LOMS – Case Interview Prep

Rating:

★★★★★ (4/5)

Best for candidates who:

  • Have business backgrounds;
  • Already know basic financial terms;
  • Don’t require help with understanding the consulting career.

Details:

LOMS provides a good option for a candidate that needs to focus in improving their case solving skills and lacks experience and real world examples in how to do it.

Focus of the material: Case interview, learn by watching other people.

This material is best for a candidate with a business background, whom already knows basic financial terms, and that doesn’t require help with understanding the consulting career.

LOMS provides a good option for a candidate that needs to focus in improving their case solving skills and lacks experience and real world examples in how to do it.

Focus of the material: Case interview, learn by watching other people.

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List of Materials

Free

Some articles on Fit Interview

Meeting board for case interview practice

Math tool

Casebooks

Articles on some business concepts

Paid

LOMS videos with case interview examples

Other advanced courses that cost extra

Overview

Possible tariffs

371 USD

Hours of training

20-45

Focus of the material
  • Case interview: fit part
  • Case interview: math
  • Case interview: case
  • Case interview: theory
Format
  • Video Tutorials
  • Video Practice

Assessment

Basics of Business Concepts

Strengths

• Knowledge of basic concepts (Revenue, Profit) is enough to understand the content

• Explains Issue Tree, hypothesis, frameworks, MECE, ROE, Return, Equity

Weaknesses

• The material doesn’t cover concepts such as NPV, IRR, pricing models without which the candidate will not be able to solve specific cases

• Concepts are not consolidated, hard to find and search between the articles

Personal Fit

Strengths

• Explains some basics on fit interviews, what the interviewer is looking for

• Decent McKinsey PEI articleperspective.

Weaknesses

• Not the focus of the material, doesn’t go in depth in any fit topics or explain how to create your own answer

Case Interview: Theory

Strengths

• Covers most of the theory you need to solve a basic case

• Basic theory is good, presented in the videos

Weaknesses

• Outdated theory and case solving methodology

• Force fits every case in two insufficient frameworks

Case Interview: Practice

Strengths

• Good videos with decent tips, learning by example with useful insigths

• Tool to practice with others

Weaknesses

• No materials for self-practicing

• Cases limited in industry and complexity

Case Interview: Math

Strengths

• Has a math tool

• Some case interview math in the videos

Weaknesses

• Math tool isn’t great and has some errors

• No math theory or tips

Path Clarity

Strengths

• Clear paths through the LOMS material, course is very linear and easy to follow

• Same for the book

Weaknesses

• Blog is hard to search and very disorganized

• Website is badly structured and very hard to search