Just wrapped up a Deloitte PM loop. This was for a product manager role in their technology consulting practice, not a pure software product PM. Important distinction.
Deloitte PM interviews are structured differently from a typical tech product company. Here's what I encountered across the 4 rounds.
Round 1: Recruiter screen Standard. Background, why consulting, travel flexibility. Same as any Deloitte screen.
Round 2: Case study Yes, there's a modified case. Not a full McKinsey-style market sizing case, but close enough that you should prep for it. Mine was a product strategy question: a hypothetical financial services client wants to digitize their loan origination process. Walk me through how you'd approach defining the MVP.
They want to see: problem decomposition, stakeholder identification, how you'd prioritize features, and how you'd measure success. No right answer, they're watching your framework.
Round 3: Technical product round Surprised me a little. They asked about my familiarity with APIs, data flows, and how I'd work with an engineering team to spec a technical requirement. Not coding, but product-technical. Know your EPICs and user stories, understand API concepts at a high level, be ready to discuss a data model you've worked with.
Round 4: Behavioral + leadership Heavy on stakeholder management stories. Questions like: Tell me about a time you had to get alignment across competing priorities How have you managed a project where the client kept changing requirements Describe a failure and what you took from it
The throughline across all rounds: they're hiring a PM who will sit on client engagements and be the person the client calls. Communication and composure under ambiguity matter more than your product intuition alone.
Overall impression Harder to prep for than a pure product company loop, honestly. The case prep angle plus the behavioral depth plus the technical literacy bar is a lot. Give yourself more time than you think.