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Anonymous Employee
I interviewed at Boston Consulting Group
Company hire and 2 rounds of case interviews , one with 2 partners and one with 2 mdps The key is to get into the first round with good networking and be prepared with case interviewed. They are all pretty smart and have their strong opinions quick.
- Typical Case Questions What is the best way to tackle this and structure of the issues

Anonymous Interview Candidate in London, England
I applied online. The process took 12 months. I interviewed at Boston Consulting Group (London, England)
Began with an initial screening which is quite simple, it is good to know as much about the company as possible and then just some basic questions such as what is a random forest. Then move on to a coding test which focuses on standard data manipulation etc. so need to be familar with pandas and there are also some other questions about dimensionality reduction, feature engineering etc. Then move on to case interviews where you do a mixture of business and technical cases but they all seemed quite similar to me. The person giving the case will usually choose something related to their background so be familair with their background and the type of projects they work on.
- Tell me what you know about BCG Gamma and how it came about?
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Anonymous Interview Candidate
I interviewed at Boston Consulting Group
It’s been really straightforward, the interviewer was really kind and ask me simple questions. He started with my background, after about my academic and scholar studies and later on specific question for the job.
- What have been a issue that you have been able to solve?

Anonymous Employee in Jakarta
I interviewed at Boston Consulting Group (Jakarta)
I was asked to calculate a market size for online food delivery business in Indonesia. The rest of the questions were just typical fit questions (walk me through your CV, deepdive on your experience, etc).
- Market sizing for online food delivery business in Indonesia.

Anonymous Interview Candidate in Washington, DC
I applied online. I interviewed at Boston Consulting Group (Washington, DC)
Resume submission and will need to complete a test. If you pass, you will receive interview invites. Not sure how many rounds are there in total, but I had two and each round had 2 back-to-back interviews.
- each had case-like questions; for behavioral questions, why consulting, how do you handle your stress; tell me about a time you failed

Anonymous Interview Candidate
I interviewed at Boston Consulting Group
First Round: Video Interview - basic behavioral/HR questions based on past experience Second Round: Hackerrank assessment - mix of coding assessment (coding language of chocie) and subjective questions based on data science
- Basic HR/behavioral questions and a coding assessment with subjective questions on data science

Anonymous Interview Candidate in Boston, MA
I interviewed at Boston Consulting Group (Boston, MA)
Very tough I thought the questions were repetitive and the interviewer seemed distracted a lot. I wish I would have known ahead of time because I felt like it was such a waste of my time.
- Describe a strength and weakness

Anonymous Employee in London, England
I interviewed at Boston Consulting Group (London, England)
Critical to ensure you are prepared but otherwise it's a straightforward process - you know the structure beforehand if you have done the necessary research so you can prepare effectively
- Tell me about a time when you were in a position of leadership

Anonymous Employee in Riyadh
I interviewed at Boston Consulting Group (Riyadh)
2 rounds of interview both fit/ behavioural and cases. Each round has 2 interviews. Good and friendly attitude to applicants. Principals tried to guide me through the interview and ask me questions along the way.
- Fit: Describe a challenge you faced and how did you react?

Anonymous Interview Candidate
I interviewed at Boston Consulting Group
Typical case interview and fit interview. The interviewer was very friendly and made me comfortable throughout the process. It was a 45 min interview. The case interview part took around 30 mins.
- Why BCG? Tell me about a time you experienced failure?

Anonymous Interview Candidate in Boston, MA
I interviewed at Boston Consulting Group (Boston, MA)
The entire process was professional, I did well on HM round and I thought I was doing ok on Director round. I haven't hear back until 2 months after the final round.
- What's your strengths and weakness
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Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Boston Consulting Group as 68.3% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3.59 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Visiting Associate (Aka Internship) and MBA rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Account Manager and Sr. Manager roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Boston Consulting Group takes an average of 29.37 days when considering 2,532 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Associate Consultant Intern had the quickest hiring process (on average 1 day), whereas MBA roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 180 days).
Common stages of the interview process at Boston Consulting Group according to 2,532 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on One Interview: 35.09%
Phone Interview: 14.90%
Skills Test: 12.01%
Presentation: 10.13%
Personality Test: 7.47%
IQ Intelligence Test: 6.26%
Background Check: 5.30%
Other: 3.14%
Group Panel Interview: 2.91%
Drug Test: 2.79%
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