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ACI at Bain & Company
No Offer – Interviewed in Toronto, ON – Reviewed Jan 19, 2013
Interview Details Regular case, no behavioural; set-up with an interview buddy to chat briefly beforehand; 2 back to back; one case was about industrials, the other about insurance
Interview Question – business case Answer Question
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Associate Consultant at Bain & Company
Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Toronto, ON Oct 2012 – Reviewed Nov 22, 2012
Interview Details Two rounds of interviews - first round on campus, second round at office. Extremely friendly interviewers. My first round-interviewer gave me tips for second round! Lots of math, lots of graphs, one brainsteaser during second round. Overall very positive experience.
Interview Question – A foreign investor wants to take down a highway and build real estate over it. Is she crazy? Answer Question
Negotiation Details – No negotiations for associate consultant position
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Associate Consultant at Bain & Company
No Offer – Interviewed in Toronto, ON Oct 2012 – Reviewed Oct 23, 2012
Interview Details
First Round of Interviews for a full time position. Consists of 2 30 minute business case interviews.
There are no behavioral interview questions on the first round, they are just testing if you can do the business case or not. This might throw the candidates off a bit, because it seems like they don't care about who you actually are.
They are very focused on the 80/20 rule. You need to seek out the 2-3 analysis' with the biggest impact and go through those VERY quickly and impressively to get to the Second round.
The interviewers were very rude and they did not seem like they care or respect the candidates.
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First case: A credit card company that is planning on launching a new airmiles reward card.
Second case: A gold mining company looking in to expanding into copper mining
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Associate Consultant at Bain & Company
No Offer – Interviewed in Toronto, ON May 2010 – Reviewed Oct 10, 2010
Interview Details They called ahead to run mock cases. Very pleasant to deal with. The interview itself consisted of two case studies only. No personal questions. Very numerical.
Interview Question – The case questions. There were no questions based on my background. Answer Question
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Consultant at Bain & Company
Declined Offer – Interviewed in Toronto, ON Jan 2007 – Reviewed Mar 14, 2009
Interview Details Very professional, quick follow through, interim feedback between interview rounds. Clearly mapped out process.
Interview Questions
- Case questions regarding logging company in Northern Canada - required estimates of capacity, quick calculations, etc. Typical case interview, but on the harder side. Answer Question
- Case interview based on the bookstore productivity and making a choice on eliminating or keeping bookstores in the mall post-merger. Answer Question
Reason for Declining – Accepted an offer in another consulting firm
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Associate Consultant at Bain & Company
No Offer – Reviewed May 10, 2013 New
Interview Details
2 Rounds
1st Round, involved 2 cases, one hour each, with two separate individuals at the firm.
2nd Round involved another case and small talk with one of the partners at the firm.
Interview Question – Cases were a mix between problem solving, analytical and estimation. Answer Question
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Associate Consultant at Bain & Company
No Offer – Reviewed Apr 30, 2013
Interview Details Two rounds of interviews. First round on campus, with two case interviews. Second round was at the Bain office, with another two case interviews (this time with more senior people). Everyone was very friendly and helpful throughout, and the company was very generous with accommodations for the second round. Company was also very good about having alumni reach out to you for practice before each round of interviews.
Interview Question – In second round, interviewer asked a very nontraditional case. I was not sure where I was going with it, and despite my attempts to save face, it was obvious to the interviewer. Answer Question
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Associate Consultant at Bain & Company
Accepted Offer – Interviewed on New York, NY (US) Oct 2012 – Reviewed Apr 30, 2013
Interview Details The entire process consisted of four interviews (two sets of two back-to-back interviews). The first two took place on my college campus, and for the second two I was flown out to my preferred office. I got the interviews through networking emails and phone calls. All of my interviewers were very relaxed, though it was clear that they expected me to produce when it came to the case. Very brief small talk at the beginning - "What's your story?" kind of questions, and then they would jump into the case.
Interview Question – Had a somewhat difficult case involving rates of work. Also had to know the population of China for a market sizing question. Answer Question
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Associate Consultant at Bain & Company
No Offer – Reviewed Apr 29, 2013
Interview Details 2 Rounds of 4 Interviews all case interviews
Interview Question – A lot of Number Crunching Answer Question
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Associate Consultant at Bain & Company
No Offer – Interviewed in Sydney (Australia) – Reviewed Apr 28, 2013
Interview Details First round interview consisted of two back-to-back case studies with opportunities for questions afterwards. You are allowed writing paper but be sure to keep your notes reasonably tidy as they do retain them to remember which candidate was who - and you certainly don't want to end up with a nasty scribble that I had jotted down on my first case study.
Interview Question – First case was a combined market-sizing and profitability estimate on a Sydney-Melbourne high speed train service. Second case was steel mill operating at a loss, with figures provided that led to the conclusion that it would be preferable to keep the mill open as the costs of temporarily shutting down would be higher. Answer Question
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