Mercer·Business Analyst

Mercer Business Analyst interview experience

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New York, NYPosted Sep 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went into the process with a career consulting-style case study that was deliberately brief and more qualitative than quantitative.

The exercise gave me options for how to present back to the interviewer, and the key was that my rationale mattered more than following a single “right” structure.

What stood out was that the case felt like a way to see how I’d think aloud and organize ideas, rather than a heavy numbers test. Even with a short prompt, I could explain multiple angles and keep it grounded in the kind of reasoning that consultants tend to expect.

I didn’t receive an offer from this experience, but the case was the part I remember most clearly because it matched the tone of the rest of the process:

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