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Bain & Consultant interview experience

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JakartaPosted May 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My MBA recruiting journey ended up being just two interview rounds, all case-based.

The first round consisted of a single case interview, and the second round expanded that to a set of three: one case, one hypothesis-style discussion, and one written case. Everything was focused on how I structured thinking and worked through the problem rather than on open-ended conversation.

I found the overall difficulty high, and it didn’t feel like a process built to trick me so much as to test whether I could keep my reasoning tight across different case formats. I didn’t receive an offer, and the experience left me feeling like the written and hypothesis pieces were the hardest to

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