Consulting help Hypothesis based testing in case interviews You can’t learn about case interviews without hearing about hypothesis based testing. Few people do a good job of this, so I thought I would give some guidance on what hypothesis based testing means and how ...
Consulting help Five brainstorming tips for case interview candidates Many case interviews include a section requiring the candidate to brainstorm a variety of ideas. These could include identifying new product ideas, ways to improve profitability, risks to consider, causes of cost increases, etc. When asked to ...
Consulting help Five framework tips for case interview candidates Here are 5 tips specifically about frameworks for case interview candidates. Take Your Time As a rule of thumb, you should take 90-120 seconds on your initial framework. In a real case, that amount of ...
Consulting help Paper presentation in case interviews Since I have to give most practice interviews over the phone, I rarely get the opportunity to see the candidate’s paper. As such, I figured I would just give some general tips that helped me ...
Consulting help Five more quick tips for case interview candidates I’ve been giving more practice cases and a few more things popped up that most people can do to improve their performance in case interviews. Here are 5 more quick tips for case interviews (see ...
Consulting help Five quick tips for case interview candidates The case interview format required to get a management consulting job at a major firm can be daunting and brutal. I was lucky enough to successfully navigate Boston Consulting Group’s interview process after a fair amount of ...
Features Trip to New York Day 0 We took our trip to New York over July 4th weekend. Since I had accumulated a bunch of Amtrak reward points from one of my projects at work, we decided to use them ...
Features Trip to Japan Trip to Japan, Day 1 We woke up at ~1:30am to start our adventure to Japan (why did we even sleep?) After getting ready, we caught an Uber to the airport, making it by ~3:00am. ...
Features Trip to Italy Day 1 After a brief layover in Munich, Janet and I began our Italian adventure in Venice. We walked a few minutes from the airport to the boat terminals, since the original (and interesting) part of Venice ...
Features Scalia, the GOP, and Obama – the world ... Scalia’s death Justice Scalia was a solid advocate of originalism in constitutional interpretation (see my post here for what that means). This often put him on the conservative side of things, and in favor with the GOP. ...