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 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bain & Company (Bangkok)
Interview
I applied online. Received an invitation to a written test within 2 weeks. The written test was not very hard, it involves basic math like percentages and multiplications (beware of big numbers) and you can't use a calculator. After I passed the written test I was invited to a brief workshop about how to do a case interview and was appointed an interview date. There was two rounds of interviews. The first interview was quite hard. It was what I would call a stress test. The interviewer gave a seemingly very vague case and looked disinterested on my responses. The second one was quite easier and the interviewer more engaging. I failed to go through to the final interviews. I recommend at least a month of preparation.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the reason to keep operating a company that was absolutely unprofitable?
What would your friends describe you?
Why would you want to work with Bain?
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Bain & Company (Brüssel) in Feb 2016
Interview
Traditional case interview, first a talk about yourself then a business case and finally the opportunity to ask questions. The interviewers are very friendly, they will put you at ease and there are no trick questions. The difficulty is in solving the business case. It is often difficult to find the right structure and to keep using the structure when faced with data and analyses to execute.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bain & Company (München, Bayern) in Jan 2012
Interview
Interview with 3 Managers, 3 consultants and also with admin managers and also a lot of case driven questions. 3 meetings deon separatley at same location but with new people, HR Manager was a joke and only had administrative responsibities, i.e. draft contract and sen out flowers
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Major reasons for joining, experience from databases, business sense