Consulting firm interview guides, 19 firms

Most consulting roles include Solve, a gamified problem-solving assessment. Most client-facing roles have personal experience interviews and problem-solving (case) interviews, and some add an expertise interview. McKinsey publishes practice cases but doesn't say who leads the case.

Globally: an application, then a skills interview on experience and motivation. Client-facing candidates also face a case and a team interview. The global page gives no test or interview length. Country pages do, and our guide covers them.

A consulting application typically has a digital assessment, then case interviews. Bain gives every candidate for a role the same questions, and says its cases reward precision and creativity with no single right answer.

Conversational interviews about you, and case interviews on real-world problems in which you treat the interviewer as your client. The global page describes no test. It publishes six sample cases.

General consulting candidates typically have four to five interviews, behavioral and case, conducted by consultants. Some roles may add a competency assessment, which Kearney doesn't describe.

Several rounds of experiential and case interviews, with quantitative or strategic cases, varying by region and level. Its official pages describe no test. You can apply to one office a year.

Candidates for permanent jobs whose profile fits take an online analytics test, then a recruiting day of personal fit and case interviews, then a final interview with a member of the management team in your future area. Interns go straight to the recruiting day.

In the UK, an online assessment, then a first round of two interviews of about 45 minutes: an open, unstructured case and a structured one on slides that reflect a real client project.

In Australia, two or three rounds. The first is two blind problem-solving interviews, where the interviewer knows nothing about you, followed, usually that day, by a more traditional interview.

US candidates should expect two to three rounds, held by phone, video or in person. Whether they are behavioral, technical or case interviews depends on the role. A recruiter usually reaches out within one to two weeks.

In the US, an online assessment soon after you apply, then live virtual interviews. Most Advisory roles have a case interview.

US students get two live video interviews with business leaders, and most decisions come within two weeks. KPMG US publishes no case format for students.

Its case workbook, dated 2018, describes case interviews that typically last 45 to 60 minutes, on real business situations, often from the interviewer's own projects, in three types. The workbook names no test for consulting roles.

Five steps: application, screening, a technical assessment for some roles, interviews tailored to the role, then a decision. Interviews are typically technical screens and individual or panel interviews.

Typically two to four rounds of behavioral, case and subject matter expertise interviews, varying by role and location. Some roles take an online assessment of logical, quantitative and qualitative reasoning.

For interns, an on-campus or virtual first interview, then a final round virtually or in person. Guidehouse publishes no case format or test.

Early careers: a pre-recorded video interview and online assessments such as numerical and written tests, then interviews that may include a case study, a technical interview or a group exercise. It varies by country.

The number of interviews varies by role, and you may be asked for a case study, a business plan or a technical assessment. Its Talent team tells you how to prepare.

Strategy consulting has case and behavioral interviews. Its cases tend to be interviewer-led, with break-evens, market sizing, arithmetic and algebra, and calculators are allowed when appropriate.