The Ultimate Case Interview Workbook: Ex

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In "The Ultimate Case Interview Workbook," you'll sharpen your case interview skills to dominate your upcoming interview and land your dream consulting job. Taylor Warfield, a former Bain management consultant and interviewer, provides essential practice problems and challenging cases to develop the skills needed to get multiple job offers. Use this workbook to access: 65+ problems tailored towards each type of question in case interviews: Feel confident across a range of interview questions including framework questions, market sizing problems, profitability assessments, breakeven analysis, charts & graphs analysis, brainstorming questions, and other qualitative questions15 full-length cases based on McKinsey, BCG, and Bain interviews: Build business acumen across a variety of industries (e.g., technology, retail, healthcare, energy, finance, non-profit) and functions (e.g., strategy, operations)Efficient practice that can be done individually or with a partner: Save yourself time by working through carefully crafted practice problems and cases that teach you a new concept, strategy, or takeaway each timeWarfield's former students include undergraduates, MBAs, advanced degree holders, and experienced hires. They have landed job offers at top consulting firms, including McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Deloitte, L.E.K., Oliver Wyman, and Accenture as well as at Fortune 500 strategy groups. "I felt really confident after my McKinsey interview - this book's cases prepared me perfectly! They were very similar to the ones I received in my first and final round interviews." -McKinsey Consultant, Wharton MBA Candidate "I had very little time before my next BCG interview. This book provided me with plenty of practice that I could do by myself. After working through these cases, I felt excited going into my interviews." -BCG Associate, Experienced Hire "These cases were much higher quality than those found in other case books. The explanations were detailed and thorough and I got to practice thinking like a true consultant." -Bain Consultant, Stanford UndergraduateAlso visit HackingTheCaseI for a one-week online crash course to pass your upcoming interview. Review: A lot of great practice problems to hone your case solving skills - I have read multiple case books (Victor Cheng, David Ohrwall), and I realize a lot of authors tend to write unnecessary stuff. As helpful the intent might be, it actually leads to more confusion on the part of the reader. After having read Taylor's first book (Hacking the case), I have been a huge fan of the simplicity and crispness with which he can convey his ideas. However, I realized that the first book was slightly lacking in practice problems. This book seems to be the second part of his series: a book with multiple problems in both specific topics so that you can deep dive on your weak areas, or full blown practice cases. Specific topics include: - Framework questions - Market sizing - Brainstorming - Interpreting charts - Business judgement - Profitability Apart from the above, there's 15 full blown cases, ranging from easy to hard difficulty so that you can track your progress. This really helped me hone my skills and comparing it with his solution helped me find gaps in my solving set. I would recommend doing 1-2 cases initially and check your level and then do more after you have done deep dives on each specific topic that you want to address. Note: One downside though of the series format is that in case you are learning concepts from the basics, I would recommend purchasing his first book (Hacking the case interview). Apart from the above, if you're looking for solid practice, look no further, this is the book for that! This book made me confident in my ability to hack cases for my consulting interview with top tier firms (fingers crossed). Review: Choose this instead of Hacking the case interview - This book is not a comprehensive guide/ strategy to get into a consulting company. Get this book to facilitate your learning with the cases shown. I bought both books in this series, and I feel that this one covers many of the topics in the other one with many more examples for you to practice. There's varying difficulties of cases to go through which is ideal for when you are starting out or if you are more experienced. I would highly recommend pairing this book with free online material!