Associate Consultant Trainee applicants have rated the interview process at Bain & Company with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 70% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Common stages of the interview process at Bain & Company as a Associate Consultant Trainee according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 50%
One on one interview: 50%
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Fit interview and Mini case interview.
Mainly case interview, which took about 20 minutes.
Fit interview was very short, about 5 minutes.
Be sure to make clarification questions in case interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q. Why consulting?
Q. Are you good at English?
Q. Are you good at excel?
Q. Your client is having a profitability problem due to the increase in raw material. How would you solve this problem?
Q. Measure the market size of automobile industry
Team-based ACT interview; The call was quite short (20 minutes) with no case interview - asked deeply about my past experiences and how I would approach certain research tasks. I would recommend submitting resumes ASAP (as soon as the job posting is uploaded) for team-based ACT roles.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Bain & Company (Seoul)
Interview
Excellent interview process, highly responsive recruitment team. Responds very fast to inquiries and gets back quickly for interviews. Could not proceed with offer due to ineligibility for F4 visa. Great culture, great learning opportunities and interesting conversations.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Debated about a startup case on whether or not a PE firm should acquire the startup and what the startup can do to become more attractive to investors.
Few case questions and guestimation questions if needed. After that there will be rounds of phone interviews on research methods and your working style. The case questions were pretty straight forward and for research methods you should have your own style of research method.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Guess the revenue of a convenient store in Seoul, Korea.