Embrace the Case Interview: Paperback Edition: The complete guide from getting the interview to landing the job

Quite simply an excellent case guide book. Having consumed all literature on the case interview, Embrace the Case is, in my judgment, the only required reading toa) excel in a case interview at a top-tier firm consulting firm.orb) enhance your ability, as a business person, to solve business problems.Compared to the two most popular traditional case books, Embrace the Case is sharper, more "gemba", it renders the feeling of being "where the value is created", it provides stronger real life examples and is less stylistic and overly rigid than the two current "market leaders".Yet, market leaders, beware: Embrace the Case is stronger on substance.Recently, I spoke to a consultant at a top-3 consulting firm whose advice were crystal clear: Flexible framework/structured problem-solving, make sure your "hard skills" (i.e. maths, 20/80 "thinking") are robust, and communicate confidently. Embrace the Case goes beyond these advice to offer a comprehensive, yet easily accesible, foundation on which to prepare for the case interview. While the 6-prong approach offers a flexible framework and the chapters on quantitative and qualitative analyses may enhance your hard skills, Mr Schiller also shares the secret to make the interview feel like a conversation rather than an interview and tips on how to improve your soft skills.From the resume guide to the practice cases, and particularly the summary at the end of each chapter, this book is both a practical case interview handbook and resource for experienced business persons.Reading Schiller's Embrace the Case is tantamount to reading From 0 to 1 by Peter Thiel. When you are bored skimming traditional text books on "innovation", all you want is a pair of X-ray goggles. This book makes you think, not only memorising the M&A framework, and instead let you develop what matters: The strucutre, the priority "intuition", the synthesis, the hard skills and the soft skills.I recommend this book not only to prospective consultants but also to people in industry, like myself, who endeavour to think like a consultant when approaching daily business problems. A startlingly original read, which guarantees ROI, whether you aspire to enter consulting or merely want to get sharper!

I've read a lot of case interview preparation guidebooks out there (Case In Point, Case Interview Secrets, Case Interview Success, Crack the Case System) but I think this book is the best in scope and depth. It covers everything that you need to be successful at interviews with top consulting firms, starting from networking, to small talk, resume, cover letter, behavioral interview, case interview, answering creative questions etc. It also gives you a lot of helpful tips that you won't probably get from somewhere else such as when to best schedule your interviews.The 6-prong approach to solving a case that the author provides is also the most flexible and comprehensive framework I've seen. It's intuitive and sensible but flexible enough that allows you to tackle a wide variety of cases. He also explains it in an easy to understand way so that even people without business background can quickly grasp the concepts. It helps you to always think in term of big picture and think like a consultant instead of having to memorize a bunch of frameworks and scenarios.I can't recommend this book highly enough to prepare for your case interview. Add it to your case interview preparation library, you will quickly realize how amazing this book is!

This book is well thought out. I wholly recommend it whether you are a student, from industry, or looking to change to a career (even with non-business background) in management consulting, this is the book that will inspire and drive your confidence.EMBRACE THE CASE - INTERVIEW, truly embraces the entire process from personal characteristics, contacting firms, to CV writing, cover letters, the interview process including the behavioral interview and resolving the business case problem. It does all this in a detail oriented approach.With regard to resolving the business case problem, Mr Schiller uses an example case (JugWater) to describe and explain his powerful and flexible model - The Six Prongs - used to structure all following practice business problems cases.The practice cases (along with their in-depth answers) are gems sharping your thought process and math skills.Buy EMBRACE THE CASE with full confidence you will have access to the knowledge you are seeking (I personally recommend a physical copy) as well as a book you may even want to refer to in the future. And in the words of Mr Schiller this book is "THE GREAT EQUALIZER."George A Gomes

Update: over the past few months I've had several coaching sessions with Brad. Brad is one of the best coaches out there -he's able to help me not only horn my interview skills but the way I think about business problems, which ultimately helped me land the offer I wanted. Thanks Brad!I've read almost all of the well reviewed case interview guides (Case In Point, Crack the Case, Case Interview Secrets, etc) and think this one offers the best combination of great structure and practice cases with high-quality sample answers. While Case Interview Secrets provides a great general guidance to strategy case interviews, it only has one big example case, and I would often find math issues with the answers in Crack the Case...Case In Point is a classic, but if you are looking for more up-to-date and interviewer-led style case interview guides, this is a must have.

A solid book.I had heard of consulting as a discipline only very briefly when I was called to interview with MBB. 3 weeks to prepare and never done a case in my life. I frantically searched amazon and found this book.3 weeks later, I passed through round 1. Decision round was tough and I was dinged shortly after.Nevertheless, with this book, I was able to make it past a round that some MBAs do not. And I'm not from a financial or business background either, which says a lotBuy it, and spend more than 3 weeks - I'm sure you won't be disappointed.

Found this one after I read an answer by the author on quora. Super happy that I bought it even though I made most of the other books.