Oliver Wyman - during the interview process, do you have to crush all of the interviews for an offer? Felt I did well in both behavioral interviews and 4/5 cases. The one I felt I did poorly on was very unstructured and made up in the spur the moment.

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I find that most candidates have some sense of whether they did a case without making big mistakes, but have very little sense of how they did relative to other candidates—and it’s the latter that usually matters, as few people just make blunders. The difference between getting a job offer and not for any extremely competitive position is not whether you did good, but whether you did better than most others who also managed to be amazing enough to get an interview. (For example, sometimes a case is unstructured and impossible to “solve” in such limited time, and everyone feels that they didn’t do well on it, but a few of those people still stand out as able to think creatively and quickly and deeply enough to find, if not a great answer, a more compelling and original way to approach it.)

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You don’t necessarily need to do well on all. I know I didn’t do well on one of mine, yet, here I am. It depends on how well you did on everything else, luck, business need, candidate supply, etc.

Echo OW1’s comments. It aso depends on why you did poorly on that one case, and whether there’s evidence from the other cases that the slip-up was a fluke. If you did brilliantly for all your other cases and we are short of people the interviewers may give you the benefit of doubt.

You won’t be considered. Give it up!

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