I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Baker Tilly (San Diego, CA) in Jan 2021
Interview
I was first introduced to Baker Tilly via Zoom and was given a virtual tour of the office and presentation by a leading partner at the firm. After this experience, I reached out to the recruiter for a potential interview. After interviewing the recruiter, I had another interview with a partner in the firm and one other with a senior associate.
I applied online. I interviewed at Baker Tilly (San Francisco, CA) in Oct 2025
Interview
Overall, the interview process was pretty standard compared to my other experiences. I talked to two partners from different offices, and we got to know each other over some basic questions. i.e Why Tax? Why Baker Tilly? Why this location?
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why do you want to go into Tax instead of something else like audit or assurance?
Person didn’t ask any questions, she was very rude and under estimated interviewer experience. Didn’t give the interviewer time to speak and ended the interview shortly after that. Interview was only 3 minutes.
Had a phone cal with the recruiter first and after had the in office interview which entailed interviews with 3 different people that was 30 minutes each. The interviewers were managers and a partner. Also went on a coffee run with staff/senior.
Tax Associate applicants have rated the interview process at Baker Tilly with 2.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 69.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Tax Associate roles take an average of 23 days to get hired, when considering 22 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Baker Tilly overall takes an average of 19 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Baker Tilly as a Tax Associate according to 22 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 29%
Phone interview: 26%
Background check: 14%
Skills test: 11%
Personality test: 11%
Group panel interview: 6%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
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