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Bain & Company I received an offer to join Bain & Company for SF office but due to family reasons, I will have to stay in the South Bay. Given Bain’s local staffing model, it will be challenging for me to commute to SF and back. Is it possible to be transferred to the palo alto office/is that office fully functioning or does it mainly serve as a hub for partners and research?
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It’s completely fair game to ask whether it’s evaluative. I do practice cases with candidates all the time that are 100% not evaluative. Touch base with your recruiter and see.
Coach
There’s a couple (potential) pieces: one is an actual coaching session where they run through a case with you. No assessment. The second piece is an evaluative case (generally by phone) with a McKinsey alum. Those are the two most common sessions. You should clarify with the recruiter if there’s still ambiguity.
Coach
Both the coaching session and the phone evaluative case are with McKinsey alum. If it’s been characterized as a coaching session, it’s likely non evaluative.
I had something similar last month. Just strait coaching. No evaluation. Both the coach and your recruiter should give you feedback from it.
Coach
Totally depends - I’ve done lots of these and I’ve never sent the feedback outside of the coaching conversation between myself and the candidate (e.g. to the recruiter). I think it being 100% between the two of us provides a safer space for them to take risks / mess up, which I also think makes the practice more helpful.