Consultant Interview Questions

A leader's job is to lead the followers in the right direction by creating right amount of energy in his followers by motivating them to complete the given task and I think I can do that very easily Infact am a master of this thing

Thanks, and I believe that the question was more around the type/kind of leader in terms of whether you are e.g. a charismatic, autocratic, coaching, situational and so on leader. There's plenty of literature on this topic.

37 games need to fit 37 in to a 2, 4, 8, 16 games structure. 32 people required for 16 games. 5 people need to be eliminated. Rank players and play bottom 10 for the first round, this eliminates 5 and allows for remaining 32 to play a standard tournament.

I've got 36 games. 5+16+8+4+2+1=36

I would tackle the problem this way: Opera has 600 employees and is operating in Management Consulting. As its name is not as renowned as big consultancies, my hypothesis is that they sell man hour at 25% discount. That would be $500,000*.8= $400K a year for the salesforce. Out of these 600 employees, let's assume that only 300 face clients. My answer will therefore be 400K*300= $120M a year.

I would tackle the problem this way: Opera has 600 employees and is operating in Management Consulting. As its name is not as renowned as big consultancies, my hypothesis is that they sell man hour at 20% discount. That would be $500,000*.8= $400K a year for the salesforce. Out of these 600 employees, let's assume that only 300 face clients. My answer will therefore be 400K*300= $120M a year.

I went for the second option. Mediocre can become great if the weaknesses are spotted and worked on appropriately.

Outstanding employee. If you were to have a workforce of mediocre employees, incoming people would see that 'norm' and most likely be mediocre. I would like to work with excellent employees and know what it takes to thrive and be greatly successful in the company. The greater employees are, the 'greater' the average becomes.

Described a possible approach, mobilising general solution development and delivery experience, and maximising the leverage of any (even remotely) related past projects in the career. A person without extensive and diverse experience and the confidence to improvise would (and should) rather decline to respond on grounds of profile irrelevance.

I think this question is not about getting by any means a correct answer, but how the candidate approaches new situations and opportunities. It is intended for discovering what methods and logic/reasoning candidate would apply in getting to the solution.

I had been told that they were a good company to work for

I was vague in my answers here and this was noted in my interview feedback.