I applied online. I interviewed at Actica Consulting in Dec 2025
Interview
Initial screening call with an interviewer mainly behavioral and motivational questions and an explanation of the role. Following this was a 1st stage interview with two members of the team including a senior consultant, some Fermi style questions asked, went through my CV line by line it felt like asking questions on each point. General questions about why consulting, why Actica, tell us about a trend in technology you are following etc. Following this was another stage which i believed to be the final stage with a senior director, interview was very pointless as the questions asked were almost identical to the previous stage. Was asked a case style question on how I would approach migrating an old tech system to a new one. Given explanation of the different business lines and asked to present a short PowerPoint on various briefs. Then received ANOTHER interview call, this time with the ex-CEO with more redundant questions asking me to explain my experiences and informing me that too many people had been shortlisted and there weren't enough offers, and that everything would now boil down to his decision... incredibly poor in my opinion that everything up to this point is now dependent on the face-level opinion of this individual. Finally after all this, I ended up received an offer which I later declined. A 4-stage interview process for a relatively average consulting firm in Guildford paying sub-standard salary is in my opinion, silly.
I interviewed at Actica Consulting (Guildford, England)
Interview
Cover Letter --> Then Call --> Call is about motivation and comptency, as well as some Fermi Q. I would suggest thinking about why you want to go into consultancy.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Fermi Question on Estimation, about the population of the UK involved in the Q
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Actica Consulting (Guildford, England) in Dec 2025
Interview
It was 3-4 hours in total of online face-to-face interviews. The Interview process was thorough the people giving the interviews were friendly and easy to get along with. They said I was great on everything except they didn't offer me the job because I said the direction of my career was wrong, even though I disagree.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A standard engineering question centred around data, networks and defence.