Practise your PwC interview
Practise taking an interviewer through your reasoning. Clarify the problem, explain your recommendation and show how new evidence could change it. Use the questions below, then rehearse your answers out loud with Bossed.
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Reasoning through business problems, communicating clearly and staying open to new information.
5 questions to practise out loud
Understand what each question explores, then build an answer from your own experience.
- 01
A client is combining two teams after an acquisition. What would you clarify first?
A client is combining two teams after an acquisition. What would you clarify first?
What this explores · Practises structuring a change problem.
What to includeThe intended benefit, operating constraints, people impact and measures of success.
- 02
Tell me about changing a recommendation when new evidence appeared.
Tell me about changing a recommendation when new evidence appeared.
What this explores · Practises adaptable analysis.
What to includeYour first view, the new fact and how you communicated the revised conclusion.
- 03
How would you explain a complex analysis in a two-minute update?
How would you explain a complex analysis in a two-minute update?
What this explores · Practises decision-focused communication.
What to includeThe recommendation, strongest evidence, key uncertainty and next action.
- 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 client is combining two teams after an acquisition. What would you clarify first?
I would ask what the combined organisation needs to achieve and which activities overlap. Then I would look at customer continuity, decision ownership and the systems each team relies on. I would compare integration options against those needs before suggesting a timetable or savings target.
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What to strengthen
You avoid jumping straight to a reorganisation. Explain which information you would request first.
Practise the reasoning as well as the answer
PwC’s US advisory case guide describes a two-way discussion of a business scenario. It emphasises structure, communication, curiosity and adapting to new information. This is guidance for advisory case interviews, not every PwC role.
- Ask clarifying questions before choosing an approach.
- Talk through assumptions and simple calculations.
- Respond to new information and end with a practical recommendation.
PwC: advisory case interview preparation · Checked 5 September 2026. Bossed is an independent practice tool.
How Bossed helps you prepare
Find your strongest example
Start with your PwC role and local assessment guidance. If your process includes a case, practise clarifying the objective and explaining a recommendation out loud.
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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