EY Senior Manager interview questions

I was contacted by a headhunter who after 2 interviews had scheduled a phone screen with a principal at E&Y. A week after that they started working on an in person interview with Ernst & Young Advisory in NYC. The HR team at EY was unorganized and would send out interview appointments on a Wednesday for that Friday, not factoring in that I am not even in the same time zone. We had to do that a few times until I finally made it. There were 4 interviewers and one discussion with the in-house recruiter. The first interviewer was 20 minutes late for the 30 minute interview. Had no idea of my background and did not even know what was on the resume. He became agitated as I asked him a followup question about the group's strategy, which is a fairly common question. Second interviewer was the Principal I had initially spoken with and it went smooth, third interview was with another Prinicpal who was 15 minutes late for the interview, and had been with E&Y for all his career yet could not understand that in some companies the roles between delivery, management, and service development are not fully separate. The recruiter just wanted to know a number which would prompt me to jump ship, and it was on okay discussion. The Partner for the group had me wait for 20 minutes and then sent the message that he can not meet for 2 hours if I can wait or they will reschedule. The recruiter said they were ready to make an offer but needed for the partner to meet before they can give a final number.

Warning to interview candidates of E&Y. I believe E&Y is conducting interviews to pump candidates for information about how to run their business. I went through an interview process in which I was interviewed for 4 months extended a verbal offer, then agreed to the background check(credit, criminal and reference). The background check was cleared and they were drafting a written offer when all of the sudden they went dark and would not go forward with the offer claiming a pending re-organization. This was damaging to me personally as my references were asking me what happened but then when comparing notes with other candidates in outplacement I discovered that this has happened to many people with E&Y. I found E&Y's process to be highly unprofessionally and mismanaged and wanted to warn people about this approach. I hope this helps and is posted as it is an honest accounting of what happened and is in the spirit of which social media is intended to be leveraged for.