I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Boston Consulting Group (Chicago, IL) in Oct 2017
Interview
Applied through school and got an interview in Chicago. The interviewer who are also senior associates in BCG were very helpful and friendly. One of them talked really fast and a bit confusing, maybe because he was trying to simulate a common meeting scenario between client and consultants. When I got stuck, they offered some hints as well. Overall, my impression of BCG interview process and consultants are very good.
2 business cases. 1 is market entry, pretty easy to solve. The other one is very difficult, which was about how to find if an oil drill is decreasing it’s performance because of the stationed manager, based on what parameters.
I applied online. I interviewed at Boston Consulting Group (Boston, MA)
Interview
round 0 is the regular test they give you. round 1 is chatbot test + the in person interview with the consultant, round 2 is 2 partners that you interview with. it's not very unconventional cases.
I interviewed at Boston Consulting Group (Chicago, IL)
Interview
Round 0 had an assessment, round 1 had 1 case with a human then 1 case with a chatbot. The cases weren’t too complicated mostly revolving around profitability and break even pricing, but the subject matter was niche.
I interviewed at Boston Consulting Group (Jakarta)
Interview
- CV
- Online Casey
- First Round 2x interview with Principal
- Second Round 2-3x interview with Partners
Overall not very hard if you trained well, although i imagine
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Case interview standards, sometimes a bit abstract especially on partner level
Associate applicants have rated the interview process at Boston Consulting Group with 3.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 73% positive. To compare, the company-average is 65.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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