Bain & Consultant interview experience

The tone felt more like a listening session than a structured back-and-forth where my background would be really probed. I sat there for close to forty minutes mainly taking in what the partner wanted to say, and when the conversation ended I didn’t really feel like much of my experience had been actively evaluated.

After that, the process moved on to other stages, but this first step was the one that stood out to me as oddly lopsided. It wasn’t that I struggled to communicate—I just didn’t get the sense of an actual assessment of my profile. Even with that, I still kept going, but overall