I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Boston Consulting Group (Milan) in Feb 2017
Interview
I interviewed in february 2017. I applied through employee referral. HR contacted me very quickly to arrange the interview.
I first performed an online case (airline corporation), that part was quite easy.
Afterwards, I got interviewed by two principals.
The first one asked me about synergies of a bank merger. Even though the case was not tremendously difficult, I did not feel the interviewer wanted to help through the case.
While the second one, was quite condecent and the case went wrong because of that.
I guess you need to have a "shark" profile to success.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are the possible synergies of a bank merger between bank X and bank Y (two regional Italian banks)?
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
Case interview about merger and acquisition
Was medium difficulty has a lot of brainstorming and analytical elements
Required quick thinking structuring and deep analysis to really ace it easily
Practice is def mandatory and failure to do so will lead to failure