Deloitte

Deloitte is basically a company that has many verticals out of which two of them came to our college this year- Consulting and AERS (Audit and enterprise risk services) with an annual pay scale of 5.35 lakhs. Consulting is all about reaching out to the clients and getting to know their requirements, and chalking out strategies in which the company can best meet their demands. On the other hand, AERS, as the name suggests, deals with identification and management of the risks involved.
In spite of two different verticals, the method of testing was the same. The written test was roughly around 90 minutes, during which we had three sections to attempt- Verbal, Math,and Aptitude. It was an adaptive test, and once an answer was marked, we couldn’t go back to the question. Verbal was of the GRE standard, but not as tough. There were reading comprehensions and text completions, all of which can be easily dealt with, by reading a requisite number of word meanings and practicing RC’s to improve one’s speed and ability to interpret. Math had a lot of questions from Time and Distance, Time and Work and Logarithms, while Aptitude was easy too, with problems based on completing the series, arrangement problems, etc.

Out of around 400 people who wrote the test, around 100 of us got selected for the next round which was a Case Study. It is nothing but a group discussion of a given scenario and its presentation, put together. Both the verticals had a different set of CS’s. Once the topic is given to the group of 8 people, time is given to understand what it means and to make rough points of the solutions to the given situational question. The group starts discussing, and keep writing down points as every person puts forward a new point. The goal at the end of this 10-minute discussion is to reach at some consensus about the given topic, make pictorial representations like graphs or pie diagrams on the charts that they give you, and decide who speaks what, during the presentation. And all the while you discuss, a HR is present, who notes down his feedback about every person’s involvement. Once this is done, another two HR’s come for the presentation. What are looked at, in this round are one’s leadership qualities, extent of participation, confidence and communication skills, how cogent one’s

 ideas are and one’s thinking ability. The important point to be borne is that, there is a fine line between leadership and domination. A leader is someone who helps in keeping up the team spirit when it is sinking. During the presentation, if your colleagues fail to answer questions put to them by the HR, one can pitch in to help, which portrays that you work as a team. At the same time, the people who tried to dominate the others by not letting them express their ideas, had to face elimination after this round.

The final round was the Personal Interview, which varied from one person to another. My interview was for 25-30 minutes during which the HR asked me questions from my resume and gave me situations and asked me how I would deal with them. There were no technical questions.

Overall, one thing to be kept in mind, not only for Deloitte, but for any company, is that you should be confident, and think smart. Some basic preparation for the written tests will be sufficient, after which it all depends on how well you carry yourself. Don’t try to fake anything in your resume, and if asked a question that you don’t know at all, saying no isn’t wrong at all but in fact shows how genuine you are. HR’s are very friendly so there’s no need to panic at all, and sometimes they do put people under pressure to test how they respond to it. And it is there, that people either give up, or fight hard. At the end of the day, all of us are bound to make mistakes, but it depends on how well you manage the situation So, stay calm, believe in yourself, and be an optimist. This mantra is enough to work miracles!