Hypothetical: you have two hours to prep for an MBB interview. What’s the highest value use of your time?

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Look up your interviewers on Linkedin then take a nap. You don’t really want this job if you thought to prepare only 2hrs before.

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Looking through some key conceptual frameworks and case interview best practices (clarifying questions, synthesis, recommendations)

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Sleep extra 2 hours.

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Understand the flow of cases for each common type. For example, a profitability case almost always goes
1 market
2 revenue
3 cost

Market entry has its own flow too. You can learn this in 2 hours

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Read your resume and make sure you know what it says.

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Watch YouTube on random things for 30 minutes.

Panic and regret

Use the last 20 minutes to punish yourself


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Or use ChatGPT to prepare talking points

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Call them to reschedule by 4 weeks. Then make a plan for how you spend these four weeks

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Do Mental affirmations. Mbb interviews are literally all about confidence. Hard to discern quality of insight when it’s verbal, <30 mins, and I’ve already given 10 of these today.

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Curious what cues do you typically look for in terms of confidence

Don’t join MBB

Claude makes great interview guides

Fine tune your personal pitch. What did you accomplish in your career before ?

Reading that post made me stressed. You’re cooked bro

Training your mind to pretend that you can solve all the problems in this world

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What is this mail ? And the position was not mentioned in the form, and I have applied to 3 different roles.

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