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McKinsey, Bain & BCG recruiting — the mechanism, the funnel, and the honest reality check

What McKinsey, Bain, and BCG each say, in their own words, the case interview and PEI/fit interview actually test — and the real recruiting funnel underneath the marketing: resume/GPA screen, firm-specific online assessment (McKinsey Solve, Bain SOVA, BCG's Casey chatbot), first round, final round, offer. Covers the real case archetypes and why a memorized framework is a named, documented failure mode; the mechanical math-and-structuring skill floor; a realistic prep timeline reconciled against both the '6 months' and '3 weeks' claims you'll see; the free-first-then-paid resource landscape including a skeptical, source-checked look at a named paid coaching program; and a kill-switch module that tells you honestly what to fix first if your profile isn't competitive yet. Every specific acceptance-rate and pass-rate percentage circulating in case-prep marketing was checked and, where untraceable to a primary source, named and flagged rather than repeated — the same [Established]/[Directional]/[Speculative] discipline as this platform's other research-grade courses. Barebones first-pass build; a course-max pass is planned later.

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