Bain & Company Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details 2 Round interview. First round consists of three 45 minutes interviews with consultants. First 10-15 minutes is your typical behavioural type questions, i.e. why Bain, why consulting, why you? The rest of the time is spent on the case.

Interview Details Applied by sending an e-mail with a cover letter and CV to a friend. Offered an interview same day. First round with a partner which I thought went a bit rough and then with a manager which was pretty OK. I wasn't correct. Partner liked me, manager was not a fan. The cases were very similar to those found in most of the case books. While the first round is just cases fit needs to be woven in as this is were I stumbled. Found out next day, with feedback.

Interview Details Application online followed by a first round interview at their offices. Quantitative and case study questions. Results came out about 3 weeks later. Very impersonal and interview feedback takes at least a month to receive with members of the HR team hard to get hold of.

Interview Details The whole process was very encouraging and even fun. You arrive and you get escorted to a room with other interviewees and very friendly HR staff who give you a package containing the background of your interviewers and your first interviewer collects you from here. The round consisted of a competency and estimation interview with an Bain AC first and then a case study interview with a more senior Bainee with no waiting around in between. Both lasted 45 minutes.

The first interview was more of a conversation - initially prompting me to talk him through my life (career) and then about activities that the AC had highlighted or found interesting. Questions were - what was your best achievement at X company, and he asked the logistical questions about a society I established and ran - how big was it, was it in a team, were the team members just friends (no), how many events did you have and is it still running. I got the feeling - that answers needed to be results driven. The estimation was on what a music festival goer spends (from start to finish), but was more conceptual than driving the estimation to the end and there were some case study type questions intergrated into the estimation - like how would you increase the revenue.

The second interview was straight into the case - where I had to think of the costs involved for a particular manufacturing company A who was company B's supplier. Company B considered ordering a less processed product from Company A and would therefore do the rest of the processing in house leaving Company A with less revenue per order. I had to advise Company A on what to say to Company B to convince them to just order the finished product.

Interview Details First-round interview four weeks after applying online. First interview with an Associate Consultant and Senior Associate Consultant. CV discussion - the questions included why consulting, why Bain, how would I get data from a client or a client's client. Then a market sizing case. Interviewers friendly and asking questions to help you showcase your experience and capabilities. Second interview with a consultant - case study. Essentially candidate led, with interviewer having some questions that he wanted to address. No slides for that particular case. Also the second interviewer was friendly, and created quite a relaxed atmosphere. Overall positive experience.

Interview Details First part of the interview was behavioural and estimation. The interviewer asked the typical resume questions and in the end asked why I wanted to pursue consulting. Then he asked me to estimate the size of the diaper market in the UK.

The case interview was conducted using a printed copy of the case (about a cookie company) and was fairly standard. The interviewer asked qualitative and quantitative questions throughout the interview based on the information provided.

Interview Details I applied on the website of the firm after which I got a call for first round interview. I had two case interviews for the first round - one business case and one estimation case. The interviewers were friendly and will make you feel comfortable. Try to strike an interesting conversation with the interviewers as there is specific weight of being client friendly. The second round interview consisted of three business cases, one where you had to present your findings to the manager.

Interview Details I applied online to Bain and was invited to their 1st round interview. I really enjoyed the interview process for Bain. The HR people actually put an effort to make applicants feel at home (taking pictures of candidates, providing refreshments, sitting with candidates in between interviews to take the stress out of the situation). The 1st round interview consisted of two interview: one was a fit interview with a small case at the end; the second was a larger case interview. It is important to be highly structured when approaching these.

Interview Details After a referral, I was invited for 2-stage interview in the first round. 1st stage was a simple market sizing as well as discussing CV. 2nd stage was a case study that was simplistic enough but still required thought and structure.

For the final round, there are 3 stages. First stage was a case study but a lot tougher (should have been more structured) as well as the second stage. I had the exception of having a market sizing in my second stage. Final stage is a written-case study where you are given a lot of materials (slides, graphs, clippings) with 35 minutes to review and fill in a set of blank slides that are provided. You are then to talk it through a consultant who will listen to what you have to say.

I failed to be "more" structured and not creative enough and as a result, not offered a position. Amazing experience and it was my first - which was a shame because I know with more practise, it gets easier.