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Case interviews
1. Career Center
Duke Career Center • studentaffairs.duke.edu/career • 919-660-1050 •
Bay 5, Smith Warehouse, 2nd Floor • 114 S. Buchanan Blvd., Box 90950, Durham, NC 27708
Resources for Sample Cases:
• Management Consulting Case Interviews: http://www.consultingcase101.com/
• Capital One: http://www.capitalone.com/careers/hiring/business_case.php
• McKinsey: http://www.mckinsey.com/careers/how_do_i_apply/how_to_do_well_in_the_interview.aspx
• Novantas: http://www.novantas.com/careers_cases2.php
• Boston Consulting Group: http://www.bcg.com/join_bcg/interview_prep/process/default.aspx
• L.E.K. Consulting: http://www.lek.com/careers/europe/how-to-apply/interview-preparation
• Crack the Case: How to Conquer Your Case Interviews, David Ohrvall
• Case in Point: Complete Case Interview Preparation, Marc Consentino
Problem Solving Interview
1. How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?
2. You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and your mass is proportionally reduced so as to maintain your
original density. You are then thrown into an empty glass blender. The blades will start moving in 60
seconds. What do you do?
3. How much should you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle?
4. How would you find out if a machine’s stack grows up or down in memory?
5. Explain a database in three sentences to your eight-year-old nephew.
6. How many times a day does a clock’s hands overlap?
7. You have to get from point A to point B. You don’t know if you can get there. What would you do?
8. Imagine you have a closet full of shirts. It’s very hard to find a shirt. So what can you do to organize
your shirts for easy retrieval?
9. In a country in which people only want boys, every family continues to have children until they have a
boy. If they have a girl, they have another child, if they have a boy they stop. What is the proportion of
boys to girls in the country?
Sample Questions from GlassDoor
Case Interviews
Case interviews are used to examine a candidate’s ability to think critically in
analyzing a business problem and to provide insights in an articulate way.
