Deloitte USI Consultant Role - Final Placement Interview Experience
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Deloitte USI
Consultant
2025
•ByUmang Jain
Candidate Profile
Background
"IIFT 2nd Year Student, 9-9-7-7 Profile, Fresher, Summer Intern: Wipro Consulting (ETRM Domain)"
Interview Outcome
Selected
Round 1: General (25 min)
Round 1Answer
Sure. I am currently pursuing my MBA from IIFT, during which I did my summer internship with Wipro as a Business Consultant, where I was part of Wipro’s Energy Trading & Risk Management team, where my project revolved around creating a vision for Next Generation Energy Trading Platforms
At IIFT, I actively engage in opportunities beyond academics. I’ve been a finalist and winner in several national-level case competitions with brands like Samsung, Mondelez, Marico, and Ultratech which really helped me strengthen my problem-solving and business structuring skills.
I’m also the Senior Club Coordinator of Socrates - the Consulting and Strategy Club of IIFT, and I served as the Convenor of the Induction Program, where I led a 15-member team to onboard the entire incoming batch over a 6-day program.
Before my MBA, I completed my engineering in Computer Science during which led our team to become the National Winner of Smart India Hackathon
Above all, I have a passion for meeting new people, hearing their stories, creating art and designs, and actively engaging in storytelling.
Tips/Suggestions
- Solve as many guesstimates as possible, and also remember major numbers like population, income-wise segmentation, smartphone penetration, and the number of tier 1, 2, and 3 cities in India. You can find these online or in any consulting case book. Apart from that, go over all five types of frameworks and solve several cases using each one. I would also suggest sitting with your friends and discussing the case as if an interview were going on. Additionally, prepare your HR sets very well, as the interviewer will ask you cases and guesstimates only after being convinced that you are a good fit for the company.
Overall Process Experience
- ✗Very intense and lengthy, but the interviewers were also very patient. For the case discussion, I would suggest not giving up till the end, since that is what they are trying to check. In my interview, which went on for close to two hours, I didn’t know how to solve the case since it didn’t fit any frameworks I had studied, so I went the conventional way of figuring out what was going on by looking at the data he was giving me. Apart from that, it was mentioned by the MD in the last round that “the major reason you are here right now is that you didn’t tap out in Round 2, so keep that energy up” (and some gas around that). That stress test kind of thing is something the majority of people won’t survive, so just stick to it and don’t let your confidence fade out, even if you don’t know anything about the case you are given. All the best!