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EY interview questions

159 questions researched across 8 EY seats in EY Audit, EY Tax, EY Consulting. Below are 12 of them.

Seats we researched

  • Audit InternEY Audit · intern · 20 min
  • Tax InternEY Tax · intern · 20 min
  • Consulting InternEY Consulting · intern · 30 min
  • Strategy and Transactions InternStrategy and Transactions · intern · 20 min
  • Technology Consulting InternTechnology Consulting · intern · 30 min
  • Risk Consulting InternRisk Consulting · intern · 20 min
  • Assurance StaffEY Assurance · graduate · 30 min
  • Tax StaffEY Tax · graduate · 30 min

12 EY interview questions

  1. Tell me about a time you had to change your style to work with someone.

  2. Tell me about a time you worked in a high-performing team. What made it work, and what was your part in it?

  3. Describe a time you handled a situation poorly. How did you fix it?

  4. Tell me about an experience with a difficult team member. What did you do to resolve it, and what was the outcome?

  5. Talk about a time you received difficult feedback. How did you take it?

  6. How do you handle time-sensitive tasks when several land on you at once?

  7. What's been the most challenging moment of your time in college, and how did you get through it?

  8. Which tax practice would you want to specialize in, and why?

  9. Tell me about a recent tax article or development you read that you found interesting.

  10. Tell me about a time you were given constructive criticism. How did you respond?

  11. What traits do you have that are valuable in a team-based environment?

  12. How do you work with people whose working style is very different from yours?

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.
Market1 of 12 above
State a view; support it with evidence and a catalyst; explain valuation or transmission; give the strongest countercase; name the risk that would change your mind.

147 more EY questions

The rest of the bank — 159 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.

Practise EY questions

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 EY round is not a generic behavioural screen, and practising one as the other is how people walk in unprepared.

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