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Oliver Wyman interview questions

26 questions researched across 1 Oliver Wyman seat in Consulting. Below are 12 of them.

Seats we researched

  • ConsultantConsulting · graduate · 30 min

12 Oliver Wyman interview questions

  1. Tell me about a time you had to lead a team when you were not the appointed leader.

  2. Tell me about a time you worked with someone you did not get along with.

  3. Tell me about a time you had trouble with group dynamics. What did you do?

  4. Describe a time you faced and overcame a real challenge in your work.

  5. Tell me about a time you were given a problem with no obvious structure.

  6. Talk me through the maths out loud: 12% of 4.3 million, then what that means for the client.

  7. Let's move to a case. A supermarket owner in a city of 50,000 people is thinking about opening an in-store pharmacy. Capital is limited and she needs the investment to pay back within two years. How would you structure the problem?

  8. Here is some data. The store has 10,000 visitors a month. Nationally 66 percent of people use prescription drugs, spending 100 dollars a month out of pocket. The pharmacy needs a 4 million dollar investment and earns a 25 percent margin. What is the payback period?

  9. How would you get supermarket shoppers to actually use the pharmacy?

  10. A comparable store saw overall supermarket sales rise 10 percent after opening a pharmacy. Supermarket sales here are 10 million dollars a month at a 5 percent margin. How does that change the payback?

  11. Before you give her a final answer, what regulatory or operational risks would you want to check?

  12. So, should she open the pharmacy? Give me your recommendation.

What a strong answer does

The questions above fall into 2 kinds. What a strong answer does differs by kind, not by question.

Case7 of 12 above
Clarify the objective; build a mutually exclusive structure; prioritize the highest-value branch; analyze with evidence; synthesize a recommendation, risks, and next step.
Behavioral5 of 12 above
Lead with the claim and context; isolate your personal action and decision; explain the trade-off; quantify the result; finish with what you learned and changed.

14 more Oliver Wyman questions

The rest of the bank — 26 in total — is asked by the interviewer during practice, so you meet them the way you would on the day rather than reading them first.

Practise Oliver Wyman questions

How these questions were researched

Every question carries a provenance grade. Some were reported by candidates who sat the round, some come from the firm’s own published guidance or a source that trains for it, and the rest are written to match how this firm asks. Each seat is studied on its own — the round it actually runs, the order it runs it in, and what it is listening for. A Oliver Wyman round is not a generic behavioural screen, and practising one as the other is how people walk in unprepared.

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