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.
Candidates applying for Associate roles take an average of 32 days to get hired, when considering 513 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 Associate according to 513 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 39%
Skills test: 17%
Presentation: 9%
Personality test: 9%
Phone interview: 8%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Background check: 5%
Other: 3%
Drug test: 2%
Group panel interview: 1%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Boston Consulting Group (Shanghai, Shanghai) in Jan 2015
Interview
The interview was over video call. It lasted around 20 minutes. My interviewer was very serious and no nonsense, probably on purpose to assess interviewees' character. She started with some personality based questions about my background, personal attributes, etc. She followed up with a market-sizing question. Afterwards, she gave me the opportunity to ask her any questions I had.
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
3x case interviews, interviewee led, questions about experience and relevant background, always dig deeper to understand details eg on leadership experience. Cases vary all the time, need to ne ready for anything. Thinking js rewarded