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^ agreed, and tbh I never felt a huge difference in interviewing styles either. Focus on connecting the dots to push to the next topic. After a few practice cases I found a common cadence of topics which made things easier. Good luck!
A simple P&L case (ie. one of my R1 Bain cases) might have the following structure:
1. Understand company landscape - make an issue tree of costs and revenue sources
2. Math section - dealing with costs/revenues or market segmentation
3. Idea generation - creative take on increasing profit
The cadence comes from synthesizing each step — if the goal of the case is to increase NewCo’s profits and the interviewer asks you to calculate total costs, after calculating it might be reasonable to say “The next thing I’d like to look at is how to reduce costs. Do we have any info on that?”
If you have a few distinct paths for next steps, generally the interviewer-led questions and exhibits make it clear what the next step should be. Hope this helps
Always found interviewer led easier tbh gotta practice timing and driving the so what to the next piece of the analysis. Also BCG is doing an online case similar to PST now and the written in final round
2nd round would be 2-3 full cases and behavioral questions. It’s similar to a 1st round but would likely be with more senior level people like MD’s or Partners.
Just remember that every question is an opportunity to show how much of a structuring machine you are.
If they ask you some ideas to do XX ask for 20 seconds and they I can think of category a,b,c and in each I got following ideas ...
No one is in your head so explain your approach, and tell what you are going to do before doing it.
At the end of the day, this plus how likeable you are, are the true criteria
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In truth all interviews are interviewer led - regardless of firm, the interviewer is there to guide you. With BCG, just expect more facilitated brainstorming and an expectation that you continually push next steps and drive to an answer (though you should do this regardless of firm).
And no you would not get dinged for minimal guidance - clearly that is a good thing right. You would get dinged for random leaps or logic or ridiculous assumptions that show you lack business judgement (happens a lot)
@OP, how did you prepare for interviewer led? I’ve only ever done interviewee led TBH. Wondering if there is any activities or approach you found useful.