I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bain & Company (London, England) in Oct 2018
Interview
The overall process is generally ok, the interview is quite enjoyable. The interviewers are all very professional and trying to offer you some help. I did a standard bain case interview there and the questions are fairly standard. Although the cases themselves are solvable but definitely requires a lot of practice & self training. I'm not from a business background so I didn't prepare very well. One of the major critics I have is Bain's online screening test system is quite poor (in fact the worst I have seen). The system itself paralyzed for several hours on the day I tried to complete the test. And even after they brought it back online it still crashed after I submitted my answers. The online test questions are very challenging, they take both your accuracy and speed into account.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What's the annual offline iphone sales revenue of the regent street apple store?
Full business case: about chain store dental practice M&A, whether the deal feasible, risk and so on.
Interviewers were really nice, but the process was difficult. Standard level cases and they expected you to take them through multiple business problems. If you practice casing frequently with multiple partners, you should be fine.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Please walk me through how you would approach this case.
2 cases for R1. Pretty straightforward cases about revenue optimization opportunities. There was a little bit of market sizing but all data needed was given. No behaviorals asked in round 1 for me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What office did you choose and why? Do you have competing offers?
2 rounds, 1st round 2 small cases, not very difficult , market entry cases.
2nd long case with a deck to read and prepare answers..45 mins to read, 15 mins to answer