Guides to the consulting interview
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IT Consulting Firms 2026: Strategy, Delivery, Deadlines
Thirteen firms, the technology practice each one publishes, and the one firm that posts its application deadlines school by school. Read from their own sites.
Top 9 Manufacturing Consulting Firms 2026: MBB to Niche
The nine manufacturing consulting firms, from MBB to a factory specialist, with each firm's own label for the work, what its page names, and the capacity rate.
Top 11 Oil and Gas Consulting Firms 2026: By Segment
Eleven oil and gas consulting firms, from MBB to the Big 4, Tier 2 and the reserve evaluators, with the chain segment each firm's own practice page names.
Top Pharma Consulting Firms 2026: Follow the Access Work
The top pharma consulting firms, the life sciences label each one publishes, and the Medicare prices effective January 2027 that put market access first.
Big 3 Consulting Firms 2026: McKinsey, BCG, and Bain
The Big 3 consulting firms are McKinsey, BCG, and Bain. Founding years, the one revenue figure published, Big 3 against Big 4, and the whole firm map.
Valuation Interview Questions: Three Methods, Three Answers
Three valuation methods run on one company, the four bridge conventions that move the price per share, and the reverse DCF that reconciles them to the market.
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.
What a BCG Principal Does in 2026: Two Live Postings
BCG posted two Principal roles in September 2026. They publish the duties, a $252,900 base, and two experience floors four years apart from each other.
What Accenture Does in 2026: The Revenue Mix, Sourced
What does Accenture do? It books two types of work. In fiscal 2025 consulting was $35,107 million and managed services $34,566 million. The mix is moving.
McKinsey Associate 2026: The Workstream You Would Own
McKinsey says an associate takes ownership of a workstream. Here is what that means hour by hour, who enters the seat, and the $192,000 floor it files.
McKinsey Engagement Manager 2026: Team Size, Entry Bar
McKinsey's live posting puts an engagement manager over three to five consultants and asks eight years of consulting from an outside hire. Inside is faster.
What Case Interviewers Score: Four Published Lists
Oliver Wyman, Accenture, Deloitte and Simon-Kucher each publish case interview criteria. The four lists side by side, plus the weights we apply ourselves.
What Is a Case Interview? Four Names, One Exercise
Bain publishes the only full definition. McKinsey calls it a Problem-Solving Interview. One firm runs ten published cases in the US and none for UK graduates.
What Is Accenture? Services, Revenue, and Hiring 2026
What is Accenture? A Dublin-based professional services company listed in New York as ACN, with $74.18 billion of fiscal 2026 revenue and 814,000 people.
What Bain & Company Is in 2026: Where the Work Comes From
What Bain & Company is, in its own words: it advises investors as much as operators. Read the diligence concentration and the five gaps it leaves open.
What BCG Is in 2026: The Firm Behind Its Own Numbers
What is BCG? Boston Consulting Group prints its headcount, its revenue and its office count. Read what those imply, and what the firm chooses to withhold.
What Is Consulting? Types, Work, Pay, and Careers 2026
Consulting is paid outside help on a problem a client owns. Here is the official job name, the six types, the work itself, the pay, and how people get in.
What MBB Consulting Means In 2026: Label Versus Size
McKinsey billed $39.1m in US federal contracts in fiscal 2026, Deloitte Consulting $2.89bn. What MBB consulting groups as a label, and what it gets wrong.
What Is Strategy 2026: The Two Sources That Count It
Porter's own institute defines strategy as choosing what to give up. A study of 2,393 firms prices it: top-quintile odds of 8 percent, or 47 with three moves.
Why McKinsey in 2026: An Answer Built From Its Own Pages
McKinsey lists 25 industry practices and 13 capabilities on its own site, checked 29 September 2026. Answer why McKinsey from that list and it can be verified.
Working at McKinsey 2026: The Four Numbers It Files
The firm quantifies four things on its benefits page and none of its 23 listed benefits. Two of its own pages give two alumni counts, 50,000 and 60,000.
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.
Consulting Career Change 2026: No Fixed Hiring Period
Roland Berger publishes that there is usually no fixed hiring period, and tells rejected candidates what to bring back. Two facts that change a switch plan.
Experienced Hire Cases 2026: Two Portals, One Login
BCG runs separate student and experienced portals on one login. Roland Berger says experience can start you higher. What the case itself asks is unpublished.
PhD Consulting 2026: Where a Job Talk Replaces the Case
Four economic consulting firms publish a doctoral track. One runs a 90 minute seminar on your job market paper and no case, and one prints a pay band.
Consulting Without a Business Degree 2026: Half the Firm
Can you get into consulting without a business degree? Roland Berger publishes that half its consultants come from engineering, science or the humanities.
Case Competition Example 2026: One Firm's Full Calendar
One case competition example in full: Monitor Deloitte Spain's five milestones, teams of three or four, and a prize that is career support. Read with its gaps.
Coffee Chats in Consulting 2026: The Ask That Works
One firm publishes a free practice case for every first-round candidate. Another tells you to read your interviewers' profiles first. Scripts printed in full.
Consulting Cover Letter 2026: Six Firms, Four Rules
Roland Berger requires a consulting cover letter. OC&C says none is needed. McKinsey calls it optional. BCG Switzerland caps it at a page. One is printed below.
Dutch Consulting CV 2026: Six Interviews, No Format
No Dutch firm we could read publishes a CV format. One publishes its whole process instead: two rounds, six one-hour interviews, and a free practice case.
UK Consulting CV 2026: The Three Published Entry Routes
KPMG UK opens with a form. OC&C wants the CV with your name removed. EY UK allows one programme every six months. Three published UK routes, read in full.
German Consulting Lebenslauf 2026: No Photo, One Language
Roland Berger asks for no photo in the application documents. McKinsey accepts English or German for Germany and Austria, and wants only one version submitted.
Consulting Networking 2026: Start Dates Firms Publish
Consulting networking has a published start date: Alvarez & Marsal says freshman year, Roland Berger has no fixed hiring period, Kearney names its domains.
Consulting Recruiting Events 2026: A Dated Calendar
NERA publishes its whole 2026-2027 campus calendar: 22 sessions, 19 schools, dates and format for each. Reprinted in full, with what the other firms hide.
Consulting Referrals 2026: The Link Has to Come First
BCG publishes the mechanics of its referral: it travels as a link, it has to be used at submission, and a direct application cannot be converted later.
Consulting Resume Template 2026: Built for the Parser
Four firms publish how their portals break a resume: wrong attachment type, mangled education dates, locked files. A consulting resume template that survives.