Associate Consultant

Status
1st Year Analyst at
Group/Division/Type
Generalist
City
San Francisco
Interviewed
October 2014
Overall experience
Very Positive
Difficulty
Difficult

General Interview Information

Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month

Interview Details

What did the interview consist of?
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
Please describe the interview / hiring process.
I filled out the application from the company's online website. I go to a target school so I checked the box for my school and waited to hear if I would be invited back for an interview. The mainly care about hard stats, so my high GPA and high GMAT got me a call back for an interview despite having basically non-existent extra curriculars.

First round was two 30 minute case interviews, each with a different consultant right out of business school at an on-campus recruitment location. Both interviews were fairly straight-forward.

Second round they flew me up to San Francisco. The interview was three 40 minute case interviews, two with managers and one with a principal. 90% case and 10% fit.

I thought I did incredibly well, even cracking one case in less than 20 minutes, so I was pretty let down when I didn't get a call back. In hindsight, I did make two math errors with a manager so that could have done it.
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