By Florian Smeritschnig, Former McKinsey Senior Consultant. Updated November, 2026. Case interview note-taking is an important skill to master as it directly influences your ability to think and structure. For most candidates, they turn into a scribbled mess that slows them down and breaks their train of thought halfway through the case. Interviewers never grade…
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Updated July 2026. By Florian Smeritschnig, former McKinsey Senior Consultant. An online case interview is a normal consulting case interview run over video, almost always on Zoom, and the firm scores it with the exact same criteria it uses in person: your structure, your math, and how clearly you communicate. What changes is everything around…
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Updated October 2026. By Florian Smeritschnig, former McKinsey Senior Consultant You can grind through 50 practice cases and still walk into your McKinsey interview with no idea whether you’re ready. That’s the trap. Volume without feedback just cements the same mistakes, case after case. A case interview feedback sheet fixes that. It’s a scorecard that…
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By Florian Smeritschnig, former McKinsey Senior Consultant · Updated November 2026 A case interview is a job interview, used by consulting firms like McKinsey, BCG, and Bain, in which you solve a realistic business problem out loud while the interviewer scores your structuring, problem-solving, analytics, math, business judgment, and communication. A single case runs about…
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Updated November 2026 · By Florian Smeritschnig, Former McKinsey Senior Consultant The 42 best free case interview examples in 2026 are the ones the consulting firms publish themselves, six from McKinsey, four from Bain, three from BCG, eleven from Deloitte, plus official cases from Kearney, Strategy&, Accenture, Roland Berger, Oliver Wyman, Simon Kucher, OC&C, Capital…
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Florian spent five years at McKinsey as a Senior Consultant and is a highly experienced consulting interviewer and problem-solving coach. Having conducted interviews with hundreds of candidates, he understands exactly what top-tier firms look for in successful applicants.
He founded StrategyCase.com to make top consulting careers more accessible by providing tailored, up-to-date insights into the recruiting process. Recognized as the most successful case and fit interview coach, Florian has helped his clients secure 700+ offers at MBB, Tier-2 firms, Big 4 consulting divisions, in-house consultancies, and boutique firms over the past four years.
He is the author of “The 1%: Conquer Your Consulting Case Interview,” “The 1%: Case Interview Workbook,” and “Consulting Career Secrets”, all available on Amazon.
