Accenture Infrastructure Management and Systems Administration Interview

Interview Details – The interview was arranged by a corporate level recruiter. The interview panel was local, two phase, and split between operational personnel and first-line management personnel. It was an unstructured interview based on discussing hypothetical scenarios. It was oral Q&A without an opportunity to white board the scenarios as they developed. It was also a blind interview in three ways: (1) little to nothing about the position and how it was structured was disclosed prior to commencing Q&A; (2) as the interview unfolded it became clear by the Q&A that the interview had little relationship with how the position was advertised on the Accenture site or described by the recruiter; (3) the specific requirements of the position were not later enumerated including how the work would be structured and what the job responsibilities would be. Management personnel were tasked with discussing the scope of the work, organizational structure, overall company objectives, career paths, compensation packages, policy, etc., but were generally reticent to do so. It appeared that local management did not function well with corporate recruitment and candidates suffered from the friction. Indeed, management started off the conversation with "what do you want to know?" Additionally, the Accenture participants did not seem prepared. We had to wait for security to unlock a conference room. The interviewers came with laptops and had to locate and hook-up to A/C and data ports and find suitable seating, with myself sitting amid a bundle of wires and cables across the table from the interviewers. Meanwhile, the manager came late, took phone calls, answered pages, and left the room a number of times during the process, displaying a sort of haughty arrogance and disdain for the interview. It was insulting.