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Interview with Bain and Co

Thought that may be it's a nice idea to post about the interview at Bain and Co. This is how it went:

Round 1

1) Tell me about yourself
2) There's a project on my CV that's a part of Dr Raj Reddy's vision. I was asked to share the experience of meeting Dr. Raj Reddy and what all feedbacks did he give about the project, if any
3) I was told to explain a little about the System Thinking skills that I wrote on my CV
4) Was asked to share the experiences of organizing things like felicity, farewell and musical night
5) What is the first thing that Mr Hemant Rokesh (my FYP guide) would say about you if we call him up right now?
6) Why Bain when you could get a lot better technical companies to work for?
7) Why exactly do you believe that you're fit for this kind of a job?
8) Do you understand that you're moving out of technical stuff (coding etc)? Are you ready for that?
9) Suppose that a chair company wants to start over a manufacturing plant in India. What are the various aspects that it'll have to look in before actually going for the venture? [Had to consider supply side, demand side, customers' views, competitors, market, infrastructure, increasing demand, which part of the country would be more beneficial, estimate of the product cost]
10) What all aspects will brand like Ferrari have to consider if it plans to open a manufacturing plant in India and when it plans to launch it's latest product, it's latest car in India?


Round 2

1) Tell me about yourself. [It has to be consistent with the previous answer. They surely take points etc]
2) Why Bain and why not the other options that you already have? Give reasons for rejecting each one of the previous three offers
3) A lot of questions on extra-curricular activities
4) An Italian company is planning to open up a manufacturing plant for premium shirts (Rs 1400/ and above) in India. I was shown a chart that had all bar graphs made over it. Had to study that and give views as to whether the business is profitable
5) How much does a Hair Saloon earn per month. Give numbers and mention proper approximations and assumptions. After coming on the numbers, say if the business is profitable in future


Round 3 - A guy from London School of Business

1) Tell me about yourself [Has to be consistent again]
2) Questions related to dad's business and why don't you wish to enter family business
3) Why Bain? Why not Inductis?
4) Name various consulting companies that you know. And what exactly do you understand when you say strategic consulting?
5) What do you know about work at Bain? Did you ask your senior [Ankit] about things that we work on in this center?
6) Name some domestic low-fair airlines that you know. How are they different from other economy airlines? If food (low-fair airlines do not offer them) etc is the only difference, how is it that these low-fair airlines manage to make profits by selling off the tickets at such a low rate. Is the business profitable?
7) Small talk on Bottom of Pyramid
8) Estimate the total earnings of a multiplex (with 5 screens) per year. What all are the sources of their earnings?

Time taken to write this post: 45 minutes

posted by AK-84 @ 10:13 PM