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 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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Updated May 18, 2026 | By Florian Smeritschnig, Former McKinsey Senior Consultant Most consulting fit interviews test across many dimensions — leadership, conflict, achievement, motivation, intellectual depth, culture fit. Strategy& fit interviews simplify to a two-axis evaluation that maps directly to the firm’s dual identity. Axis one: how committed are you to pure strategy work…
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Updated May 11, 2026 | By Florian Smeritschnig, Former McKinsey Senior Consultant Most fit interviews at major consulting firms test across many dimensions — leadership, conflict, achievement, weakness, motivation, intellectual depth. L.E.K. is unusual in collapsing the fit evaluation around three specific questions that map directly to whether you’d succeed at commercial due diligence work.…
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The Kearney fit interview is not a behavioral interview. It’s a culture-fit screen wearing behavioral clothing. Kearney recruits aggressively against three specific cultural traits — humility, grit, and collaboration — and the questions you’ll face exist primarily to reveal whether you embody those traits, not to test storytelling polish. Candidates who treat the fit interview…
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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.
