Senior Consultant 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 40% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Consultant roles take an average of 17 days to get hired, when considering 5 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Boston Consulting Group overall takes an average of 30 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Boston Consulting Group as a Senior Consultant according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:
Presentation: 25%
One on one interview: 25%
IQ intelligence test: 8%
Other: 8%
Skills test: 8%
Phone interview: 8%
Drug test: 8%
Personality test: 8%
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I applied through university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Boston Consulting Group (Boston, MA) in Sep 2017
Interview
There was a rigorous on campus recruiting process that involves networking with current employees. It is important to be personable and professional, because it might determine whether you will get an actual interview. It was clear that they wanted their candidates to succeed, as they provide 6:1 workshops on structuring a case from which I got additional partners to practice my cases. They also connected me with an opportunity to do a case practice and ask any questions regarding the interview process during a mock before the first round. First Round happened in Boston, with 2 project managers. One stuck with the "script", the other one threw me a few curve balls by going off the script but also ended up being the consultant who gave me really positive and constructive feedback to prep for second/decision round. Second round was with 3 partners and are much more challenging. They were packed in much more complicated cases and asked much harder behavioral questions to get more deeply into my motivations and leadership/professional experience. Two of me threw me lots of curve balls, including doing the case on the board and a case that tested business judgment with no good options.
I interviewed at Boston Consulting Group (Bogotá, Bogota)
Interview
The first interview was with HR, then I got a knowledge test from an MD. Asked about architecture, DevOps, Agile Planning, Cyber, etc. If you're not a well rounded systems engineer it will be challenging to answer all the questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are architectural frameworks? What's the difference between data lake and data lakehouse
Multiple rounds of case studies conducted by different people, would have 20-30 mins to solve. They switch it up so no person has the same cases but then idea is to test your thinking aloud with the interviewer and work with them to ask the right questions and solve the problem at hand