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).
There's a SJT first that you have to pass to get to the second round. The SJT is not easy to be honest and it's better to practise lots of brain games maybe?
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Bain & Company (Johannesburg) in Mar 2023
Interview
There were 4 rounds in the interview process. Each one of them start with a "fit" interview to see if one can fit into the existing company culture and the second part will be the cracking the case part of the interview in each round
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why do you want to venture into management consulting?
Application stage, aptitude test, first round interview which consists of three interviews, case interview, market sizing, behavioural questions. second round would be similar but harder difficulty. Interviews are not super intense, interviewers are very nice and encouraging