Student Name: Siddharth Tyagi

Current Course: MSQE

Degree Before Masters: BA Economics hons

Company Name: Bain and co.
Job Role: Associate Intern
Duration of the Job Role: 2-3 Month Internship

Hiring Process Overview:
aptitude and then interview

Questions Asked in Online Aptitude Test (if applicable):
Logical reasoning, Data Interpretation, Reading Comprehension

Number of Interview Rounds:
2

Questions Asked in Round 1:
guesstimate - some company wants to enter the Indian market and they sell mixer grinders. Estimate the market size. There were details given about the different product offerings.

and then 2 puzzles

There are 4 people A,B,C and D in a jungle at night and they have to cross a bridge. they have one torch. max 2 people can cross the bridge at a time with the torch. A can cross the bridge in 1 min, B can cross in 2mins, C in 5 mins and D in 10mins. If two people are crossing then the time taken by them to cross will be the max of their respective time they take to cross the bridge. Find the min time taken for all to cross the bridge.

You have a 5L bucket and a 3L bucket and all the water you want. You need to measure out 4L of water.

asked a few basic questions from projects mentioned in cv.

Questions Asked in Round 2:
Your client is Cocacola. They are at no.3 position when it comes to their snacks business and they want to grow that part of the business. Recommend a strategy to do so.

Questions Asked in Further Rounds:

Job Role Experience:

Suggestions for Candidates (including resources, books, websites):

  • Have a look at some DI questions
  • solve cases from iim a,b,c case books (just do one book) (have some idea of how to solve cases from a few cases and then try to solve them on your own)

Additional Resources:

Previous Job Role (if applicable):