Marakon Associates Interview Questions

Graduate Interview Questions and Assessment Process

The assessment process for graduate jobs at Marakon is:

• Online application
• First round interviews
• Second round interviews

First round interviews

• 2/3 interviews
• Case study
• Numerical test

The Marakon first round interview consists of two or three separate interviews. Each interview will be 40 - 45 minutes long. At least one will be with a senior manager or partner and one will be with a member of the HR team.

Your HR interview will be a personality fit/competency based interview. You will also be asked about your CV.

The personality fit interview involves various scenario based questions. You will be asked how you think you would react to certain situations, as well as how you have reacted to certain situations in the past.

The other interview/interviews will be competency based and involved a case study question. This will involve graphical analysis and basic mathematics. You will be asked to give a strategy for a firm.

Previous candidates have been asked the following questions:

• Who would you put on top of Nelson’s Column?
• Why do you want to leave academia?
• What are your views on our business?
• What current business issues interests you?
• What’s the best, and what’s the worst team/organisation you’ve been part of?
• Why do organisations fail?

The numerical test lasts for 20 minutes, calculators are cupplied. There are no simultaneous equations, but there are questions on averages, percentages and very basic algebra.

Second round interviews

The second round interview for Marakon is a four stage process:

• Associate interview
• Partner interview
• Case study questions

Associate interview

This interview is with an associate consultant and will last about 30 minutes. You will be allowed to ask most of the questions and the interview will basically be a chance for the associate to figure out your personality and if you would make a good team fit.

Partner interviews

This interview will be tailoured to you. It will last 30 - 45 minutes. All the questions will be developed and the style of the interview will be more converstional than anything else.

Questions previous candidates have been asked include:

• How do you evaluate aesthetics?
• How do you evaluate a business?
• Why do you want to leave academia?
• If in two years time you decided consulting wasn’t for you and you left the industry, why do you think this might be?

Case study questions

You will be given three case study questions. For each you will have 20 minutes to prepare and then 20 minutes to discuss your ideas and arguements. A different consultant will assess each case study, and your final case study will be assessed by two interviewers.

One of the key skills Marakon are looking for is the ability to structure, in particular structuring your arguments. Be certain to structure your responses in both interviews and all the case studies. It is important to show you can think laterally and make links to different things you have been talking about, as well as being confident and coherent.

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