Careers
The Interview Is a Test of Structure, Not Knowledge
Graduate recruiters are not checking whether you know the answer. They are checking whether you can build one in public.
Marcus Adeyemi20 April 20266 min read
Case interviews are frequently mistaken for knowledge tests, which is why candidates over-prepare industry facts and under-prepare reasoning.
What an interviewer records is sequence: did the candidate clarify the question, name the components, choose a path, and revise when handed contradicting data?
General-management training rehearses exactly this loop, week after week, in front of a cohort that will interrupt you. By the time the interview arrives it is a familiar format rather than a performance.