Summer Associate applicants have rated the interview process at Boston Consulting Group with 3.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 75% positive. To compare, the company-average is 65.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Summer Associate roles take an average of 24 days to get hired, when considering 209 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Boston Consulting Group overall takes an average of 32 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Boston Consulting Group as a Summer Associate according to 209 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 47%
Skills test: 13%
Presentation: 8%
Personality test: 8%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Phone interview: 5%
Background check: 5%
Other: 4%
Drug test: 2%
Group panel interview: 2%
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Boston Consulting Group (Istanbul) in Mar 2018
Interview
I applied online in October and in January got an email requesting me to record a 60 second video answer to a prompt within 3 days.
A month or so later, I got an invitation to the Istanbul office for an online test and first round interview. The test was fairly easy, consisting of a business case with 25 multiple choice questions mostly involving basic calculations and data analysis. I had two first round interviews with a consultant and a principal, both of which were about 10 minutes of fit questions, 40 minutes of cases and 10 minutes of my questions to the interviewers. The cases weren't all that difficult -just basic profitability and market sizing- but they were more interviewee-led than I had anticipated. Of course, the interviewers still push you in the right direction if you stray off course or get stuck.
Within 3 days, I got an invite to a final round interview with one of the partners of the office. The final round was a bit more tense, as the fit questions were a bit more scrutinizing and the case was far less structured. The fact that I didn't get much sleep the night before and overdosed on coffee that morning wasn't doing me any favors either. Half way through, the interviewer ended the case and asked if I had any questions for him, leading me to believe that I had failed spectacularly.
To my surprise, I received an offer the next week.
Multiple rounds with consulting case interview portions and fit portions. Each round of interviews had multiple interviews, and the interviewer gets more senior as you progress through the interview process
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Standard typical cases that can be more nuanced than other firms
1. Online case AI interview - interacted with AI chatbot
2. 1st round virtual - case and behavioral; asked why I wanted a certain office
3. 2, final rounds - case and behavioral
I interviewed at Boston Consulting Group (Lisbon, Lisbon District)
Interview
1st phase: CV & Online assessment
2nd phase: 2 back-to-back interviews with the first 15 min of each being personal questions followed by 30 min of case
3rd phase: didnt reach it.