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Updated Mar 28, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Associate Consultant at Mars & Co
Posted Mar 28, 2012
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in Greenwich, CT (took 2+ weeks)
After a short phone interview that was only personality and resume questions I was invited to Greenwich to interview on site. I met with three interviewers who presented different cases. Questions ranged from statistics to calculus to arithmetic. It was challenging, but interviewers were helpful.
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Associate Consultant at Mars & Co
Posted Feb 20, 2012
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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 Aug 2011 (took 2 weeks)
Overall, felt the people at Mars were nice, but not outstanding. Location of the firm in CT was also not ideal.
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Associate Consultant at Mars & Co
Posted Jan 8, 2012
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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 (took 2 months)
Phone conversation with HR about background, personal interests, etc.
3 1:1 interviews. 1 Case study, 1 pure market sizing question, 1 market sizing/strategy question.
Be prepared to work with numbers and work quickly. Engineering background definitely helpful for the case studies.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Associate Consultant at Mars & Co
Posted Nov 10, 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 Nov 2011 in Greenwich, CT (took 2 weeks)
I applied through my university career services. The first round consisted of two 1:1 interviews with a Senior Associate Consultant and a Managing Director. Both started with the typical behavior questions which was then followed by a market sizing question. The questions were not too difficult, however, they did question my assumptions to pressure me a bit in defending my answer.
The second (and final) round was at their Greenwich office, an hour from Manhattan. I had three back-to-back interviews for a total of 3 hours. They were all with very senior executive people (VPs, Sr. VPs). Again, each asked me a couple of fit questions but the interview was mainly focused on the market sizing questions. and brainteasers. The questions were definitely unusual, and I thought, pretty challenging.
Overall, you need to be very quantitative to enjoy and have success in their interviews. Most of the employees have some sort of engineering or mathematics background.
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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 Mars & Co
Posted Sep 28, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in Greenwich, CT (took 5 weeks)
Good professional interview
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Associate Consultant at Mars & Co
Posted Aug 12, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 (took 4+ weeks)
Applications are made online. I had 2 rounds of interviews with the firm VPs, and one interview in the end with the HR. Interviews are a mix of fit questions and brainteasers. The interviews are scheduled 2 by 2 which means that you actually meet with 2 VPs each time, but not necessarily on the same day.
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I Applied Online.
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Associate Consultant at Mars & Co
Posted Mar 28, 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 Mar 2011 in Greenwich, CT (took 3 weeks)
I applied through my college's Careers site, submitting only my resume I believe. I heard back within perhaps two-three weeks of applying. We set up a phone interview by e-mail.
It started on time, and I spoke with a human resources representative. It was a general behavioral interview, with questions concerning my interest in management consulting, my knowledge of the company, and why I would be a good fit. It was good that I had researched the company in advance. The total interview lasted about half an hour. At the end, the interviewer warned me that future rounds would of course include case interviews, for which candidates would do well to prepare.
About a week later I received a standard-worded e-mail denying my application.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Associate Consultant at Mars & Co
Posted Nov 25, 2010
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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 Nov 2010 in Greenwich, CT (took 3 weeks)
i had my first interview at my university career center, consisted of two 1:1 interviews. first had brainteasers, second had me do a market sizing problem. both asked me what i knew about mars. second round was in greenwich hq, also 2 1:1 interviews (though it was supposed to be 3 45 min ones, had to change to 2 60 min ones at the last minute). asked me to estimate weight of a passenger plane about to take off, a probability question, and gave me a real pricing/profits case study from a few years back that they had done. also had a group lunch with two associate analysts and another interviewee. people seem nice enough, though a little bit reserved during the lunch. the hq was pretty cool and in a nice environment.
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Associate Consultant at Mars & Co
Posted Nov 24, 2010
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2010 (took 2 weeks)
After applying to company via a school posting, I had received a basic phone screening/1st round interview. It was straightforward stuff (classes, interests, etc). I was then brought in for a second round, where I had an interview with 3 consultants. The behavioral portion was very brief. The majority of the interview was market analysis and sizing questions. With minor experience with case interviews previously, I enjoyed them since the interviewers did a great job relating the questions to my hobbies and interests. I would say that this was first time I had learned something from the interview; the cases taught me to think simpler yet quicker. Additionally, logistics were very well coordinated (travel, waiting times, etc).
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Associate Consultant at Mars & Co
Posted Jun 21, 2010
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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 Mar 2010 in Greenwich, CT (took 2 weeks)
With Mars, I first had a phone interview and spoke with a long-tenured Mars employee about my educational background, work experiences, and the firm. By the beginning of the next week, I received a phone call to schedule an in-person interview at the "Mars Plaza." One other candidate was interviewing that afternoon, and the interviews consisted of three 1:1 interviews: two consultants and someone from HR. The interviews with consultants lasted one hour each, and the interview with HR lasted 30 minutes. The woman from HR was new to the company (<1 year), so she offered little new information about the company. The interviews with consultants involved approximately 25 minutes of behavioral questions, 25 minutes for a market-sizing question, and 10 minutes for questions. Overall, the interviewers were pleasant, but one did talk about frequently wanting to leave the company, which he worked for since earning a graduate degree.
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