I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at OC&C Strategy Consultants (London, England)
Interview
Applied through university's career service - emailed through the CV and cover letter. Was invited to do an SHL test a week or so later. Fairly standard test with numerical and verbal parts. Was then invited for an hour-long phone interview the week after (I applied for an oversea office). The interview was conducted completely in English despite I was told in advance that it would be in both English and the local language. The interview itself was pretty standard: they ran through a few CV/experience-based questions then moved on to the cases. To be fair the question wasn't hard - it was a general market sizing question with some additional follow-ups but I messed up an important assumption. The interviewer was friendly and reasonably helpful. It was a good interview experience except that their HR did not respond at all when I asked for feedback after receiving the generic rejection email. A few top firms including McKinsey do give feedback to candidates at this stage, others would at least respond if they have policy against giving feedback, so that was slightly annoying.
I interviewed at OC&C Strategy Consultants (New York, NY)
Interview
pretty chill. very case heavy, not a lot of behaviorals (although still be ready with a few story plus tell me about yourself and why). Cases were a lot of thinking and the interviewers were so nice and really seemed to care
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A few cases with varying level of reasoning and math
I interviewed at OC&C Strategy Consultants (Paris)
Interview
Test psychotechnique
1er round : 2 entretiens Fit+cas dont 1 en anglais
2ème tour : 2 entretiens partner fit + cas
Les interviewers sont très sympathiques et les retours sont fait rapidement
I applied online. I interviewed at OC&C Strategy Consultants (London, England)
Interview
Online application, online test, in person case studies (market sizing plus one other) and final round was partner interviews which were part fit (motivation, prior experience etc) and part technical (more abstract / candidate-led cases)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you prioritise the rollout of a new telecom product in Brazil?
Associate Consultant applicants have rated the interview process at OC&C Strategy Consultants with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 55% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Associate Consultant roles take an average of 45 days to get hired, when considering 67 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at OC&C Strategy Consultants overall takes an average of 35 days.
Common stages of the interview process at OC&C Strategy Consultants as a Associate Consultant according to 67 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 38%
Skills test: 17%
Presentation: 9%
Phone interview: 9%
Personality test: 8%
IQ intelligence test: 8%
Other: 5%
Group panel interview: 4%
Drug test: 1%
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