I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Grant Thornton (Bengaluru) in Jun 2023
Interview
Applied through the senior director's referral. My interview was conducted online through the MS team software. The interview session was not at all satisfactory because there were technical lagging difficulties that prevented me from speaking clearly thereby losing my focus completely. In addition, it appeared that the interviewer was in a rush to finish, he was not interested in listening to my work experience and straightaway jumped to the technical part. Furthermore, he was not cooperative or friendly throughout the entire interview session making my interview even worse. Moreover, he appears to lack a lot of experience in interview conducting. I have faced many interviews in the past but never had such an unpleasant experience like this one as I always shared a good rapport with every interviewer. Although the HR was decent & professional & quick in responding to calls & emails. I don't want to sound negative but this was my interview experience with GT Indus sadly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Tell me about urself
2. What is integrated auditing
3. a Walkthrough of the entire Statutory audit process
4. Materiality & its type
5. Audit of Trade receivables and also asked me to walk me through of one of the steps in auditing the receivables with real-life examples
6. How would you deal with management overriding controls
7. Audit of cash & bank. In addition, he asked how would you verify cash as at 31st March if the audit is in May. (Although i gave the answer he was still not satisfied). He also asked, "To check the bank balance which bank statement will you check" (i gave the answer he was still not satisfied and abruptly moved to the next question).
8. What would be the risk around the liabilities in the balance sheet and tell me the procedures to mitigate those risks.
9. He asked me about how do we assess the risk during the risk assessment stage and what are the audit procedures for the same.
10. Last question he asked, any questions you have (although I asked many questions about the job role & the company and he answered them very vaguely and hurriedly knowing that he would not consider my name to the hiring manager for the role, by saying " i won't disclose right now you will get to know later" in many of my questions.
They were friendly, but I was bombarded with tax technical questions. I don’t feel like they made an effort to get to know me. The first 20 minutes were solely focused on tax concepts, which is understandable for a tax position. However, it’s important to strike a balance and also get to know the candidate during the initial interview round.
I applied online. I interviewed at Grant Thornton in Dec 2025
Interview
You will first receive a call from HR to basically understand your background and available time. There is also a written assessment with time limits before the interview. During interview, the interviewers will ask technicial questions to test how depth is your knowledge.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Please explain and describe any accounting standards and its accounting treatment.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Grant Thornton (Boston, MA) in Dec 2025
Interview
I was interviewed by the partner and the senior manager, the interview went smoothly and they are very interested on how you can be a team player. They have a lot of "if this happen, what is your response" questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If there are multiple deadlines approaching and you dont think you can finish all the work, what would you do?
