Kearney

Specialist roles run three to five interviews, layering a technical or functional competency assessment over the same case-and-behavioural core. Independent prep guides describe the cases as more quantitative than peer firms', with calculations expected within the case itself. The two final-round formats (undergraduate group case, MBA written case) are distinct enough that prep built for other strategy firms will not fully substitute - both need dedicated practice.

Full-time entry roles after graduation are:

• Business analyst (undergraduate degree)
• Senior business analyst (recent graduate with industry experience or non-business graduate study)
• Associate (MBA or equivalent)

The summer internship is the firm's primary route to a full-time offer, so an accepted intern usually treats the six-to-ten-week summer as their commit to Kearney rather than continuing a parallel autumn full-time campaign.

The firm organises its capabilities under three named offerings - Kearney Foresight, Kearney Innovate, and Kearney Activate - rather than a traditional practice-only matrix, and the internship pairs every intern with a dedicated mentor alongside the project manager. Independent prep guides flag the case interviews as more quantitative than other strategy firms'. A candidate prioritising deep quantitative case work and a structured one-to-one mentor relationship during the internship has two concrete reasons to weight Kearney over a peer with similar scale and brand.