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Updated May 16, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Associate at Boston Consulting Group
Posted Nov 1, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 (took a day)
Had 2 back to back 45 min interviews. Practice a lot of cases before interview.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Associate at Boston Consulting Group
Posted Nov 1, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Boston, MA (took 5 days)
First interviewed on campus. Two one on one interviews with Consultants and Case Team Leaders. Started with a couple fit questions and then a case. These cases were pretty quant heavy. There were many exhibitions that required the candidate to to analyze graphs and PnL statements.
Was called back for decision round interviews that evening, which took place the next day in the Boston Office. Those interviews consisted of 3 one on one interviews with mostly parters. Two were case interviews and one was fit.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Consultant at Boston Consulting Group
Posted Nov 1, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2010 (took 3 weeks)
Phone interview with recruiter. Interviewed on campus with a number of other students. The interviewer were numb by the time I sat with them. They did not want to know anything about you just how you did on he case study. The case study has become a running joke, in that everyone practices for months so it is easy to do well. Just plug in the case variable because many are the same. Doesn't really matter what you did in school or your GPA if you ace the case. Another interview and offer came a few weeks later.
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Reason for Declining
Took a job with software company in SF. Dynamic organization with good work life balance and people that seemed to care about what you did and who you were.
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Associate Consultant at Boston Consulting Group
Posted Oct 31, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 (took 2 weeks)
I received an interview through on campus recruiting. It was two back to back 45 minute case interviews. They were very polished, throwing a cocktail hour before the interviews for the several hundred students they were choosing to interview, and even had greeters the day of. My interviewers were cordial, but really pushed me. They would challenge everything I said - "Ok great. What else? Ok great. What else?" and keep pushing you until they were satisfied. Like other reviewers on here, I found the case to be VERY math driven. But I also found that the interviewers did a poor job of presenting the case in a way that the math that needed to be done became apparent. I bombed my second interview but did well in the first. I wasn't surprised at all when I didn't get an offer.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Associate Consultant at Boston Consulting Group
Posted Oct 30, 2011
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 in Boston, MA (took a day)
Standard 1st round. Went through two 30-minute interviews with different people. Each interview was structured similarly: interviewer looks through your resume and asks you questions about your past experiences, then you proceed to the case. I got a numbers/cost-benefit analysis case and a pricing strategy case. The interviewers were helpful and tried to point you in the right direction for solving the cases. However, feedback was nonexistent and you couldn't easily tell how you were being perceived.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Consultant at Boston Consulting Group
Posted Oct 20, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 (took a day)
In general, I'd found the BCG events I'd attended to be quite well organized and professional. This did not apply to my interview experience, however. To start things off, the interview scheduling was a giant mess and I walked in on interview day just praying that the final of the multiple times I'd been given was actually correct.
On interview day, I had an observer that was collecting feedback on my interviewer. That was fine, however, she typed during the whole interview. So I heard the clickety-clack of her keyboard throughout the entire thing. It seriously sounded like one of those old IBM keyboards. The professional way to approach this would be to have her take paper notes or just record instead.
One of the two interviewers was really good. The other seemed like he was not at all prepared to conduct an interview. It was like he was waiting for the questions to just come to him throughout the interview.
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Consultant at Boston Consulting Group
Posted Oct 20, 2011
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 (took a day)
I had my first round interview on campus with BCG. As someone with an advanced non-business degree, I knew I was going to be a somewhat unusual candidate. Accordingly, I spent months preparing for the case interviews and general fit questions.
My interview was the final one of the day. Unfortunately, it quickly became clear that my interviewer had zero interest in being there at that point. He was extremely short and rude throughout the interview. The case he gave me was a straight numbers problem (which I didn't realize until part of the way through). It was surprisingly difficult, and I struggled both with keeping the numbers straight and dealing with the pressure of the interviewer's attitude.
The second interview went better. The guy was tired, but nice, and the case was somewhat more conventional. However, I knew by then that it was already a lost cause, so I just kind of struggled through it and got out of there.
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Consultant at Boston Consulting Group
Posted Oct 19, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Boston, MA (took a day)
Resume drop on campus, interviewed in office. Two 45 min interviews going over case and fit. Didn't really mesh well with either of my interviewers so wasn't surprised at the no go for the final round.
Their logistics were solid, though I was disappointed with the interviewers. Didn't seem like they really cared. They were tired and ready to go home for the weekend.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Associate Consultant at Boston Consulting Group
Posted Oct 17, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Boston, MA (took 2 days)
For MD degrees, don't even apply unless you almost have (or have) an MBA - they care very much about business knowledge; they don't care to tap on you background. And by the way, they don't get the good MD, Eng, or PhDs - only the ones that cannot go elsewhere: misleading advertising...
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Associate Consultant at Boston Consulting Group
Posted Oct 17, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 (took 4+ weeks)
The first round consisted of two back to back 45min interviews with fit questions at the start of each, followed by a case for each. Both interviewers were nice and decently friendly. The first interviewer was clearly very burnt out though, and even though I hit on why the revenues of the client were down in great detail in the first few minutes, he refused to acknowledge it because I didn't use the exact sentence he was looking for. It may also have been that he didn't hear me though since he actually fell asleep while I was talking. The second case went much better. Both cases were fairly straight forward, but know your finance formulas and don't expect any direction from the interviewers.
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