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Bain & Consultant interview experience

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MilanPosted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After I completed the HR screening, about a week later I received the SOVA test.

Roughly a month after that, the interview scheduling came through and I ended up with an HR interview plus two case studies.

The cases were a market sizing problem and then a business case. Both were technical, and the flow felt like it was designed to check whether I could handle quant work and then shift into a broader business situation where the “story” of the problem mattered.

I did get an offer. The thing I remember most is the pacing: there was some waiting time between steps, but once interviews started, the process became clearly case-driven and measured my ability to reason

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