Management Consulting applicants have rated the interview process at PwC with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 81% positive. To compare, the company-average is 74.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Management Consulting roles take an average of 22 days to get hired, when considering 32 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at PwC overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at PwC as a Management Consulting according to 32 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 22%
Presentation: 18%
Background check: 13%
Personality test: 11%
Skills test: 10%
IQ intelligence test: 8%
Phone interview: 8%
Group panel interview: 4%
Drug test: 4%
Other: 1%
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I interviewed at PwC (Bristol, England) in Mar 2014
Interview
Applied online - standard application form and a short text outlining your reasons for PwC and management consulting. Following the application form are the online tests, they are SHL so there is a lot of practice material online, and the benchmark is not as high as for example their Strategy practice (Strategy&). The phone interviewer was friendly and asked basic questions about my motivation and competencies - review the 10 PwC competencies and you'll be fine. Afterwards is the Assessment Centre, where you re-do the tests, do a group case and a written exercise. Make sure your answer for the written exercise is very structured and you work well in the group - the solution itself doesn't matter as much.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Standard competency questions during the phone interview
Generally positive, but due to change in direction they chose to cut down number of job offers. First was OA, then Video interview, then Virtual AC. Consisting of 2 1 to 1 interviews, group task, individual task.
Der Prozess der Bewerbung beinhaltet zwei Interviews. Eines der Interviews war fachlich das andere Interview war eher persönlich. Beide Interviews super angenehm und nett gestaltet. Die Interviews werden von unterschiedlichen Personen geführt, sodass eine Art Unabhängigkeit vorhanden ist
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at PwC (Singapore)
Interview
Started off with grouping interviewees into groups.
Group case interview with 5 to 6 people.
Given around 1 hour to work on the case before having time to prepare a short powerpoint presentation to present the case. Questions were posed to each individual team member after the presentation.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
specific to the group case around thought process, recommendations, alternatives.