Bain & Business Analyst interview experience

After the first step, the interview flow split into two parts: I started with guesstimates, then moved into a general case study round. The questions were framed in a way that made “common sense” plus a basic case structure feel enough to move forward, and I remember the whole thing reading like a test of whether I could think clearly rather than whether I already knew every Bain-specific fact.

The guesstimate portion pushed me to produce numbers and then, more importantly, explain how I arrived at them. Once that was done, the case study followed with a standard problem set that fit the