London Consulting Group Interview Questions
& Process

First there was a call to ask me about my background and previous experience. Then it was filling out a form and taking psychometric tests. Then there would be a competency interview where HR agents would ask me more psychometric questions and about my background. The last one would be a business case call where they give you 1 week or less to develop a case with some questions and defend it in 15 min. The times between each step and their notification vary a lot from what they originally mention, a process that they said would last 1 month became 2 months until they notify you if you get in or not.

First you have to go over a zoom interview which is pretty easy. Mostly open ended questions about yourself. Secondly, you will be sent a case study to analyze. The case and prepare a presentation of it. Once you submit both the report and presentation, they email you if you have passed for the presentation. For the third interview you need to present the case, and answer questions at the end.

The interview process included submitting a video, an HR interview, a business case exercise, and then two separate interviews with senior partners or Directors. The initial HR chat was pretty standard, mostly about my drive to join and a rundown of my past work. The business case involved doing some analysis in Excel and preparing a presentation, which was then shown to HR during a 30-minute video call, with no client-facing consultants present. The interviews with the partners and directors focused more on my experience and how I'd fit into potential projects. I found the steps logical overall, but I'm marking it as negative because they were really cagey about salary bands, giving me no clue even when I mentioned my expectations early on. They also said I could be placed in any of five different grades upon joining, with the actual grade decided after seven months. This was a big issue because salary expectations really depend on the work location, which I didn't know at the time. Usually, other consulting jobs give you a hint about the grade range. The salary uncertainty, especially after investing a lot of time and effort, like on the business case which takes a couple of days, made it feel like a waste of time for both me and the company. More transparency, like in other consulting roles I've applied for, would be better. I was also unsure about the point of some steps, especially the business case, as there was no feedback given. This lack of feedback for the most time-consuming part also made me less interested in the eventual offer. Some other details were also missed. For example, I saw in another post that consultants share accommodation. HR mentioned accommodation was provided, but didn't say it was with other consultants, which would have been good to know.

The interview process was lengthy and in several parts. First you do a screening with a recruiter and then you do a project based on a Business Case they give you. Not a lot is specified in the prompt so the questions they ask about it and the work you put in feels very arbitrary. It's like working with incomplete data. After presenting, I met with the USA Director. He took a more personality-based approach to interviewing. Throughout the process I was also switching between English and Spanish at their whim. For example, I had been sent the Business Case in Spanish, so I prepared the presentation in Spanish, but was told on the call to present to do the whole thing in English.