Yep, Parthenon first-round interviews should be 30 minutes behavioral and market sizing (probably split 20 minutes behavioral and 10 minutes market sizing), and then 30 minutes of a case.

In my experience, the cases are pretty standard, and perhaps even easier than average. It's stuff like "I'm considering starting a ferry service between Brooklyn and New York - should I do it?" And then you draw out a standard revenues-and-profits issue tree, and maybe do some market sizing for the revenues component.

No particular focus on M&A cases, despite their reputation for due diligence work or whatnot.

 
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