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Updated Dec 26, 2011 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Consultant at Accenture
Posted Dec 26, 2011
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2010 in New York, NY (took a day)
The interview consisted of a quick behavioral chat, no case study or brainteasers.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Consulting Analyst at Accenture
Posted Nov 15, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in New York, NY (took 2 weeks)
It was on campus interview and it lasted about 30 min for the first interview. Then a week later, second interview was scheduled within the same week and it was 45 min interview with the manager at New York Midtown office. Third interview was also supposed to schedule a week later but didn't happen. On the first interview I was asked to general questions on why accenture, why consulting, how was your teamwork experience and seemed to focus on communication skills and teamwork. On the second interview manager had couple pages of booklet to write down my answers and couple pages of booklet consisted of questions to ask. I think it has categories of teamwork, time management, conflict, priority, and organization skills. When I seemed having a hard time to answer, he said he can give me different questions and he did which was basically asking about same category.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Management Consulting Manager at Accenture
Posted Nov 1, 2011 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in New York, NY (took 6 weeks)
I was referred to Accenture by a current employee. My first interview was a phone interview with the recruiter. She asked me questions about my background and work experience, and we discussed what sort of role I was looking for, and what sort of compensation I was expecting. The recruiter then scheduled a skills interview and a behavioral interview, both over the phone.
The skills interview was with a Senior Manager, who asked me specific questions about my experience doing the type of work I would be doing in the role I was applying for. This was the most challenging interview. Next was the behavioral interview, which was a joke. The interviewer wasn't a consultant, and she spent more time making small talk than actually asking the behavioral questions she was supposed to be asking. The sad thing is that her entire job function at Accenture consisted of conducting behavioral interviews.
After those interviews I was asked to fly to New York for a final face-to-face interview with a couple partners. This was a breeze. They asked very few tough questions, and seemed to be more interested selling me on the job than finding out if I was really qualified. A few days later the recruiter called me and made a verbal offer.
The process was very smooth, and I was impressed with how organized and efficient everything was. The only negative perception was the behavioral interview.
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They desperately needed my skill set -- and I knew this -- so I set the expectation early that I wanted top dollar for the job. They low balled me a hair, but I was able to negotiate up to the number I wanted. Be careful when you get the verbal offer -- when I got the written offer, there were some conditions attached to the offer that were not articulated through the verbal offer. Make sure the recruiter gives you all the nitty-gritty terms and conditions before verbally accepting.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Marketing at Accenture
Posted Oct 19, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2010 in New York, NY (took 4 months)
Initial communication HR. Followed 1:1 interviews with management (4) and 2 employees then 3 clients. Advice: know you want to work in consulting. Poor training, the office was a closet, the work culture was dog-eat-dog and finger pointing. Then there is ongoing career launch tasks and a nasty client.
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Negoiate. Long hour plus weekends. Speak to other Accenture employees (not 25 year olds). Know what you are getting into. Your desk is a file cabinet, you sit in a pod. Know your client well. If a start up it adds groups/companies/offshore teams and more layers of confusion.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Intern at Accenture
Posted Oct 5, 2011 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2009 in New York, NY (took 2 weeks)
Received interview through campus career center. involved an interview with a HR rep and second round at the office with an exec. HR rep was very down to earth and the overall interview was engaging. the interview with exec was relaxed as well, but he seemed tired from previous interviews and overall uninterested in being part of the recruitment process.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Systems Integration Consultant at Accenture
Posted Sep 21, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 in New York, NY (took 2 weeks)
Consisted of 2 1:1 interviews with a senior consultant and an on-site interview. I never made it to the on-site interview.
Its was a fairly relaxed interview with basic fit questions on the first round for 30 min. The second round consisted of scenario based questions that lasted about 45 minutes to an hour.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Management Consulting Senior Consultant at Accenture
Posted Aug 22, 2011 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 in New York, NY (took 2 months)
1st Recruiter--first interview, after an initial, informal fit screen/discussion, with situational pretty standard judgement/behavioral competency questions. Female phone interviewer for Talent and Organizational Performance group based out of 954 area, Ft Lauderdale, very professional, informative, helpful friendly, Told me right then and there she was progressing me forward. Told me there were 4 workstreams (Change Mgt, Org Design/Talent Mgt, Learning and Collaboration, HR Transformation in the TOP practice) and various levels (experienced consultant, consulting mgr, consulting sr manager etc) for which they were actively recruiting and mid-reorg with a major focus i.e., TOP, dual major i.e., 1 of 4 workstreams, and a minor 1 of 8 industry areas, Apparently they do these interviews every Friday in different regional and city locations and you can interview in a city that wouldn't necessarily be your base. There were open positions posted on their career website, but after the process, I have a hankering that they are out there fishing for a pool of talent to keep "on hand" for need due to communicated growth.
2nd Interview--independent consultant female who used to work for Accenture in their Finance Org (yes, I said Finance for a TOP/Human Capital practice) who stated they contract her out for situational judgement/behavioral phone interviews. It was the most grueling nitpicky SJ/BC interview I have EVER participated in both as a candidate and and interviewer (I maintain recruiting experience). She was friendly and professional but repeatedly asked follow up questions I had already answered, in GREAT detail might I add, given I'm certified in TS (Targeted Selection) interviewing. After literally running out of detail, some of it made up due elaboration to her excessive probing, I began to answer with "I think I already answered that when I stated...xyz". Her follow up questions were at times repetitive and seemingly superfluous and as would be expected, never specific, always generic: what else did you say...did you convey anything else...is that all that happened, was anyone else involved, were there any other outcomes, were there any negative results etc. Super thorough, super annoying. See specific interview questions for detail.
3rd Interview--consulting manager or sr manager male phone interview out of Chicago office who didn't ask any SJ/BC questions. Super informal and friendly. Mostly a skills interview, reviewing work experience on my resume via job function, role and responsibilities. He reconfirmed the org structure but didn't know who and where was hiring or when and redirected me back to the recruiter, or on to the final interviews by stating he was recommending me to progress.
4th and 5th interviews--F2F interviews by 2 partners and senior executive males out of Chicago TOP practice and, I inferred, directly responsible for deciding if you are getting a job offer. Both professional, but one of an obvious higher caliber, appearance as well as impact and style. Both friendly but one even friendlier and more informal and personable (these are the ones to "beware of" because its easy to get "too relaxed".) One in the L&C work stream and the other in the Change workstream, minoring in (I gathered) telecommunications and gov industries respectively Mostly asked generic strength/weakness/preference/5 year development plan/direction questions. I got the distinct interview at this point that they weren't really assessing experience or skill, just "fit". And, turns out I was correct. I was sure I nailed the offer. Asked the 2nd one the final steps of the process. He indicated they circle back with the process stakeholder and discuss high potential candidates.
Followed up with the recruiter with some final questions I hadn't time to ask in person and sent expenses; sent thank you re-confirmations to the partners a few days after that. On receipt of one those emails, the recruiter (likely prompted by the recipient) emailed me indicating she had meant to follow up with me and had been busy. We scheduled a discussion time and when such ensued, she answered my final questions and sandwiched that although the feedback was all positive, that they would not be making an offer due to "better" fit and a very competitive candidate pool. When I probed further, I realized I wasn't just competing with others for open reqs, but that I was competing against an "unknown" fit standard that I didn't understand where I had "fallen short".
Overall the experience was professional, polite, friendly even but I'm baffled where and why I ultimately screened out.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Level D - Consultant at Accenture
Posted Aug 17, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 in New York, NY (took 1 week)
Accenture's interview process is collaborative. You'll get various people interviewing you - pretty much - asking simple interview questions - if you research and organize thoughts & experiences. There is one question - and they will ask you to expand on it. Accenture is looking for you to step by step - walk them through a complex problem.
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horrible. accenture does not negotiate
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Intern at Accenture
Posted Jun 29, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in New York, NY (took 3 weeks)
Initial phone screen. 2nd interview was a behavioral-situational interview with a random recruiter.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Consultant at Accenture
Posted Jun 15, 2011 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 in New York, NY (took 2 days)
Got interviews through the career center at my school. First round consisted of 3 one on one interviews. All case. Accenture was a bit different from some of the other consulting firms (i.e. BCG, AT Kearney, Deloitte etc.) in that they did not give "textbook" cases. They drew from real life experiences and asked how you would structure the problem and solution. Still very case-like.
Id say its most important to make a connection with the interviewer. If you're successful, you'll basically have a conversation about the work they did.
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No negotiation. The offer was solid, very competitive. Sometimes they give an option for location or the work you'd like to be doing. Pick a location and type of work that is good for you.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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