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 840 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 840 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 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bain & Company (London, England) in Apr 2020
Interview
Never seen such a good recruiting process all along but very intense practicing & preparing for the interviews
****DURING CORONA TIME all interviews were via video call
First round interview
1. 40 mins FIT / behavioral (Partner)
2. 30 mins Market Sizing (Associate)
3. 45 mins Case study (manager)
Second round interview
3 x 45 mins Partner interviews (case study)
I put all questions and laid out model answers in the question section - go read it there - ***especially the model answers***
GOOD LUCK to everyone who’s applying
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
Market sizing interview (one of 3 interviews)
Calculate the revenue of a women’s professional football game on a match day in England. (I attached the model answer for you guys, so do it exactly like that)
You get a project that you don’t know anything about, neither your manager. How do you approach it and how do you measure the success of this project (FIT/ behavioral interview)
Very long process. I heard that they relied heavily on seeing if we were able to use our feedback to improve throughout the rounds however because one of my interviews was running late I was not able to get any feedback to improve.
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.