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Review multiple sources to gain information and insights. You should also prepare for behavioral interview questions, which may follow your case or be part of subsequent interviews. You can find preparation tips for behavioral interviewing in our interview guide, and library of resources includes more than 500 cases, nine video courses, 10,000 case drills, 11 industry primers, and 12 chatbot cases through Management Consulted.
In a McKinsey case, the interviewer will guide you through a series of connected questions that you need to answer, synthesize, and develop recommendations from. There are clear directions and a flow of questions, which you need to answer with a hypothesis-driven mindset. These are arguably easier to prepare for and to go through since the flow and types of questions will always be the same.
A case interview structure is used to break the problem you are trying to solve for the client down into smaller problems or components. It is the roadmap you establish at the beginning of the interview that will guide your problem-solving approach throughout the case. A strong initial structure should cover all elements of the situation AND allow you to understand where the problem is coming from. Read more about case interview structure and frameworks here.
There are many frameworks out there, so find ones that you are comfortable applying to case situations. Also, remember that frameworks are a guide to help you structure your analysis. They should not be blindly deployed in case interviews, but instead adapted for the situation.
I read Case in Point but got tremendously lost. Read Case Interview secrets & got confident, but didn't perform at mock interviews. Always felt like something was missing and unable to structure extremely unusual cases. Yours is the best guide & resource out that I've used to get prepared for my interviews. I'm 2 interviews in for BCG, 2 more to go. Thanks for your help!My feedback - I play your videos at 1.6x speed (because I'm a native English speaker). Aside from that, I love your videos - thanks so much for everything!
Before Crafting Cases, I was very insecure while doing cases and really had difficulties controlling this in interviews, mainly because I didn't know how to handle the several possible situations of a case interview. My study method was not objective at all and I never knew exactly where I had to improve. I studied random industries, read complex MBB articles that did not help much, and did cases with partners who weren't greatly improving my performance over time. LOMS, Case Interview Secrets and other sources were not helping me anymore. This made me get rejected at a BCG final round last semester. I always felt that something was missing in my study, an exhaustive and organized way to prepare for cases. Crafting Cases had all these things I was looking for: a well structured form of learning that made sense and that allowed me to solve several types of cases, no matter how strange the situation presented by the interviewer was. The aspects of CraftingCases that added the most value for me were:1.The six building blocks, which made very clear how to answer questions in an interview and the WHY behind each question. Among the building blocks, I highlight the objective-driven frameworks, which really opened my mind on how to structure questions to solve any problem and make any decision (My uni consulting club even used it to build a framework to decide which people should join the club). The brainstormings part also helped a lot in differentiating when to structure different hypotheses/solutions and how to do it in an ideal way, which impresses interviewers.2. The drills practice mode, which gave me much more time for practical study and didn't require extensive training with partners. I would say that after getting to know Crafting, my study time was divided into 60% theory, 30% drills and 10% partner practice. I would say that I exaggerated a bit in the theory and practiced little with partners though, my final suggestion would be 40/40/20. In the end, I got an offer from a boutique consulting firm! Now, I didn't have that many chances to interview this semester: my options were with this boutique, Bain and a startup (yes, they are using case interviews to hire BAs now too). In every single one of these firms, I got to a final round. My Bain offer rejection was more of a fit problem: I must add that in the entire Bain process interviewers were giving me feedback of how good my structuring and brainstorming skills were and how well prepared I was. Also, I feel quite "ready" for the problem solving part of the consulting job, since the content produced by CraftingCases always focus in how things are done in real life. If somehow I managed to pass the BCG final round last semester, I would probably struggle a lot in the problem-solving part of the job in the first months, since I was still in "la-la land". Overall, I would recommend the course for both beginners who already have an idea of what a case is about, as well as advanced people who are frustrated with their preparation from other sources. Many people study from very limited books and get an offer depending on luck/fit, others do an insane amount of cases with partners (120+) and also get an offer mostly because it's overkill. CraftingCases offers an interesting alternative to these two: it caters to those looking for a balanced study that will require dedication from you but at the same time won't leave you in burnout mode, uneasy and discouraged with the entire learning process until the offer. All content produced by Bruno and Júlio is worth it, including the course, blog, newsletter, casebook and now youtube! Highly recommend these guys!
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