Crafting Cases

CraftingCases content has the advantage of being the closest one to a real case interview. Along with teaching you a more practical and more effective practice routine, the courses provide you with real opportunities to stand out in your interview in full, not only in the case. Every time I would read case interview material on the internet, I’d be met with anguish for thinking I didn’t have the time for all that, not to mention having no idea where to start. CraftingCases seems to have found a way to minimize this anguish faced by many and teaches efficient practice routines to improve in your cases and even help you start out from scratch. Two points caught my attention and helped me the most: 1. Dividing the case into modules, allowing you to practice specifically what you find the most difficult. Also, showing you many different kinds of structures and how to practice each one! 2. Their concern and tips on the aspects that are “not a part of the case”, like communication and structuring your thoughts. These tips are both explicitly in the texts and videos and implicitly in the examples Julio and Bruno show. The result of this training was an offer from BCG, final round interviews with McKinsey, and a final round with a smaller firm, Mirow & Co, even though I could only practice just under two hours per day due to my job. I can only thank CraftingCases for all the help; it certainly put me in a completely different level than other candidates.

Before Crafting Cases, I was very insecure while doing cases and really had difficulties controlling this in interviews, mainly because I didn't know how to handle the several possible situations of a case interview. My study method was not objective at all and I never knew exactly where I had to improve. I studied random industries, read complex MBB articles that did not help much, and did cases with partners who weren't greatly improving my performance over time. LOMS, Case Interview Secrets and other sources were not helping me anymore. This made me get rejected at a BCG final round last semester. I always felt that something was missing in my study, an exhaustive and organized way to prepare for cases. Crafting Cases had all these things I was looking for: a well structured form of learning that made sense and that allowed me to solve several types of cases, no matter how strange the situation presented by the interviewer was. The aspects of CraftingCases that added the most value for me were: 1.The six building blocks, which made very clear how to answer questions in an interview and the WHY behind each question. Among the building blocks, I highlight the objective-driven frameworks, which really opened my mind on how to structure questions to solve any problem and make any decision (My uni consulting club even used it to build a framework to decide which people should join the club). The brainstormings part also helped a lot in differentiating when to structure different hypotheses/solutions and how to do it in an ideal way, which impresses interviewers. 2. The drills practice mode, which gave me much more time for practical study and didn't require extensive training with partners. I would say that after getting to know Crafting, my study time was divided into 60% theory, 30% drills and 10% partner practice. I would say that I exaggerated a bit in the theory and practiced little with partners though, my final suggestion would be 40/40/20. In the end, I got an offer from a boutique consulting firm! Now, I didn't have that many chances to interview this semester: my options were with this boutique, Bain and a startup (yes, they are using case interviews to hire BAs now too). In every single one of these firms, I got to a final round. My Bain offer rejection was more of a fit problem: I must add that in the entire Bain process interviewers were giving me feedback of how good my structuring and brainstorming skills were and how well prepared I was. Also, I feel quite "ready" for the problem solving part of the consulting job, since the content produced by CraftingCases always focus in how things are done in real life. If somehow I managed to pass the BCG final round last semester, I would probably struggle a lot in the problem-solving part of the job in the first months, since I was still in "la-la land". Overall, I would recommend the course for both beginners who already have an idea of what a case is about, as well as advanced people who are frustrated with their preparation from other sources. Many people study from very limited books and get an offer depending on luck/fit, others do an insane amount of cases with partners (120+) and also get an offer mostly because it's overkill. CraftingCases offers an interesting alternative to these two: it caters to those looking for a balanced study that will require dedication from you but at the same time won't leave you in burnout mode, uneasy and discouraged with the entire learning process until the offer. All content produced by Bruno and Júlio is worth it, including the course, blog, newsletter, casebook and now youtube! Highly recommend these guys!

I have just started reviewing your course, but I can already say that this is an excellent resource and you have done an incredible job. It is definitely one of the most useful preparation materials for consulting interviews ever. Thank you so much.

I stumbled across Case Interview Fundamentals Mid February after I had failed two second tier consulting interviews in a row. Despite diligently practicing cases every day for over three months following the suggestions of Case in Point and Victor Cheng, I've had the impression of being stuck, unable to improve. And yet, my results were not sufficient to land me an internship... In my despair, I gave the course a try and it turned out to be the best decision that I could have made! Case Interview Fundamentals was the turnaround point for me. Bruno and Julio finally made me understand what it really takes to excel in a consulting interview and at the job. The interactive videos and drills made it both more exciting and more effective to practice the key skillsets without being reliant on case prep partners and their erratic feedback quality. Two days ago, after practicing with Case Interview Fundamentals for another two months, I was able to land my dream internship at McKinsey. I'd honestly pay for this course if it wasn't for free. The content is just outstanding and better than anything that I've seen before. A big thanks you to Bruno and Julio, you guys enabled me to achieve a dream!

This Course has been incredribly helpful within such a Short Amount of Time. Even with no prior experience, Your techniques Helped me to structure and Talk about any case like a Real consultant ( according to my Interviewers). within one week of Training, i had such an incredible learning Curve, despite the fact that I had Not done any cases before or read the Standard literature. So even in this Situation, the Concept of the Course Works out Really well and i was able to Receive an internship offer at MBB today. Thanks to this course, i felt confident to Master all the cases I received and it also enabled me to Connect with my Interviewers on an eye-to-eye basis.

Great teaching skills, interesting and innovative approaches to case cracking, this is simply great! Thank you!!

I have taken several online courses from all kinds of stuff: marketing, statistics, management and so on (and paid for them). But this is the best course I have ever seen. Can't believe you guys did it for free. Huge thanks =D

Crafting Cases has a crystal clear explanation. Even for a beginner. Simple English, very well structured (of course), and easy to understand. Thanks a lot...

This is the most logical, structured preparation for case interview I've seen. I've recommended this website to at least 5 other people I know who are preparing for case interviews. I look forward to the material in the paid courses.

Best course on the internet - so thoughtful and well-produced! Amazing it's all free!

Dear Bruno and Julio, I am sold on your free course! The content is solid and the examples clearly demonstrate the concepts. I had prepared for consulting 2years ago, so I am aware of the case flow and the basic concepts. However, after going through your course, I understand why I did not crack MBB. I was practicing cases for the count of it, and had barely any improvement more than the tit-bits of best practices shared by seniors. This course is conceptual and I wish I had access to it when I was first starting off. Kudos to you guys! All the best with Crafting cases! P.S. You can training consultants to be better consultants as well! ;)