OK y'all, it's finally here...the first week of interviews. I was supposed to be having an interview with Bain earlier today, but I got it switched to tomorrow because I would have been interviewing for the LA office if I'd gone today. Since I want to be on the east coast, the Bain folks agreed to move me to their Tuesday schedule, which is screening people for their other offices. My roommate just had his Bain interview about an hour ago and he just finished giving me the rundown. It sounds like it was a challenge but he thinks that he handled it well. Now, I'm all amped up and excited about getting started with things tomorrow, but I'm nervous too because I know how important these first round interviews are. Many of these companies will be talking to 100+ people and the first round is the only chance you'll have to make a good impression. I'd better do my thing over the next two weeks or else I'll be working in a fast food joint for the summer to make my car payment.
I spent most of the weekend doing a bunch of case interview prep with classmates and with one of the second year students who is about to accept an offer from McKinsey's Johannesburg office. Going into the weekend, i was terrified because I thought my case game was waaaaay off-point, but, by the time i went to bed last night, I felt much more comfortable. I still know that I've got to improve on the speed with which I break down the problems, but it seems that I'm thinking through them the right way. One thing that I have yet to practice is the fit portion of the interview. I have spent so much time working on cases that I might slip up and fumble on something as simple as walking through my resume. I've got a lot of work to do in the next 22 hours to make sure I'm on point tomorrow when i do my thing for Bain and BCG.
Even worse, I have a Finance midterm coming up on Wednesday morning and I've got to find time to study for that too. Winter quarter was supposed to be a breeze, but it is DEFINITELY nothing like that.
Posted by marquis930 at January 31, 2005 10:45 PM