為了怕以後懶惰或忘記,趕快上來把面試經過po一下
現在是MBA求職的旺季,所以我也是忙著投履歷跟面試
首先要提醒有心想投上海北京辦公室的
為了出線機會大, Nationality最好放chinese instead of Taiwan
不是為了政治正確,是因為很多全球consulting recruite在篩選時只記得要把chinese的履歷挑給中國辦公室,很容易漏掉taiwanese,連面試機會都沒有的話那還玩什麼呢?這是個人親身體驗....
今天來分享昨天剛做完的Booz Allen第一輪面試:
兩個面試各40分鐘,前十分鐘他問你fit question,然後一個case,然後你問他問題,我第一個面試是法國人在荷蘭office. 一開使先介紹他自己的背景,接著問你why consulting, why Booz Allen,what's your biggerst achivement, what's your trasferable skills(for doing consulting),Why do you change job so often (三年三個產業),then proceed to the case. 題目是有兩個石油天然氣公司要合併,請你評估這兩個公司的運輸部門合併的synergy.運輸部門主要是把石油從煉油廠吸出,載到零售加油站.
Ans: 首先你要體認it's not a revenue center but a cost center. Then you have to break down the cost to find the cost driver...the cost include fixed cost and VC, for example you can think of a order processing team to schedule the truck, and truck drivers+car+fuel. 然後你要估what's the propotion of these costs, for example one person from the central order processing team can schedule 10 to 20 trunks a day, so the cost of central team accounts for 5 to 10% of the total cost while the truck and driver accounts for the rest. 然後你要找出cost driver to reduce the main chunk of the cost,就是distance & volume你要總結總怎樣有synergy, 比如說公司合併後可以合併卡車運送路線, 卡車可以一趟多送幾家加油站(因為何併家後公司加油站是以前的兩倍),也可以趁機裁員等等....不過這些省下的好處也許是一時,因為公司可能進一步把加油站統合,加油站數量就減少了
case總結後你問他公司方面的問題, what kind of project do Booz Allen handel the most? Why do you choose to stay in consulting for such a long time etc.
第二個面試機本上是一樣的架構,case是有一個題塑膠零件生產商,主要賣給零件給汽車制造廠,他在歐州有十家工廠(Germany 4, UK, 2, France 2, Italy 2),average utilization rate is 50 to 55%,客戶demand(Germany 30%, UK 15%, France 15%, Italy 20% the rest of Europe 20%),Please advise how they can lower the cost.
也是個想如何reduce cost的題目,要記得尋問客戶最重視的是什麼, lead time or quility etc... 在決定是否可以合併, 裁撤工廠等等
基本上面試最重要是一定要多面練習做case,由其是revenue, cost的組成要爛熟,還有不要緊張,我第一個面試真的很緊張,又聽到是不熟的天然氣石油產業就慌了,結果沒有做好,第二個就很順,面試完24小時後公司就會給你結果了,我Booz Allen並沒有到第二關,不過經過這次經驗,我今天跟Bain的面試就很順,下星期會第二輪面試,希望也可以順利,下次再上來po Bain的面試