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BDO interview questions

27 questions researched across 1 BDO seat in Audit & Assurance. Below are 12 of them.

Seats we researched

  • Audit AssociateAudit & Assurance · graduate · 30 min

12 BDO interview questions

  1. What are BDO's values, and which one do you most identify with?

  2. Tell me about a time you worked in a team.

  3. Tell me about a time you worked with a difficult person.

  4. What's your greatest achievement to date?

  5. How important is personal development to you?

  6. Give me an example of when you provided great service to a client or customer.

  7. What would make you escalate something to a manager rather than resolve it yourself?

  8. Explain the difference between accruals and provisions.

  9. A client is slow to give you what you asked for. How do you handle it?

  10. Tell me about a time you had to learn something technical quickly.

  11. Tell me about a decision you had to make without all the information you wanted. How did you make it?

  12. Tell me about a time you took the lead, whether in sport, at university or at work.

What a strong answer does

The questions above fall into 2 kinds. What a strong answer does differs by kind, not by question.

Behavioral11 of 12 above
Lead with the claim and context; isolate your personal action and decision; explain the trade-off; quantify the result; finish with what you learned and changed.
Technical1 of 12 above
State the intuition first; walk through the mechanics; make assumptions explicit; test a risk or edge case; connect the answer to the role.

15 more BDO questions

The rest of the bank — 27 in total — is asked by the interviewer during practice, so you meet them the way you would on the day rather than reading them first.

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How these questions were researched

Every question carries a provenance grade. Some were reported by candidates who sat the round, some come from the firm’s own published guidance or a source that trains for it, and the rest are written to match how this firm asks. Each seat is studied on its own — the round it actually runs, the order it runs it in, and what it is listening for. A BDO round is not a generic behavioural screen, and practising one as the other is how people walk in unprepared.

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