I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Booz Allen Hamilton in Jan 2011
Interview
Met with BAH multiple times. 1st time phone call with hiring manager. Then interviewed with the client executive, then two more people on the project. Had to go back a 3rd time to interview with the client.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions were basic. Nothing out of the ordinary. Mainly resume review.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Booz Allen Hamilton (McLean, VA) in Nov 2015
Interview
I submitted my resume via our university recruitment site. A newly-hired associate emailed to set up a screening call a few days later. The screening call was pretty informal -- more about BAH's commercial practice (which they are starting again), my background, and would I be interested in what they were doing. I said yes to the interview process. The interview process was not what I was expecting. Six total interviews over that started at 9am with the day ending at 4pm. First interview was light -- the interviewer was more interested in talking about her previous experience at the firm and I got a chance to ask a few questions. We ran out of time before she could ask her case question. Second hour was a one-hour written case -- lots of slides, number, facts, and you had to write out a slide deck for presentation. I was asked to sit in an empty room for one hour after that (I stared out the window b/c there was nothing to do). Third interview was a case -- stumbled through that b/c I wasn't expecting it. Fourth interview as a presentation and defense of the written case to two people (one was an associate), and then another case was immediately thrown at me. I was questioning the logic behind the back-to-back cases. It wasn't expected based on previous reviews posted here. The last interview was with the principle of the practice, and yet another case. It was a pretty exhausting day b/c it was a bunch of case studies -- none of them quantitative (P&L, M&A, etc.) but a lot about market launch -- what would be the market launch plans for x,y,z? In truth, I didn't prep well (I'm in the middle of final exams), but the number of cases and the lack of any meaningful Q&A suggests something about this group (the new commercial unit at BAH attempting to revive the old Booz & Co flag I believe). I'm not sure what they were looking. Probably could care less if you had any collaboration skills or were morally bankrupt. They spend almost no time asking anything about me or my experience -- nothing behavioral or even remotely personal. It wasn't almost robotic and completely transactional . Not really sure what this team is attempting to achieve, but definitely not a positive interview experience. Previous Booz consultant I debriefed with suggested the interview was so left-field (for Booz) that it suggested this team is still trying to figure things out. Someone may go through this process and likely come out with a very different interview experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If the US postal service were spun off into a private firm, how would you advise them in terms of increasing their revenues?
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Booz Allen Hamilton (Singapura) in Oct 2015
Interview
3 interviews back to back. Behavioural plus case interviews. Each lasting 1 hour.
The first interview started a bit late which is why all the interviews were delayed by 10 minutes. The interviews were being carried out over skype but the connectivity was not an issue. However the engagement could have been better if it was face to face
Very tiring towards the end. Also followed by a short HR interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Case study on a government sport complex and how the government should use the asset
Case question on a new product for hair growth (new product entry)
Case question on market sizing and 2 riddles