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      Graduate Consultant Interview

      Sep 12, 2016
      Anonymous interview candidate
      London, England

      Other Graduate Consultant interview reviews for BAE Systems

      Graduate Consultant Interview

      Sep 6, 2021
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at BAE Systems (London, England) in Apr 2016

      Interview

      Firstly I was called up by someone at recruitment and asked some basic questions about my motivation for the role, why I applied and my background. They then explained the role in a bit more detail and said that they'd pass my details on. I was then invited for a one-on-one interview in their London office. This lasted about 45 minutes and was quite simple. Basically just reviewing my CV, and asking me some classic competency questions, asking me to use the stuff in my CV as an example ("Tell me how you helped solve a difficult problem in your last job" etc.). I was also asked a logic question (how much water passes past one spot in the Thames in 24 hours) and was given ten minutes and some pencil and paper to estimate the answer. I passed this stage of the application and was then offered a final interview (in London again) with 2 members of the consultant team (one new, one relatively senior) and was also told to prepare a 15-20 minute presentation on a "complex problem". I chose my dissertation topic from uni. They were polite and friendly, and during my presentation asked lots of questions. My presentation was about 10/12 minutes long and they commented afterwards that it was a little short so make sure to fill the time. The whole interview lasted about 90 minutes. They again asked me about my CV (in more detail this time), also asking me competency questions based around my extra curricular activities. They asked me how I would behave in certain scenarios (how would you give a technical presentation to a non-technical audience etc.). They also asked me about BAE, and wanted to know how much I knew about the business (what I thought the role entailed, what I thought Applied Intelligence did, what clients/competitors they had etc.), so make sure you do your research beforehand. They asked me about why I chose BAE specifically. The last 10 minutes of the interview involved them telling me more about the role, what kind of work I'd be doing and letting me ask any questions about it. The HR team were quick with their correspondence at each stage, and informed me within a week that I hadn't got an offer. They offered me some feedback from both my interviews, where they said I didn't respond to prompts to offer more information about myself and didn't sell myself enough, so make sure you're not too humble/reserved.

      Interview questions [4]

      Question 1

      Imagine you are standing at the edge of the Thames. Estimate how much water goes past in 24 hours.
      Answer question

      Question 2

      Who are some of our clients?
      Answer question

      Question 3

      Who are our competitors?
      Answer question

      Question 4

      What services do we provide to our clients?
      Answer question
      5

      Application

      I interviewed at BAE Systems

      Interview

      A very interesting mix of questions and tasks! I was a little thrown off by the game-based competencies, but it was a really interesting way to conduct interviews! There were the usual kind of questions, and talking to a camera rather than an interviewer was interesting, but the games stand out to me as really memorable!

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      I genuinely can't remember what they asked, but they weren't as business-related as I anticipated!
      Answer question
      1

      Graduate Consultant Interview

      Mar 1, 2016
      Anonymous interview candidate
      London, England
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at BAE Systems (London, England) in Feb 2016

      Interview

      My first interview in the London office was good. This was a 1 hour talk one-on-one about my CV, strengths, weaknesses, reasons for applying to the company and scheme etc as in any normal interview. There was also a case study to do with the amount of storage it would require to record every car journey in the UK in a month. Although this was quite difficult the interviewer helped me along the way and was generally very friendly and informative. I received generally positive feedback and after chasing up a couple of weeks later with many calls, I finally got through to the recruiter who said I had been invited to a second interview. The second interview was a shambles. Part of the feedback I got from from the first interview is that my CV/experience was well suited to the Data Analysis roles, and they'd try and find a relevant team senior person for the second interview. After another couple of weeks and calls every other day, I finally got through to the recuiter again who said they'd organised a slot for me, and this interview would involve a 15 min presentation on 'a complex problem'. Thats all the information I got. I sent numerous emails and calls asking for a bit more guidance, and also if there would be a whiteboard available, but got no response. I hoped for the best chose to present on a project I did for an internship during university. Fast forward to the interview and after being made to wait about half an hour after the start time, I was asked pretty much exactly the same questions to the first interview (I dont know why) by a recent graduate and a more senior manager. I was surprised to find out he was largely involved in Business Management, something I wasn't well suited for or was suggested for after the first interview. Nevertheless I went with it and the presentation went fine. The case study though was incredibly difficult. I was given 2 x A4 sheets of paper; a letter explaining the scenario and a sheet with roughly 100 bits of data. I was given 4 minutes to read the letter, all the information, come up with an argument to convince a business person to buy a product using all the data at your disposal. After the 4 minutes was up I had to do a role play with the senior person and convince them. I was overwhelmed by all the information, and this case study was far more difficult than the first. I read interview reviews on this site of people being asked to calculate the amount of tennis balls that would fit in a car, something that would be far easier. Overall the feedback I got was that I didnt have the commercial know-how they were looking for in a business consulting role (annoying seeing as my first interviewer suggested me for a data analysis role) and also that I struggled with the case study (which I guess is luck of the draw as to what type you get).

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      What are your weaknesses?
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