Bain Capability Network Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Preparation:

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.