[wangruijoy]

I just graduated from college with my Master’s degree in Accounting this past August. I had an on-campus interview in Boston last week with EY and fortunately got in to the second round. My onsite interview will be in EY’s new york office next week. The position I applied was Audit Associate in Financial Services. I am wondering what kinds of questions will be asked during second round interview? Is it harder or easier compared to the first round interview? What’s the likelihood of landing an offer afterwards? Thanks!

[wangruijoy]

Any people from EY who can share some information about it? I really appreciate your help.

[stag]

I interviewed for FS position with EY in Stamford last year. It was more like a conversation with partners rather than technical questions. Mostly talk about office culture and how I would fit the office and teams.

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[005]

what stag said.

just be yourself

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[wangruijoy]

I interviewed on Wednesday and I just got an offer from EY this morning (Saturday)!

My first interviewer was a partner and second was a senior manager, they were very approachable and nice to talk to. The first interview was more like a conversation and no behavioral questions were asked. The partner compared different service lines within EY's financial service audit and gave me some career advice. The second interviewer was a senior manager. She asked a lot of behavioral questions like: why EY? Why FS? Why XXX (my college)? How did your friends describe you? Where do you see yourself in 5 years? Best and worst team work experience? Overall it's very positive experience as I got a lot of information I needed from this interview.

[mystical guy]

I agree with @wangruijoy. I don't expect them to ask you a lot of technical questions, if any. Be prepared to talk about yourself and answer a ton of canned behavioral questions.

The best advice anyone would give you is to project confidence, that you are an extrovert, and ask good questions at the end. Make eye contact, make your interviewers feel at ease with you. Do more than enough research on them, through LinkedIn and conduct above-and-beyond research on EY, especially from press releases and the financials

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[mystical guy]

CPA - Since 2015
CISA - Smashed 2012
CIA - Passed 2015

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