Excerpts from interview #1:

• What do you mean by assessment year?
• What do you understand by total income?
• How many heads are there under total income?
• How will you decide the residential status of an individual?
• Who are resident but not ordinary resident?

• Introduce yourself.
• What is the difference between smart work and hard work?
• List some of you achievements?
• What according to you was your greatest failure in life?
• Where do you see yourself after 2 years?
• Explain your personality in one word.

Excerpts from interview #2:

• What is tax refund?
• What is capital gain? Explain long term capital gains and how is it different from short term capital gains?
• What is alternative minimum tax (AMT)?
• Tell me something about your family?
• Why should we hire you?
• Why KPMG?
• Tell me about a time when you worked effectively under pressure.
• If you could be any animal, what would it be?

Excerpts from interview #3:

• What do you mean by amortization and impairment?
• What is intercompany reconciliation?
• What is the securities transaction tax?
• Why do you know about KPMG?
• Do you enjoy doing independent research?
• Why do you want to join this company?

Excerpts from interview #4:

• Suggest a method of joining two tables.
• What do you mean by “normalization”?
• What is object oriented model?
• Define RDBMS.
• Why is DML provided?
• Where do we generally create INDEX?

• What opinion do your friends have about you?
• When do you think you will complete and be able to join?(contextual question)
• Do you have any questions for us?
• What changes would you make at your college?
• If you were to ask one of your professors to describe you, what would he or she say?
• What do you think are your strengths and weaknesses?

Excerpts from interview #5:

• What are the advantages to use stored procedures?
• Do you think BCNF is better than 2NF & 3NF? Why?
• Give me a SQL Query to find out the second largest company?
• Discuss transparent DBMS?
• What is the difference between exclusive lock and shared lock?

• What interests you most about this position?
• What is the difference between primary key, foreign key and candidate key?
• How has your education prepared you for your career?
• Describe your Final Year Project. What innovations did you bring into this project?
• Who is the CEO of the company?

Excerpts from interview #6:

• Why do you want to work in audit?
• What are the objectives of internal audit?
• Explain about cross functional audits?
• What are audit control procedures?
• What is CARO 2003? What do you mean by management audit?

• Do you prefer working in a team?
• How would a lecturer describe you?
• Do you keep your promises?
• What motivates you?
• Are you a good listener?
• Have you ever wanted to quit something?
• Tell me about your groups of friends?
• Do you believe in talent or hard work?