Prepping for upcoming Bain Consultant interviews as an experienced hire. Any tips and best practices for experienced hires prepping for case interviews?

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Unless you’re already on antidepressants anyway, I strongly suggest you reconsider recruiting for Bain

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Constant false urgency, persistent high tension among case leadership team, never saying no to clients, always being available to speak with clients, intentionally overscoping cases, smaller/leaner teams, partners being responsible for more cases which translates to less engagement on your case, unnecessary and non-value additive iterations on content, etc.

Much of this is just baseline what to expect at MBB (false urgency, always being on call for clients, etc.), but a lot of it is truly new and likely caused by AI proactively gains being pushed to clients instead of being captured by Bain (overscoping cases, partner engagement, etc.).

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Are you familiar with case interviews? Even if so, I would try to get a few live reps in

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