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Firm guides
Bain Capital vs Bain & Company: Same Name, Different Jobs
They share a founder story, not a payroll. How consulting Bain and PE Bain differ on work, pay, hiring volume, and which path actually fits you.
Case interview prep
Consulting Aptitude Tests: A Gate, Not a Grade, and How to Clear It
How McKinsey Solve, BCG Casey and CCA, Bain's Sova or TestGorilla, and SHL screens are actually scored, which case habits transfer, and a ten-hour prep plan.
Recruiting
Undergrad Consulting Recruiting: The Four-Year Map to Junior Summer
Year-by-year undergrad consulting recruiting: what matters each class year, why the junior internship is the door, target-school realities, and a junior-fall week plan.
Getting started
MBA Consulting Recruiting Timeline: The Two-Year Calendar
Month-by-month MBA consulting recruiting from pre-MBA programs through January interviews, summer conversion, and second-year full-time—plus sponsored and international paths.
Comparisons
Consulting vs Finance Careers: Pick a Scoreboard First
Consulting versus FP&A, markets, PE, and corp fin — not just IB. MBA pay data, a five-year cash math check, and how to choose by scoreboard.
Recruiting
Consulting Recruiting Events: Which Ones Feed Hiring
Which firm events actually feed recruiting, what consultants write after, how to be one of two names remembered, and what to skip.
Case interview prep
WTW Case Interview: When Fiduciary Beats EBITDA Logic
WTW cases score fiduciary tradeoffs and clean math, not MBB strategy frames. Worked stop-loss example, published process steps, and prep by line of business.
Frameworks
TMT Case Interview: ARPU, Churn, and Step Costs
How interviewers score telco and media cases: ARPU-churn coupling, spectrum and content step costs, plus a worked wireless rate-hike mini-case.
Case interview prep
Why Korn Ferry Cases Fail MBB-Trained Candidates
Korn Ferry consulting cases score job architecture, rewards, and implementation. Worked retention-cost math, interviewer heuristics, and how to prep.
Case interview prep
Fintech Case Interview: Who Pays, What's Netted, Who Eats the Loss
Fintech cases turn on three questions asked before any framework: who pays the take rate, what is netted out, and who eats the loss. Real filings, worked math.
Firm guides
EY Case Interview: Consulting vs EY-Parthenon Formats
EY Consulting and EY-Parthenon do not share one case format. What EY publishes on assessments, rounds, and the ending each door rewards.
Case interview prep
Cornerstone Research Case Interview: The Firm Published the Answer Key
Cornerstone Research's two published cases share one skeleton: subtract everything else from a claimed loss. Process, scoring, worked event study, behaviorals.