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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.

187,603 consultant interview questions shared by candidates

Why would I hire you over others? What do you know about our company and products? Where do you see yourself in five years? Tell me about your communication skills? Tell us about your most successful sale? What was your biggest mistake?
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Public Funds Consultant

Interviewed at PMA Financial

2.6★
Apr 3, 2022

Why would I hire you over others? What do you know about our company and products? Where do you see yourself in five years? Tell me about your communication skills? Tell us about your most successful sale? What was your biggest mistake?

The case study was not that difficult. It was a broad and fairly easy case to discuss but I allowed my nervousness to get the best of me and forgot my frameworks and so it just sounded like a bunch of random thoughts.
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Associate Consultant

Interviewed at The Frankel Group

4.6★
Sep 6, 2013

The case study was not that difficult. It was a broad and fairly easy case to discuss but I allowed my nervousness to get the best of me and forgot my frameworks and so it just sounded like a bunch of random thoughts.

Q: Our company creates lesson plans for elementary school students. In order to gage your ability to connect with this demographic, I am going to ask you some questions and you are going to respond to this puppet.
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Editorial Consultant

Interviewed at The Education Center

3.3★
Feb 20, 2017

Q: Our company creates lesson plans for elementary school students. In order to gage your ability to connect with this demographic, I am going to ask you some questions and you are going to respond to this puppet.

Communication round is detailed review of resume with behavioral questions. Technical round had questions about networks, problem solving like how to send a message in a box if the the sender and receiver both have different locks and keys (public key encryption), if there is a bulb in a room and 4 switches outside, how will you know which switch is connected to the bulb by entering the room only once.
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Software Consultant

Interviewed at VMware

4.4★
Apr 4, 2014

Communication round is detailed review of resume with behavioral questions. Technical round had questions about networks, problem solving like how to send a message in a box if the the sender and receiver both have different locks and keys (public key encryption), if there is a bulb in a room and 4 switches outside, how will you know which switch is connected to the bulb by entering the room only once.

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