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Accenture Digital Assessment 2026: How to Pass the Discovery Portal Test

Updated June 2026 · By Florian Smeritschnig, Former McKinsey Senior Consultant The Accenture Digital Assessment is an online screening test that graduate and entry-level consulting candidates complete through Accenture’s Discovery Portal after the application stage. It has two timed sections, a Situational Judgment Test and a Numerical Reasoning Test, runs about 60 to 90 minutes,…
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How to Practice Case Interviews Alone (the Right Way)

By Florian Smeritschnig, Former McKinsey Senior Consultant. Updated July 8, 2026. How to practice case interviews alone? Does it even make sense? The short answer is yes. But, it depends on the how. Most candidates who practice case interviews alone get worse, not better. They grind 40 cases in their bedroom, repeat the same broken…
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Working at McKinsey: What the Job Is Really Like in 2026

By Florian Smeritschnig, former McKinsey Senior Consultant · Updated July 2026 Working at McKinsey in 2026 means roughly 55 to 70 hours in a normal week, two to three days a week at a client site, and a job where AI now does most of the research and first-draft slide work that used to fill…
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McKinsey Solve: How to Pass the Assessment in 2026

Updated June 2026 · By Florian Smeritschnig, Former McKinsey Senior Consultant The McKinsey Solve Game, the firm’s assessment tool, is now an 85-minute, three-module test that filters out roughly 75-80% of candidates before they ever speak to a consultant. Red Rock, Sea Wolf, and the new Sustainable Future Lab all track process signals behind every…
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Accenture Strategy Consultant: What the Job Is Really Like in 2026

Updated July 2026 · By Florian Smeritschnig, Former McKinsey Senior Consultant An Accenture Strategy consultant works on growth, cost, and operating-model problems for large companies, and then usually stays involved while Accenture implements the answer. Strategy is one of five service lines that Accenture folded into a single business unit called Reinvention Services on September…
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