Deloitte

1 PANELIST
Q1-What is beta? Can it be zero? Can it be
negative?

Name: Vibhu Aggarwal Q2-What will be the impact of an increase of

$10 on all 3 financial statements considering
Domain: Business Valuation
the tax rate to be 50%
Work experience: Fresher, Q3-What is Cash flow statement
Commerce background Q4-Where would the dividend received go?
Q5-Where would the interest paid go?
Q6-Are you good with numbers?
Questions
Q7-Tell me the square root of 2000. How did
Round 1:Technical Interview you arrive at it?
1 panelist (Domain Expert) Q8-Tell me about your family
Q1-Tell me about yourself in brief Q9-Why do you want to join deloitte
Q2-Why Finance?
Q3-What are leverage ratios
Q4-What are profitability ratios
Q5-What is the operating profit ratio?
Is sales return included in it? Why
not?
Q6-What are various methods of
valuation?
Q7-What is enterprise value? How is it
different from equity value? Why do we
subtract cash from it? How is it different from
invested capital?
Q8- Extempore - 2 mins extempore on How
will ChatGPT impact finance jobs
Q9-What is operating profit? Is it EBIT or
EBITDA? How do we arrive at Net profit from
it?
Q10-Do you invest? Does anyone in your
family invest?
Q11-What can be different methods to value
this cup?

ROUND 2-TECHNICAL interview

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Question #4 Explain FCFF?
Name: Srajan Sahu
Explained FCFF in detail with an example
Domain: Finance
Question #5 Differentiate between NPV
Work experience: 26 months, Finance
and IRR and tell which is better among the
two?
Round 1 (PI) Answered; told NPV is better
Question#1 Tell me something about Question #6 Moved on to valuation, asked
yourself?
about the DCF method?
Gave a prepared introduction detailing my Answered in detail explaining DCF
academic journey, work ex, and my hobbies. Question #7 Asked a question on what is
Question #2 Asked about my work ex WACC?
(Was a research role in a financial I answered incorrectly, so the interviewer
services MNC)? corrected me.
Talked about my role, my job responsibilities,
Question #8 Asked me the difference
the team i worked in and what did I do in my
between risk and volatility?
day-to-day
Was not sure of the exact difference, so
answered using an example of share market.
Question #3 Further questioning on my
Told volatility implies how much the share
work ex - How did I end up in a fin. related
price value will fluctuate whereas risk can be
role considering an engineering
defined as the chance of decline in your
background? Also asked me to explain
investment value in a share.
using an example what kind of work I did?
Question #9 Why Deloitte?
Answered how I got inclined towards the
Answered that the role offers me the
business side of things during my undergrad
opportunity to work in an area that I am
as I was part of the entrepreneurship cell in
interested in and would help me learn during
my college. I wanted to work in a role where
my summers.
I could work at the intersection of finance
and engineering. This role offered exactly
that hence I chose it. Gave an example to
explain my work ex in detail.
 Question #5 Asked what do you know
about windmill farms and why did they not
Round 2 (PI) succeed in India?
Question #1 Started with understanding Answered whatever I knew basis my past
my motivations for the role? workex
Told how the role appeals to me considering
my interests and past workex. Question #6 Asked me some numbers
related to the share of renewable and
Question #2 Questioning on my 2nd nonrenewable energy in India, % of solar in
workex (Fin. Analyst role)? India; average cost of setting up a 10 MW
Explained in detail about how I worked solar power plant?
primarily with solar power projects. My role Answered, grilled me on the figures for 10
was to help clients understand the financial MW plant
viability of a certain project. Told I was
chosen for this role considering my Question #7 Discussed what the
engineering background and past business valuation intern role entailed
experience in finance. and told me that he was part of the
energy valuations team. Finally, asked

Question #3 Questions about solar power me how I would fit in a core fin. role
considering I had an engineering
projects, their IRR, how to set them up??
background?
Answered what kind of route we took in my
Told how the role appeals to me considering
past company. Told IRR was around 9-11%
my interests and linked it to my past work ex.
basic work ex knowledge.

Question #4 Asked a question on various

kinds of policies available in the country for
solar power projects?
Knew only about one policy. Answered and
told the interviewer that I am not aware of
more.