Associate Consultant applicants have rated the interview process at Bain & Company with 3.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 74% positive. To compare, the company-average is 71.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Associate Consultant roles take an average of 23 days to get hired, when considering 839 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Bain & Company overall takes an average of 26 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Bain & Company as a Associate Consultant according to 839 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 46%
Skills test: 13%
Presentation: 10%
Phone interview: 9%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Personality test: 5%
Background check: 5%
Other: 3%
Drug test: 2%
Group panel interview: 2%
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I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Bain & Company (Moscow, Moskva) in Dec 2019
Interview
I was not expecting that I'll be through the screening process. The invited me for a written case. The case itself was of much more difficult than the one the provide in their website. You don't need outstanding skills to handle it, and the one and only problem you have is time. 1.5 hours is not enough to make these 6 slides, as well as maths without calculators. I was very shocked and hardly was able to fill out all the slides. I saw the location of information that I need to analyze and write down, but the time was flying.
I didn't like the Moscow office. People were rude. Very high tension within the office. Of course, that maybe wrong, I had an hour of experience and the internal atmosphere maybe different.
It was fine. The partner round interviews were less structured and much more difficult. Majority of my interviewers were really nice which made the process better than what I had anticipated.
2 rounds of interviews, each round consisting of 3 interviews with cases. In the first round 2 case interviews and 1 with HR. In the 2nd round you have 3 interviews with more senior profiles like managers and partners.
Interviewers were really nice, but the process was difficult. Standard level cases and they expected you to take them through multiple business problems. If you practice casing frequently with multiple partners, you should be fine.
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Question 1
Please walk me through how you would approach this case.