Guides to the consulting interview
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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.
Growth Strategy Framework 2026: Direction, Then Route
The growth strategy framework in three decisions: the market test, the four direction cells, and the build, buy or partner route priced on capital per dollar.
Guesstimate Interview Questions: Count the Right Unit
Guesstimate questions fail on the unit and the geometry, never the arithmetic. A worked volume problem, a firm's own unit error, and a prompt that cannot close.
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.
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.
Handling Pushback in a Case Interview Without Folding
Kearney asks you to be coachable and firm at once. L.E.K. says stick to your approach and also rethink. How to tell new data from discomfort, with arithmetic.
Houlihan Lokey Interview Questions 2026: Four Stages
Houlihan Lokey publishes its selection stages, a rule on who gets feedback, and a pay range in 59 of 119 open requisitions. All of it read on 1 October 2026.
How Do You Get Into Consulting in 2026: Four Live Doors
How do you get into consulting? Four live doors, each with the degree rule and closing date the firm printed: Deloitte 1 November 2026, BCG 13 August 2026.
Getting Into MBB in 2026: Three Screens, Three Rulebooks
McKinsey, BCG and Bain run three screens that share no rule on length or sitting, and one school counted its own intake: 188 hires in 2024, 86 of them returns.
Hypothesis Driven Cases: One Number That Kills a Branch
Four firms put hypotheses in their published case sequence. A Kearney analyst gives the sentence form. How to state one and design the figure that settles it.
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.
Is Consulting Right For You? Four Real Numbers, 2026
The Labor Department counts 1,077,100 management analysts at a $101,860 median. Two McKinsey postings state travel up to 80%. Four published figures to weigh.
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.
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.
Lazard Interview Questions 2026: What Lazard Publishes
Lazard publishes a notice on its AI scored video interview, a six week training program, and one requisition that lists its stages. Read across 116 postings.
LBO Interview Questions: The Paper LBO, Worked Twice
A paper LBO done in five minutes with round numbers, the shortcut priced against the full schedule, and the debt and exit questions answered in dollars.
LBO Model Explained: Structure, Schedule and Returns
An LBO built end to end: what it is, the structure layer by layer, the build order, and the 2026 interest deduction cap modeled rather than assumed away.
MBB Case Interview Prep 2026: How to Prepare for All 3
MBB case interview prep for McKinsey, BCG and Bain: the case format each firm publishes, the rounds it names, six practice cases, and a six-week calendar.
McKinsey Business Analyst 2026: Three Bands, One Title
McKinsey runs four live Business Analyst postings. The generalist pays $112,000 to $125,000; Operations and Transformation start at $125,000 and go to $132,000.
McKinsey Competitors 2026: Who Publishes Real Numbers
Nine McKinsey competitors, ranked by nothing. Each line carries the revenue, headcount or SEC filing the firm published itself, with the date we read it.
McKinsey Pre-MBA 2026: Early Access and the Solve Rule
McKinsey's pre-MBA channel in full: Early Access, Inspire, the Women's Series, and the twelve-month Solve rule that is the only durable thing the form buys.
McKinsey Firm Overview 2026: 24 Practices, Counted
What the firm publishes about itself, counted on its own pages on 30 September 2026: 24 industries, 13 capabilities, six US leaders, and the gaps it leaves.
McKinsey Hierarchy 2026: Five Named Rungs, Two More
The McKinsey hierarchy names five consulting levels on the careers site. Labor Department filings carry seven, from a $112,000 floor to a $375,000 Partner.
Consulting Mental Math Practice: The Calculator Rule
Consulting mental math practice built on one rule: Bain allows a calculator on its digital assessment and rules it out in the interviews. Four-week protocol.
Merger Model Interview Questions: Accretion Retested
One deal, one set of arithmetic, and an earnings per share answer that turns from plus 5.17 percent to minus 0.76 percent on a single accounting convention.
Pharmaceutical Consulting 2026: What Pays for the Work
The two public clocks driving pharma consulting demand in 2026, read from CMS, FDA and SEC filings, plus the practice each of seven firms publishes by name.
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.
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.
Pricing Strategy Cases 2026: Recomputed From Two Firms
Oliver Wyman publishes a pricing case with a range of one to seven. Bain compares a discount to a loyalty program. We recompute both and find where each flips.
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.
The Pyramid Principle 2026: How to Use It, With Examples
The pyramid principle states your conclusion first and arranges every supporting fact under it. Its three levels, with worked examples in writing and in speech.
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.
Reading Case Exhibits: The So What Before the Numbers
Oliver Wyman prints exhibit criteria under its own case questions. Accenture names the case type built from useless detail. A channel table read in four moves.
Recovering Mid-Case When You Get Stuck or Go Wrong
Kearney publishes written permission to say you are stuck. BCG names panic and silence as separate faults. How to recover, recompute out loud and keep the room.
Bain BASE: One Week, a Scholar Title, and No Dates
BASE is the only Bain exploratory program that publishes a length and a name for its participants. It publishes no deadline, and no year of MBA either.
Bain BEL 2026: Dates, Eligibility and the One Application
Bain BEL 2026 dates, eligibility and deadline, read live from Bain: a 1.5-day program on February 4 and 5, applications closing 30 November 2026 at 11:59PM PT.