AlixPartners

The case interview content typically draws on the firm's core practice areas – turnaround, restructuring, operational improvement and profitability. The five-stage shape is longer and less standardised than the recruiter-plus-superday loop common at large-bank peers, so an applicant should plan for more touchpoints across a longer window than a single autumn assessment day.

AlixPartners' students and recent graduates hub lists distinct early-career routes by geography and degree:

• MBA summer internship – 10 weeks in the US; 8 weeks in London, Paris, Milan, Munich and Düsseldorf
• US MBA Strategy & Analysis summer internship – interns may live in any US location but travel to client site weekly, 10 weeks
• US MBA Turnaround & Restructuring summer internship – New York, Chicago, Dallas or Houston
• US undergraduate Risk Advisory and Turnaround & Restructuring summer internships – 10 weeks, New York-based (Summer 2026 cycle ran 1 June to 6 August)
• France Performance and Technology consulting internship – six months, Paris, undergraduate
• DACH consulting internship – 10 to 12 weeks across Düsseldorf, Munich or Zurich, for Master's holders with prior consulting internship experience
• Italy consulting internship – Milan, MBA students at SDA Bocconi
• Business Intelligence Center summer internship – London, postgraduate Master's
• Business Analyst Accelerated Consulting Programme – 15 to 24 months, London, Master's degree in any subject

The routing by geography and degree level means each candidate is typically eligible for only one or two of these; the eligibility line on each program decides which one is the actual route in.

Its core practice sits in turnaround and restructuring – the firm cites 40 years of bankruptcy and restructuring work – so early-career projects routinely include Chapter 11 case management, liability management and crisis stabilisation rather than classical strategy decks. The London undergraduate route is unusual: the Business Analyst Accelerated Consulting Programme is 15 to 24 months, with the first nine months on pitch support and the firm's Consulting Acceleration Program before client engagements begin, in place of the 10-week summer-internship feeder peers use. The MBA programme runs on an apprenticeship model with a named Performance Partner for coaching, and the firm explicitly states it does not operate "up or out." The practical effect is that an applicant who wants distressed-situations exposure earlier, or a longer runway in than a single summer, is picking AlixPartners on the kind of work and the shape of progression – a prioritisation call rather than a brand-tier one.