Interview coming up at LEK. What to expect? Insight on firm culture? Exit opps in CPG/Retail?

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Would it surprise you to hear that the exit opps are at CPG companies or retailers?

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Case interviews are pretty standard, but much less rigorous on average than other firms. Culture is terrible as we a just a DD sweatshop. Nothing to get excited about on exit opportunities

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What level

M1 - No
D1 - Associate

I interviewed with them while in B school. First hour was spent in a conference room. They gave me a prompt and a preprinted deck with charts / graphs and some markers and pens to add appropriate headlines and marks on the graphics themselves. I was given an hour to do this and the next 45 min was spent presenting this to a partner. This was followed by 2-3 other interviews, some with verbal case questions but mostly behavioral based

PWC1 is spot on for post mba. I don’t think the written/verbal case is given to associates.

If you ace the cases and are friendly, you should do well.

Just to add - if I recall the level of quant questions is more complicated at LEL vs. elsewhere

We’re asked to make up our own case questions. One quant and one qual. I think the difficulty will depend on who you’re interviewing with.

Sorry, I meant LEK - was very drunk when I wrote that typo lol

Can’t you get into Corp dev from DD?

^ not really

Why not?

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