my I was a 0 off in my calculations).

Is this normal? The experience was vastly different from my R1.

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Yeah it’s normal. You’re interviewing with more senior folks (usually partners or senior principals) and they don’t follow a template case like the more junior folks running round 1 do

Think of the bar like this: in round 1, it’s to make sure you’re competent, friendly, and pass the sniff test. For round 2, it’s much more subjective about how your critical thinking and overall ability to communicate and hold a discussion is perceived.

So takeaway is, don’t feel bad if it felt more challenging or awkward or you didn’t cleanly crack the case. It doesn’t necessarily mean you did poorly

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Yeah, it was definitely more challenging than R1 for me, too.

Ah im sorry u had that experience, which office was this for?

What round is the decision round? Are there only two rounds?

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