Summer 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 75% positive. To compare, the company-average is 65.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Summer Associate roles take an average of 24 days to get hired, when considering 209 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Boston Consulting Group overall takes an average of 32 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Boston Consulting Group as a Summer Associate according to 209 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 47%
Skills test: 13%
Personality test: 8%
Presentation: 8%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Phone interview: 5%
Background check: 5%
Other: 4%
Group panel interview: 2%
Drug test: 2%
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I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Boston Consulting Group in Feb 2015
Interview
Applied through on-campus recruiting at top-10 university. Process took a little over 2 weeks.
First round interviews were on-campus and consisted of two 45-minute interviews with Project Leaders. Both spent 5-10 minute upfront on behavioral questions before jumping into cases. BCG cases are very candidate-led, so having a strong structure upfront is key to being able to crack the cases. I made my way through both first round cases pretty quickly, which gave me lots of time to just chat with my interviewers and ask them questions at the end of each interview.
I received a call the day after my interview informing me I had made it to the second round in my preferred office. One of my interviewers also called before my second round to give me interview feedback and also told me that BCG decision round interviews place a very strong emphasis on fit with the firm.
Second round interviews were on-site at the BCG office. My decision round interviews were the same format as my first round (two 45-minute interviews--apparently format can vary between each office though) and were with partners in the office. In my experience, my interviewers in the second round spent a lot more time casually chatting/asking fit questions than my first round interviewers. The cases were also lot less structured than the ones I saw in the first round, with partners often deviating from calculations, etc to ask me to brainstorm ideas. I received a call later that day from one of the partners who interviewed me and was extended an offer.
Multiple rounds with consulting case interview portions and fit portions. Each round of interviews had multiple interviews, and the interviewer gets more senior as you progress through the interview process
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Standard typical cases that can be more nuanced than other firms
1. Online case AI interview - interacted with AI chatbot
2. 1st round virtual - case and behavioral; asked why I wanted a certain office
3. 2, final rounds - case and behavioral
I interviewed at Boston Consulting Group (Lisbon, Lisbon District)
Interview
1st phase: CV & Online assessment
2nd phase: 2 back-to-back interviews with the first 15 min of each being personal questions followed by 30 min of case
3rd phase: didnt reach it.