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Comparisons
Soreno AI vs CoachNed: Buy the Interview You Sit
Soreno AI runs $199/mo across consulting, finance, and PM. CoachNed is consulting-only: live voice cases, Casey/CCA sims, and a $120 Season Pass.
Comparisons
Soreno Alternatives: Pick by Prep Job, Not Features
Compare Soreno AI alternatives by the job you need: consulting depth, peer mocks, drills, courses, or coaching—with current public pricing from each site.
Getting started
Consulting Salary Report 2026: What Firms Actually Disclose
US consulting pay ranges for 2026 from firm job postings, MBA Class of 2025 reports, BLS, and DOL H-1B files—tables with sources, no invented point figures.
Firm guides
What Is BCG? Origin, Ideas, Specialty Units, Hiring
What Boston Consulting Group is: Henderson's ideas firm, the concepts it is known for, BCG X and specialty units today, and how recruiting works for candidates.
Firm guides
What Is Bain & Company? Results Model, PE Work, Culture
Bain was built on results over reports. How the PE practice, tied economics, and culture claims show up in interviews—and what interviewers actually score.
Getting started
Types of Consulting Firms: Business Models, Not Brand Ladders
How consulting firms actually make money—leverage pyramids, managed services, success fees—and what each model does to your job, interview, and exits.
Comparisons
Strategy vs Management Consulting: Interview the Product
Firms use both labels for overlapping work. What changes is the engagement product and how interviewers score your close. A decision table and worked math.
Recruiting
McKinsey Internships: Two Tracks, One Conversion Test
McKinsey Summer BA and Summer Associate roles run 8–10 weeks on client teams. Same interview bar as full-time; different seat after a return offer. No invented pay.
Math and quant
Finance Case Interview: Capital Allocation, Not Banking
Corporate finance cases score after-tax cash, working capital, and NPV at a real WACC. Worked warehouse example with Damodaran data and a real 10-K.
Recruiting
Deloitte Discovery: Seven-Week Bench, Not Junior Offer
Deloitte Discovery is a paid early-undergrad pipeline (often seven weeks). Verify class year, GPA, and how conversion into the client-service internship works.
Getting started
Consulting Coffee Chat: How Firms Score the 20 Minutes
From the consultant's chair: how coffee chats get scored informally, a 20-minute structure, questions that earn a voucher, and the follow-up that does not kill it.
Firm guides
BCG MBA Summer Internship: What Return Offers Actually Grade
BCG's MBA summer is a Consultant-track staffing audition. Naming trap, CCA and Casey where used, live cases, pay honesty, and a scored evidence ledger.