Boston Consulting Group Associate interview questions
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Associate applicants have rated the interview process at Boston Consulting Group with 4.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 86.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Associate roles take an average of 15 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Boston Consulting Group overall takes an average of 31 days.
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10 minute personal with fairly standard questions. Followed by 30 -40 minute case around operations improvement. Different to any case I had done before. GMAT style math question after.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Boston Consulting Group (New York, NY) in Nov 2017
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BCG doesn't recruit at my school, so I had a current employee push my resume through. I got a phone call from HR to set up an interview. I then did a case interview in person. There were two cases, with two different interviewers back to back. Each case was about 30 mins with 15 mins of behavioral questions. The interview itself isn't difficult, but preparing for cases was very time-consuming. Both my interviewers, although friendly, made it seem as if I was wasting their time. This could be because I was applying to work at a different location than where I interviewed, or they looked at my school and noticed it wasn't as prestigious and other applicants.
I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Boston Consulting Group (Düsseldorf) in Sep 2017
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Ein mögliches Angebot erfolgt nach 2 Interview-Tagen. An beiden Tagen absolviert man jeweils 3 ca. einstündige Elemente: Jeweils 2 Mixed Inverviews (Persönlichkeit und Case Study), in der ersten Runde ein Analytiktest am Laptop und in der zweiten Runde 3 kurze BCG Reallife Cases. Die Mixed Interviews sind wie wohl alle anderen der Branche, gehen aber weniger entlang Standardfragen, sondern gerade der Persönlichkeitsteil entwickelt sich dynamisch nach deinen Antworten (sehr viele Follow-Up Fragen, etc.). Der Analytik-Test ist im Prinzip ein langer, sehr rechenlastiger Case und ist so konzipiert, dass man nur sehr schwer alle Fragen in der Zeit beantworten kann. Bei BCG Reallife wird man mit alltäglichen Situationen im Berater-Alltag konfrontiert. BCG Reallife ist praktisch nicht vorzubereiten und am Ende vom Tag auch nicht der Hauptaugenmerk in deren Bewertung.
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