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Updated May 17, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Senior Consultant II Advisory Services at Ernst & Young
Posted May 17, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed May 2012 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 2 days)
Phone Interview
Presentation
Negotiation Details
N/A
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Presentation.
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Senior Executive at Ernst & Young
Posted Feb 17, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 2 months)
I was referred to the position by a recruiter.
First, there was a phone interview with a HR person. He asked questions like "Why E&Y", about my CV etc.
Then I was invited to the office in London, there I spend the full day (from 9am to 4pm) programming and answering questions during 1:1 interviews with different interviewers.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Communications & Pursuit Strategist) Supervising Associate at Ernst & Young
Posted Jan 17, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2010 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took a day)
I was contacted by a recruiter who asked me some basic questions such as what type of career I was interested in (nothing intimidating). When I mentioned that I was interested in audit he said he would like to bring me in for an interview. The total phone interview was maybe 15min long. The in office interviews consisted of meeting with 2 managers and a partner. One manager actually interviewed me and asked me questions, the other manager basically tried to sell the firm to me. The partner tried to sell the firm as well. The toughest question I got was regarding why I wanted to leave my current position and why I hadn't started in audit in the first place (I was an experienced hire). My interview experience might be a little different because the firm is really in need of staff at the moment and are looking to hire 2,000 people nationwide. It was a very "painless" interview process. The time it took from when I first spoke to EY and when I had an offer in hand was about 1.5 weeks (although they told me about 3 days after the interview that they would be extending an offer). After the offer was made they ran a background check on me and I started working there about a month later.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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IT Advisory Manager at Ernst & Young
Posted Dec 5, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took a day)
The interview took around 1.5 hour and was entirely competency based. The interviewer was reading questions from the piece of paper and, in the end, gave a couple of standard commercial awareness questions. There were some questions that were tough to get a grasp because of their unusual formulation.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Transaction Advisory Services Senior Executive (Manager) at Ernst & Young
Posted Oct 31, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2011 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 4 weeks)
2 interviews. First was a 2 hour interview - first hour was preparing for a case study. Case study was a transaction case study where you needed to think about the case study and come up with some recommendations from buy, sell and Pvt Equity side. Second hour was walking though your findings and talking about experiences to date on CV. Interview with either Asst. Director or Director (not sure).
2nd interview with partner - 1 hour looking at competencies and determining 'fit'.
Interviewers were very friendly, collaborative and wanting to engage.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Presentation.
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Project Manager at Ernst & Young
Posted Oct 13, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 4 months)
Arms length from recruitment agency - only bothered if money in it for them. Not treated as a human being with respect
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The interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.
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Consultant at Ernst & Young
Posted Oct 2, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2010 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 3 days)
The application and interview process consisted of 5 stages. Online application, online testing, first round interview, assessment centre, and partner interview. All staff encountered were extremely approachable and friendly and the interview felt more like a chat than an interview.
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Negotiation Details
Graduate position, unable to negotiate.
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test, a Personality Test and a Background Check.
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Assurance at Ernst & Young
Posted Aug 26, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 4 days)
Applied online with cover letter and CV/ relatively easy online assessment test (math, logic, verbal)/ first round of phone interview (basic competency questions)/ second office face to face with department manager/ third round assessment day with group presentation, work day simulation via phone calls, meeting, written test.
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Reason for Declining
I had to head back home for personal reasons upon graduation from university in London.
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.
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Performance Improvement Financial Services at Ernst & Young
Posted Aug 4, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2011 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 6 months)
Application process consisted of initial application, online reasoning tests (verbal, numerical and diagrammatic analysis), competency based interview and assessment centre. The assessment centre was divided into five tasks; two e-tray exercises, a team presentation, reasoning tests (similar to those online) and a partner interview.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Advisory Manager at Ernst & Young
Posted Jul 15, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 2 months)
Interview process involved three 1:1 interviews that felt more like fireside chats than formal interviews. They were obviously trying to workout my character and personailty than critically analyse skills and competencies.
The process took a long time, and didn't seem to be managed, but felt honest and friendly.
Everybody within EY seems to have been interviewed differently.
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Negotiation Details
Difficult to negotiate as no recruitment consultant middleman
Other Details
The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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