That moment when you study for ages for your BCG interview and bungle both cases.. 😔

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Does a small math mistake really kill your interview? Assuming everything else is pretty good i.e. your framework, structure etc and behavioral part too

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Big feels. I studied for ages for a final round LEK interview and bombed the simple math behind my case.

I took Calc 2 in high school, and love doing mental math- as far back as i can remember, I have never, ever made a math error. I'm not saying it to brag, I'm just saying math has always been strong.


In the interview I routinely bungled 5.25x3. I'm guessing I wasn't meant to have that job.

No it wasn’t, it was just bad luck! You’ll get it next time

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