Ernst & Young Consultant interview experience

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Gurgaon, HaryanaPosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through an EY consulting-style hiring flow for a Python/FastAPI backend role, and it was very technical from the start.

After HR screening where we covered basics like resume alignment, expected compensation, notice period, and location, I moved into two technical rounds. The first focused on core Python and backend fundamentals: OOP, decorators, generators, multithreading and how the GIL affects things, exception handling, plus FastAPI/FastAPI-style concepts like request/response modelling with Pydantic. There was also REST API design, JWT authentication, and SQL work like joins and indexing.

The second technical round felt more like architecture plus coding in real time. I worked through live implementation

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