Bain & Company Hello, has anyone recently had to do a Bain written case interview for their final round? I did not but a good friend just got told they will have to next week (North American office) and is looking for someone to DM with who may have gone through it recently or even a while ago. Bain & Company
Didn’t do one for Bain but did one for BCG. If I remember it counted as much as the regular case. I’d say picking the key parts were easy, more difficult was presenting to the partner after and answering her question. All this to say the additional skill to practice is to just be aware of ALL the data you have even if you don’t think it’s important to present.
Having done the Bain written case yes.
You are given ~1 hour to read the prompt, flip through ~60 slides, and make your case. To B1s point, you need to decide really quickly which slides help you and which are noise. So take 5-10 min and be ruthless—never revisit that pile—and get it down to the 15 or so slides that matter. Then use those slides to answer the prompt and make your case.
Before you present, they usually ask you to write an exec summary slide. This is where structure your thoughts into the question you were asked, the supporting arguments etc. and then you pick 2-5 supporting slides to bring into the presentation.
When I presented, I walked through my exec summary with the partner and then as they asked me questions I used the back up slides to reinforce my argument.
Hope that helps!
One question is on how much the written case matters relative to the other pieces . My friend has the written case, fit and then the usual live case with a partner. Also if there are any thoughts on how to best prep for it (especially given the very small amount of time left) and maybe where practice tests can be found would appreciate so can pass to my friend.
Super helpful, thank you. When you did yours did you have a printout of all the slides? Virtually I guess they just expect you to just process the slides virtually?
Wtf? Is this common?