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Getting started
Consulting Career Path: Analyst to Partner Across Firms
Map analyst to partner across McKinsey, BCG, and Bain: tenure per rung, up-or-out gates, where people leave, and what interviewers score.
Case interview prep
Case Interview Practice Partners: The Interviewer Is the Bottleneck
How to find a case interview practice partner and run the mock from the interviewer's chair: a 25-minute card, a scorecard, and feedback that quotes you.
Case interview prep
Case Interview Books: What Survives the Room and What Gives You Away
The major case interview books all predate today's screening tests, and each leaves a tell an interviewer hears in two minutes. What to keep, what to unlearn.
Math and quant
Break-Even in Cases: Units, Revenue, and Payback
Set up units, revenue, or payback in one line, with worked examples, classic traps, and the sentence interviewers want to hear.
Firm guides
BCG Online Case (Casey): Format, Timing, and How It Scores
What BCG publishes on Casey (OCE), what timing and question types actually look like, a scoring heuristic, and the mistakes that sink candidates.
Firm guides
Bain Sova Test: Soft Timing, Consistency, and Prep
Bain's Sova screen rewards staying inside the table and your own judgment profile. Soft timing rules, a worked yield item, and a one-week drill plan.
Math and quant
ZS Case Interview: Sales-Force Math Beats MBB Frameworks
ZS practice cases include airlines and sunscreen. Live consulting seats still test pharma commercial math: reach, frequency, and contribution under diminishing returns.
Frameworks
SWOT in Case Interviews: One Job That Scores
Why a four-box SWOT rarely earns case points, how Humphrey/SRI and Andrews diverge on origins, and a worked example that turns one strength into a driver.
Frameworks
Supply Chain Cases Score Flow Math, Not Frameworks
How interviewers score supply-chain cases on landed cost, inventory days, fill rate, and Little's law—with a full inventory-vs-service example.
Firm guides
Roland Berger Case Interview: Process, Test & Recruiting Day
Roland Berger publishes its own process: analytics test, recruiting day, then a final. How cases and fit are scored, with a worked industrial example.
Getting started
The Last Five Minutes: Questions That Reveal Judgment
From the interviewer's chair: which end-of-case questions reveal judgment on staffing and feedback, which sound scripted, and what belongs with recruiting.
Firm guides
PwC Case Interview: Advisory vs Strategy& by Member Firm
PwC Advisory and Strategy& run different funnels. Match the member firm on your invite, then prep the case style that entity actually scores.