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I applied via campus placement at National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE)
(5 Questions)
- Q1. Introduce yourself.
- Q2. CV Points.
- Q3. Guesstimates.
- Q4. Why BCN?
- Ans.
BCN offers a dynamic and diverse environment with opportunities for growth and learning.
BCN has a strong reputation in the consulting industry
The company values diversity and inclusivity
There are ample opportunities for professional development and growth
BCN has a global presence with a wide range of clients and projects
The company culture is supportive and collaborative
- Q5. Difference between BCN and Bain & Co.
- Ans.
BCN and Bain & Co. are both management consulting firms, but differ in their focus and approach.
BCN focuses on strategy consulting for healthcare and life sciences industries, while Bain & Co. has a broader focus on various industries.
Bain & Co. is known for its results-driven approach and emphasis on data analysis, while BCN emphasizes collaboration and building long-term relationships with clients.
BCN is a smaller fi...
Introduce Yourself.
Case Discussion.
Why BCN?
Cultural Fit questions.
Interview Preparation Tips
1. Guesstimates & Cases: Case in Point & other case books. Guesstimates from online sources.
2. Supply Chain: Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation by Peter Meindl and Sunil Chopra; Operations Management by Jay H Heizer; Online sources for other relevant topics which would give a more company specific information with use cases.
3. Staying up to date with Livemint and Supply Chain dive updates.
4. Mock Group discussions and Interviews.
5. CV preparation and defense.
6. HR answers.
7. Company specific preparation.
What went right?
1. Thorough with “introduce yourself” (this is elementary but vital at the same time).
2. Conceptual understanding of supply chain topics.
3. Structured answering and communicating the thought process effectively (this is essential for guesstimates and cases).
4. Problem solving and aptitude skills.
What was your improvement area?
1. Structured problem solving and answering.
2. Communicating effectively.
Suggestions
1. Be thorough with the supply chain concepts, operations management, basics of finance and economics (account statement, law of supply-demand and correlations), elementary marketing concepts (pricing and promotion, different analyses, and frameworks).
2. Develop a structure while solving guesstimates and cases (It should sound logical to you, only then can the interviewer be convinced by your answer).
3. Be thorough with your recent academic/work experience.
4. Be ready with 3-4 instances for each of the HR answers.
5. Communicating and expressing yourself to the interviewer is as important as answering logically/correctly.
I applied via campus placement at National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE)
A juice company wants to launch a 400ml packaged Beetroot flavored drink in India, and I had to find the market size of the product.
A premium French sunglass manufacturer wants who outsources 60% of its manufacturing to China wants to enter a new market (3 countries were provided along with the basic details like population , demographic, GDP, Per Capita Income) and I had to suggest them the country they should enter and why.
Interview Preparation Tips
Case in Point, IIM Ahmedabad Case Book, Mock Case Interview.
What went right?
The very first thing that went right for me was the fact that during the guesstimate round, I was making clear notes and thinking aloud. As, quite often these interviews focus more on the way you think rather than the final answer. So, the eventual market size that I came up with was not accurate, but I was selected for the next round because I made sure that I covered every possibility and factored in all the possible parameters before locking in on the final percentage or number. I also made sure that before making any assumption I clearly stated it to the interviewer and moved forward only after his approval.
What was your improvement area?
During a case interview one asks a lot of questions and gathers a lot of information and it becomes hard to keep all the relevant information apart from your calculation etc. So, halfway into my interview, I suddenly realized that I have created a mess by not keeping my information organized and I had to waste more than 4/5 minutes just to reorganize everything I had noted down. This made me realize, how important it is to ensure that you are putting proper labels, follow a structure, keep the calculation away from your data.
Suggestions
I would suggest that while you are going through the basics like Case in Point, IIM Ahmedabad case book etc. you create a habit of giving mock interviews. Instead of reading cases, ensure that you are discussing with your friends. Sometimes you can be the interviewer and your friend can be the interviewee, but this will ensure that you are creating your own thought process and not following a set pattern.
Also, try and do one guesstimate every day. Take a random question like number of busses in Mumbai or maybe number of traffic lights in Mumbai and try and solve them. Once you are done, show it to a friend and discuss if you missed out on factoring something or is there a better method to solve this problem.
I applied via campus placement at National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE)
Calculate number of breakfast servings needed for Vistara Airlines from Mumbai airport on any given day.
Using number of runways and average turnaround time as parameters, I calculated the total number of flights and then took a percentage of that as Vistara flights. Henceforth, it’s a simple extrapolation as per number of seats.
Calculate revenue of any barbershop in Mumbai.
I was free to consider any scale of barbershop. After that, I used the average turnaround time, number of barbers and different time periods as parameters in deciding the variability of demand from customers per day.
Furthermore, I calculated the average spend per customer considering different care packages. Using the above two, I calculated the average revenue.
An equity firm which had goal of increasing revenue 2 times over of a brewing company in the next 5 years.
The conversation initially focused on the possible drivers of growth. Once the major growth driver was isolated after analysing company and competition cost breakups, in this case labour costs; more data was provided when asked and then based on that I was asked to calculate possible revenue growth and cost reductions based on labour optimization.
Work experience, JD and consulting lifestyle.
Interview Preparation Tips
1. Prep Methodology: Focused mainly on guesstimates and case studies. I prepared CV defense for possible HR questions as well.
2. Study Resources (specify books and online content used): IIM A, Kellogg Casebooks, Heizer, Chopra Meindl.
What went right?
In guesstimates, it helps to have a clear idea of what assumptions to take and their justification. Even if one goes down the wrong track, it’s accepted if one can identify it quickly by themselves and make the necessary correction.
For case study discussions, an understanding of possible drivers for any problem is a must. Once the drivers were identified quickly, the discussion quickly moved onto analyzing the data points and solving the various problems given.
Throughout both processes, it helped that I was able to communicate my thought processes succinctly and arrive at the solution in a collaborative manner with the panelist.
What was your improvement area?
One can always improve the speed of calculations and thought process for solving cases, which only comes with practice and experience.
Suggestions
Be prepared with all the necessary frameworks and practice quick calculations for case interviews and guesstimates. Interviewers are willing to let it go when you make mistakes if you can identify it quickly yourself, backtrack and make necessary corrections immediately.
Practice walking other people through case studies as that gives the best experience for handling the interviews, as well as asking the right questions which progress the case discussion forward.
I applied via campus placement at National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE)
Estimate the amount tourists spend in Mumbai during July-Sep.
A Media company which publishes a magazine and it was facing continuous loss in its business. The objective was to find out the reasons for losses and suggestions for improvement.
Interview Preparation Tips
1. For Supply Chain: Chopra Meindl, GD topics related to SCM, Prep Material shared by Placecomm.
2. For Consulting: Practiced solving cases 1v1 to simulate the interview.
3. Sources Referred: Case in Point, IIM A Case Book, NITIE Case Book, Guesstimate Practice question online, etc.
4. General: Backup for questions based on CV, HR Questions, Basic Economics and Finance terms, GD group practice.
What went right?
Round-1: Asking the right questions and communicating with the interviewer was important. The guesstimate given was very open ended and clarifying the details, discussing the assumptions with the interviewer was the key. For Instance: Defining tourists (Business/Leisure and Foreigner/Indians), for spending I considered hotel accommodation as one major expense and after calculating this expense the interviewer asked me to stop solving further.
Round-2: Have a clarity about the role offered by the organization, solving case studies regularly 1v1 and simulating the interview experience helped me.
What was your improvement area?
One can always improve the speed of calculations and thought process for solving cases, which only comes with practice and experience.
Suggestions
1. For consulting, practicing guesstimates and case studies is very important, getting exposure to wide variety of questions will help to face the interview questions. Practice these diligently and if possible, solve case 1v1 and simulate the interview.
2. CV Backup is very critical, as companies expect you to know what you have done earlier.
3. Keep calm, don’t overstress there are many companies who offer very good projects focus more on learning and internship projects rather than Stipend and Company.
Bain Capability Network interview questions for designations
I applied via campus placement at National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE)
Estimating the number of breakfasts served by GoAir in Mumbai in a day. Consider parameters such as Market Share of GoAir, Morning Flights proportion, Proportion of people having breakfast, Aircraft capacity etc.
2. Estimate the revenue of a Salon operating in Mumbai: Ask questions to fix the location (posh/residential/commercial location etc.) and the target customer segment. Consider parameters such as Number of staffs, Portfolio of Services and their corresponding pricing, Time to service, Shop timings, Weekday/Weekend etc.
Increasing the Profitability of the Company from 3% to 5%.
Firstly, try to give a structure to the problem and think of all factors and sub-factors within them which drives profitability of any firm.
There are three broad ways of Increasing the profitability, one is by Increasing the Prices, the other is by increasing the sales of higher margin products and the last is by lowering costs.
Price was supposed to be fixed, and so was the product assortment. This led me to focus on Cost and now, considered the value chain framework to drill down to the major cost driver in the firm.
Ask data wherever you feel that its needed. Have asked data of competitors to compare the cost levels across various components. Figure out, what and why some costs are higher compared to the competitors.
In my case, it was the inefficient repair process which was lowering the efficiency thus, resulting in higher costs per product. Compare it with the feasible alternatives and calculate the effective savings. At the end, I was supposed to calculate all the savings and show that the profit actually jumped to 5% mark.
Interview Preparation Tips
General Awareness:
1. Follow one Newspaper (Mint or Economic Times), discuss with your group & makes short notes of important facts and their corresponding sources. This will cover you for GDs.
2. Online portals such as
- https://www.supplychain247.com
- https://www.supplychaindigital.com
- https://www.supplychainbrain.com
3. Follow consulting reports published by McKinsey, Accenture, Cognizant Business Consulting etc. on various industries.
Differential Skills:
1. Knowledge of Intermediate to Advance excel skills from Pivots to Dashboards and Macros.
2. Intermediate level Analytics certification either in R or Python. Learn Linear Regression, Logistic Regression & Decision Trees. These are the commonly used algorithms in the Industry.
3. Do certification on Data Visualization platform such as Tableau or Power BI
4. Strengthen your work experience-based skillsets and be thorough with all the industry jargons around it.
5. Correlate your work experience with the FMCGs, Automobile, or any relevant industry and see what are the practical areas where business value can be generated through use cases and implemented examples.
What went right?
1. Create a calm environment around yourself, don’t get intimated by the whole process as it may sometime appear to be overwhelming for a few.
2. Be updated with general facts and numbers such as Mumbai Population, India demographics, NITIE-related data, Market share of key companies across domains etc.
3. Listen to the questions carefully, note down any facts if possible during the interview.
4. Always have a structured thinking in all the solutions you propose during the interview.
What was your improvement area?
1. Wanted to prepare in more depth about the Economic Scenario across Industries. This helps in correlating where any company is headed in terms of roadblocks and opportunities.
2. Could have read a bit more from the practical perspective through cases on strategic Frameworks such as PESTLE, VRIO/VRIN, BCG Matrix etc.
Suggestions:
1. Stay confident, know your weaknesses and strengths.
2. Try to align your strengths with your interest areas. This will enable you put greater effort and ultimately, standing out among the crowd.
3. Do go with the flow during the Interview rounds. Put the keywords or things, which you want to discuss about during your answers. You should be able to drive the interview, not the other way round.
I applied via campus placement at National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE)
(3 Questions)
- Q1. Why Consulting?
- Q2. How has been your stay at NITIE so far?
- Q3. Identify the size of the bottled water market in Mumbai.
- Ans.
The bottled water market in Mumbai is estimated to be worth several hundred crores.
The market is dominated by major players like Bisleri, Kinley, and Aquafina.
The demand for bottled water has increased due to concerns over the quality of tap water.
The market is expected to continue growing due to urbanization and increasing disposable income.
The market size may vary depending on the source of data and the time period c
Water purifying company wants to entre Indian Market, analyze and suggest whether they should go ahead with market entry or not?
Panelist were more focused on analysis of data than strategy. Sensing the same, I focused on analytical aspect of the case and calculated payback period and based on that I arrived at a conclusion.
Interview Preparation Tips
Extensive preparation on HR questions, guestimates and case interviews.
What went right?
Articulation, Data-backed answers and a clear mindset during HR questions. Always have a question to ask the interviewer at the end – I was asked “Do you have any questions for us?” in both rounds of interview and the interview stretched few more minutes just on the question I asked.
What was your improvement area?
I would’ve liked to have more financial jargons/concepts in my quiver as Private Equity service line is big at BCN and many panelists might have a strong background in finance.
Suggestions
Be aware of why you see yourself as a good fit for the company and emphasize that throughout the interview. It’ll be conversational interview but don’t get carried away and be concise and thorough with HR questions which might be thrown at you.
20 question, related to data interpretation(cat level) and decision making
There were 2 rounds of interviews, both were related to guesstimates, case study, resume based and puzzles .
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(6 Questions)
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- Ans.
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SAP ERP is based on traditional on-premise architecture, while S/4 HANA is designed for cloud deployment.
SAP ERP uses a row-based database structure, while S/4 HANA utilizes an in-memory columnar database for faster data processing.
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- Q2. What are the steps for implementation in SAP
- Ans.
Implementation steps in SAP involve planning, configuration, testing, training, and deployment.
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- Ans.
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RICEF stands for Reach, Impact, Confidence, and Effort.
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Confidence is how sure you are about the estimates for Reach and Impact.
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- Ans.
Yes, I have worked with APP. The steps involve designing, developing, testing, and deploying the application.
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Deploy the APP to app stores or internal servers for users to access
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- Ans.
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- Q6. What is your role in your current company
- Ans.
I am responsible for managing client relationships, providing strategic advice, and overseeing project implementation.
Managing client relationships
Providing strategic advice
Overseeing project implementation
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(2 Questions)
- Q1. First question about introduction
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Interview Preparation Tips
I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Sep 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.
There will be aptitude screening round.
There will be the different case studies , from the pharmaceutical sector.
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