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EY-Parthenon interview questions

41 questions researched across 2 EY-Parthenon seats in Strategy & Transactions. Below are 12 of them.

Seats we researched

  • Graduate ConsultantStrategy & Transactions · graduate · 25 min
  • Summer AssociateStrategy & Transactions · intern · 25 min

12 EY-Parthenon interview questions

  1. What are the critical diligence questions?

  2. How would you test market-growth claims?

  3. Interpret customer retention evidence.

  4. Give a go/no-go recommendation and key diligence gap.

  5. Why consulting, and why start your career here rather than going straight into a private equity fund or corporate development?

  6. Walk me through the experience on your resume that best prepares you for due diligence work, and what you personally did.

  7. Quick market sizing to finish this part: roughly how many people in Germany use a music-streaming app on a given day?

  8. New case. A European meal-kit company is considering entering Canada. How would you structure whether it should?

  9. Suppose instead the client acquires a local Canadian player. What would you focus on in the first hundred days of integration?

  10. One brainteaser before we finish: you have a 3-litre jug and a 5-litre jug and unlimited water. How do you measure exactly 4 litres?

  11. Why EY-Parthenon and strategy transactions?

  12. Estimate the addressable market.

What a strong answer does

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

Case9 of 12 above
Clarify the objective; build a mutually exclusive structure; prioritize the highest-value branch; analyze with evidence; synthesize a recommendation, risks, and next step.
Behavioral3 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.

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The rest of the bank — 41 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 EY-Parthenon round is not a generic behavioural screen, and practising one as the other is how people walk in unprepared.

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