So my feeling is that actual BCG cases in the R1 interviews are going to be easy. It’ll be more about soft skills. Then why are people trying to prep with really difficult random cases? I’d argue that one doesn’t necessarily built the soft aspects doing really hard, long, unrealistic cases. Thoughts?

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I just did my R1 with BCG today. Seriously one of the hardest cases I’ve ever seen.

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My first round BCG was also the hardest case I’ve ever had was just some absurd problem

Yeah, no

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This doesn’t seem like BCG-level analysis

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Not sure about that — interviewed with the other M and B as well as T2 and felt that BCG R1 was the hardest by far of all the R1s

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What were the hard aspects?

What are your data points? How did you come to that conclusion? In my opinion there wasn’t too much difference between the R1 and R2 cases at BCG. Neither were they all that different (based on difficulty level) from the cases I got at McK or Bain.

Okay let me rephrase all, when I say ‘easy’ I mean it’s not going to be crazy long. They want to fit it in 25 minutes. It’s also maybe not going to have crazy calculations like NPV, Perpetuity. A lot of cases also seem to be based around taking the market entry framework into a more bespoke / tailored direction. Some of the cases that people who are prepping have given me are unrealistic length wise (4 different exhibits, parts instead of the 1-2 parts that seem the norm for interviews) or ask to calculate very specific things. Would you guys still disagree?

When you say shortcuts, do you mean math related shortcuts? Also, what’s an example of prioritisation?

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