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by macromackie
3379 days ago
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I've found the interview process for management consulting roles to be surprisingly similar to tech interviews. Most interviews are presented as cases[1] where students/applicants have to analyze and propose a strategy to handle example client situations in ~60m. I've found that the people who have the most success with the interviewing process are the ones who do the most mock and focus on optimizing their skill-set for the interviews, rather than for the actual positions (which is unfortunately similar to tech recruiting and algo/whiteboarding problems). There is also a ton of online case prep[2] and training materials specifically for the interview process, akin to CareerCup/CTCI/HackerRank/etc. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_interview
[2]http://www.consultingcase101.com/tag/free-sample-case/ |
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In MC, the delivery of the case is extremely important (how you structure the solution, how you speak, how you present yourself, etc.). Your point on people optimizing is spot on. Some students spend 10-20 hours a week practising before a McKinsey, Bain, BCG interview..
When I'm building cases and interviewing people, I try to structure it around a real life problem we have (e.g. a wood/fiber B2B company wanting to go B2C) which makes it less awkward than solving random algorithms.
However, I'm still not satisfied with the process, so wondering if people have ideas ?
I thought about giving a case to solve at home, but we're missing the part of how an applicant will react with a lot of pressure and in front of clients :/