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Ernst & Young Software Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Updated 2 Mar 2025

Ernst & Young Software Engineer Interview Experiences

3 interviews found

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I was interviewed before Mar 2024.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Oops, javascript, react related questions
  • Q2. .net and ci/cd
Round 2 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Tell me strength
  • Ans. 

    My strength lies in my problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to work well under pressure.

    • Strong problem-solving skills

    • Attention to detail

    • Ability to work well under pressure

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. What is situation you were lacked in something in your journey
  • Ans. 

    I lacked experience in working with a specific programming language

    • I lacked experience in Java programming during my first job

    • I struggled to adapt to the syntax and best practices of Java

    • I took online courses and worked on personal projects to improve my Java skills

  • Answered by AI
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
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Round 2 - Coding Test 

Basic coding related to c, c++... Then SQL query

Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Questions from project and are of interest that we pit in our resume

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I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed before Mar 2021. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Aptitude based on normal topics on SHL platform

Round 2 - Coding Test 

Coding test on hackerrank with Java ad a language choice having 3 dsa questions on priority queue , array and tree
5 SQL and 5 DSA mcq

Round 3 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Interview on MS teams . Most of the question were asked from Java oops, spring boot and 1 dsa question on array stock price Some questions were 1) how auto configuration works in Spring 2) api calls 3) jav...

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be yourself in interview and be honest

Interview questions from similar companies

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Jun 2020. There were 3 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Tell me about Yourself, some questions related to machine learning, and I was asked more questions to differentiate like differences between ml and ai, python and c, c and java and procedural and functiona...

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Get a complete grip on your resume and be confident about what you say, If you don't know the answer it is okay to agree that you don't know the answer so that interviewer can ask the next questions.

I was interviewed before Jun 2021.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

(2 Questions)

Round duration - 180 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

It was an mcq + coding round. There were aptitude and ouput based question in mcq. And coding questions were easy

  • Q1. 

    Find the Duplicate Number Problem Statement

    Given an integer array 'ARR' of size 'N' containing numbers from 0 to (N - 2). Each number appears at least once, and there is one number that appears twice. Yo...

  • Ans. 

    Find the duplicate number in an array of integers from 0 to (N-2).

    • Iterate through the array and keep track of the frequency of each number using a hashmap.

    • Return the number with a frequency greater than 1 as the duplicate number.

    • Time complexity can be optimized to O(N) using Floyd's Tortoise and Hare algorithm.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. 

    Reverse String Operations Problem Statement

    You are provided with a string S and an array of integers A of size M. Your task is to perform M operations on the string as specified by the indices in array A...

  • Ans. 

    Given a string and an array of indices, reverse substrings based on the indices to obtain the final string.

    • Iterate through the array of indices and reverse the substrings accordingly

    • Ensure the range specified by each index is non-empty

    • Return the final string after all operations are completed

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - Video Call 

Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

It was technical + hr round. there were 2 people as interviewer. They stated from intro and asked some basic puzzles and hr questions. After that they asked about my projects, technologies and some ds algo and dbms questions.

Interview Preparation Tips

Eligibility criterianaAccenture interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structures, Pointers, OOPS, System Design, Algorithms, Dynamic ProgrammingTime required to prepare for the interview - 6 MonthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Practice aptitude
Tip 2 : Focus on practicing coding
Tip 3 : Learn from mistakes

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Mention some projects that you have done
Tip 2 : Try to have skills that are required for the role

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview Questionnaire 

6 Questions

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