INTERVIEW GUIDELINES

Round1: Resume Shortlisting + HR Round

Questions

• What are your salary expectations?
• Tell me about yourself.
• Strengths and how they would be a good match for consulting?
• What do you know about KPMG?
• Why should we hire you?

Round 2: 2/3 Technical Rounds/ Stress Round

• Security Configuration Audit for networking devices
• Approach for web application pen-testing
• Discount rate
• What is CAPM
• Operations – Queuing theory
• Finance – Thorough textbook-type questions on valuation and corporate finance
• Why Consulting?
• Number of cricket round things which would be required for a cricket academy

Round 3: Case Interview Rounds

• Case Questions and Guesstimates

Questions

• A company that has a market share of 60% saw a reduction in its revenue for the last 3 years due to intense price competition. Competitors are reducing prices and the company is not able to compete since the cost of production is higher than prices quoted by competitors. The machinery employed for production is old and labor costs have been rising over years. Customers have been very loyal to the product. Support reasons and improvement scope for the same.

• A multinational insurance company wants to enter the Indian market. They offer life insurance, general insurance, and fire, and damage insurance. The company has been offering insurance in its parent country through online mode. Analyse-it by separating life insurance, general insurance, and fire, and damage insurance. Give inputs on the mode of delivery (online mode is not very feasible in the Indian scenario). Also, take into account the role of brokers and agents in case of fire and damage insurance.

• A company wants to set up an automobile manufacturing unit in India. Do a cost-benefit analysis for the company.

MPLOYEE.ME TIPS

• Get familiar with some basic business terms when applying for Consultancy or analytics based companies
• Make some of your informed decisions strategy approaches that might help you in the interview
• Follow Top down approach and MECE to solve the business cases
• Case studies and CFI for excel, Crafting cases for case studies, MySQL from GeeksforGeeks, Puzzles from GeeksforGeeks can help you give a good confidence
• Make a strategy in the below business cases:
• Profitability: To measures to increase the profit margins
• Market entry: Calculating risk factors while entering into the new Market and strategizing the same
• Growth: Possible reasons for the revenue drop in a sector, possible reasons and solutions for the same
• Pricing: At what pricing is the New product to be launched and the factors considered to reduce the risk
• Product launch: Minimizing the risk in launching a new product considering the customer behavior and need. The Approach that can be followed in different sectors