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PwC interview questions

97 questions researched across 5 PwC seats in Deals / Transaction Services, Audit, Tax. Below are 12 of them.

Seats we researched

  • Graduate AssociateDeals / Transaction Services · graduate · 30 min
  • Summer InternDeals / Transaction Services · intern · 20 min
  • Audit InternAudit · intern · 20 min
  • Tax InternTax · intern · 20 min
  • Consulting InternConsulting · intern · 30 min

12 PwC interview questions

  1. Why PwC Deals and transaction services?

  2. Why PwC Deals for your internship?

  3. Why audit, and why PwC?

  4. Name and explain the three financial statements.

  5. Why audit, and why PwC rather than another Big Four or PwC Deals?

  6. Why PwC consulting rather than PwC Deals, audit, or MBB?

  7. Walk me through a normalized EBITDA analysis.

  8. Revenue rises but cash falls. What might explain it?

  9. Tell me about delivering accurate work under pressure.

  10. Depreciation goes up by 10 dollars and the tax rate is 25%. Walk that through the three statements.

  11. What's the difference between enterprise value and equity value?

  12. Walk me through a DCF at a high level.

What a strong answer does

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

Behavioral6 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.
Technical6 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.

85 more PwC questions

The rest of the bank — 97 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 PwC 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 PwC round is not a generic behavioural screen, and practising one as the other is how people walk in unprepared.

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