Case Interview Practice Sessions

I'm on the west coast, so PST, you?

Jason - I hear Microsoft and Yahoo make some good conferencing software programs....maybe you could use those.
(Just kidding, I know you work for Google )

Middle East here, GMT+2.

Are you game for sometime early August?

early August sounds good to me, just let me know when~

Jallen - feel free to join us btw, did I mention I grew up in Tulsa?

Jason,

No I didn't realize you grew up in Tulsa. I have a lot of friends that live there. One is a current County Commissioner elected in 2006. I really like Tulsa. How did you find your way to Cali?

Guys,

I am working in a top-3 consultancy before having my MBA. I am available if you want to practice some case interviews since I have taken a ton myself and I speak often with managers about what they do to evaluate candidates.

The best two books to prepare:

- Case in Point by Cosentino
- Crack the Case

You can skip anything else as far as I know.

Paradosso,

Thank you very much for offering to help us out, especially seeing that you've already landed the job at one of the firms we currently dream of joining

Case in point is pretty good, I have not read "Crack the Case" yet, but I do recommend "How to Get Into the Top Consulting Firms" by Tim Darling (a McKinsey associate)

Anyone else on board for case prep?

GMATobliterator,

I have taken maybe 20 real case interviews (all the top MCs and more), what I can tell you from my experience is that the crucial point is being able to lay out your structure to address the case (and you don't have much time for doing it). The most valuable books are those who provide you with memorable and sensible frameworks you can rely on when push come to shove. Than you have to be able to work numbers fast, but that I'll take for granted.

It's not rocket surgery, 90% of what the interviewer wants is: "don't give me bullshit" --he already knows you have the brainpower for it from your resume*. The rest (attitude, body language, restate the questions and whatnot) is correct but it's just window dressing in the end.

Don't try to hit a home run unless you get thrown a very good ball: go for a single. It's amazing how many very smart people end with a strike out.

I'd say:

1. Read cases
2. Crack the case
3. Practice cases with your roommate, who does not know anything about business
4. Case in Point
5. Read more cases
6. Practice more cases
7. Cut any bullshit that's left

And you are fine.

Early August seems good for me too.
As for me, I'm studying in the Bay Area (PST) - I got interview calls ffor internship from pretty much everyone but could not convert as I hadn't
PRACTICED!

hi guys,
I am very interested in practicing as soon as possible.
I dont have much experience beside having read a book on it.
I am usually available starting at 6h30 pm via skype or msn or whatever.

Anybody interested in Mckinsey PPT prep. What are the resources available for it.

Info- if you do very good in PST and average in interview- u can still make it.

Prince I am interested in practicing PST and cases this weekend. I have an interview coming up next week so really looking to practice now. Write back if you are interested. We can use Skype or Phone and I am flexible wrt time.

hi very keen to practice case interviews over next 10 days have interviews with McKinsey and Bain.

please e-mail on s0568590@sms.ed.ac.uk

Very flexible with times

Hi all,



I am an HBS 2012 international candidate. My professional goal is to become a consultant in one of the top global consulting firms. My GMAT score is OK, but not more than that and very unbalanced: 710 (51Q,34V).

I understand that top consulting firms consider high GMAT scores an important criteria. I have relatively work-free couple of months, and I feel I can retake it and improve my score to ~740.

Do you think I should do it? I will definitely improve my score (second time, no pressure...)... Question is whether it is really necessary considering I am already in a top program?


Thanks and good luck!

Hey all, I've been coming to this forum for awhile but never posted - here goes. I am going into the process for the mid atlantic offices of McKinsey and need to practice cases for industry hires and I found a guys profile on LinkedIn, Nick Oak, who does coaching for McKinsey interviews and wanted to get feedback from anyone that might know about his value/impact and if anyone has worked with him. I saw his recommendations and thought they were pretty good but would like to hear from people on this forum. Any thoughts?

I preferred Google Hangouts to Skyping.

PrepLounge is freemium, but has a video-integrated interactive case interview practice room. You can search from thousands of candidates, too, and it has cases with charts and feedback tools (and recordings of your case session).

Victor Cheng is starting a smaller, less involved version, but you need to setup Skype calls yourselves.