Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Bain & Company as 50% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Associate Consultant Intern and Consultant rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Associate Consultant Intern and Consultant roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Bain & Company takes an average of 4 days when considering 2 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Associate Consultant Intern had the quickest hiring process (on average 4 days), whereas Associate Consultant Intern roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 4 days).
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Bain & Company in Jul 2024
Interview
There were 6 rounds (elimination based) in total spanning across a period of 2 months. Despite all the rounds going well, I did not get an offer nor any feedback despite requesting for it, given that I have invested so much time into the process
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Live coding: basic dataframe operations, regression model fitting, handling class imbalance in SVM (basic)
2. Resume Based: Basics of ML, ML Ops, OOPS
3. Technical Round 1: Resume based, very detailed questions on projects, simple case study (problem formulation and brain storming)
4. Technical Round 2: Basics of ML Algorithms, Technical workings of them
5. Case Study: Forecast demand for sales of a product for a national company with stores in different location (store level forecast)
6. Simple ML questions, 5 min case study
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bain & Company (München, Bayern) in Jun 2023
Interview
3 Interviews, two of them were cases, one personal fit interview, all during one day. Feedback is provided directly after that by a manager, which is very appreciative. The entire process was smooth and characterized by excellent communication.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Recall a situation in which you had to persuade someone.
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Bain & Company (Amsterdam) in Sep 2023
Interview
Eerste ronde bestaande uit 1 case gesprek. Hiervoor een oefen ronde gekgregen met een consultant voor eerste feedback en tips. Case was gefocust op automarkt schatten in India en enkele persoonlijke fit vragen.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Vraag: Noem een moment waarop jij in een groep initiatief toonde en wat hieruit voortkwam