Do all 3 MBB do market sizing questions during interviews? Thank you in advance.

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Interviewed two rounds at all three in 2018. If by market sizing you mean "300M people in the US, x % of that is y, z% of that is q etc." then I never had to do that. Others might have at some point, but I'm not sure if that's common anymore.

If by market sizing you mean you build a decision tree and ask for revenue and market share to build some calculations (or for McKinsey everything was just given to me and I didn't have to ask due to the interviewer lead structure) for the fictional company you're consulting for, I'd say that was part of half of the cases I did (the strategy cases). The other half were ops focused.

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Interviewed with McKinsey and bcg recently and no market sizing questions. Doesn’t mean they don’t exist but anecdotally I didn’t receive any

I think Bain is the only one in MBB that does that. McKinsey is explicitly not supposed to do market sizing Qs in interviews but I got a market sizing question from a sr partner there. I think that was an exception not the rule

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