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 18, 2026 | By Florian Smeritschnig, Former McKinsey Senior Consultant Strategy& runs a genuinely separate recruiting funnel from PwC general consulting despite the shared parent. Most candidates don’t realize this and either apply only through the PwC general consulting portal (missing Strategy& entirely) or apply to both without understanding they’re distinct processes. The…
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Updated May 18, 2026 | By Florian Smeritschnig, Former McKinsey Senior Consultant The most important fact about Strategy& salary is that it’s structurally separate from PwC general consulting compensation despite the shared parent. Strategy& consultants are paid 15-40% above PwC Advisory consultants at equivalent levels — a meaningful premium that exists because Strategy& competes with…
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Updated May 18, 2026 | By Florian Smeritschnig, Former McKinsey Senior Consultant Strategy& case interviews don’t pull from a single case library. The cases candidates actually face fall into three distinct content streams that map to the firm’s flagship practice areas: deals strategy cases (M&A and commercial due diligence), aerospace/defense/government cases, and corporate strategy cases.…
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Updated May 18, 2026 | By Florian Smeritschnig, Former McKinsey Senior Consultant Strategy& is two firms operating in one corporate structure. On one side, a strategy boutique with 110+ years of heritage tracing back to Edwin Booz’s 1914 Chicago founding — a firm that built the deals, defense, and corporate strategy practices candidates target. On…
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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.
