Ranking MBB interview difficulty from highest to lowest:

BCG>BAIN>MCK

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Depends more on individual interviewer than the firm imo

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Mck does a good job with interviews. They're selective but not tricky. Straightforward and easy, as long as you're not going in unprepared

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One of my BCG final rounds jerked me around a fair bit…later found out he had a reputation for that, probably gets his feedback indexed to a lower bar 😅

Never interviewed at McK but my BCGs were definitely harder than Bain

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BCG was hardest by far

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As an experienced hire who got offers from both McK and BCG. McK cases we’re definitely harder for me.

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Could you elaborate? In practice I’ve found interviewer-led cases way simpler. They’re straight forward in that you’re answering one question at a time, not driving a mini-engagement.

My BCG interviewers were just plain old d**ks. Bain was nice and straightforward. McKinsey was just formulaic.

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BCG was by far the hardest case for me. Bain and Mck were comparable

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McK interviews tell you what they test, and then test you on it. Plain and simple.

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I think BB might be closer together compared to M.

Can you share why you felt the BCG interview was the hardest in your opinion? Is it cause it’s candidate led?

I have a final BCG interview soon and I’ve been practicing with peers and working on my casing skills but this will be my first actual case interview.

Thank you for sharing! I try pretty hard not to lean on specific frameworks- partially because my background isn’t business and I def couldn’t learn them all in time, but also because specific frameworks seem too confining.

Fingers crossed I can step up to the plate :)

Just did my first round McK interview. It was probably the easiest case I had seen in all of my studies. Cases from Bschool case books were much harder.

I'm sure that would work well

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Market trend of.... Insert market
Investment required to incr cap
Business/Imp strategy
Risks (of incr. cap and not incr. cap)

I dropped out of Bain after the first round since I had another offer but thought BCG was much easier than McK, though I was interviewing for Platinion, not a generalist role

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