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☛ Pick a branch to probe - Develop hypotheses, ask for relevant facts, defend/refine hypotheses based on new information, probe further, and describe implications you see. *Key note: if you find yourself running down a rabbit trail of random issues with no end, stop, think, and go back up to 30,000 feet to see if you are even in the right ballpark. It is better to discover this halfway into the interview and leave yourself some recovery time, than to discover this when your hour is done.
☛ Pick a second branch, and so on.
☛ Prioritize your responses - Support your arguments with your strongest points first.
☛ Put it all together - Try to answer overall questions (the big picture) with a reasonable, actionable conclusion.
❅ Review where you have been, and what you know
❅ Clarify what you do not understand, and what, with more time, you would like to know
❅ Solidify and tender your recommendation (where appropriate, as sometimes the interviewer cares less about your recommendation, and more about how you get to it).
☛ Get feedback. Sometimes this is appropriate, sometimes it is not. If the case was a real example, they may tell you what really happened. Each case is a learning experience, and it might be good to know that you missed the boat completely - next time you will do better. If you go out thinking you hit it, but really missed the boat, next time you will make the same mistakes.
☛ Pick a second branch, and so on.
☛ Prioritize your responses - Support your arguments with your strongest points first.
☛ Put it all together - Try to answer overall questions (the big picture) with a reasonable, actionable conclusion.
❅ Review where you have been, and what you know
❅ Clarify what you do not understand, and what, with more time, you would like to know
❅ Solidify and tender your recommendation (where appropriate, as sometimes the interviewer cares less about your recommendation, and more about how you get to it).
☛ Get feedback. Sometimes this is appropriate, sometimes it is not. If the case was a real example, they may tell you what really happened. Each case is a learning experience, and it might be good to know that you missed the boat completely - next time you will do better. If you go out thinking you hit it, but really missed the boat, next time you will make the same mistakes.
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