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Interview process

Cross-firm synthesis, with one rule: every generalisation names the firms it is drawn from. Ten firms of nineteen publish a number of rounds; published response times run from two working days to four weeks; not one firm in the corpus publishes a case conducted over the phone. These guides count, name, and say how many firms could not be read, rather than describing what most firms supposedly do.

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AI in Consulting Recruiting: Where the Firms Disagree

AI in consulting recruiting has no shared rule: 13 firms publish contradictory positions on candidate AI use, and several screen your CV with software first.

2026-09-29 · 16 min

Consulting Interview Process 2026: Eight Paths, Named

One firm publishes eight different sequences by office. Deloitte UK has no case interview. Here is every published path, with its firm and its region attached.

2026-09-29 · 11 min

Consulting Interview Dress Code 2026: Twelve Firm Rules

Twelve firms publish an attire instruction, naming four different registers. Where a firm publishes both, its office code is looser than its interview rule.

2026-09-26 · 8 min

Consulting Interview Rounds 2026: Who Publishes a Number

Ten of nineteen firms publish a round or interview count. Nine publish none. Here is every published number, with the firm and the region it belongs to.

2026-09-26 · 8 min

Work Simulation Assessment 2026: What The Firms Publish

Three UK firms publish a work simulation stage and one of them does not score it. The publisher that sells the inbox exercise is the only source defining it.

2026-09-26 · 10 min

Consulting Case Presentations 2026: Who Is Watching

Six sources publish a presentation requirement. Two give a duration, two give an audience size. The published audiences run from four people to fifty.

2026-09-26 · 8 min

Consulting Final Round 2026: What the Last Stage Adds

Twelve published final stages, eleven firms. Seven name who you meet, six name the exercises, two do both. Every number here comes from a firm's own page.

2026-09-26 · 7 min

Group Case Interviews 2026: Which Firms Publish One

Eleven sources publish a group exercise, nine of them firms. None of the McKinsey, BCG or Bain pages we read names one. Four publish what observers watch.

2026-09-26 · 8 min

Consulting Phone Interviews 2026: What Firms Publish

No firm we read publishes a case interview held by telephone. Eleven publish the phone as a channel, two publish a duration, and one requires video instead.

2026-09-26 · 8 min

Post Interview Thank You Email 2026: Who Asks You for One

Three firms publish an instruction to send a post interview thank you email. One publishes a deadline. Seven publish a feedback policy, which decides.

2026-09-26 · 9 min

Questions to Ask Your Consulting Interviewer in 2026

Seventeen firms publish an instruction about your questions. One says where to ask them, one names a question you can demand, and one refuses whole topics.

2026-09-26 · 10 min

Consulting Interview Response Times 2026, Firm by Firm

Thirteen firms publish a response time. The spread runs from two working days to four weeks, and one firm publishes four different numbers on four of its pages.

2026-09-26 · 9 min

Remote Case Interviews 2026: Every Rule Firms Publish

Eight publishers of remote interview rules, six of them firms. Three name the platform, one publishes a bandwidth floor, one calls you back when video fails.

2026-09-26 · 7 min

Written Case Interviews 2026: Which Firms Publish One

Eleven firms name a written case in selection and three publish a figure: 90 minutes at OC&C Rotterdam, 2,5h at BCG in the Netherlands, three days at Bain.

2026-09-26 · 10 min