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While there's no set list, businesses are pretty clear about qualities they like to see demonstrated by their employees and applicants. Generally, a consultant interviewer is looking for evidence of confidence, communication skills, your ability to gain a client's trust, overall leadership skills, and knowledge of your subject matter to name a few. There are generally two types of consulting interview questions: fit — designed to find out about your personal experience, motivation, and soft skills, and case — designed to assess your analytical consulting skills.

Top Consultant Interview Questions & How To Answer

Question 1

Question #1: Why do you want to work for this firm?

How to answer
How to answer: This question is asked to reveal your motivation for choosing a specific organization and to test your knowledge of the industry. Research the firm you're interviewing with and make sure to highlight some of your key points of interest. Additionally, mention any ways in which the company's values align with your own.
Question 2

Question #2: Give an example of a time you lead a team.

How to answer
How to answer: To answer this question, choose an experience in which you made a meaningful impact while managing or working with others. Provide context regarding the situation and objective, describe your leadership role, what actions you took, the outcome of those actions, and what you learned about yourself during the process.
Question 3

Question #3: How would you help a local cafe recover from a sharp profitability decline?

How to answer
How to answer: Breaking down complex business problems is one of the hallmarks of consulting. For questions like this, there's no universal framework — you'll have to create your own. Ask questions, define the problem clearly, create Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive (MECE) categories, show how you would analyze each category, and define your next steps.

188,049 consultant interview questions shared by candidates

1. Write an SQL to get 2nd highest salary of an employee. 2. What is difference between webserver and application server? 3. Difference between get and load in hibernate. 4. How will you handle in java if out of million records only half is moved and the process fails? 5. What is spring batch? 6. What is joint point and point cut? 7. Tell me about yourself 8. Tell me about your project architecture 9. Create an entity in Hibernate 10. Write code for one to many and one to one mapping. 11. It will compile/execute or not, public static void main(Str[] args) If remove public If remove static if replaced void with int If replace Str[] args to String… If renamed main to abc 12. How to do Spring and Hibernate integration, write all the configuration file changes and annotations used. 13. What is the purpose of @Component, @Controller, @Service, @DAO. 14. Design an architecture for a ecommerce website from web.xml to designing a table in DB. How the flow will be from getting a request till persisting a data in DB. 15. How do dispatcher servlet know which spring config file needs to be called. 16. How in one to many mapping Hibernate knows on which column mapping has to be done. 17. Example of OneToMany mapping and write code. 18. What is immutable, write a code to convert a user define object to immutable. 19. What is HashMap, how it functions? 20. How hashcode defines at what location key-value pair needs to be saved. 21. If I override hashcode method and return an int value where the key-value pair will be saved? 22. I have 2 class Emp1 and Emp2 with properties such as Id, Salary, Name, Department. I want to sort the array consisting of these objects based on salary of Employee present in these 2 class. Write a code to do so. 23. I have a class with variables a=1, b=2, c=3 I want to move this class from one JVM to another JVM but the value should be a=1, b=0, c=3. How to achieve this.
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Consultant

Interviewed at Deloitte

3.8★
May 7, 2017

1. Write an SQL to get 2nd highest salary of an employee. 2. What is difference between webserver and application server? 3. Difference between get and load in hibernate. 4. How will you handle in java if out of million records only half is moved and the process fails? 5. What is spring batch? 6. What is joint point and point cut? 7. Tell me about yourself 8. Tell me about your project architecture 9. Create an entity in Hibernate 10. Write code for one to many and one to one mapping. 11. It will compile/execute or not, public static void main(Str[] args) If remove public If remove static if replaced void with int If replace Str[] args to String… If renamed main to abc 12. How to do Spring and Hibernate integration, write all the configuration file changes and annotations used. 13. What is the purpose of @Component, @Controller, @Service, @DAO. 14. Design an architecture for a ecommerce website from web.xml to designing a table in DB. How the flow will be from getting a request till persisting a data in DB. 15. How do dispatcher servlet know which spring config file needs to be called. 16. How in one to many mapping Hibernate knows on which column mapping has to be done. 17. Example of OneToMany mapping and write code. 18. What is immutable, write a code to convert a user define object to immutable. 19. What is HashMap, how it functions? 20. How hashcode defines at what location key-value pair needs to be saved. 21. If I override hashcode method and return an int value where the key-value pair will be saved? 22. I have 2 class Emp1 and Emp2 with properties such as Id, Salary, Name, Department. I want to sort the array consisting of these objects based on salary of Employee present in these 2 class. Write a code to do so. 23. I have a class with variables a=1, b=2, c=3 I want to move this class from one JVM to another JVM but the value should be a=1, b=0, c=3. How to achieve this.

A worker is to perform work for you for seven straight days. In return for his work, you will pay him 1/7th of a bar of gold per day. The worker requires a daily payment of 1/7th of the bar of gold. If you were only able to make 2 cuts to the gold bar, describe how this will allow you to pay him 1/7th each day?
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Consultant Internship

Interviewed at CGI

3.7★
Mar 8, 2013

A worker is to perform work for you for seven straight days. In return for his work, you will pay him 1/7th of a bar of gold per day. The worker requires a daily payment of 1/7th of the bar of gold. If you were only able to make 2 cuts to the gold bar, describe how this will allow you to pay him 1/7th each day?

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