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careers

UK Consulting Firms 2026: Check Who Can Sponsor You

Nine firms, the UK cities each names on its own site, the 50,200 pound going rate that decides which salary a visa can carry, and ten public sector lots.

2026-09-26 · 11 min
careers

Consulting Internship 2026: One Application, Two Seats

A consulting internship runs eight to ten weeks, and at BCG it shares the full-time application. The firms' own pages on screens, timings and a $108,000 rate.

2026-09-26 · 10 min
careers

Consulting Internship Return Offer 2026: Who Promises What

Read 30 September 2026: Bain promises MBA interns a return with no further interview, its undergraduate page stops short, and BCG asks interns to apply again.

2026-09-26 · 9 min
process

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
process

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
math

Consulting Math: Every Relation a Case Borrows, Recomputed

Every relation consulting math asks for, mapped and sourced: where each one is tested, which convention decides it, and six of them worked line by line.

2026-09-26 · 12 min
careers

Consulting Offer Negotiation 2026: Ask in This Order

The median consulting signing bonus was $30,000 in the Class of 2025, on a class range of $10,000 to $50,000. That spread is where an offer actually moves.

2026-09-26 · 7 min
careers

Consulting Project Team Structure 2026: The Workstream Rule

Read 30 September 2026: what each seat on a consulting project owns in its firm's own words, why the workstream is the unit, and why filings show no pyramid.

2026-09-26 · 10 min
process

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
process

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
firms

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
careers

What It Is Like to Be a Management Consultant 2026: Counted

What it is like to be a management consultant, counted from the firms own timestamps: ten hour days, a fifty hour floor, and the evening block nobody times.

2026-09-26 · 13 min
finance

Discounted Cash Flow Model 2026: Every Line Recalculated

A five year discounted cash flow built from published rates, recalculated by hand, with the five conventions that move the answer and what each one gives you.

2026-09-26 · 10 min
firms

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
process

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
case types

Finance Cases in Consulting Interviews: The But-For Number

Three firms publish finance cases and none of them is a valuation. All three ask what would have happened otherwise, and that is where the arithmetic lives.

2026-09-26 · 9 min
firms

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
firms

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
firms

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
firms

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
firms

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
firms

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
firms

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
firms

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
firms

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
firms

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
firms

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
firms

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
firms

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
careers

Tech Consulting 2026: The Work, the Names, the Two Doors

Tech consulting is advice plus delivery, and Accenture files the proof at half its revenue. What the work is, what firms call it, and the two ways in.

2026-09-26 · 15 min
careers

Nonprofit Consulting Firms 2026: What The 990s Show

Nine social-sector organizations, every figure from its own IRS filing. Fee income runs from 1.1 to 83.7 percent of revenue, and seven of nine ran a deficit.

2026-09-26 · 12 min
firms

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
firms

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
resources

Free Consulting Toolkit: Assemble One From Official Parts

A bundle behind an email form is a form, not a bundle. Here are the eleven official parts, the assembly order, and what our paid product adds to them.

2026-09-26 · 7 min
firms

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
careers

Applying to Consulting With a Low GPA: 2026 Floors

The grade floors consulting firms actually print, checked 30 September 2026: Deloitte 3.3 on strategy, 3.0 on audit, KPMG 3.0 post-MBA, and MBB none at all.

2026-09-26 · 7 min