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Consulting Behavioral Interview: Fit Formats Across Firms
McKinsey PEI, BCG Skills/fit, Bain behavioural, and Big Four frameworks mapped in one table — five recurring dimensions, probing, and a story bank.
Frameworks
Value Chain in Cases: Put Cost or Margin on Every Step
Porter's 1985 chain is a scoring tool, not a speech. Worked profit-pool example with disclosed Apple and Hon Hai margins shows where money actually sits.
Case interview prep
Five Forces in Cases: Score Who Takes the Margin
Interviewers reward weighting which force captures industry profit, not a five-chapter tour. Worked stampings case, scoring heuristic, and when to leave Porter alone.
Frameworks
M&A Cases: Does Synergy Cover the Premium?
Value the premium against buyer-only synergies with real deal numbers and a worked walk-or-bid example you can reproduce in twenty minutes.
Frameworks
Segmentation Earns Points Only When Segments Behave Differently
Cut customers on the driver that changes the decision. Smith's 1956 insight, needs vs demographics, and a worked case where re-segmenting flips the call.
Recruiting
Consulting Interview Prep Timeline: 12, 6, or 3 Weeks by Start
Pick a 12-, 6-, or 3-week consulting interview prep plan by when you start. Weekly hours, drills, scored reps, mocks, and fit grounded in deliberate practice.
Case interview prep
Case Interview Questions: What Each One Is Really Scoring
Every case interview question is one of seven, and each is scored for something other than its literal answer. The sheet, the leaks, and a worked example.
Math and quant
Case Interview Math Practice: A Four-Week Drill Program
Run a case math diagnostic, follow a four-week schedule with daily minutes, and score 20 timed problems for speed and accuracy separately.
Firm guides
Case Interview Examples: Work the Moves, Not the Industry
Work two original mini-cases end to end — structure, exhibit, math, close — then use McKinsey, Bain, BCG, and Deloitte practice cases as prompts.
Firm guides
Bain Case Interview: Own the Next Move or Lose Quietly
What Bain's case room actually scores: choosing the next analysis, PE-style diligence math, a worked clinic roll-up, and how to stop waiting for the next chart.
Frameworks
4Ps in Cases: Marketing Mix, Not a Diagnosis Tree
Interviewers score the 4Ps as a commercial tool, not a recital. Trace McCarthy 1960, see where the mix fails, then adapt it on a live launch case.
Frameworks
3Cs Framework: Score the Tool, Don't Recite the Labels
Ohmae's company-customer-competitor triangle is scored as a tool. Where reciting it fails a live case, plus a worked VoltForge battery example.