AI mock interview
Consulting mock interview
A consulting mock interview on Mentari is a 20- or 40-minute voice or text session planned from your résumé and research on the firm you are targeting. The AI interviewer runs case-style and guesstimate questions alongside fit questions, interrupts when your structure drifts, changes a fact mid-case to see whether your logic holds, and scores six competencies with a verbatim quote from your transcript behind each.
Who this is for
MBA and undergraduate students preparing for consulting recruitment, and professionals moving into strategy or consulting roles.
What a consulting interview tests — and how Mentari runs each part
| Round | What it tests | What Mentari does |
|---|---|---|
| Fit / personal experience | Leadership, impact and drive, with specifics | Pushes past the headline to your individual contribution |
| Case structuring | Breaking an ambiguous problem into a MECE structure | Asks why this structure, and what it leaves out |
| Guesstimate / market sizing | Assumptions, arithmetic and sanity checks aloud | Challenges the assumption that moves the answer most |
| Analysis and synthesis | Reading data, drawing the "so what" | Asks for a recommendation in two sentences for a CEO |
| Why consulting, why this firm | Motivation that survives a second question | Checks your answer against its research on the firm |
You do not pick these from a menu. Mentari plans the round from your résumé, the job description and what it finds about how the company interviews for the role, so the mix changes with every session.
Typical questions — and the follow-up that comes next
Lists of interview questions are everywhere. What decides the interview is the second question: the one that checks whether the first answer was real. These are typical of the role, each paired with the follow-up a good interviewer asks.
01A regional airline’s profits have fallen for three years. How would you approach it?
Follow-up · Revenue per passenger is flat. Where do you go next, and what did you just rule out?
02Estimate the number of ATMs in India.
Follow-up · Your answer is ten times the real figure. Which assumption is most likely responsible?
03Should a quick-commerce company enter tier-2 cities?
Follow-up · The CEO has ninety seconds. What do you tell her?
04Tell me about a time you led without formal authority.
Follow-up · What would the person who resisted you most say about how you handled it?
05What is the biggest risk in your recommendation?
Follow-up · How would you find out in the first month that it is materialising?
06Why consulting?
Follow-up · Which part of the job do you expect to dislike, and why apply anyway?
07Walk me through the most analytical thing on your résumé.
Follow-up · What was the insight, in one sentence, and who acted on it?
08Your client disagrees with your analysis in front of their team. What do you do?
Follow-up · And if they are right?
Where candidates lose marks
- Forcing a memorised framework onto a case it does not fit.
- Doing arithmetic silently and announcing only the answer.
- Finishing the analysis without a recommendation.
- A "why consulting" answer that would work for any firm.
What your scorecard shows
About thirty seconds after you finish, you get a score out of 10 and six competency scores. Each one is tied to a verbatim quote from your transcript, so you can see the exact answer that earned or cost the marks. How scoring works.
| Competency | What it measures |
|---|---|
| Communication | Whether your answers were clear, direct and easy to follow — not your accent. |
| Technical depth | How well you understand the substance of the role, beyond definitions. |
| Problem solving | How you break down an unfamiliar problem and reason towards an answer. |
| Ownership | What you personally did, decided and were accountable for. |
| Structure | Whether your answers had a shape: context, action, result, and a point. |
| Company fit | Whether you showed the signals this particular company looks for in this role. |
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