Monitor Deloitte: Recruitment day- Has anyone attended the recruitment day at any of MD's locations?

Hi Anonymous,

In terms of the group case I would consider the following:

• Your goal is to help the team to succeed, not to show you are better than any other team members (candidates who try to impress normally don’t receive offers)
• Befriend the other team members and bring a contribution; you should neither be dominant nor too quiet
• Take the leader role only if you feel natural in that role (ideally you should have some experience in that regard)
• If you are not the leader, support the natural leader with suggestions and activities required
• Help other team members to bring their contribution, asking their opinion

For the fit part, I would prepare on the standard questions:

• Tell me about yourself
• Why consulting
• Why Monitor Deloitte
• Give me an example when you led a team
• Tell me about a time when you had to convince someone not agreeing with you
• What has been your major achievement so far
• Why should we hire you

In terms of the partner rounds, their structure is the same as the standard case interviews (fit + case+ your questions); however, there is far more emphasis on communication and fit.

Specifically, the main difference you will find in a final round with partners is that at that stage they:

1. spend more time on fit questions and your alignment with the company
2. check more closely your communication (eg how you react to challenging questions)
3. may not have a “proper” structured case to present – during my final at BCG I had one interview which was made by two market sizing questions and a brainteaser, without any business case. That's because at the final they know you can structure and crack a case (you passed 1 or 2 rounds already) and are more interested in your logic, personality and fit with the company

So in order to prepare for them I would concentrate on:

• Review in details your fit stories – they will probably matter more in partner rounds. In some finals I had almost exclusively behavioral questions
• Work on your communication (reaction under pressure, how to gain time when you do not have a structure ready, connect with the interviewer, etc). This is something you can test almost exclusively in p2p mocks with peers/experts.
• Prepare on cases as usual. More market sizing practice could be useful to think out of the box if you get unusual questions.

I helped several people for Monitor Deloitte and have a comprehensive list of the questions asked, in case you are interested to know more please feel free to PM me.

Best,

Francesco