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).
First round was 2 cases. Second round was 2 cases and 1 behavioural, in my case the behavioural was sandwiched in between the 2 cases. The rounds happened about 2 weeks apart, and I received a call within the same day in both instances regarding outcome.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Bain & Company (Gurgaon, Haryana)
Interview
It had basic ecotrix questions, statistics, probability, puzzles , game theory, basic Machine learning algorithms like linear regression, logistic regression, random forest, bagging, boosting, support vector machines, linear algebra , then case interview of ice cream sales,
It is quite a rigorous process. It entails first sending though your CV and academic records. If they are interested, you then complete various aptitude tests online. From there, they select roughly 20 people to go through to interviews. These are case interviews. There are about 4 rounds to get through. However, Bain are very supportive throughout the process and provide ample resources to do well. They provide interview prep and allocate you a mentor to help you prepare for your interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why management consulting, and why Bain in particular.