😰What common mistakes do many people make during a case interview?

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Forcing oneself to pretend that the interview is a two way street when it’s clearly a one-way ass-reaming.

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Not understanding what real preparation is and doing cases with people who dont understand what you'll be judged on during the real interview.

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Hi everyone, I have an interview for a product manager role at a health tech start-up. Any ideas what some interview questions might look like?

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Hi,
Attended interview in hexaware, selected and completed CAF form. HR mentioned that it's sent for approval. But it's been a week and didn't got offer letter.
In general, how long it will take for approval of offer letter and get it released?

So I've been waitlisted for a BCG R1 interview and was wondering if there was anything at all that I could do to improve my chances of getting off the waitlist?? Don't have any offers to leverage...but did get an R1 from McK

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Faced this weird behaviour from Optum recently. Gave interview for Data Scientist position. HR said feedback is positive. Asked for documents. It's been month now since I have shared the documents. I have no update on the offer. Today I called HR, she called me back saying the position is on hold due to recalibration in team, She has shared interview feedbacks to other teams and will get back to me in couple of days. I am clueless now. My last working day is approaching (In a month). Any Help??

I'm curious to know how many (and which) tech companies have resumed physical onsite interviews in their offices?

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I have my offer interview scheduled for next week at EPAM Anywhere . The duration is of 1 hour.
I wonder what happens in this interview that it takes an hour to do. Can anyone share their experience?

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Hi Everyone,
I am currently working in technical support in cloud at TCS for 1.4 years. The work is very rudimentary and almost no skill is required for it.
I want to switch to BA role and I have done few certifications, learnt Tableau, Excel and MySQL but I am still not getting interviews.
Any suggestions on what should I do?

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Hi, I did interview with amazon.

Round 1: HR round. cleared.

Round 2: Hiring manager round. Went well.

After 2 weeks they said Role no longer available. It was L5 supply chain role. This happened in April. Can I apply again in Amazon? I joined a company 3 months ago, does it look bad in CV to leave again in 3 months? I hv a 6 month gap in career in 2019 due to lay off (covid). total exp 9 yrs. SCM exp 6 yrs.

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Hi Fishes,

I have received an offer of 28 LPA for Lead I - Software Developer position at UST Global. I would be joining Bangalore location.

I am Appian Developer with 6 years of experience. Since I did not get to interact with any UST employees (other than HR) during the interview process, could anyone tell me more about the company and its culture?

PS: Would like to connect with Appian professionals working there, if possible.

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Currently interviewing for jobs and the recruiter is asking me if I’m available to interview on a day that I’m not. Is it bad to push back and ask for an alternative?

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Deloitte USI Hi All,
How does the 2nd round of interview goes in PwC? Is it very technical ? What are the chances of getting rejected in the 2nd stage? HR told me that would be the final round. Need your help asap.
YOE : 9
Tech stack : Data engineer, data warehousing
PwC PwC India Pwc AC EY Deloitte USI Deloitte India Deloitte KPMG India

Any tips for an upcoming interview for an international tax associate role at PwC (JD/LLM)? What kind of questions do they ask and what can I expect?

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Is it normal to be ghosted after interviews? I’ve had three recently and not one callback.

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Had given the first round of interview. This is my current status. What next?

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Do we have anyone here working at data science team at Sia Partners as a senior consultant or supervising consultant role? Currently I am interviewing with them and wanted to get sense of pay range for senior/supervising consultant role.

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Any insights into the Kroll or CFGI FDD/TAS Manager interview process? Any comp expectations for NYC/HCOL M1?

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anyone have any insight in Apple's work culture, workloads balance and benefits in genera? i'm in interviews with them right now + Twitter Apple

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Can anyone share any tips for a advisory senior consultant interview? Anything to especially prepare for

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Does anyone else have that one person who is more senior than you that is just always so condescending while adding no value themselves? I have a director who I work with (not in my direct mgmt line) that just treats everyone on my team so poorly, so I act as the shield and it’s so annoying how someone who is so disrespectful and honestly not super value-added only ask for data/questions and not provide any genuine input or recommendations.

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Hey folks!

Does Deloitte India (not Deloitte USI) ever cancel on the job offer they have given (like cancelling on the candidate at the last moment, well after releasing the offer letter)?

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How to check bench ageing in Virtusa?

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Denver culture (and suburb areas): interested to know how easy is it to make friends here. Both husband and I are late-30s, early 40s with a kid going into middle school. I’ve got a great friend group where we live now, but looking for simpler and cheaper way of life but dreading not being able to make friends.

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How bad is Frontier?

How do you determine how many accounts a person on your team can manage? I’m trying to figure out what’s realistic and how many people to staff to certain accounts.

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Hi guys, After CAF completion by last week, yesterday I received a call from the HR for the second round of evaluation. So, I attended it yesterday and performed well by answering 90-95% of the questions. Even the interviewer gave good comments on my performance. But suddenly today I received an email that my candidature isn't suitable for the role and they're keeping my profile in the database. Does this mean they'll call me if there are openings with some other project?

Hello Fishes,
I cleared the Level 2 interview as an Appian developer. Could you please let me know what Level 3 interview would be about? Thr HR said it's an interaction session with the panel. But should I be prepared technically?

I am the first HR professional at a small company. I am looking for an easy to use platform for performance management. I have used Bamboo and Paylocity in the past. Eventually we will want something that has a payroll component as well. What systems have you used and liked?

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What are the tldr differences between HR roles, people Operations, and people business partner positions? They all seem similar but I’m curious how y’all characterize them. I’m coming out of a very internal position at a nonprofit and I’m trying to better align my work accomplishments to make sense in more traditional career paths.

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I am struggling to spend the time to study for the PHR. I have everything I need, but I feel exhausted from the work week every weekend. I’m looking to take it in August.. help? What do I do?

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Hello fishes,
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Hi! I'm new to DevOps, I started my first DevOps position a few months ago. What are some conferences everyone should know about on this topic?

Can anyone share the mapping of levels to Proserve? I am a Senior Manager at Deloitte and recruiter just called me for a senior advisory consultant role but that feels like 2 levels back at least from a Deloitte perspective.

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Ranked in terms of excitement when I come on Thursdays:

3. Wife
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Layoffs at Walmart corporate 😬😬

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Anyone want to be case buddies for the next three weeks? Mostly free in evenings and weekends!

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How long do offers vs rejections take post interview ?

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Anyone interested in a practice session tomorrow?

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I have 2 to 3 weeks to prep for a case interview. Never did one before. What can/should I do prep over next 2 weeks considering I only have weekends to prep?

Looking for McKinsey PEI prep buddies - final round next week!

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McKinsey & Company What have you guys found to be the best prep for McKinsey case interviews? I have case in point, case interviews secrets, and the provided resources that we get from McKinsey but want to hear some of the things you found that helped you! McKinsey & Company

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Anyone want to case this weekend / next week after 6pm est?

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Has anyone recently done a single-round super day (4 cases in a day) at McK? Want to know if the interviews were back to back and whether they were all straightforward/typically structured.

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Best tips for studying/prepping for case interviews? I am overwhelmed.

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Anyone looking to case in the next few days?

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Outside of practicing with a partner, what are you guys doing for prep? I’ve looked at LOMS but wondering if it would be enough.

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Hey folks, anyone has experience doing case interviews for social impact? (Think Dalberg, Bridgespan, FSG). New to casing — anything I should look out for, any tips to prepare? Thank you!

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When doing profitability calculation or NPV, do interviewers usually ask candidates to come up with their own estimates/assumptions for costs, both one-time and recurring?

Please wish me luck on my final interview today. The salary would be life changing for me. 😬

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Can you use excel during the interviews to do calculations? Figured if it would be virtual it would be easier to do so.

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Has anyone here done a google case interview and can share their experience?

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Had anyone interviewed with Altman Solon ? What prep resources were most helpful?

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Alvarez & Marsal Hey guys prepping for AlixPartners interview in the PEI team. Any fish willing to case?
Also if anyone has good resources to practice for PE(carve-outs/divestitures/PMI) cases? Cheers!

Alvarez & Marsal

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Does anyone in LA want to practice cases?

Looking to do some case prep in the coming weeks - DM me if interested

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