PartnerRoundSizing the UK ready-meal market
A clean estimation drill with a built-in sanity check. Good first case if you have never done one.
20 minutesCandidate-ledRetail
The prompt
This is what the interviewer will open with.
A grocery client wants a view on the size of the UK chilled ready-meal market by annual retail value. How would you estimate it?
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Set a timer and treat it as real. Do not pause to look things up.
Take thirty seconds before your structure, and say you are doing it. Silence reads as paralysis; announced silence reads as rigour.
Ask for specific data rather than “what do you have?”: the interviewer will push back on the vague version, exactly as a real one would.
Finish with a proper synthesis: recommendation first, then two or three supports, then risks and the next step.
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