KPMG

KPMG

Multinational professional services network, and one of the Big Four accounting organizations.

4 Rounds ~21 Days Medium
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Recruiter Screen (30 min)

Standard fit check, behavioral questions, and resume overview.

Technical Loop (3-4 Rounds)

Deep dive into domain knowledge, coding, and system design.

Interview Question Bank

Software Engineer • Behavioral • medium

Tell me about a time you had to manage a difficult client or internal stakeholder who kept changing the project requirements.

#Stakeholder Management #Communication #Agile
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Software Engineer • Behavioral • medium

Describe a time you had to learn a new technology or framework very quickly to deliver a critical project.

#Adaptability #Continuous Learning
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Software Engineer • Behavioral • medium

Tell me about a time you disagreed with a senior engineer or a manager regarding a technical decision. How did you handle it?

#Conflict Resolution #Teamwork #Communication
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Software Engineer • Behavioral • medium

How do you prioritize tasks when working on multiple client engagements simultaneously with overlapping deadlines?

#Time Management #Prioritization #Consulting
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Software Engineer • Behavioral • medium

Describe a time you found a critical bug right before a major client release. What steps did you take?

#Problem Solving #Accountability #Crisis Management
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Software Engineer • Behavioral • medium

Tell me about a time you had to explain a complex technical concept to a non-technical stakeholder, such as a Tax Partner or a client executive.

#Communication #Consulting #Empathy
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Software Engineer • Behavioral • medium

Give an example of a time you took the initiative to improve the performance or efficiency of an existing process or codebase.

#Initiative #Optimization #Continuous Improvement
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Software Engineer • Behavioral • easy

Why do you want to work at KPMG? What interests you about working in a Big 4 technology consulting environment compared to a traditional tech company?

#Motivation #Company Knowledge #Career Goals
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Software Engineer • Coding • easy

Given an array of integers nums and an integer target, return indices of the two numbers such that they add up to target. You may assume that each input would have exactly one solution.

#Arrays #Hash Table
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Software Engineer • Coding • medium

Write a SQL query to find the nth highest salary from an Employee table. If there is no nth highest salary, return null.

#Database #Queries #Window Functions
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Software Engineer • Coding • medium

Given an array of intervals where intervals[i] = [starti, endi], merge all overlapping intervals, and return an array of the non-overlapping intervals.

#Arrays #Sorting
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Software Engineer • Coding • easy

Given the head of a singly linked list, reverse the list, and return the reversed list.

#Linked Lists #Pointers
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Software Engineer • Coding • easy

Write a SQL query to find all employees who earn more than their direct managers.

#Database #Joins
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Software Engineer • Coding • medium

Given an array of strings, group the anagrams together. You can return the answer in any order.

#Strings #Hash Table
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Software Engineer • Coding • easy

Given a string s, find the first non-repeating character in it and return its index. If it does not exist, return -1.

#Strings #Hash Table
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Software Engineer • Coding • medium

Given a string s, find the length of the longest substring without repeating characters.

#Sliding Window #Strings #Hash Table
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Software Engineer • Coding • medium

Write a SQL query to calculate the cumulative sum of revenue per month for the year 2023.

#Window Functions #Analytics #Aggregation
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Software Engineer • Coding • medium

Design and implement a data structure for a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache.

#Design #Hash Table #Doubly Linked List
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Software Engineer • Coding • medium

Given an integer array nums and an integer k, return the k most frequent elements. You may return the answer in any order.

#Heaps #Hash Table #Sorting
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Software Engineer • Coding • hard

Write a SQL query to find the top 3 departments with the highest average salary, including the average salary amount.

#CTEs #Window Functions #Aggregation
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Software Engineer • Coding • easy

Given a string containing just the characters '(', ')', '{', '}', '[' and ']', determine if the input string is valid.

#Strings #Stack
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Software Engineer • System Design • hard

Design a secure document sharing portal for KPMG tax clients to upload sensitive financial documents.

#Security #Cloud Storage #Architecture #Compliance
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Software Engineer • System Design • hard

Design an automated auditing system that ingests millions of transaction records daily from various client ERP systems and flags anomalies.

#Data Pipelines #Scalability #Kafka #Microservices
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Software Engineer • System Design • medium

Design a microservice architecture for a payroll processing system that integrates with third-party banking APIs.

#Microservices #Event-Driven Architecture #Integrations
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Software Engineer • System Design • hard

Design a scalable data pipeline to migrate legacy on-premise financial data to Azure Cloud with zero data loss.

#Cloud Migration #Azure #ETL #Data Engineering
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Software Engineer • System Design • medium

Design a role-based access control (RBAC) system for an enterprise application used by different departments at KPMG.

#Security #Database Design #Authorization
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Software Engineer • Technical • medium

Explain the difference between abstract classes and interfaces. When would you use one over the other in a .NET or Java enterprise application?

#OOP #C# #Java #Architecture
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Software Engineer • Technical • medium

How do you secure a RESTful API? What specific mechanisms would you implement for an internal financial tool?

#REST #Security #OAuth #API Design
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Software Engineer • Technical • medium

Explain Dependency Injection and its benefits. How is it implemented in modern frameworks like ASP.NET Core or Spring Boot?

#Design Patterns #Testing #Inversion of Control
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Software Engineer • Technical • medium

What are the differences between clustered and non-clustered indexes in a relational database?

#Performance Tuning #SQL #Indexing
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Software Engineer • Technical • medium

Explain the SOLID principles of object-oriented design. Can you give a practical example of the Single Responsibility Principle?

#Design Principles #Clean Code #Architecture
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Software Engineer • Technical • medium

How does Garbage Collection work in .NET (or Java)? How can you optimize an application to reduce GC pressure?

#Memory Management #Performance #C# #Java
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Software Engineer • Technical • easy

What is the difference between synchronous and asynchronous programming? When would you use async/await in a web application?

#Concurrency #Async/Await #Performance
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Software Engineer • Technical • medium

Explain the N+1 query problem in the context of ORMs like Entity Framework or Hibernate. How do you resolve it?

#ORMs #Performance #SQL
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Software Engineer • Technical • medium

How do you handle database schema migrations in a CI/CD pipeline to ensure zero downtime?

#CI/CD #Database Management #Deployment
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