Crack the Case System: How to Conquer Your Case Interviews Paperback – October 2, 2015

Crack the Case is a great way to get ready for case interviews. The book takes you from understanding what case interviews are, through the important behavioral aspects of an interview, and finally through mastering the various types of cases (the vast majority of the book). It also provides various timelines that you can use to tailor your case prep, depending on how much time you have.David Ohrall splits up the cases into different types - Market Sizing, Case Starts, Mini Cases, and Full Business cases. As someone who has gone through the process of learning how to case before, it was useful to start at the beginning, and review each of these. Each builds on top of the previous ones, which helped me to both not forget what I had just learned, and to also further understand the concepts.I'm pleasantly surprised at the amount of focus that the book puts on understanding business situations rather than memorizing frameworks. I would highly recommend the book to anyone looking to learn how to case interview.

I'm a UCLA Anderson student going through consulting case interviews, so I of course have all 3 of the important ones but I found David Ohrvall's "Crack the Case System" to be the most bang for my buck -- great advice, really helpful resources (online case practice, well-done handouts & printables, etc), and approaches to case interviews that don't make you a robot. If you are looking to get into management consulting, I suggest getting this book FIRST. (Marc & Victor's are good too, but I wish I spent my time reading Ohrvall's first.)

Had great content. Helped me land my current job

I purchased the book after going to one of the author's seminars. He is a fantastic coach– down to earth and realistic about how firms approach these interviews. Maybe my only complaint is an abundance of silly acronyms, but hey if that helps you, then it works.

Eh, about 25% of the book is useful. The rest, is mediocre.

Great book to read and learn from; Ohrvall does a masterful job in crafting the content that covers everything required to be successful in a case interview - the behavioural component, case prompts, case structures/frameworks and the different sub-parts to a full case. All of these aspects were really helpful to me and I I highly recommend the book to everyone thinking about a career in consulting.

Pritty Good case book. A little different way of looking at frameworks, and perhaps a bit over usage of attempted proprietary names, systems and frameworks as well. But a nice additional book to through into your consulting training. Also useful if you are prepping for Bain specifically.

I don't think this book is very helpful for modern day cases. It didn't help me with structuring as much as I was hoping for.