I applied online. I interviewed at KPMG in Nov 2015
Interview
Telephone interview, lasted for about 45 minutes. Competency based quesions, and career motivation questions, and also situational judgement questions. Questions focus on five areas: delivers quality, resilience, awareness of seizes business opportunities, makes an impact, career motivations
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Delivers Quality
Can you describe a piece of work that you are proud of? What difficulties did you overcome in this experience? What did you learn from that?
Resilience
A time when you work under pressure/or to a tight deadline. How do you feel about these kind of pressure? What would you have done differently if you were to do it again?
Awareness of and seizes business opportunities:
A company is doing badly recently. What is the four main challenges they are facing with? What are their opportunities in the future?
Makes an impact
Can you describe a time when you delivered excellent client services? Why do you think excellent client services is very important?
Career Motivation
What is the difference of KPMG from other big 4 companies?
Which part do you hate the most about the job?
Why audit interests you?
What will you do in the first 12-18 months?
Most challenging work for audit?
What commitments would you have to make to KPMG if you were on the audit programme?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at KPMG (Auckland, ) in Apr 2011
Interview
Interview was very relaxed - was more of a casual chat rather than a "formal" interview. Met with a Partner and a senior manager who asked mostly general questions about what I had done at university and any extra-curricular activities. The Partner also asked a question regarding a recent current event and asked for my opinion on the topic.
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at KPMG (Athens, OH) in Sep 2015
Interview
Applied on university recruitment website and was invited to a pre interview night and interview on campus. The interview was mostly behavioral questions and a few administrative questions. Received an email a week later of the decline of a second interview due to my GPA. Do NOT apply if you have below the requirement even if they tell you it doesn't matter - this happened to me and i was .05 below the requirement, went to the interview and got denied even though they told me it wasnt a problem. I would not recommend them to someone.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why audit over tax?
Questions about teams; tell me about a time you failed in a team? led a team? etc.
What made you go into accounting?
Which location is your first preferred ?
Short term and long term goals?