Our hiring process is based on three rounds of case interviews. In each of the rounds you will meet one of our consultants, your potential future colleagues who will briefly review your background, and then proceed with 2-3 case studies. Regarding your personal background, you should be prepared to discuss in detail items from your CV and demonstrate how they relate to the traits that we are looking for in good candidates: Drive, Direction, Diligence.
The case interview is designed to let you test your analytical skills in a real life situation and for us to simulate a situation of having you as represent us on a client assignment. What is important for us is not the actual result, but how you go about analyzing the situation, asking the right questions, maintaining communication with us, building and testing hypotheses, presenting your conclusions to us, and, obviously, along the way, handling stress of the unknown, of mistakes that you make, and the stress of a new situation.
The following are some of the key points that determine success in a case interview:
- Understand the problem at hand
Make sure that you understand which problem you are supposed to solve.
- Ask questions
The set up of the case study is usually quite basic. Unless you ask relevant questions, you will not have enough information to tackle it.
- Verify your understanding
Of the information that you receive – human interaction is prone to misunderstandings; rephrase what you have heard, verify that we see things that same way.
- Structure the problem
Before you delve into the detailed analysis and calculations, tell us how you will structure the problem in general. For example to tackle an investment decision problem, tell us that you will compare the benefits and the cost over the next few years and also the main categories of the benefits and costs that you see. This way. we will know if you are on the right track, and even if you get lost in the details, you can always come back to the structure to rescue yourself.
- Let us know your thoughts
Not only relating to the overall problem structure but also, for example, to a set of questions related to a topic indicating to us how they relate to the overall problem.
- Work with numbers but do not panic
We like to see that you are comfortable working with numbers, stating that alternative A is more expensive than alternative B is not enough unless you have processed the numbers behind each of them. At the same time, we will accept it if you simplify the calculations as long as you do not sacrifice the accuracy of your answer.
- Use common sense
You need to be able to judge for yourself if your conclusions make sense. Would you put your money into what you are recommending?
The final step of the case interview is your presentation of the results. You will be given a few minutes to prepare a few slides summarizing your recommendations and the key information that you have received. We are looking for the ability to succinctly recapitulate the task at hand, your recommendations and main supporting analysis. You may be asked to present these conclusions in English or any other language that you know well.
What is important for us is not the actual result, but how you go about analyzing the situation, asking the right questions, maintaining communication with us, building and testing hypotheses, presenting your conclusions to us, and, obviously, along the way, handling stress of the unknown, of mistakes that you make, and the stress of a new situation.
In the first round of interview you will as well asked to analyze given data in order to demonstrate your analytical skills.