Practise your BCG interview
Practise thinking through a problem in conversation. Explain your first hypothesis, ask useful questions and show how you would respond to new evidence. Use the questions below, then rehearse your answers out loud with Bossed.
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Curiosity, analytical reasoning and a collaborative approach to unfamiliar problems.
5 questions to practise out loud
Understand what each question explores, then build an answer from your own experience.
- 01
A subscription business is losing customers. How would you investigate?
A subscription business is losing customers. How would you investigate?
What this explores · Practises structuring an unfamiliar business problem.
What to includeDefine churn, segment customers, examine the journey and test causes.
- 02
Tell me about a question you asked that changed a project’s direction.
Tell me about a question you asked that changed a project’s direction.
What this explores · Practises curiosity with impact.
What to includeThe assumption, your question, the evidence and the revised approach.
- 03
Describe working through a problem collaboratively rather than alone.
Describe working through a problem collaboratively rather than alone.
What this explores · Practises building on other people’s thinking.
What to includeHow you shared a structure, invited challenge and improved the answer.
- 04
Describe a time your first hypothesis was wrong.
Describe a time your first hypothesis was wrong.
What this explores · Tests intellectual flexibility.
What to includeThe contradictory evidence and how you changed the analysis.
- 05
How would you present a recommendation with incomplete information?
How would you present a recommendation with incomplete information?
What this explores · Explores decision making under uncertainty.
What to includeA clear recommendation, assumptions, key risk and next validation step.
See how an answer can take shape
See how specific feedback sharpens an interview answer. Then put your own experience to the test.
A subscription business is losing customers. How would you investigate?
I would clarify whether churn means customers leaving or revenue lost, then compare it across cohorts and plans. I would look for a change in acquisition mix, product experience or pricing. The first split I would request is new versus established customers because those patterns suggest different causes.
Skill scores
What to strengthen
The first data request has a clear purpose. Explain what result would make you investigate each possible cause.
Experience, cases and collaboration
BCG’s consulting interview page describes discussions of skills and motivation alongside case work for client-facing roles. It highlights problem solving, curiosity and collaboration as part of understanding how candidates work.
- Give your personal stories as much attention as case drills.
- Make assumptions and analytical steps easy to follow.
- Treat new information as a chance to improve your approach.
BCG Careers: consulting interview process · Checked 5 September 2026. Bossed is an independent practice tool.
How Bossed helps you prepare
Find your strongest example
Prepare for both your experience discussion and any case assessment. Practise asking useful questions, testing a hypothesis and explaining what new evidence changes.
Say it out loud
Explain the situation, your decision and the result in one short story. Say it without reading, then practise a follow-up about why you chose that approach.
Make the next answer clearer
Rehearse in a Bossed spoken session and use the feedback to improve one thing: your opening, your explanation or the evidence behind your result.
See what to work on next
See where your answers need work across four skills and focus your next session. Build stronger examples, clearer explanations and more convincing answers.
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