Case library
Example interviews
Read a whole interview before you run one. Each example is run twice, by a strong and a weak candidate, with a note on each answer and the interviewer's scorecard at the end.
A written example. Not a recording of a real candidate.
Case interviews
Three formats on three worked cases: interviewer-led, candidate-led, and a chatbot-style online case with a spoken close. Every number is checked against the worked case.
- Interviewer-led caseProfit down on flat revenue: a coffee chain, strong and weakAn interviewer-led profitability case run twice: once by a candidate who uses flat revenue to go straight to cost, and once by a candidate who brings a framework, freezes on the break-even math and closes with a recap.Read the example
- Candidate-led caseSnack brand enters Saudi Arabia: candidate-led, strong and weakA candidate-led market entry case run twice: once by a candidate who plans the whole case and lets the numbers pick the entry mode, and once by a candidate whose math skips a step and who runs out of time before the close.Read the example
- Chatbot-style online caseChatbot-style online case with a spoken close, strong and weakA timed online case with no going back, a typed recommendation and a spoken close of about one minute, run twice: once calmly, and once by a candidate who forgets fixed costs, runs out of time and records a recap instead of an answer.Read the example
Fit interviews
The same true story told well and badly under layered follow-up questions, as in a personal experience interview.
- Personal experience interviewPersonal experience interview on persuasion, strong and weakOne story about persuading someone who disagreed, told twice under five follow-up questions: once with the actions, the other person's words and the numbers, and once in general terms that collapse under the second question.Read the example
- Personal experience interviewPersonal experience interview on initiative, strong and weakOne story about fixing a problem nobody owned, told twice under six follow-up questions: once with the size of the problem, the obstacle and the before and after numbers, and once as a list of claims about being proactive.Read the example
How to use these
- Read the prompt and plan your own answer before you read either run.
- Read the strong run straight through, then the weak run, then both side by side with the notes.
- Run the same case yourself in the simulator or with a partner, or drill one of your own stories in the story workshop.
The case notes score the five criteria of the Partner mode rubric; the fit notes score structure, ownership, specificity, evidence and reflection, the same checks as the story drill. These examples are original writing, not any firm's interviews, and no real candidate is shown.