Roland Berger

Office-by-office variation exists. For a candidate, this is several weeks of case practice and back-to-back partner interviews running in parallel with whatever fixed-deadline cycles are open at MBB or other strategy firms during the same window.

Roland Berger's Career Starter hub lists four entry routes:

• Internship – quarterly intakes across many offices (current postings cover Q2 and Q4 2026 start windows)
• Junior Consultant – graduate entry-level role, with a dedicated Summer Internship 2026 cycle running in the UK and other markets
• Gap Year Program – designed to combine three experiences in one program for candidates between studies
• European Female Talent Program – a 24-month women's program described on the Diversity page, supported by HERizon recruiting events in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the United States

Because intakes outside the named graduate cycles are rolling rather than year-class, the practical question is when to start rather than when to apply: the firm advises applying four-to-six months before the desired start date, so an April internship is a December application.

Two structural points matter for a candidate weighing this firm:

• Industrial centre of gravity – published expertise across 15 industries with notable automotive, restructuring and industrial-goods franchises, reinforced by acquisitions of Polarixpartner (2022), Candidus (2023) and Amane Advisors (2023) in cost optimisation, restructuring and sustainability.
• Programs outside the project pipeline – a Social Fellowship sending consultants on funded social-impact placements (recent examples in Laos and Malaysia) and the firm-published Think:Act Magazine, both visible on the Working at Roland Berger blog.

For an applicant weighing strategy firms, the practical implication is a heavier Continental footprint than the MBB firms and a case mix biased toward industrial and restructuring topics – worth knowing before tuning prep cases and shortlisting offices.