Associate Consultant / AC

I initially applied online with little expectation to hear back. To my surprise, I heard back within 1 week. The request was to come in for a case interview within 2 weeks. I was not prepared to do case interviews as at the time I was seeking primarily positions in Finance.

They offered a phone interview with another associate consultant (ACs as they called them) for practice. I took them up on the offer and set something up for several days in the future. The feedback was marginally useful, I was essentially just told to try to be more clear with my structure. It was a typical phone interview with a lot of numbers.

They were also nice enough to offer a second interview with another consultant - they stressed that they don't want to get any 'false negatives'.

As the company went out of their way to make me feel good/happy to be interviewing, which was appreciated. I felt respected throughout the process, much more so than I did during investment banking and industry interviews. I felt that they appreciated that I was interviewing with them.

Even though my nerves got the best of me and I stumbled through the case, I enjoyed the interview process and would give the company high marks in their recruiting techniques.

I had two cases with two consultants:

For the first case, they had slides prepared, and the interviewer handed out slides with data as the case progressed. He gave the slides at a point at which I 'dug' to the next level of insight, usually at a point at which I asked whether we have this type of data available to us. There was also a lot of math involved.

The second case had no prepared slides, but required me to do a lot of math, estimation, ballparking, etc.