The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at KPMG (Milan) in Nov 2024
Interview
Colloquio conoscitivo telefonico con HR. Secondo colloquio tecnico con Architect e Manager. L'architetto fa domande tecniche mentre il manager ti valuta dal punto di vista manageriale. Persone professionali. Empatia 0. Non ti mettono a tuo agio e sembra un interrogatorio. Lo stress si percepisce anche solo dai colloqui che si fanno con loro. Sostanzialmente mi hanno detto che cercano persone smart e che in KPMG si lavora e che prima delle 7 non si esce. Si esce alle 7 se tutto va bene.
Dopo il colloquio non mi hanno più fatto sapere niente e solo dopo 3 mesi mi è arrivata una mail automatica in cui mi dicevano che il processo era andato avanti senza di me.
Consiglio per tutti: se non vi rispondono entro 2 settimane massimo procedete oltre con altre aziende.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Serverlss SQL Pool su Synapse, Databricks e Spark, Runtime, Data Factory, come storicizzare i dati. Insistono molto sulla parte manageriale
2 virtual rounds of interviews and each round will around 1 hr. It denends on the panel whether they would like to ask coding or not. Mostly questions will be deep dive on your experience.
The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at KPMG (Sofia, Sofia (city)) in Aug 2024
Interview
2 - Stage Interview Process
1. HR Interview - Spoke to a lovely lady from HR who took her time to get to know me better. The interview was scheduled to be 30 minutes but took 1 hour 10 minutes. She covered who KPMG were and how they operate within the country. She took time to cover wider team and organisation structure and covered any questions I had relating to the company. I was asked mostly about my experience and motivation for applying.
2nd Interview process - Technical Interview with 2 Engineers and 1 Architect. The interview was an hour long and each interviewer was asking me different technical questions depending on their expertise. I found the interview somewhat difficult as time was limited and I felt like each interviewer had their own angle of assessing my skills. I was also slightly disappointed that there is no technical test or mini-project as part of the hiring process where people can really shine and show their technical skills.
There were specific questions I couldn't answer and I felt the interview ended negatively as people were in a hurry to hang up.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you know which Azure SQL Solution to use and when? Have you found any specific functionality that works in one solution and not in another?
