Audit Associate applicants have rated the interview process at EY with 2.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 83% positive. To compare, the company-average is 79.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Audit Associate roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 6 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at EY overall takes an average of 25 days.
Common stages of the interview process at EY as a Audit Associate according to 6 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 50%
Skills test: 25%
Other: 25%
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1 hour interview with senior manager and partner. Pretty conversational with behavioural questions. Questions were the usual questions like tell me a time when you went over and beyond, tell me something that you have done that was right. Was lucky that interviewers were chatty as well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me a time where you have learnt from a failure
Its average question, as long as you have a basic knowledge about audit and accounting, it would be fine and most likely the question would be applicable during your work
I applied online. I interviewed at EY (Chicago, IL) in Mar 2023
Interview
Applied for the job and was able to select two behavioral interview slots. I interviewed for FSO but my interviewers were from other departments so this doesn’t really matter. Be prepared to talk about what interests you in accounting, definitely start studying for the CPA before you start and be prepared to talk in debt about data analytics