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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.

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I was tasked with writing code in any language on a napkin that should compile and that implemented a "Fizz Buzz" test. Fizz Buzz: "Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print “Fizz” instead of the number and for the multiples of five print “Buzz”. For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print “FizzBuzz”."
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Technical Consultant

Interviewed at Systems Evolution

4.3★
Feb 11, 2013

I was tasked with writing code in any language on a napkin that should compile and that implemented a "Fizz Buzz" test. Fizz Buzz: "Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print “Fizz” instead of the number and for the multiples of five print “Buzz”. For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print “FizzBuzz”."

A man has just finished painting his house and needs something. He goes to a hardware store and asks for help in finding what he needs. The clerk shows him where the objects are and tells him that they cost $1 each. The man says: "I'm taking 600, so here's $3." What did he buy?
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Project Manager/Implementation Consultant

Interviewed at Epic

3.3★
Nov 6, 2014

A man has just finished painting his house and needs something. He goes to a hardware store and asks for help in finding what he needs. The clerk shows him where the objects are and tells him that they cost $1 each. The man says: "I'm taking 600, so here's $3." What did he buy?

In the next interview I was again asked to take her through my resume and again I was asked about the sentiment analysis. She was more interested in what I wanted to do and how I went about it and what was the result rather than the coding. Also what importance does this have to whoever it may concern.
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Consultant

Interviewed at Fractal

4.1★
May 25, 2016

In the next interview I was again asked to take her through my resume and again I was asked about the sentiment analysis. She was more interested in what I wanted to do and how I went about it and what was the result rather than the coding. Also what importance does this have to whoever it may concern.

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