How do you prepare for consulting interviews? Any particular books or blogs? Brush up on any particular methodologies/cases?

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Just be you is awful advice, especially if you suck. Like me. I tried being me in my first interview and got crushed. It lasted 30 mins. After putting over 100 hrs of prep, i recently passed whats considered one of the hardest interviews in the US (not consulting) to get through that lasted 4 hours and i was maybe barely sweating and mostly smiling. OP, theres a ton of resource out there. Start with linkedin and reddit. Then ask your peers you work with.

Interview is a skillset 100%. My last company i didnt even have any of the qualifications they required and literally faked my way in through sheer social manipulation during the interview process and managed to pick up everything OTJ.

Case in point

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