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The problems that you will experience are not intended to be brain teasers,
or analytical problems designed to stump you, but rather to represent the challenges that our clients face. We love this style because we have the ability to address cases based on our own client work.
A case interview is a specific form of work interview methodology used mainly by management consulting firms (and increasingly investment banks and tech firms) to better test applicants by testing their analytical abilities in a stressed real-time environment. The case interview question is usually either a business problem, exercise calculation, arithmetic or logic problem designed to make you think on your toes, use rationality and common sense. We want to see that you can evaluate knowledge, structure and answer simple calculations with large numbers when under pressure. Pressure is that you are in a job interview with a company most definitely searching for a position that you've worked really hard on.
The experience interview gives us a scope to hear about your successes, consider your motives and passions, and find out why you're looking for a career in consulting.
Your interviewer, our consultants, may begin by asking typical abstract questions in order to gain a better understanding of your history, interests and career goals. Some interviewers can perform a mini-case based on your professional or academic experience. The mini-case provides an overview of the strategic project that you have worked on and an analysis of the approach that you and your team have taken to establish a theory and a suggestion, as well as the measures taken to execute the recommendation. Our team is looking for someone who is able to-
An aptitude test is an assessment used to evaluate the cognitive capacity or personality of an applicant. They are particularly common in work evaluations as they can be used to predict the probability of a candidate's performance in a job, thus mitigating any prejudice through their systematic administration.
We agree that the best way to test your problem-solving abilities is to address a particular client situation with you. This helps us understand how you organize difficult, ambiguous business problems, define key issues, address all the consequences of facts and evidence, formulate conclusions and suggestions, and express your thoughts in a fast-moving conversation.