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Case interview prep
Group Case Interviews: Give the Observer Something to Write Down
How assessors score a group case: one observer, two names, a behavior grid. A talk-time budget, a worked exhibit trap, and six moves that get written down.
Firm guides
EY-Parthenon Case Interview: Diligence Endings, Not Consulting
How EY-Parthenon cases differ from EY Consulting: commercial diligence structure, implied-growth math, published process steps, and a worked buy/no-buy example.
Getting started
Consulting Networking: The Referral Funnel Firms Actually Use
How consulting referrals enter firm pipelines, a realistic outreach-to-referral funnel with numbers, a 10-week calendar, and the tracker that keeps it honest.
Firm guides
McKinsey salary 2026: posted bases, not year-1 folklore
McKinsey US pay from firm postings and MBA reports: BA and Associate bases as ranges, how to build year-1 cash, and what EM and AP still hide.
Firm guides
BCG salary: trust the posted base, not year-1 screenshots
BCG US Associate and Consultant bases from firm job postings ($110K and $190K), how year-1 totals get inflated, and why the $2K MBB gap is noise.
Firm guides
Bain salary 2026: posted bases vs year-1 folklore
Bain posts US AC and Consultant bases; year-1 cash is a range. Title map, internship monthly pay, and how to read an offer against HBS consulting medians.
Firm guides
McKinsey Sea Wolf: Why Pretty Microbe Teams Still Fail
Sea Wolf is McKinsey Solve's microbe cleanup game: firm facts vs candidate reports, a worked three-site decision, and the errors that sink legal teams.
Firm guides
McKinsey Red Rock Study: Phases, Timing, and Math
How Red Rock Study works inside McKinsey Solve: phases, question types, timing, scoring caveats, and a worked weighted-average example. Confirm your invite.
Case interview prep
Case Interview Scoring Rubric: An Evidence Log, Not an Average
How interviewers actually fill in a case scoring sheet, what survives the debrief, and a bad-vs-good scoring of one case moment you can reproduce yourself.
Case interview prep
Case Interview Practice Alone: What Solo Reps Can and Cannot Build
Most solo case practice is reading with a timer. Which scoring dimensions you can build alone, a 48-hour rep budget, and the one skill that needs a human.
Case interview prep
Case Interview Opening Statement: Three Minutes That Decide Who Drives
Open a case interview so the interviewer hands you the case: a recap with a number in it, two questions that change the tree, and four branches they can act on.
Math and quant
Case Math Shortcuts: Round Where It Is Cheap, Not Where It Is Easy
A partner's price list for case math shortcuts: what rounding costs in a product, a division, and a margin, with a break-even example you can reproduce.