MBB interview tomorrow. What are your tips for building rapport through video interviews? Got dinged at another MBB a month ago and felt that the reason is that it is hard to truly connect with the interviewers (both were browsing email / doing work at some point)

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Content matters way more than rapport. Nail the case. Have substantive answers to behavioral questions. Be interested and have fun.

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If it’s a first round interview, you didn’t move on because you didn’t do well enough on the case, not because you didn’t build rapport. Do well on the case and don’t do anything aggressively weird from an interpersonal standpoint and you’ll be fine.

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I made it to the next round 🎉

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Be funny and interesting. They do dozens of these calls and you’ll need to stand out to get their attention.

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Don’t be boring

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