A 10-minute scan: cement
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The prompt
Your interview tomorrow is with an office that works on building materials. Run the scan for cement. Then check the core unit economics: a plant in India sells cement at INR 5,000 per tonne (illustrative). Its costs per tonne are power and fuel INR 1,200, freight INR 1,100, raw materials INR 800 and other costs INR 1,100. What is EBITDA per tonne (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization; here, price minus these cash operating costs), and what is yearly EBITDA for a plant with 5 million tonnes of capacity running at 70 percent utilization?
Practice with a partner
1. Send the interviewer link to a friend. They read the case aloud and hold the answers.
2. You open the candidate view: you see only the prompt, a timer and a notes box.
3. Speak the case out loud. Your partner shares data when you ask, then scores you with the rubric.
Interviewer view
For the person running the case
Candidate view
For the person answering the case
Clarifying questions, with the interviewer's answers
My notes on this case
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