How to Crack the Consulting Case Interview (Udemy.com)

Get an insider's perspective on how to crack your case interviews and earn a top offer in consulting.

Created by: Jeremy Watson

Produced in 2015

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What you will learn

  • Tailor your personal value proposition to what companies look for
  • Ace market sizing and estimation problems
  • Structure case approaches with easy-to-understand frameworks
  • Draw out insights from charts and data
  • Summarize cases effectively with a strong final recommendation

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Overall Score : 86 / 100

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Course Description

Management consulting is a great industry to work in: companies like Bain & Company, Boston Consulting Group, and McKinsey & Company are all regularly in Glassdoor's Best Places to Work and widely regarded as some of the greatest ways to start and grow a lucrative business career. In order to get that offer, your creativity and business sense will tested against the best and brightest in the consulting case interview. It's the most important interview of your career - are you ready? Master the interview skills you need to work in management consulting What consulting companies look for + resume/cover letter best practices Proven approaches to market sizing and estimation problems Walkthroughs of candidate-led and interviewer-led case questions Structuring a case question with qualitative/quantitative frameworks Summarizing a case with a final recommendation Insider secrets: ~3 hours of content from a former Bain consultant With 27 lectures, you'll learn everything you need to launch your career in management consulting - from getting into the interview room and securing that offer. We'll review actual cases that candidates were tested with, offers on the line - even including copies of the notes that were taken in the interview room. This course is designed without memorization or complicated frameworks: instead, this course focuses on a systematic, proven approach that teaches you how to think - instead of what to think. This course is perfect for an undergraduate or MBA candidate preparing for a case interview and looking for an edge over the stiff competition. At the end of this course, you'll be able to step into the interview room and tackle any case problem with confidence. What's Inside This Course Overview An introduction to the case interview: components of the interview process, breakdown by round, and offer statistics What consulting companies look for in the ideal candidate Tailoring your resume and cover letter (with examples) Fit questions you need to know Market Sizing and Estimation Problems Example problems and mastering the 4-step method Taking effective notes, doing the math, and practicing our approach The Case Interview Structuring case questions with qualitative and quantitative frameworks Pulling out insights from charts and data Summarizing a case and coming up with a final recommendation Candidate-Led Case Interviews Drilling into frameworks effectively Being hypothesis-driven and refining with data Wrapping Up Recommended preparation plan Other recommended resources Don't forget: if you're not satisfied with what this course has to offer, you have a guaranteed 30 days after purchase to get a full refund - no questions asked. Who this course is for:
Students, especially at the undergraduate level, looking to pursue consulting as a careerIndustry professionals looking to transition into consulting and looking for concise, effective preparation materialNot a guide to the industry or a "day in the life" guide - all focused on preparing you for the interview and getting you that offer

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Instructor Details

Jeremy Watson

Jeremy's 10-year career has spanned management consulting at Bain, technology at Intel and Zynga, and commercial real estate development as an entrepreneur. He advised the world's largest technology companies as a consultant at Bain & Company, largely focusing on growth strategies before turning his career towards technology and product management. At Zynga, he successfully manages multiple mobile products with millions of daily active users.
Passionate about teaching, Jeremy has interviewed and taught dozens of candidates one-on-one at the workplace and as a career/interview coach while at UC Berkeley.

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By Sanjana K on 11/15/2020

Amazing course material and an extraordinary instructor!

By Elizabeth Lopez on 10/25/2020

Highly recommended, not only a clear framework is given to structure your thinking and responses but also real-life examples are given and the instructor is able to communicate them in an appealling and easy way so you absorb them and are able to apply them on your own. If you take the time to frame all cases on your own before knowing how the instructor responded, I believe you will be able to really internalize this training to succeed.

By Carlos Miguel on 8/7/2020

I was hopping the course dove deeper into the case solving process. Although I'm happy having completed this course, I still feel I could have received the same information from youtube.

By Mankanwal Singh Chopra on 7/10/2020

Could include more intense/quant heavy cases with proper flow charts.

By Ajit Mallik on 6/20/2020

Great course, quite a nice overview as to how to approach cases.

By Angel Tapia on 6/5/2020

Todo bien

By Alvis Chen on 6/4/2020

What i have been looking for!

By Lekwuwa Kalu on 6/4/2020

Amazing course! Very helpful.

By Arun on 4/24/2020

Training content good and was explained well. However, I do not see any of the questions being answered! and while presenter said to contact him no contact details were provided - or did i miss any?

By Clara Potiens Bing on 4/19/2020

O vdeo fica reiniciando e parando toda hora, e no devido a qualidade da internet

By Valeria Gomes on 4/7/2020

It's a good course to have an overview of how consulting cases look like but it does not help to understand how to evaluate companies and uses technical terms without explanation, for instance gross margin. This is a good course to have a big picture and demystify complexity involved on those interviews, but I guess it'll be necessary to look for other materials to really be able to crack the cases.

By Farah Saab on 3/24/2020

It is a good course if you want to familiarize yourself with a typical consulting case interview. The instructor provides several examples of cases and goes through the actual interview where we get to read the discussion taking place between the candidate and the interviewer. He goes through two different types of case interviews which are the interviewer-led and the candidate-led. His approach is very easy to follow. Some suggestions to improve the course:
- Provide the slides you are using as a PDF document in the course resources.
- Provide a list of common jargon used in the business world which would prove to be especially useful for someone not majored in business or economics. For example, I had to Google gross margin to figure out how the value was computed and I know that there are many other values that I should know like this one. A summary of them will be useful.
- Finally, in terms of the framework, I think it is a good idea to (at least) list other types of frameworks that are commonly used at the big three management consultancy companies.
Other than that, I enjoyed the course and found it interesting :)