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 |
Typical questions — and the follow-up that comes next
Case interviewers change a fact mid-answer to see whether your structure survives. The follow-up on each question below is that change.
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.
Read next
- Guesstimate Questions: Method + Worked Example
- MBA Summer Placement Interview Preparation
- STAR Method Answers That Survive Follow-ups
- How the scorecard works — six competencies, each tied to a quote from your transcript.
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Last updated · Written by the Mentari team