I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at KPMG (Gurgaon, Haryana) in Aug 2024
Interview
I applied through employee referral. Got a call the same day and the interview was scheduled for 4 days later. HR told me there will be 3 rounds approx. 1st round was with Assistant manager. It went for 35-40 minutes. In the end I asked the Interviewer if there are any other databases (like Cap IQ) I should know about. She said you already know what we are using and even the desirable power BI. I was not able to give only 1 response which was business news. She asked me to give any 2 recent business news I was only able to give 1 related to budget 2024. I was rejected and the reason stated was lack of general awareness. Rest the profile was 100% aligned to my skills and qualifications. Only this and they rejected me. Quite disheartening.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Brief Introduction
2. Tell about anyone project you did in your last company? What process you followed in research.
3. What research tools (like Capital IQ) do you know about and what information can be fetched from those?
4. SWOT analysis of any one company of your choice (I chose Apple). Cross-Ques related to why do you think high prices are its weakness?
5. How comfortable are you with financial reports of a company. ( My resume mentioned Financials and I have an MBA in finance as well).
6. Difference between Gross profit and Net profit.
7. A company should value gross profit or net profit if you are doing benchmarking against its competitors.
8. Give any 2 recent business news.
9. Any questions for me (interviewer)?
Swift interview, asked standard questions on interests and motivations behind applying to the team. Asked a little on topics related to the job as well, was not too difficult. Overall experience was good.
First, HR round then technical round then 2nd technical round then HR round. After that got selected. Interview experience was good. Onboarding process was smooth and easy. But joining kit experience was not up to the mark
3 rounds of interview was conducted. All virtual. Medium level of difficulty.
Was asked DSA questions easy-medium level, Java, Java Streams questions and SQL related questions.
Prepare java in depth.