Associate Consultant applicants have rated the interview process at Bain & Company with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 79% positive. To compare, the company-average is 72.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Associate Consultant roles take an average of 29 days to get hired, when considering 14 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Bain & Company overall takes an average of 37 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Bain & Company as a Associate Consultant according to 14 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 47%
Phone interview: 18%
IQ intelligence test: 12%
Presentation: 12%
Skills test: 6%
Other: 6%
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bain & Company (Londres, Angleterre) in Oct 2018
Interview
The overall process is generally ok, the interview is quite enjoyable. The interviewers are all very professional and trying to offer you some help. I did a standard bain case interview there and the questions are fairly standard. Although the cases themselves are solvable but definitely requires a lot of practice & self training. I'm not from a business background so I didn't prepare very well. One of the major critics I have is Bain's online screening test system is quite poor (in fact the worst I have seen). The system itself paralyzed for several hours on the day I tried to complete the test. And even after they brought it back online it still crashed after I submitted my answers. The online test questions are very challenging, they take both your accuracy and speed into account.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What's the annual offline iphone sales revenue of the regent street apple store?
Full business case: about chain store dental practice M&A, whether the deal feasible, risk and so on.
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Please walk me through how you would approach this case.