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KPMG interview questions

102 questions researched across 5 KPMG seats in Deal Advisory, Audit, Tax. Below are 12 of them.

Seats we researched

  • Graduate AnalystDeal Advisory · graduate · 30 min
  • Summer InternDeal Advisory · intern · 20 min
  • Audit InternAudit · intern · 20 min
  • Tax InternTax · intern · 20 min
  • Consulting InternConsulting · intern · 30 min

12 KPMG interview questions

  1. How would you value this company, and what risks do the financial statements reveal?

  2. What makes you stand out from the other candidates applying to Deal Advisory?

  3. What is your biggest weakness, and what are you doing about it?

  4. Describe a time you worked with a difficult team member.

  5. Why KPMG Deal Advisory?

  6. Given a company's financial statements, infer what kind of business it might be and explain your reasoning.

  7. How would you derive equity value from the information provided?

  8. Tell me about a time you worked with a difficult team member.

  9. Why KPMG Deal Advisory for your internship?

  10. Walk through a time you demonstrated KPMG's core values.

  11. Have you applied to the other Big Four firms, and which one is your top choice?

  12. Why are you a great fit for our audit team?

What a strong answer does

The questions above fall into 3 kinds. What a strong answer does differs by kind, not by question.

Behavioral9 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.
Case2 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.
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.

90 more KPMG questions

The rest of the bank — 102 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 KPMG 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 KPMG round is not a generic behavioural screen, and practising one as the other is how people walk in unprepared.

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