Associate Consultant applicants have rated the interview process at Bain & Company with 3.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 74% positive. To compare, the company-average is 71.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Associate Consultant roles take an average of 23 days to get hired, when considering 840 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Bain & Company overall takes an average of 26 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Bain & Company as a Associate Consultant according to 840 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 46%
Skills test: 13%
Presentation: 10%
Phone interview: 9%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Personality test: 5%
Background check: 5%
Other: 3%
Drug test: 2%
Group panel interview: 2%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bain & Company (Phila, PA) in Sep 2019
Interview
no behavioral questions. first round was 2 pretty difficult cases with 2 different consultants. The interviewers gave feedback after the interviews ( I emailed them, and they called), and they were extremely positive/nice.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The client Big Island Surfboards was impressed with our work and believes that its unique brand and connection to Hawaii will enable it to succeed in capturing a piece of the pie. It wants to move forward with entering the surfboard wax market and has now asked us to determine how they should enter the market for surfboard wax. How would you think about this problem?
Very long process. I heard that they relied heavily on seeing if we were able to use our feedback to improve throughout the rounds however because one of my interviews was running late I was not able to get any feedback to improve.
It was fine. The partner round interviews were less structured and much more difficult. Majority of my interviewers were really nice which made the process better than what I had anticipated.
2 rounds of interviews, each round consisting of 3 interviews with cases. In the first round 2 case interviews and 1 with HR. In the 2nd round you have 3 interviews with more senior profiles like managers and partners.