Guides to the consulting interview
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Investment Banking Behavioral Questions 2026: Banks Say Less
Banks publish far less about investment banking behavioral questions than consulting firms do. What JPMorganChase and Bank of America print, one answer.
"Tell Me About a Failure" 2026: No Firm Publishes It
No consulting firm publishes a question about failure. The closest asks how fast you learned rather than how sorry you are. What that changes about an answer.
What Motivates You 2026: A Named and Timed Interview Slot
Seven of the fifteen firms we read name motivation in writing, and one gives it a fifty-minute interview of its own. What a checkable answer contains.
Why Consulting 2026: Answer It With the Firm's Own Pages
A why consulting answer an interviewer can check is built from what firms publish about the work: days on site, project length, and what a junior owns.
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.
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.
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.
KPMG Interview Questions 2026: Two Video Interviews
KPMG interview questions all sit in one published stage: two live video interviews with business leaders, and no case. What the firm prints and what it omits.
Leadership Story Examples 2026: Nobody Asks for a Title
McKinsey publishes one leadership question and it is about working across difference. BCG calls it Teaming. Neither asks whether you were in charge of anything.
L.E.K. Interview 2026: Seven Case Steps, Two Fit Words
L.E.K. gives the case seven steps and gives you two words. Where fit sits in the L.E.K. interview, the tension in its own list, and one answer sized to fit.
Oliver Wyman Interview Process 2026: 15 Minutes, One Year
Oliver Wyman publishes its interview process as four stages. One of them is a fifteen-minute fit interview with no case, and failing it costs you a year.
PwC Behavioral Interview Questions 2026: Two in One Sitting
PwC behavioral interview questions arrive in a pair with Innovation Scenario-Based ones, live and consecutive, and a past story cannot fill the second.
Simon-Kucher Behavioral Interview 2026: Four Demonstrables
Simon-Kucher publishes the four things a behavioral example must demonstrate, and five competencies it assesses consistently. One answer that carries all four.
The STAR Method 2026: Four Firms Name It, Four Do Not
What the STAR method is, and which firms publish it. Kearney, Deloitte, BCG and Accenture name a four-part structure. Four better known firms name none.
Strategy& Behavioral Interview 2026: It Shares a Clock
Strategy& publishes no separate fit interview. Questions about your background open a 45-minute case interview, and two official pages describe two processes.
Tell Me About Yourself Consulting Interview 2026: Who Asks
The tell me about yourself consulting interview opening carries six published names. Accenture says to count on it, BCG publishes that it never asks it.
Managing Multiple Priorities 2026: Name What You Dropped
No firm publishes this question. Two BCG competencies come closest, and both ask for the same evidence: the thing you deliberately let go in order to finish.
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.
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.
Deductive Reasoning Test 2026: How to Pass Must Be True
One discipline carries this test: separating must be true from could be true. Three worked cases, the publisher's own timings, and the verification retest.
Does HireVue Track Your Eyes? What Is Recorded in 2026
No. HireVue says its AI scores only what you say and uses no visual analysis. The dated source, what the platform does record, and how to have it deleted.
HireVue Interview Guide 2026: Reach the Top Tier Band
HireVue publishes the bands its own AI sorts candidates into, the retry settings employers choose, and the five word floor below which an answer is not scored.
Numerical Reasoning Test 2026: How to Beat the Clock
The clock is lost reading the exhibit, not doing the arithmetic. Three worked items, the publisher's own scoring, and the skip rule that varies by platform.
SHL Test Consulting 2026: Pace It by Seconds Per Item
SHL publishes a fact sheet per product, and the pace it sets runs from 50 to 108 seconds an item. Seven products measured, two worked items, the error codes.
Verbal Reasoning Test 2026: How to Pass Cannot Say
One rule decides most of your score on a verbal reasoning test: what Cannot Say requires. Three worked passages, the publisher's own scoring, the traps.
BCG Behavioral Interview Questions 2026: Seven Named Skills
The seven competencies and five values BCG behavioral interview questions get marked against, plus two the firm says you will not hear. One story, in full.
The Wharton Case Book 2026: What the Free PDF Omits
The Wharton club serves no case book from its own site. Here is what we checked, what the file leaves out, and how to run one prompt with a partner properly.
Case Interview Books 2026: Turn a Case Book Into Reps
Books and school case books supply prompts and nothing else. Here is the five gesture protocol that converts one prompt into a rep, and where prompts are free.
Case Interview Drills: Six Dimensions, One Hour a Day
A drill is worth doing when it targets one dimension and returns a score. Six drills, the weights we grade them on, and a worked break-even from a real case.
Case Interview Tools: What Each One Actually Trains
Case interview tools, sorted by the dimension each one moves, and the rule that reorders the list: McKinsey allows only pen and paper in its interviews.
Case Practice Partner: How to Make a Non-Expert Useful
Bain publishes a good answer and a better answer for one question. That is a marking key, and it lets someone with no consulting background run a case on you.
The Fastest Way to Learn Case Interviews, Dimension First
Speed comes from isolating one dimension at a time. A full case that goes badly says nothing about which of six things failed. The order that works, and why.
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.
How to Practice Cases Without Wasting the Repetitions
Firms publish the material and two timing constraints. None publishes how to practice, so here is a session structure with the arithmetic behind its numbers.
Interview Coaching: What a Second Person Can Actually Add
Interview coaching comes down to three things a human adds that no material can, two free sources of one of them, and the one promise that should end it.
What a Mock Interview Is, and How to Build a Real One
A mock interview is worth the hour when its conditions match the round it rehearses, and four firms publish formats that a single generic mock gets wrong.