Consultant applicants have rated the interview process at Altman Solon with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 56% positive. To compare, the company-average is 73.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Consultant roles take an average of 57 days to get hired, when considering 9 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Altman Solon overall takes an average of 35 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Altman Solon as a Consultant according to 9 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 40%
Phone interview: 27%
Skills test: 13%
Personality test: 7%
Other: 7%
Background check: 7%
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I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Altman Solon in Dec 2020
Interview
I've waited until I was several months in at the firm to write this, since I wanted to see what kind of prep they do once on the inside.
Overall, it was a great experience. I had a 20 min intro call then moved onto one 45 min case before a final round of three or four 45 min cases and a 45 min behavioral. All of my calls were with Consultant peers, with the final at the Partner level.
In contrast to some on this page, HR was awesome. I had a very busy two weeks at work during my final round and they were very accommodating in switching interview times and happy to spread the interviews out. Interviews started on time and I was told whom to expect. The people were great, it was a relaxed conversation which made it feel like something we were working on together. Behavioral questions were focused and it was clear that culture was something they cared deeply about (having been at A|S now for several months, this is definitely the case), and I had a whole interview devoted to this.
As for the cases themselves, they were definitely rigorous and always involved some quantitative aspects with the usual concepts (market sizing, breakeven, etc.) but I enjoyed the qualitative strategy-type questions most. Interviewers did a good job of introducing and answering questions on the TMT lingo. The format was more Q&A than the stream-of-consciousness method at MBB; the interview would start with the prompt, then I’d do my framework, then the interviewer would say that’s great let’s explore X. Felt much more natural and closer to what an actual project is like here, where the team is given the whole picture and then assigned workstreams.
I was called the day after my last interview by the Partner who interviewed me with an offer.
First round aptitude test. Covered math topics and was all speed and accuracy based. Also had a situation-analysis that asked you questions about your personality. Did not pass the first round.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Altman Solon (Munich, Bavaria) in Sep 2024
Interview
1. Runde HR & Motivation, dann 3 Case-Gespräche und 1 Lunch, bei positiver erster Runde 2 weitere (& letzte Gespräche).
Ich war nur bei Runde 1 und den 3 Gesprächen + Lunch.
Quant-heavy Cases und generell schwierige Cases. Gespräche dennoch super nett & gutes Feedback. Kosten für pot. Reise und Lunch werden üvbernommen.
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Question 1
Bspw. Data Center inkl. Stromkapazität, Nutzen, Preis, etc. (viel Maths).
I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Altman Solon
Interview
Abysmally slow process. Month 1: Applied online. Month 2: Got a response from HR. Month 3: The call with HR happens. Month 4: The actual round 1 interviews happen Interviews were 3 x 1 hour interviews consisting of: 20 mins behavioural/motivation, 35 mins of case and 5 mins of Q & A. Behavioural portion was fairly laid back and felt like a coffee chat. Case portion was fairly normal and tailored to the type of work Altman Solon does (market sizing, due diligence, and strategy…specific to fibre optic networks). Did not get exhibits like MBB but expect calculations. All my Interviewers seemed ill-prepared and ill-trained to conduct interviews. Got asked silly questions like “we do X, Y, Z type of work. Does this interest you?” or “consulting work is like this, does this interest you?”. well I am obviously not going to say “no”. Did not make it to second round and got NO post-interview feedback whatsoever which was a bit shocking and is NOT the standard for consulting firms.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why consulting? Why Altman Solon? Size the market for entering the fibre market in X Country