Professional Documents
Culture Documents
A. Top 10 questions:
1. Walk me through the highlights of your resume.
2. Why investment banking? Why our bank?
3. How do you value a company?
4. Why did you choose USC?
5. What other firms are you interviewing with and why? Are you interviewing with
consulting firms also? What career opportunities are you exploring other than I-
Banking?
6. What is your overall and major GPA? What was your SAT score?
7. What qualities would you consider most important for a career in I-Banking?
What are your greatest strengths? What are your weaknesses?
8. What do you understand the responsibilities of an analyst/summer analyst to be?
9. Describe a current event in the market or a transaction youve followed?
10. What questions do you have for me?
2.
What
types
of
challenges
have
you
faced
in
the
past
two
years
and
how
did
you
overcome
them?
3. Give me an example of how you successfully dealt with someone who was difficult.
4.
Give
me
an
example
of
how
one
of
your
strengths
has
benefited
you
when
working
in
a
team
environment.
11. What are you looking to get out of a job/internship with a public accounting firm?
12.
What
are
your
thoughts
on
the
increase
demand
of
quality
by
the
PCAOB
[Public
Company
Accounting
Oversight
Board]
and
how
would
you
implement
such
demands
in
your
audit?
15.
Give
me
a
situation
in
your
past
work
or
school
experience
where
you
demonstrated
problem-solving
skills.
17.
Tell
me
about
a
time
when
you
had
an
idea
but
your
team
was
not
willing
to
accept
it.
How
did
you
go
about
presenting
this
idea
and
trying
to
persuade
them
to
accept
it?
19. Describe some situations where youve had to use technical writing skills.
Core Competency Questions: How do you fit in with KPMGs Employee Values
RESILIENCE:
Tell me about a time when you werent interested in what you were doing?
What causes that to be boring?
What did you do to be most effective?
Tell me about the latest news that you have followed recently?
Tell me about the companies that are performing well and reasons for improvement?
Tell me about the companies that are underperforming and reasons for low performance?
CAREER MOTIVATION
Why have you chosen to apply to KPMG instead of the other big four?
What interests you about KPMG in particular?
What are major differences?
What do you know about our clients?
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DELIVERS QUALITY
What is your method on approaching a new project?
How do you manage multiple tasks and plan your time efficiently?
MAKES AN IMPACT
Communicate verbally and written?
10) Can you tell me about some of the projects and clients that youve been
working on?
11) What is the typical career trajectory for someone applying for this position?
12) What type of training and onboarding does the program offer?
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13) Are there opportunities to explore other areas and groups during the
internship?
14) What have been some of your personal biggest challenges working at the firm?
15) What sort of challenges do you see for your team in the year to come?
16) How are employees evaluated on a micro and macro level?
17) What are new areas of focus in the advisory business?
18) Do you ever felt lost in such a large company?
18) Does financial management work more on the distressed side or the stressed
side?
20) What does the timeline look like moving forward in the recruiting program?
21) Would you mind giving me your contact information, if I have any further
questions?
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