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One guide per firm, built from what that firm publishes about its own process rather than from what candidates remember. Where a firm prints its rounds, its assessment vendor or its scoring criteria, the guide quotes it and dates the reading. Where a firm publishes nothing, the guide says so instead of filling the gap with a generalisation borrowed from another firm. That distinction matters more than it sounds: the processes diverge most where firms say least.

64 guides.

ClearView Healthcare Partners 2026: Who It Hires and Pays

ClearView Healthcare Partners is a life sciences strategy firm founded in Boston in 2007. Nineteen partners, six offices, and pay bands in its own job postings.

2026-10-08 · 15 min

Booz Hamilton or Booz Allen Hamilton? 2026 in Figures

People search Booz Hamilton; the firm is Booz Allen Hamilton, NYSE ticker BAH. Audited figures: $11.2 billion of revenue, 31,500 people, $38.2bn of backlog.

2026-10-08 · 16 min

EY Company Facts in 2026: $53.2b and 406,209 People

The EY company is a network of member firms, not one company. Revenue of $53.2 billion for the year to June 2025, 406,209 people, and letters EY never expands.

2026-10-08 · 15 min

What Is KPMG? Services, Internships, and Hiring 2026

KPMG is a global network of audit, tax and advisory firms: $39.8 billion in FY25, 276,030 people, 138 countries, and US internships that hire 21 months out.

2026-10-08 · 17 min

LEK Consultants 2026: The Firm Behind the Three Letters

L.E.K. publishes a 1983 founding, 27 offices and 2,300+ employees, and never expands its own initials. Every number LEK consultants can verify, and the gaps.

2026-10-08 · 11 min

ZS Company in 2026: The Firm Zoltners and Sinha Built

The ZS company is a management consulting and technology firm founded in 1983, with 15,000-plus people in 40-plus offices. It has sold software since 1986.

2026-10-08 · 15 min

Deloitte Strategy Consulting 2026: No Line of Its Own

Deloitte strategy consulting sits inside Strategy, Risk & Transactions, one of four businesses in a $74.5 billion network. No Consulting line is reported.

2026-10-07 · 12 min

EY Online Assessment 2026: Three Sections, One Timed

EY publishes 18 answers about its early careers skills assessment: three sections, one of them timed, 45 to 60 minutes, a 48-hour window, and no second attempt.

2026-10-07 · 15 min

McKinsey Solve Game 2026: The Two Tasks the Firm Names

What the McKinsey Solve game contains, from the firm itself: the two tasks its own video names, the rules it publishes, and the four things it withholds.

2026-10-07 · 12 min

What Is EY-Parthenon in 2026: One Brand, 25,036 People

EY-Parthenon is a brand, and EY says so in a footnote. Its service line booked $6,235 million in fiscal 2025 and reported 25,036 people, down 1.8 percent.

2026-09-30 · 15 min

What Is Monitor Deloitte in 2026: Bought in a Court Sale

Monitor Deloitte is Deloitte's global strategy practice. The name dates from January 2013, when a court-approved sale moved Monitor Group to Deloitte.

2026-09-30 · 20 min

What Is Roland Berger in 2026: The Firm in Its Own Words

What is Roland Berger? An independent partnership founded in Munich in 1967, about 3,500 people, seventeen industries, and a hiring process it publishes.

2026-09-30 · 13 min

A.T. Kearney Is Now Kearney 2026: What the Firm Sells

Kearney and McKinsey were one Chicago firm in 1926. The split, the 1947 name sale, the three networks Kearney sells now, and the round count it publishes.

2026-09-30 · 13 min

BCG Case Interview 2026: How to Prepare for All Rounds

A BCG case interview is a business problem solved out loud in a 45 minute slot. The stages BCG names, how its rounds run by office, and how to prepare.

2026-09-28 · 15 min

Bain Case Interview 2026: Two Tests, Two Different Rule Sets

A Bain case interview arrives after one of two different assessments, with different rules. The calculator rule, the two published cases, and the marking gap.

2026-09-28 · 16 min

LEK Case Interview 2026: Seven Steps, Two That Collide

The LEK case interview is seven numbered steps, and two of them pull against each other. What that tension asks of you, plus what the firm never publishes.

2026-09-28 · 15 min

Oliver Wyman Case Interview 2026: What the Firm Marks You On

Oliver Wyman calls the interviewer your client. It also publishes six worked cases, a 26-question test, and a one-year bar on reapplying. All of it here.

2026-09-28 · 17 min

McKinsey Case Interview 2026: The Complete Prep Guide

McKinsey case interview prep: the two interviews the firm names, the four themes with its published questions, its four free cases, and a preparation order.

2026-09-27 · 20 min

Accenture Case Interview 2026: The 90-Day Retake Rule

Accenture publishes a 72 hour assessment window, an automatic pass threshold and a 90 day lockout. Three postings from one week name three different routes.

2026-09-26 · 10 min

BCG X Case Interview: The Coding Test BCG Publishes

BCG publishes a BCG X selection process in one country only: an online coding test, then technical interviews with case studies and live coding. Read closely.

2026-09-26 · 9 min

Bridgespan 2026: The Consultancy That Files a Form 990

Bridgespan is a 501(c)(3), so its accounts are a public document. Its Form 990 reports $91.6 million of revenue, 430 US employees and a $5.3 million deficit.

2026-09-26 · 22 min

Capgemini Invent Case Interview: 45 Minutes, Five Criteria

Capgemini Invent US publishes a 45 minute case, five criteria and a full sample prompt. Its UK graduate route has no case at all. Sweden names six steps.

2026-09-26 · 9 min

Capital One Case Interview 2026: Complete Prep Guide

Capital One publishes a full practice case with solutions, a case video, a 30-minute mini case and the Power Day. Worked math, a drill method and a prep plan.

2026-09-26 · 17 min

CIL Strategy Consultants: Pay, Deadlines, No Published Round

CIL prints analyst pay and a deadline for every office, and publishes no interview stages. Here are the four searches behind that, and what is published.

2026-09-26 · 9 min

Cornerstone Research Case Interview: Two Rounds, Two Cases

Cornerstone Research prints its two interview rounds, the length of the first, and two full practice cases with worked answers. Read from its own pages.

2026-09-26 · 12 min

EY Case Interview 2026: The Three Criteria It Prints

EY prints the three criteria every behavioral answer is measured against, plus dated application windows and an assessment that lands within a business day.

2026-09-26 · 10 min

AlixPartners Interview: Five Steps, One Psychologist

AlixPartners publishes five hiring steps, a two to three hour assessment, and an interview with an organizational psychologist. What that changes for you.

2026-09-26 · 10 min

Altman Solon Case Interview: Timed Test, Led Cases

Altman Solon prints its Americas rounds in minutes, a 30-minute online assessment due in 48 hours, and interviewer-led cases. Three regions, three processes.

2026-09-26 · 10 min

Bates White Case Interview: 25 to 40 Minutes, Three Parts

Bates White publishes the length of its case, its three parts, ten tips and a full worked case on price fixing. Read straight from the firm's careers pages.

2026-09-26 · 9 min

BCG Platinion Interview: A Logic Test and Two Cases

BCG Platinion publishes its own rounds, a logic test due a week before the interviews, and a round two that can hold both a BCG business case and an IT case.

2026-09-26 · 8 min

Booz Allen Case Interview 2026: Clearance Comes First

Booz Allen publishes five hiring steps and no case interview anywhere. The filter it does document is clearance, and two words in a posting decide it.

2026-09-26 · 9 min

Compass Lexecon Interview: Two Stages, a Written Case

Compass Lexecon prints its two interview stages inside its European job postings, and the second stage differs by title. Read from the postings themselves.

2026-09-26 · 9 min

Horváth Interview: Two Stages, and Two Entry Titles

Horváth publishes a two-stage selection with the case in the second interview, and an entry title set by your degree. What that changes about preparing.

2026-09-26 · 8 min

Huron Case Interview 2026: Its Four-Part Answer Rule

Huron says its process combines behavioral and case interviews, and publishes the four things an answer must contain. The fourth one asks for results.

2026-09-26 · 9 min

IQVIA Interview: HireVue First, and No Published Case

IQVIA names HireVue for its early screen and Microsoft Teams for later rounds. The phrase case interview appears on none of the careers pages we read.

2026-09-26 · 9 min

QuantumBlack Interview: McKinsey's Process, One Change

QuantumBlack's own careers page sends candidates to McKinsey's interviewing page. The one line that changes for technical roles, quoted and read closely.

2026-09-26 · 8 min

NERA Economic Consulting Interview: What Is Published

NERA publishes no interview stages, and we show the four searches that establish it. What it does publish: titles, pay bands, deadlines and campus dates.

2026-09-26 · 9 min

PA Consulting 2026: What the Firm Does and Who Owns It

PA Consulting is a 4,000 person innovation and transformation firm, wholly owned by Jacobs since March 2026. What it sells, what it earns, and where it hires.

2026-09-26 · 12 min

Slalom Case Interview 2026: What It Refuses to Publish

Slalom publishes no hiring steps at all, and never has. Its AI policy is the only document naming a stage, and Consultant is not an entry title there.

2026-09-26 · 8 min

What Is Porsche Consulting in 2026: 800 or 900 People

Porsche Consulting is a wholly owned Porsche AG subsidiary founded in 1994. Its own pages and its parent's publish two headcounts and four office lists.

2026-09-26 · 13 min

Willis Towers Watson Case Interview: HireVue Comes First

Willis Towers Watson publishes four early careers steps, names HireVue, and never mentions a case interview anywhere. What to prepare for WTW instead.

2026-09-26 · 7 min

FTI Consulting Interview: The Assessment Day, Quoted

FTI Consulting publishes a graduate pipeline with an assessment day holding a case study, an interview and a group exercise. Interns answer questions instead.

2026-09-26 · 8 min

Guidehouse Case Interview 2026: Two Rounds, Two Titles

Guidehouse publishes five hiring steps with two interview rounds, on a page its own menu never links. One program page names a case interview by name.

2026-09-26 · 8 min

Gupta Strategists: Six Case Interviews, One Rehearsal

Gupta publishes two rounds of three hour-long interviews, a case in every one, and a free practice case with a consultant that does not count toward the result.

2026-09-26 · 8 min

IBM Consulting Case Interview 2026: Round One Is a Case

IBM Consulting names the case interview as the first round of its consultant funnel, on a blog rather than its process page. Assessments run a seven day clock.

2026-09-26 · 9 min

Korn Ferry Interview: Four Free Tests, One Warning

Korn Ferry publishes four free practice assessments and a candidate guide. None of it describes joining Korn Ferry, and that distinction costs applicants time.

2026-09-26 · 8 min

KPMG Case Interview 2026: Where the Case Actually Is

KPMG US publishes two live video interviews and never names a case. What the interview questions at KPMG cover, and where a case actually lands instead.

2026-09-26 · 16 min

PwC Assessment and Case Interview 2026: Five Criteria

PwC publishes two complete cases, model answers at two levels, and the five things it listens for. Its entry level assessment turns out to be untimed.

2026-09-26 · 14 min

West Monroe Case Interview: 45 Minutes, One Real Project

West Monroe publishes its case length, the framework it wants you to bring, and three instructions. Its job postings carry three rules its careers pages omit.

2026-09-26 · 9 min

Accenture Strategy 2026: Six Offerings, No Separate Track

Accenture Strategy names six offerings on its own page and sits among twenty capabilities. It publishes no separate recruiting track, and one advert proves it.

2026-09-24 · 13 min

Analysis Group Case Interview 2026: Bring Your Own Project

The Analysis Group interview runs two rounds, and the firm never writes the words case interview. What it does ask for, read from its own pages and postings.

2026-09-24 · 13 min

Arthur D. Little Case Interview 2026: At Least Two Layers

Arthur D. Little prints five case instructions, four scoring criteria and a full practice case. We read every line, and its own worked numbers do not close.

2026-09-24 · 15 min

Deloitte Case Interview Prep 2026: Ten Unlisted Cases

Deloitte case interview prep starts with the ten practice cases it hosts on a page search engines cannot see. What they contain, and where the process splits.

2026-09-24 · 15 min

EY-Parthenon Case Interview 2026: Complete Prep Guide

What an EY-Parthenon case interview is, the round structure one country page prints, what the firm says its cases test, and a six week plan to get ready for it.

2026-09-24 · 14 min

Charles River Associates Case Interview 2026: Show Your Math

CRA names four interview styles, says a case usually has no single correct answer, and runs two entry tracks with different paperwork. Plus a worked case.

2026-09-24 · 12 min

Kearney Case Interview 2026: Skip the Standard Framework

Kearney tells candidates not to force a solution into a standard framework, and to say when they are stuck. Nine published instructions, read closely.

2026-09-24 · 13 min

Monitor Deloitte Case Interview 2026: A Unit Inside Deloitte

Monitor Deloitte is a strategy offering inside Deloitte, and only some countries recruit under the name. The doors that exist, with dates, and the cases.

2026-09-24 · 14 min

Simon-Kucher Case Interview 2026: Where AI Skill Counts

Simon-Kucher says it values your ability to work with AI-supported tools. McKinsey bans them in the room. Both are published, and a pricing case worked in full.

2026-09-24 · 13 min

What Is Alvarez & Marsal in 2026: Who Wound Up Lehman

Alvarez & Marsal is the turnaround firm chosen to wind down Lehman Brothers. Thirteen practices, 94 offices, and three different headcounts on its own pages.

2026-09-24 · 17 min

ZS Associates Case Interview 2026: Four Interview Types

ZS publishes three full practice cases with answers, four named interview types and a rounds count. Here is what its own pages say, and what they omit.

2026-09-24 · 12 min

OC&C Case Interview 2026: Nine Different Processes, One Firm

OC&C prints its six London hiring steps in the job advert, and a different process for every other office. The steps, the salary, and the four case interviews.

2026-09-24 · 12 min

Putnam Associates Case Interview 2026: The Firm Behind It

Putnam Associates is now a team inside Inizio Ignite, and its old domain redirects there. The seat it hires, what it never publishes, and a worked pharma case.

2026-09-24 · 12 min

Roland Berger Case Interview 2026: Two Cases It Filmed

Roland Berger publishes its steps, an online test that gates them, and two cases on video. What the firm states, what varies by office, and what it never says.

2026-09-24 · 12 min

Strategy& Case Interview 2026: Ten Minutes With a Slide Pack

Strategy& publishes two different case formats in one first round, one of them with a slide pack and ten minutes of reading. Here is what each one asks for.

2026-09-24 · 14 min