Deloitte 2028 interview guide

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2028 summer analysts
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Invited to interview at Deloitte? Here is how Deloitte's interview rounds work for 2028 interns, business by business: the behavioral interview, the case for Consultative Offerings, the scenario interview some audit roles add, the questions asked and when you hear back.

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Deloitte expects two to three rounds of interviews by phone, video or in person, and a written offer within a week of the last one.

Key facts

  • Rounds: Two to three rounds of interviews, by phone, video or in person.1
  • The invite: If you are selected, a recruiter contacts you to schedule an initial interview, usually within one to two weeks.1
  • Interview types: A mix of behavioral, technical and case-based interviews, depending on the role, with several Deloitte professionals.1,2
  • Audit & Assurance: Every Audit & Assurance candidate has live, virtual behavioral interviews. Some roles add a live, virtual scenario interview, and the recruiter sends preparation guidance first.3
  • Consultative Offerings: Case interviews, based on fictional versions of real client projects, test your thought process, creativity and comfort with ambiguity.4,5
  • Deloitte's method: Understand the issue, identify the assumptions, summarize the issues and findings, state recommendations, then outline next steps and expected impact. There is no single right answer.5
  • Behavioral: Deloitte asks you to answer with situation, task, action and result, using experiences from your resume.6
  • Offer: If you receive an offer, it usually comes in writing within one week of your final interview.1

Deloitte runs two free practice tools: a case interview tool for entry-level Consultative Offerings candidates and a scenario interview tool for entry-level Audit & Assurance candidates.5

What the Deloitte interview looks like

  1. The invite

    If your resume is selected, a member of Deloitte's recruiting team contacts you to schedule an initial interview, usually within one to two weeks. Expect two to three rounds in all, by phone, video or in person. In Audit & Assurance every interview is live and virtual.1,3

  2. The behavioral interview

    The behavioral interview asks how you have worked with a team, handled conflict and reached your goals. Use experiences from your resume, answer with situation, task, action and result, and keep the tone positive even when the story was hard. The interviewer is judging your record of achievement, communication, leadership, teamwork and aptitude for the role.6,12

  3. The case, for Consultative Offerings

    Cases are fictional versions of real client projects. Take notes, make sure you understand the question, then build a framework and an initial hypothesis and share it. Work through Deloitte's five steps, from understanding the issue to next steps and expected impact, and explain your assumptions as you go. Deloitte is looking at your logic, not for one right answer.5,4

  4. The scenario interview, for some audit roles

    Some Audit & Assurance roles add a live, virtual scenario interview. If yours does, your recruiter sends preparation guidance in advance, and Deloitte's scenario interview tool lets you practice. The same five-step approach applies.3,5

  5. The final round

    In consulting, the final round is more senior. Prep sites describe two to three back-to-back interviews with managers, senior managers and partners, often with a group case. Past consulting final rounds have also included a 15-minute partner interview and a one-hour video case with a presentation.13,14,15

  6. After the interviews

    You are told your status as quickly as possible, and an offer usually comes in writing within one week of your final interview. Hired interns may be invited to Deloitte's Summer Intern Conferences at Deloitte University in Westlake, Texas.1,10,11

Deloitte's five steps in a 30-minute case

Understand the issue 3 min
Restate the problem and ask clarifying questions, without leaning on them.
Identify the assumptions 3 min
Say the assumptions under the case out loud, and share a framework and a first hypothesis.
Summarize issues and findings 15 min
Work through the data, taking notes, and say what each finding means.
State recommendations 4 min
Give your answer and the reasons behind it, as a clear, logical story.
Next steps and impact 3 min
What the client should do next and what result to expect.

The five steps are Deloitte's own approach for case and scenario interviews. The minutes are Intervyo's plan for a case of about 30 minutes, the length of past Consultative Offerings cases.5,16,15

Before your Deloitte interviews

  • Five STAR stories from your resume: a conflict, a heavy workload, taking initiative, leading a team, adapting to change.
  • Every line on your resume ready to explain in detail, especially anything you led.
  • A reason for Deloitte and for this business, such as audit, tax or Consultative Offerings, in your own words.
  • For a case: Deloitte's five steps, a pen and paper for notes, and a habit of stating your hypothesis.
  • For a scenario interview: the preparation guidance your recruiter sends, and Deloitte's scenario tool.
  • For a video call: lit from the front, camera at eye level, device charged, notifications off, joined early.
  • Notes on your experiences behind the laptop to glance at, but no script.
  • Two questions for each interviewer about the culture and the team.

The questions

Every route has behavioral questions; the rest depends on the business. Consultative Offerings adds a case, some Audit & Assurance roles a scenario, and Corporate Finance technical questions. Deloitte looks for people eager to learn and collaborate, and for how you think and communicate as well as your grades.1,2,3,4

  • Behavioral: A time you juggled responsibilities, handled a conflict, took initiative or adapted to change.
  • Motivation: Why Deloitte, why this business, and why tax rather than audit, or the reverse.
  • Case: For Consultative Offerings: a client problem worked through Deloitte's five steps.
  • Scenario: For some Audit & Assurance roles: a client situation to think through, with prep guidance first.
  • Technical: For Corporate Finance: valuation methods and a share price from given assumptions.

Which division question you get

Consultative Offerings
A behavioral interview and a case. A New York Summer Scholar first round ran 30 minutes of fit on teamwork and leadership, then a 30-minute case with a quantitative section (2014). Atlanta (2017): 30 minutes behavioral and 30 minutes case on site, then a 15-minute partner interview and a one-hour video case with a presentation.16,15,4
Audit & Assurance
Live, virtual behavioral interviews for everyone. Some roles add a live, virtual scenario interview, with preparation guidance from the recruiter.3
Tax
Why do you want to work in tax and not audit? Two 30-minute interviews back to back, then a final interview of 45 to 60 minutes (New York, 2021).22,18
Corporate Finance
Phone screens or a call with an associate, mostly behavioral with some technicals: name eight valuation methods (Charlotte, 2025), and a share price from a set of assumptions (Dallas, 2025). Analyst roles sit in Charlotte, Chicago and Dallas.21,20,22,9
Risk & Financial Advisory
A phone screen with HR, an on-campus superday, then a final virtual interview with a partner, with a resume walkthrough and your contributions in a past internship (Boston, 2019).19,22
Government & Public Services
Two 30-minute on-campus interviews with a manager and a partner, then a second round at the federal office with a presentation, lunch and another partner interview (Federal ERS intern, Washington, 2014).17
Engagement Financial AdvisorBest guess
Expect behavioral questions on organizing work, keeping a team on schedule and handling numbers carefully.

The Engagement Financial Advisor line is our best guess from the role, which Deloitte describes as financial insight, project management and collaboration. Most US reports on Deloitte interviews are several years old, so check the format with your recruiter.

Example questions and how to answer them

Behavioral"Tell me about a conflict you had with a team member. How did you handle it?"6
  1. 1Situation: the team, the goal and what you disagreed about.
  2. 2Task: what you were responsible for.
  3. 3Action: how you raised it, listened and found a way forward, in order.
  4. 4Result: what happened, with a number if you have one, and what you learned.

Tip: Deloitte lists this as a sample question that shows how you work with others. Keep it positive and focus on how you resolved it.

Example answer, written by Intervyo (not a real candidate)

Written by Intervyo as an example. In my cost accounting class, four of us had two weeks to build a costing model for a local bakery. One teammate wanted to keep adding products, and we were falling behind. I was in charge of the spreadsheet, so a late model was my problem too. I asked to talk one on one, and found he was worried that a small model would look weak. I suggested we finish the three best-selling products first and add more if we had time. He agreed, we finished two days early, added a fourth product, and got the top grade in the section. I learned to ask what is behind a disagreement before arguing about the work.

Behavioral"Give me an example of a time when you were juggling a lot of responsibilities. How did you handle it?"6
  1. 1Situation: what was on your plate, and the deadline that made it hard.
  2. 2Task: what you had to deliver.
  3. 3Action: how you prioritized, planned and asked for help.
  4. 4Result: what got done, and what you would do the same way at work.

Tip: Busy season is part of audit and tax work. A story with a real calendar and a real trade-off lands better than a list of commitments.

Example answer, written by Intervyo (not a real candidate)

Written by Intervyo as an example. Last March I was treasurer of our accounting society during midterms, while working 12 hours a week at the campus library. Our spring banquet invoices, two exams and a group project all landed in the same week. I listed every deadline, moved my library shifts to the following week, and asked our vice president to handle vendor calls while I paid invoices. All 9 invoices were paid on time, I scored above 90 on both exams, and I now plan my weeks every Sunday.

Case"A regional grocery chain's profit has fallen for two years while sales held steady. How would you approach it?"5,13
  1. 1Understand the issue: how big is the fall, over what period, and what does the client want?
  2. 2Identify the assumptions: same stores, same prices, no one-off charges.
  3. 3Summarize the issues and findings: if sales are flat, costs rose, so split them and find the one that moved.
  4. 4State your recommendation, with the numbers behind it.
  5. 5Outline next steps and the expected impact.

Tip: This follows Deloitte's five-step approach. Deloitte wants you to state your hypothesis early and walk the interviewer through your assumptions.

Example answer, written by Intervyo (not a real candidate)

Intervyo example with round numbers.

Sales are flat at $500 million, and profit fell from $25 million to $15 million, so costs rose $10 million. I assume no new stores and no one-off charges.

My hypothesis is that cost of goods drove it. Say the data shows food costs rose from 70% to 71% of sales, which is $5 million, and store labor rose $5 million after a wage increase. That explains the whole fall.

I would recommend renegotiating with the top suppliers and adjusting staff schedules to busy hours. Next steps: test a 1% price rise on items where competitors also raised prices, and track margin monthly. If both work, about $8 million of profit comes back in a year.

Scenario"In an audit, you notice a client's inventory grew 40% this year while sales were flat. What would you do?"3,5
  1. 1Understand the issue: why does inventory growing faster than sales matter?
  2. 2Identify the assumptions: same products, same costing method, no acquisition.
  3. 3Summarize what could explain it: slow-moving stock, a costing error, or stock that does not exist.
  4. 4Recommend what to test, and who you would tell.
  5. 5Outline next steps: what you would ask the client and your senior.

Tip: Some Audit & Assurance roles add a scenario interview, and your recruiter sends preparation guidance first. This is an Intervyo example of the type, not a Deloitte question.

Example answer, written by Intervyo (not a real candidate)

Intervyo example.

If sales are flat and inventory is up 40%, either the client is building stock for a reason, the stock is not selling, or the number is wrong. I would assume no acquisition or change in costing method, and check that first.

Then I would raise it with my senior before testing anything, and suggest three checks: an aging report to find slow-moving items, a test count of the largest items, and a review of how cost is assigned to inventory.

Next I would ask the client why they bought more. If the stock is not selling, it may need to be written down, which would lower profit.

Motivation"Why do you want to work in tax and not audit?"22,18,8
  1. 1Start with what draws you to tax work, from a class or a job.
  2. 2Name the kind of tax work you want: compliance, planning, transfer pricing or technology.
  3. 3Show you understand audit too, and say what makes tax the better fit for you.
  4. 4Close on why Deloitte Tax.

Tip: Asked in a New York tax intern interview. Deloitte Tax hires accounting, economics, technology and law students, so tie your answer to your own background.

More Deloitte interview questions

Behavioral

  • “Give me an example of a time when you were juggling a lot of responsibilities. How did you handle it?”6

    Deloitte's own sample question

  • “Describe a time when you saw a problem and took the initiative to correct it.”6

    Deloitte's own sample question

  • “Tell me about a conflict you had with a team member. How did you handle it?”6

    Deloitte's own sample question

  • “Think of a time when you had to complete a rush project but did not have all the information you needed.”6

    Deloitte's own sample question

  • “Tell me about a time when you had to lead a project or team. What was the outcome?”6

    Deloitte's own sample question

  • “Can you provide an example of a time when you had to adapt to a significant change?”6

    Deloitte's own sample question

Motivation and resume

  • “Why do you want to work in tax and not audit?”22

    Tax, New York, 2021

  • “Walk me through your resume, and your noteworthy contributions in your last internship.”22

    Risk & Financial Advisory, Boston, 2019; wording ours

  • “Why Deloitte rather than another Big Four firm or an MBB firm?”14

    From a prep site's list of common final-round questions

Technical

  • “Name eight valuation methods.”22

    Corporate Finance, Charlotte, 2025

  • “Find the price of a share given a set of assumptions.”22

    Corporate Finance, Dallas, 2025; wording ours

  • “How do the three financial statements link together?”

    Best guess

    Our expectation for Corporate Finance, not a reported question

Case

  • “A retail chain is seeing profits fall across its Northeast region. What would you investigate?”13

    A prep site's example prompt

  • “A B2B software company wants to double revenue in three years. How should it approach this?”13

    A prep site's example prompt

  • “A case with general and macro questions and a quantitative section.”16

    Summer Scholar, New York, 2014; a description, not exact wording

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How long to hear back after the interview

Deloitte schedules the initial interview usually within one to two weeks of selecting you, tells you your status as quickly as possible, and usually puts an offer in writing within one week of the final interview.1

  1. Nov 2025

    Corporate Finance intern, Dallas

    Online assessment, word a week or two later, then a phone call with an associate; one to two months in all.20

  2. Feb 2025

    Investment Banking Summer Analyst, Charlotte

    Two analyst coffee chats that turned out to be phone screens, in less than a month.21,22

  3. Feb 2021

    Tax consulting intern, New York

    Two back-to-back 30-minute interviews, then a final interview, in less than a month; accepted the offer.18

  4. Nov 2019

    Risk & Financial Advisory, Boston

    Phone screen, on-campus superday and a virtual partner interview, in less than a month.19,22

  5. Sep 2017

    Business Technology Analyst, Atlanta

    Two on-site rounds, the second with a 15-minute partner interview and a one-hour video case with a presentation; accepted the offer.15

Hired interns can attend Deloitte's Summer Intern Conferences at Deloitte University, and sophomores and juniors can apply through their campus recruiter for the Deloitte National Leadership Conference there.10,11

Best guessIf a week passes after your final interview with no word, a short note to your recruiter is reasonable. Most Deloitte processes have finished within a month.

What happens after the interview

  1. Online application

    Done. One resume on apply.deloitte.com, reviewed by a recruiter against the posting.1

  2. Online assessment, some roles

    Audit and tax postings run an online assessment before the behavioral interviews, and Corporate Finance intern applicants in Dallas took one in November 2025 before a call with an associate.23,20

  3. Initial interviewYou are here

    This page. Scheduled by a recruiter, usually within one to two weeks of selection.1

  4. Final interview

    Also on this page. The last of two to three rounds, behavioral, technical or case-based by role, with more senior interviewers. In consulting that means managers, senior managers and partners, often with a group case, and a partner final round after the case.1,2,14,23

  5. Offer

    Usually in writing within one week of your final interview.1

Consultative Offerings vs Audit & Assurance

Both start with behavioral questions. Consulting adds a case; some audit roles add a scenario interview. Both use Deloitte's five-step approach.

Format

Consultative Offerings

Phone, video or in person, two to three rounds.1

Audit & Assurance

Live and virtual.3

Behavioral

Consultative Offerings

About 30 minutes of fit in past first rounds.16,15

Audit & Assurance

Behavioral interviews for every candidate.3

Problem solving

Consultative Offerings

A case interview, based on real client work.4,5

Audit & Assurance

A scenario interview for some roles.3

Practice tool

Consultative Offerings

Deloitte's case interview tool.5

Audit & Assurance

Deloitte's scenario interview tool.5

Final round

Consultative Offerings

More senior interviewers, sometimes a group case or a presentation.14,15

Audit & Assurance

Your recruiter shares the format and any prep guidance.3

2028 summer analyst status

Audit and tax interviews for summer 2028 follow the fall 2026 postings. Consultative Offerings Summer Scholar interviews should follow postings around August to September 2027, a year later.23

FAQ

How many interviews does Deloitte have?

Two to three rounds, by phone, video or in person, with several Deloitte professionals. The first is scheduled by a recruiter, usually within one to two weeks of selecting you.1,2

Does Deloitte give a case interview to interns?

For Consultative Offerings, yes: case interviews test your thought process, creativity and comfort with ambiguity. Audit & Assurance uses behavioral interviews, and some audit roles add a scenario interview instead.4,3

What is a Deloitte scenario interview?

A live, virtual interview some Audit & Assurance roles add, where you think through a client situation. Your recruiter sends preparation guidance in advance, and Deloitte runs a scenario interview tool for practice. Use the same five steps as a case.3,5

What behavioral questions does Deloitte ask?

Deloitte's own examples include a time you juggled a lot of responsibilities, saw a problem and took the initiative, had a conflict with a team member, finished a rush project without all the information, led a team, and adapted to a significant change. Answer with situation, task, action and result.6

Is the Deloitte final round at Deloitte University?

Your recruiter schedules your interviews by phone, video or in person. Deloitte University in Westlake, Texas, is where Deloitte holds the Deloitte National Leadership Conference for sophomores and juniors and its Summer Intern Conferences for hired interns.1,11,10

Does Deloitte use a recorded video interview?

Deloitte's own video interview tips describe a live call with an interviewer, and Audit & Assurance interviews are live and virtual. If your invitation asks for recorded answers instead, follow its instructions and treat each answer as a short behavioral story.7,3

When do you hear back after Deloitte interviews?

Deloitte tells you your status as quickly as possible, and an offer usually comes in writing within one week of your final interview. Past US processes have mostly taken under a month.1,18,19,21

Interview at other firms

Sources

Firm pages first, then dated candidate reports. Last checked Nov 4, 2026.

  1. 1Deloitte US: Recruiting tips
  2. 2Deloitte US: Student careers (FAQ and campus hiring areas)
  3. 3Deloitte US: Audit & Assurance campus and early careers
  4. 4Deloitte US: Consultative Offerings campus and early careers
  5. 5Deloitte US: Case and scenario interview tips
  6. 6Deloitte US: Behavioral interview tips
  7. 7Deloitte US: Video interview tips
  8. 8Deloitte US: Tax campus and early career opportunities
  9. 9Deloitte US: Corporate Finance and Investment Banking campus and early careers
  10. 10Deloitte US: Internships
  11. 11Deloitte US: Deloitte National Leadership Conference
  12. 12Deloitte US: Make your resume stand out
  13. 13Hacking the Case Interview: Deloitte Consultant Interview: Process and Questions (2026) · prep site
  14. 14Hacking the Case Interview: Deloitte Final Round Interview: Format and 8 Tips · prep site
  15. 15Candidate report on a public forum: 1st Year Analyst interview (Business Technology Analyst), Atlanta (Sep 2017)
  16. 16Candidate report on a public forum: Summer Scholar intern interview, New York (Dec 2014)
  17. 17Candidate report on a public forum: Federal ERS Intern interview, Washington (2014)
  18. 18Candidate report on a public forum: Tax Consulting Intern interview, New York (Feb 2021)
  19. 19Candidate report on a public forum: Risk & Financial Advisory Consultant interview, Boston (Nov 2019)
  20. 20Candidate report on a public forum: Corporate Finance Intern interview, Dallas (Nov 2025)
  21. 21Candidate report on a public forum: Investment Banking Summer Analyst interview, Charlotte (Feb 2025)
  22. 22Candidate reports on a public forum: Deloitte interview questions (Nov 2026 listing)
  23. 23Extern: Deloitte Internship 2027-2028: Programs, Deadlines & How to Apply · prep site

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