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Ernst & Young Technology Consultant Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

Updated 12 Oct 2023

Top 10 Ernst & Young Technology Consultant Interview Questions and Answers

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  • Q1. Smallest Subarray With K Distinct Elements Given an array 'A' consisting of 'N' integers, find the smallest subarray of 'A' containing exactly ...read more
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  • Q2. Group Anagrams Together You have been given an array/list of strings 'STR_LIST'. You are supposed to return the strings as groups of anagrams such that strings be...read more
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  • Q3. Implementation: HashMap Design a data structure that stores a mapping of a key to a given value and supports the following operations in constant time. 1. INSERT(key, val...read more
    View answers (2)
  • Q4. Data Warehouse Question

    What are the different types of data marts in the context of data warehousing?

    View answer (1)
  • Q5. Big Data Question

    How to deploy a Big Data Model? Mention the key steps involved.

    View answer (1)
  • Q6. AWS Question

    What do you understand by stopping and terminating an EC2 Instance?

    View answer (1)
  • Q7. Data Analysis Question

    What is nominal data and ordinal data? Explain with examples.

    View answer (1)
  • Q8. Java Question

    How would you differentiate between a String, StringBuffer, and a StringBuilder?

    View answer (1)
  • Q9. Big Data Question

    Explain overfitting in big data? How to avoid the same.

    View answer (1)
  • Q10. Data Warehouse Question

    What do you mean by Degenerate Dimension?

    View answer (1)

14 Ernst & Young Technology Consultant Interview Experiences

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Technology Consultant Interview Questions

user image CodingNinjas

posted on 28 May 2022

I was interviewed in May 2022.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Video Call Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 30 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

  • Q1. Implementation: HashMap Design a data structure that stores a mapping of a key to a given value and supports the following operations in constant time. 1. INSER...read more
2

Video Call Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Hard

  • Q1. Group Anagrams Together You have been given an array/list of strings 'STR_LIST'. You are supposed to return the strings as groups of anagrams such that ...read more

Interview Preparation Tips

Professional and academic backgroundI applied for the job as Technology Consultant in BangaloreEligibility criteriaNo criteriaErnst and young interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structures, OOPS, System Design, Algorithms and Java.Time required to prepare for the interview - 2 monthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Understand the requirements of the job/your role.
Tip 2 : Start with basics of each topic
Tip 3 : Start practising

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Be smart. Do not be nervous. 
Tip 2 : Be confident. Do not fumble or answer too fast.

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Top skills recommended for Ernst & Young Technology Consultant interview

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  • Advisory Services
  • Business Consulting
  • Business Development
  • Cisa
  • Cobit
  • Dealing
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • IT Audit

Technology Consultant Interview Questions

user image CodingNinjas

posted on 4 Apr 2022

I was interviewed in Oct 2021.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Video Call Round (8 Questions)

Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

In this round, I was first asked a coding question related to Sliding Window Technique and then I was grilled on some major concepts from Java and Java Collections.

  • Q1. Smallest Subarray With K Distinct Elements Given an array 'A' consisting of 'N' integers, find the smallest subarray of 'A' containing e...read more
  • Q2. Java Question

    How would you differentiate between a String, StringBuffer, and a StringBuilder?

  • Q3. Java Question

    What is a package in Java? List down various advantages of packages.

  • Q4. Java Question

    Why are Java Strings immutable in nature?

  • Q5. Java Question

    What do you know about JIT Compiler?

  • Q6. Java Question

    Differentiate between HashSet and HashMap.

  • Q7. Java Question

    Differentiate between ArrayList and Vector in java.

  • Q8. Java Question

    Differentiate between HashMap and HashTable.

2

Video Call Round (9 Questions)

Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

This round started with some basic questions from Java 8 and then the interviewer started asking some questions from Spring Boot. At the end of the interview, I was also asked some questions from SQL and DBMS.

  • Q1. Java Question

    What are Java 8 streams?

  • Q2. Java Question

    Write a Java 8 program to iterate a Stream using the forEach method?

  • Q3. Spring Boot Question

    How does Spring Boot works?

  • Q4. Spring Boot Question

    What is dependency Injection?

  • Q5. Spring Boot Question

    Explain @RestController annotation in Sprint boot?

  • Q6. Spring Boot Question

    How MVC works in Spring?

  • Q7. Spring Boot Question

    Mention a few features of Spring Boot.

  • Q8. SQL Question

    Write a query that joins two tables A and B having common attribute ID and selects records(ID_NAME) that have
    matching ID values in both tables .

  • Q9. SQL Question

    Given an Employee Table, find the Nth highest salary from it.

3

HR Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 30 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

This was a Technical Cum HR round where I was first asked some basic Java related concepts and then we discussed
about my expectations from the company , learnings and growth in the forthcomig years. I would suggest be honest and
try to communicate your thoughts properly in these type of rounds to maximise your chances of getting selected.

  • Q1. Basic HR Questions Why should we hire you ? What are your expectations from the company? How was your overall interview experience? What are your strengths and ...read more

Interview Preparation Tips

Eligibility criteriaAbove 7 CGPAErnst & Young (EY) interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structures, Algorithms, OOPS , Java , SpringTime required to prepare for the interview - 4 MonthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Must do Previously asked Interview as well as Online Test Questions.
Tip 2 : Go through all the previous interview experiences from Codestudio and Leetcode.
Tip 3 : Do at-least 2 good projects and you must know every bit of them.

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Have at-least 2 good projects explained in short with all important points covered.
Tip 2 : Every skill must be mentioned.
Tip 3 : Focus on skills, projects and experiences more.

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Top skills recommended for Ernst & Young Technology Consultant interview

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  • IT Governance
  • IT Infrastructure Services
  • IT Risk
  • Performance improvement
  • SOX Compliance
  • Technology Consulting
  • Advisory Services
  • Business Consulting

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Technology Consultant Interview Questions

user image CodingNinjas

posted on 4 Apr 2022

I was interviewed in Oct 2021.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Video Call Round (8 Questions)

Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

This round had questions mainly from Big Data and Data Warehouse. Questions from Hadoop were also asked at the end of the interview.

  • Q1. Data Warehouse Question

    What do you mean by Degenerate Dimension?

  • Q2. Data Warehouse Question

    What are the different types of data marts in the context of data warehousing?

  • Q3. Data Warehouse Question

    Difference between Fact Table and Dimension Table

  • Q4. Big Data Question

    How to deploy a Big Data Model? Mention the key steps involved.

  • Q5. Big Data Question

    Explain overfitting in big data? How to avoid the same.

  • Q6. Hadoop Question

    Explain Hadoop. List the core components of Hadoop

  • Q7. Hadoop Question

    Mention different Features of HDFS.

  • Q8. Hadoop Question

    What are the three modes that hadoop can Run?

2

Video Call Round (8 Questions)

Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

This round started with some questions from AWS and then the interviewer switched to Python and Data Analysis questions since I had some projects related to that.

3

HR Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 30 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

This is a cultural fitment testing round .HR was very frank and asked standard questions. Then we discussed about my role.

Interview Preparation Tips

Eligibility criteriaAbove 7 CGPAErnst & Young (EY) interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structures, Algorithms, OOPS , Python, Big Data, Hadoop, AWSTime required to prepare for the interview - 5 MonthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Must do Previously asked Interview as well as Online Test Questions.
Tip 2 : Go through all the previous interview experiences from Codestudio and Leetcode.
Tip 3 : Do at-least 2 good projects and you must know every bit of them.

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Have at-least 2 good projects explained in short with all important points covered.
Tip 2 : Every skill must be mentioned.
Tip 3 : Focus on skills, projects and experiences more.

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Top skills recommended for Ernst & Young Technology Consultant interview

Insights by AmbitionBox
  • Business Development
  • Cisa
  • Cobit
  • Dealing
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • IT Audit
  • IT Governance
  • IT Infrastructure Services

Technology Consultant Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 12 Oct 2023

Interview experience
Rating 5
Very good
Difficulty level
-
Duration
-
Result
-

2 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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2

Technical Round (3 Questions)

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Stay current
Understand Business needs
Communication skills

Top skills recommended for Ernst & Young Technology Consultant interview

Insights by AmbitionBox
  • IT Risk
  • Performance improvement
  • SOX Compliance
  • Technology Consulting
  • Advisory Services
  • Business Consulting
  • Business Development
  • Cisa

Technology Consultant Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 1 Nov 2022

I applied via Job Fair and was interviewed in May 2022.

4 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Don’t add your photo or details such as gender, age, and address in your resume. These details do not add any value.
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2

Coding Test Round

Provided a scenario and asked to perform crud operations on the same.

3

One-on-one Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. 1. As I have only 1 year experience at that time so asked basic questions of java and spring boot like some annotations as Autowired and about actuator and all
  • Q2. Prepare for mysql queries
4

Aptitude Test Round

Technical discussion with client of the company again basic java and mysql queries questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - If you are a fresher or having less than 2 year experience then only basic questions are asked and also prepare crud api in any language.
But if you want to join a organizations in which you can learn and expecting support then Big 4 is not a right place search for a IT focused company.
Otherwise for salary and perks big 4 are good

Top skills recommended for Ernst & Young Technology Consultant interview

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  • Cobit
  • Dealing
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • IT Audit
  • IT Governance
  • IT Infrastructure Services
  • IT Risk
  • Performance improvement

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user image Anonymous

posted on 30 Aug 2023

Interview experience
Rating 4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Referral and was interviewed before Aug 2022.

4 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Properly align and format text in your resume. A recruiter will have to spend more time reading poorly aligned text, leading to high chances of rejection.
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2

Aptitude Test Round

Basic aptitude questions

3

Coding Test Round

2 coding was there. One medium one hard.

4

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Technical interview will be there. They'll ask from your resume also some situation based question.
  • Q2. 1. Tell me about yourself 2. Write SQL query 3. Write a programming 4. Relocation or not 5. More programming and SQL related questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare according to your resume.
Know about the company's ceo and policy.
Strictly tell them if you are willing to relocate or not.

Top skills recommended for Ernst & Young Technology Consultant interview

Insights by AmbitionBox
  • SOX Compliance
  • Technology Consulting
  • Advisory Services
  • Business Consulting
  • Business Development
  • Cisa
  • Cobit
  • Dealing

Technology Consultant Interview Questions

user image Ajat Shatru

posted on 8 Feb 2022

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Aug 2021.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Technical Round (2 Questions)

2

Behavioral Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Introduction, notice period, why you are leaving your last company.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Always ask your question at the end of the interview.

Top skills recommended for Ernst & Young Technology Consultant interview

Insights by AmbitionBox
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • IT Audit
  • IT Governance
  • IT Infrastructure Services
  • IT Risk
  • Performance improvement
  • SOX Compliance
  • Technology Consulting

Technology Consultant Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 20 Oct 2021

Interview Questions

  • Q1. Java 8, Create Employee pojo and sort them based on salary. Salary,I'd,name there were the member variables
  • Q2. Spring boot annotations, sliding window problems. Qualifier annotation use, difference between HashTable, Concurrent hashmap. Difference between controller and ...read more

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Practice array problems to qualify the test.

Top skills recommended for Ernst & Young Technology Consultant interview

Insights by AmbitionBox
  • Advisory Services
  • Business Consulting
  • Business Development
  • Cisa
  • Cobit
  • Dealing
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • IT Audit

Technology Consultant Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 3 Oct 2021

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Oct 2020.

3 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Get hold of basics. Clear explanation is suggested.

Top skills recommended for Ernst & Young Technology Consultant interview

Insights by AmbitionBox
  • IT Governance
  • IT Infrastructure Services
  • IT Risk
  • Performance improvement
  • SOX Compliance
  • Technology Consulting
  • Advisory Services
  • Business Consulting

Technology Consultant Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 30 Apr 2022

I applied via Recruitment Consulltant and was interviewed in Oct 2021.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Double-check your resume for any spelling mistakes. The recruiter may consider spelling mistakes as careless behavior or poor communication skills.
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2

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. In Production Planning. 1. Tell me about Product cycle. 2. What are various implementation steps. 3. Previous project scenarios? 4. Settings to convert Bulk sol...read more

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare well, recollect experience.

Top skills recommended for Ernst & Young Technology Consultant interview

Insights by AmbitionBox
  • Business Development
  • Cisa
  • Cobit
  • Dealing
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • IT Audit
  • IT Governance
  • IT Infrastructure Services

Ernst & Young Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Ernst & Young Technology Consultant interview?
Ernst & Young interview process usually has 2-3 rounds. The most common rounds in the Ernst & Young interview process are Technical, Resume Shortlist and Aptitude Test.
How to prepare for Ernst & Young Technology Consultant interview?
Go through your CV in detail and study all the technologies mentioned in your CV. Prepare at least two technologies or languages in depth if you are appearing for a technical interview at Ernst & Young. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at Ernst & Young expect are Advisory Services, Business Consulting, Business Development, Cisa and Cobit.
What are the top questions asked in Ernst & Young Technology Consultant interview?

Some of the top questions asked at the Ernst & Young Technology Consultant interview -

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