Clearly the most disconnected interviewer I have ever seen in any of the case interviews. Shockingly unrealistic numbers too. Which truck has average lifespan of 50 mile?
The main takes for me are: Q1: Good enough but the candidate could get more specific although the point about purchase criteria was awesome/ overall I would try to structure my framework even better than this. Q2: Really good insights with a really good structure to tackle the problem. Maybe as this is going to be about electric trucks, talking about the mile's range of the truck and charging capacity (also infrastructure of new charging stations costs) of the vehicle, also the actual time that the truck can be used is important as well. Q3: Nice and structured and really good calculations, although the numbers were really easy to do the calculations. Q4: Good analysis but I think she forgot to mention the cost of making the car for our customer and also taking into consideration the investments our client should make in order to build new e-truck.
While calculating the cost to customer, you got $0.5 per mile for diesel. Then while doing the yearly calculations, you added $25 (50 miles) to $20600 of maintenance costs? Isn't 50 miles per year for a B2B commercial a bit too low? 20600 becoming just 20625 is a pretty big calculation red flag in itself. Lastly, what about manufacturing costs per unit for diesel vs electric? Won't that be a big function of determining the price among many others?
you' ll know why the calculation insights are fuzzy. This Case is lifted from Peter k mbb 2020 case book ; candidate reads the exact solution as in the book , lol ! We're here to learn from an ex McKinsey Consultant and rocketblocks how to case , what a sham !!! It is such a blatant imitation of Peter k. resource that even the order of questions asked by the candidate like maintenance costs , revenue factors , cost factors including complete structure are in exact order as In the solution sheet. Someone trying to benchmark their performance to the candidate or here to learn from an ex consultant in this video to get an idea of at the bar performance for a McKinsey is being misled . Do you think , it was not evident from the start that the candidate had the exact answer key to this McKinsey 2020 diesel truck case !!! Lol the interviewer tried to bring in a bit of a surprise by changing the numbers from 68k miles to 50 miles when the candidate ducked down the camera suddenly struggling with the calculation realising that the answer on the solution sheet won't match. What does one learn from this video: how to curate a staged case interview performance . Look at the interviewer's page preview at 11:35 minute of the video ; she is at 13 th page of the book which of course the candidate has an exact solution too. The entire video is literally the candidate reading out the exact solution of Peter k "like word by word ". I now have a very poor impression of rocket blocks as a resource . Shame ! Look how the candidate an ex McKinsey consultant keeps fixing her gaze on her device screen where the solution is ( minutes 17:11 ) staring up and then towards the screen with all those hand gestures to stage a perfect show.
why are we including the cost of energy consumption in the calculation of the manufacturing cost of the trucks? Aren't the costs of energy going to be incurred by the businesses that buy the trucks from our client?
The pricing approach here is value based. If you have a reference product that competes with the new product you can calculate what additional value or cost savings it brings if they switch to the other products. In this case they calculate that it is cheaper for the customer to run an EV truck, so your potential price is somewhere between the price of a diesel truck and (price of diesel truck + potential savings)
- Also the controversial part that a diesel manufacturing company using and E-truck may be a risk to business. - No questions were asked about how many trucks are they thinking to manufacture on a yearly basis for the next 3-5 years - Nothing pointed out on what will happen with the current diesel operated trucks they own - for reccomendation and next steps indentifying synergies in the current production diesel plant and leveraging the manufacutring arm
Clearly the most disconnected interviewer I have ever seen in any of the case interviews. Shockingly unrealistic numbers too. Which truck has average lifespan of 50 mile?
The candidate was truly competent, well structured and I hope she got the offer ❤
The main takes for me are:
Q1: Good enough but the candidate could get more specific although the point about purchase criteria was awesome/ overall I would try to structure my framework even better than this.
Q2: Really good insights with a really good structure to tackle the problem. Maybe as this is going to be about electric trucks, talking about the mile's range of the truck and charging capacity (also infrastructure of new charging stations costs) of the vehicle, also the actual time that the truck can be used is important as well.
Q3: Nice and structured and really good calculations, although the numbers were really easy to do the calculations.
Q4: Good analysis but I think she forgot to mention the cost of making the car for our customer and also taking into consideration the investments our client should make in order to build new e-truck.
some good summary / thoughts here Ali!
While calculating the cost to customer, you got $0.5 per mile for diesel. Then while doing the yearly calculations, you added $25 (50 miles) to $20600 of maintenance costs? Isn't 50 miles per year for a B2B commercial a bit too low? 20600 becoming just 20625 is a pretty big calculation red flag in itself.
Lastly, what about manufacturing costs per unit for diesel vs electric? Won't that be a big function of determining the price among many others?
you' ll know why the calculation insights are fuzzy. This Case is lifted from Peter k mbb 2020 case book ; candidate reads the exact solution as in the book , lol ! We're here to learn from an ex McKinsey Consultant and rocketblocks how to case , what a sham !!!
It is such a blatant imitation of Peter k. resource that even the order of questions asked by the candidate like maintenance costs , revenue factors , cost factors including complete structure are in exact order as In the solution sheet. Someone trying to benchmark their performance to the candidate or here to learn from an ex consultant in this video to get an idea of at the bar performance for a McKinsey is being misled . Do you think , it was not evident from the start that the candidate had the exact answer key to this McKinsey 2020 diesel truck case !!! Lol the interviewer tried to bring in a bit of a surprise by changing the numbers from 68k miles to 50 miles when the candidate ducked down the camera suddenly struggling with the calculation realising that the answer on the solution sheet won't match. What does one learn from this video: how to curate a staged case interview performance . Look at the interviewer's page preview at 11:35 minute of the video ; she is at 13 th page of the book which of course the candidate has an exact solution too. The entire video is literally the candidate reading out the exact solution of Peter k "like word by word ". I now have a very poor impression of rocket blocks as a resource . Shame ! Look how the candidate an ex McKinsey consultant keeps fixing her gaze on her device screen where the solution is ( minutes 17:11 ) staring up and then towards the screen with all those hand gestures to stage a perfect show.
God, this is real shock
haha, this 50 miles number is so wtf. Should probably be more like 100-200 miles a day
why are we including the cost of energy consumption in the calculation of the manufacturing cost of the trucks? Aren't the costs of energy going to be incurred by the businesses that buy the trucks from our client?
The pricing approach here is value based. If you have a reference product that competes with the new product you can calculate what additional value or cost savings it brings if they switch to the other products. In this case they calculate that it is cheaper for the customer to run an EV truck, so your potential price is somewhere between the price of a diesel truck and (price of diesel truck + potential savings)
- Also the controversial part that a diesel manufacturing company using and E-truck may be a risk to business.
- No questions were asked about how many trucks are they thinking to manufacture on a yearly basis for the next 3-5 years
- Nothing pointed out on what will happen with the current diesel operated trucks they own
- for reccomendation and next steps indentifying synergies in the current production diesel plant and leveraging the manufacutring arm