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Roland Berger interview questions

27 questions researched across 1 Roland Berger seat in Consulting. Below are 12 of them.

Seats we researched

  • ConsultantConsulting · graduate · 30 min

12 Roland Berger interview questions

  1. When was the last time someone in your team underperformed? How did you handle it?

  2. What are the most important qualities of a consultant?

  3. What is not on your resume?

  4. Why consulting, when you don't have prior consulting experience?

  5. New case. A European car manufacturer is considering entering the Southeast Asian market. How would you structure this?

  6. Market sizing: how many elevators are there in Hong Kong?

  7. Tell me about a time you disagreed with your team's direction.

  8. Walk me through your maths out loud on this break-even.

  9. How do you manage stress when deadlines stack up?

  10. A mid-sized German machinery maker's profits fell 20 percent while revenue was flat. Where would you look?

  11. Use whatever framework you like: how attractive is the European wind-turbine manufacturing industry?

  12. Quick brainteaser: how many times a day do the hour and minute hands of a clock overlap?

What a strong answer does

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

Behavioral6 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.
Case6 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.

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The rest of the bank — 27 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.

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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 Roland Berger round is not a generic behavioural screen, and practising one as the other is how people walk in unprepared.

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