Ex-MBB Interviewer Reveals Why Candidates Fail First Rounds

Most candidates walk into a case interview with memorized frameworks and still get cut in the first round. Sushmitha has interviewed candidates as a project leader at BCG, after breaking in herself from an engineering background with no case prep clubs or primed network. She knows exactly which moves read as scripted and which ones signal real structured thinking under pressure. In this session, she'll break down the specific reasons first-round candidates get dinged, from how they open a case to how they handle a curveball data point. Bring a case you've struggled with or a story you're using for fit questions. Thirty minutes won't turn you into a finished case cracker, but it will show you exactly what's costing you points right now.