Fit interview questions
Source: members of Consulting Club after on-campus interviews
Tell me about yourself/walk me through your resume
Childhood questions…where I grew up, what my parents do, lasting childhood memories
Tell me about yourself starting from childhood
Tell me about your previous work at XX.
What is one thing you want me to know that we haven’t discussed and that is not on
your resume?
What are 3 things you’d like me to remember about you from this interview
I have your resume in front of me, why don’t you highlight anything on here that you
think is important that I know.
Explain this line on your resume
Why are you here, what brought you here?
Tell me about a regret
What do you do outside of work for fun?
Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
How do you see yourself in 25 years if everything goes well in your life?
Where do you want to live?
Why stay in the US?
Describe to me the best and worst day of your life.
How would your friends describe you?
Why consulting?
What do you think you will find most challenging about consulting?
What aspect of consulting would you find most challenging?
What do you think the challenges will be in transitioning from your prior career to
consulting? How do you intend to fix that?
What do you want to do at X consulting firm?
Why firm X?
At the end of this process, you get offers from X, Y, and Z firms – how do you think
about making that decision?
What is the reputation of firm X among people at Tuck.
Which other companies are you interviewing with?
Leadership
What kind of leader are you?
Who do you most admire and why?
Tell me about a leadership experience
How many people were you in charge of in your last job?
Tell me about a time when you had to lead in a difficult situation.
What aspect of your leadership style do you find the weakest?
Tell me about a time when you had difficulty getting a team to work together
Tell me about a time you encountered a difficult situation with another team member or
client. How did you handle it? What was the outcome?
Tell me a time when you led a project from start to finish.
Tell me about a time you had a conflict on your team and what you did to resolve it (as
the team leader).
Have you ever fired anyone, why? If not, have you ever wanted to fire anyone, why?
How do you feel about the fact that as a consultant you will have to fire people?
What is a time you lead a team to success? What is a time that you lead a team to
failure?
How do the leadership roles you’ve taken at Tuck demonstrate your leadership style?
Convinced people of something
Tell me about a time when you had to convince your boss of something
Tell me about a time when you had to build support
Tell me about a time you had to convince someone of something they didn’t want to do.
Tell me about a time when you had to influence someone whom you didn’t have direct
authority over
How would you approach a situation in which you have to lead without authority?
Teamwork
What role to you play in a team?
What role do you play in your study group?
Tell me about a time when you working that you had to work as a team to complete a
task. What did you do specifically? What did others on the team do? How did you tie it
all together?
Tell me about your Fall Study Group
Tell me about a time you were part of a team and there was conflict
Conflict in most recent work experience
Tell me about a team experience from your job and how you tend to act within a team
setting
Tell me about a time when you were on a team that failed.
Challenge
Tell me about a challenging moment.
Tell me about a time you went beyond what was expected to solve a problem?
Tell me about a time you failed.
Biggest challenges with a client
Situation where I disagreed with a decision that was made.
What is the most difficult client situation you’ve had?
Tell me about a failure and how you overcame it
Tell me about a time when you had to deal with a difficult situation and how you
handled it
Strengths/Weaknesses
What are your biggest strengths?
A time you received feedback
Here at X, we are big on feedback (they all are!) – so can you tell me about a time that
you were given or had to give feedback?
“tell me about a critique you’ve received and how you responded as well as how it
helped you evaluate yourself”
What are your strengths and weaknesses?
Looking forward at your summer internship, what are your weaknesses?
If you were to get the job, what qualities would make you a good consultant? What
would you not be good at?
Quant skills
Are you quantitative? Give me examples.
Are you good at Math? Give me some evidence GMATs, Grades, work to back it up.
Tell me about a difficult quantitative question that you’ve had to answer and how you
presented your answer to others
What is your GMAT?
Creativity
Tell me about a time when you had to think creatively about a solution to a problem
Tell me about a time you thought about something differently/took a different approach
Entrepreneurship/problem solving
If you had to open a store in Hanover right now, what would it be and why?
If you could start a business, what would it be and why?
Problem-solving
how would I think about whether or not to acquire a company
Tuck
How has school been going?
What has been your favorite Tuck moment so far
What have you most enjoyed about coming to Tuck/USA.
Why Tuck?
What do you like most about Tuck, what do you like least about Tuck?
Every single person asked “How is the semester going” … helped to talk about classes.
