2027 graduate cycle — US, UK, global
6 practice questions for the EY prerecorded video interview
A question appears. Nobody answers back. You get one take and a clock that stops you whether you have finished or not. Here is what EY itself publishes about that stage, what it does not, and 6 questions you can record answers to right now.
Every question here is built from the competencies EY publishes, or published word for word by a named source. None of them are EY's interview questions, and this site has no connection to Ernst & Young LLP and EY member firms.
Sources last read 21 August 2026. Every claim on this page links to the page it came from.
What EY publishes about this stage
Every line below is something EY put on its own website, with the page it came from and the date it was read. Where it publishes nothing, this page says so instead of guessing.
“They can be prerecorded video interviews, in which candidates record responses to questions sent in advance, or live video interviews that act as a dialogue with a member of the EY team.”
“The assessment consists of two components. The first component asks about your experiences, and the second presents you with three descriptions of skills and asks you to choose which one is most like you.”
EY publishes an online skills assessment, not a game. Two components, self-report and forced-choice.
EY's separate online skills assessment is untimed; the video interview is not.
What EY does not publish
These are the things people most want a number for. Nobody outside the process has one, so nobody should hand you one. Where a page elsewhere gives you a confident figure for any of these, ask it where the figure came from.
Not published.
Not published.
“Do not think you have to use all of your allotted time for each question, and don't look at yourself on the screen — look directly into the camera.”
Not published as a number. EY refers to 'allotted time' per question and tells candidates they need not use all of it.
Do it now, against the clock
The recorder on this page uploads nothing. Your camera and your microphone are recorded into your browser's own memory, played back to you from there, and destroyed when you move on, finish, or close the tab. This widget contains no upload code at all — no fetch, no beacon, no form post — and you do not have to take that on faith: open your browser's Network tab, record an answer, and watch that nothing is sent.
The graded scorecard linked below is a different page and it works differently, so here it is in plain words. Your video still never leaves your browser, because no route on this site accepts video. The audio of each answer is sent once to our server and passed straight to Groq to be turned into text, then dropped — we never store it. The text is what gets graded, and the text is what we keep. Like every page here, this one also loads the site's analytics tags; what those collect, and everything above, is set out in the privacy notice.
30 seconds to prepare, then up to 3 minutes to answer. EY does not publish its timings, so these are this site's defaults — not EY's. Treat them as a realistic worst case, not a fact about EY.
6 questions. One take each. No follow-ups, because there is nobody on the other end.
This browser does not support in-page recording. The timed drill still works: the questions and both clocks run exactly the same.
No account. No email. Grading is a separate step and it is linked below — your first 2 mocks come back fully graded free, with no account and no card there either.
Read aloud uses your browser's own built-in speech voice. It is not an AI interviewer, and nothing on this screen is generated by AI.
Your delivery, timed
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These are clock measurements taken in your browser. They say nothing about whether the answers were any good — that is what the graded scorecard is for, and your first 2 come back free.
6 questions to practise, and where each one comes from
These are not EY's interview questions. Nobody outside EY has those. Each prompt below is either published word for word by the source named under it, or built from a competency EY publishes — and it says which, every time.
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1
Give an example of a time you spotted an opportunity nobody else in the room had seen.
Competency: Innovation mindset
Built from a published competencyBuilt from EY's published Innovation mindset definition, using EY's own published question stem 'Give an example of'. Practice prompt, not an EY question.
EY — What we look for — read 21 August 2026
What a strong answer contains
Run EY's own three criteria in order: relevant experience, the action you took, what it led to. The 'led to' clause is where most answers stop early.
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2
Describe a situation when you had to turn complicated data into something a non-specialist could act on.
Competency: Analytics mindset
Built from a published competencyBuilt from EY's published Analytics mindset definition, using EY's own published stem 'Describe a situation when'. Practice prompt, not an EY question.
EY — What we look for — read 21 August 2026
What a strong answer contains
Name the audience, the one thing they needed to decide, and what you cut to let them decide it.
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3
Give an example of a time working with people from a different background or market changed your answer.
Competency: Global mindset
Built from a published competencyBuilt from EY's published Global mindset definition and EY's own published stems. Practice prompt, not an EY question.
EY — What we look for — read 21 August 2026
What a strong answer contains
The answer has to actually change. 'I learned to appreciate other perspectives' with no changed decision fails EY's third criterion.
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4
Describe a situation when you had to keep going after something went badly wrong.
Competency: Resilience
Built from a published competencyBuilt from EY's published statement that it looks for 'Resilient leaders that demonstrate the courage to lead'. Practice prompt, not an EY question.
EY — What we look for — read 21 August 2026
What a strong answer contains
Give the wrong thing its own sentence before the recovery. EY grades on specific examples, so 'a difficult project' is not a situation.
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5
Give an example of a time you had to raise something uncomfortable because it was the right thing to do.
Competency: Integrity
Built from a published competencyBuilt from EY's published statement: 'They act with integrity every day... they understand the importance of acting honestly and fairly.' Practice prompt, not an EY question.
EY — What we look for — read 21 August 2026
What a strong answer contains
Say who you raised it with and what you risked. Integrity answers with no named counterparty read as hypothetical.
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6
Describe a time when you stood up for something you believed was wrong; pointed out an error someone had made.
Competency: Integrity
Published word for word by the sourcePublished by LSE Careers (September 2020) in its competency/behavioural bank, under a list of competencies that includes integrity. Not an EY question. The semicolon is LSE's own punctuation, kept as printed rather than smoothed, because the label above says word for word.
LSE Careers — Example Interview Questions — read 21 August 2026, published September 2020
What a strong answer contains
This is the hardest one to answer in three minutes because the setup eats the clock. Give the error in one sentence, then spend the rest on what you did.
The competencies EY publishes
This is the list the practice prompts above were built from. It is worth reading on its own: it is the closest thing to a published mark scheme that exists.
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Innovation mindset
“You'll drive disruption by seeing future opportunities that don't yet exist and showing a passion for change and innovation.”
What we look for — EY (Ernst & Young LLP, US), read 21 August 2026
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Analytics mindset
“You'll be a natural problem solver, able to translate complex data into simple and useful insights. You'll be comfortable sharing these results with both internal and external stakeholders.”
What we look for — EY (Ernst & Young LLP, US), read 21 August 2026
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Global mindset
“You'll have the ability to think, act and lead globally. You embrace diversity and are open and willing to think and work beyond your own perspectives and borders.”
What we look for — EY (Ernst & Young LLP, US), read 21 August 2026
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Communication, teamwork, resilience and integrity
“We look for strong communicators. Team players. Resilient leaders that demonstrate the courage to lead. They're innovative and agile; and are lifelong learners. They act with integrity every day, in their work and in their relationships.”
What we look for — EY (Ernst & Young LLP, US), read 21 August 2026
What EY says about using AI as a candidate
Quoted, linked, and not paraphrased into something more convenient.
Can I use generative AI tools to complete the assessment? No. The assessment is designed to understand your preferences, behaviors and how you might approach different situations.
Early Careers skills assessment — frequently asked questions — EY (Ernst & Young LLP, US), read 21 August 2026
Read the scope of that statement carefully. EY's published statement covers the online skills assessment only. It says nothing either way about preparing beforehand, and nothing about the video interview.
Where this product sits. It is a preparation tool and nothing else. Never run it, or anything like it, during a live assessment or a recorded interview.
Every source on this page
- Interview tips
- What we look for
- Early Careers skills assessment — frequently asked questions
- Example Interview Questions
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What this page is, and what it is not
- NailedIt.ai is not affiliated with Ernst & Young LLP and EY member firms or with any employer named on this site, and nothing here is endorsed by them.
- These are not real interview questions. They are practice prompts built from the competencies EY publishes, plus questions published by the named sources.
- Practising does not make you more likely to be hired. It makes you less likely to be surprised by a hard stop at 3 minutes.
- This is a preparation tool. Do not use it, or anything like it, during an actual assessment.
- The simulator on this page runs no AI. The graded scorecard is AI-generated and is labelled as such wherever it appears. Your first 2 scorecards are free; grading is the part that costs money after that.
Of the 6 prompts above, 1 is published word for word by a named source and 5 are built from a competency EY publishes. 3 process facts come from EY's own pages. 3 of the things people most want a number for are not published anywhere, and they are left blank above rather than filled in.