By Florian Smeritschnig, former McKinsey Senior Consultant · Updated June 2026 A consulting assessment test is an online screen that firms use to cut the applicant pool before a single human reads your case structure. McKinsey Solve, BCG’s Consulting Career Assessment, and Bain’s TestGorilla are the best-known examples. Most candidates treat these screens as formalities…
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By Florian Smeritschnig, former McKinsey Senior Consultant · Updated June 15, 2026 Of the three MBB firms, Bain weighs personal fit the hardest, and candidates who treat the conversation as a warm-up walk out wondering why a clean case still got a ding. The Bain fit interview is the behavioral part of each live interview,…
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By Florian Smeritschnig, former McKinsey Senior Consultant · Updated June 15, 2026 The BCG Consulting Career Assessment (CCA) is a roughly 30-minute online test, with no video, that pairs a behavioral section (ranking phrases that best describe you) with a cognitive section of logic, pattern, and light-math problems under tight time pressure. If BCG asked…
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By Florian Smeritschnig, former McKinsey Senior Consultant · Updated June 15, 2026 The BCG fit interview is the personal, behavioral part of each live interview, run alongside the case, and BCG uses it to test your motivation, leadership, teamwork, and whether you fit its collaborative culture. Candidates pour weeks into the BCG case and treat…
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By Florian Smeritschnig, former McKinsey Senior Consultant · Updated June 2026 The BCG case interview rewards one instinct above all: you drive. BCG cases are candidate-led: you set the structure, walk the interviewer through your thinking, and steer toward the recommendation yourself. McKinsey hands you the wheel one question at a time; BCG hands you…
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Florian spent five years at McKinsey as a Senior Consultant and is a highly experienced consulting interviewer and problem-solving coach. Having conducted interviews with hundreds of candidates, he understands exactly what top-tier firms look for in successful applicants.
He founded StrategyCase.com to make top consulting careers more accessible by providing tailored, up-to-date insights into the recruiting process. Recognized as the most successful case and fit interview coach, Florian has helped his clients secure 700+ offers at MBB, Tier-2 firms, Big 4 consulting divisions, in-house consultancies, and boutique firms over the past four years.
He is the author of “The 1%: Conquer Your Consulting Case Interview,” “The 1%: Case Interview Workbook,” and “Consulting Career Secrets”, all available on Amazon.
