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Updated May 27, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.

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4.0

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Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Sep 2011 (took 3 weeks)

Partner just asked if I had any questions. He didn't ask me any questions at all.

Interview Questions

Do you have any questions for me?

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Any other questions

Answer Question

Other Details

I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Mar 2012 in Miami, FL (took 5 weeks)

I had an on-campus 1:1 inteview with a manager after a career fair. In two weeks I was notified about the second round. All candidates were brought together and had a dinner the night before the interviews. The next day included three 1:1 interviews (one of them was with a partner) during the office visit and a luch after that. Be ready to ask questions for 30 minutes during the interviews (the interviewer did not ask any questions).

Interview Questions

Tell me about your role in a team.

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How do you negotiate? Give me an example.

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Tell me about yourself. Walk me through your resume.

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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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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Nov 2011 (took a day)

Basically, we just talked about some general questions regarding the positiion

Interview Questions

why PWC?

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Other Details

I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Nov 2010 in San Diego, CA (took a day)

I had my an on-campus interview for the Audit Internship position. I was greeted at first by the recruiter, and she was very nice. I was then taken to the actual interviewing room where I was asked a series of behavioral questions. She asked me why I wanted to work in public accounting and why I wanted to work for Pwc.

Interview Questions

Why do you want to work in public accounting?

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Other Details

The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed May 2011 in New York, NY (took a day)

The whole process included a pre-interview social and Super Day. Everything was very organized. Each interviewee was led by a junior staff the whole time so no one was lost in the building.

Interview Questions

Tell me about yourself

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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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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Oct 2011 (took 3 weeks)

Over three years and for multiple positions (leadership, intern, full time) I interviews with 7 different people from PWC. The 3 times I interviewed on campus were all purely conversational, just talk to the interviewer (manger or senior manager) and ask questions. I'd suggest having alot of questions ready to go. They had a pre-interview dinner the night before where you got to know your interviewer. Any information you learn there should be used to keep conversation flowing during on-campus.

Office visit involves breakfast meeting and group learning sessions with all of the candidates, lunch with first year staff and two interviews which for me was always with one manager and one partner. Both times I had office visits one of the interviewers had a list of behavioral questions they worked off of and the other just went conversational. My biggest advice would be:
-During group sessions they will ask the group for comments on some topic. Speak up, even if you have nothing to say
-Have questions ready to go for the person to avoid lulls in conversational interview. The partner's typical have pretty interesting careers, ask more questions based off answers to your initial questions.
-If you can talk about non-accounting stuff like Football, Golf etc do it. They know you are smart they just want to see if they can tolerate spending 75hrs a week with you.

Overall I loved everyone I met there and I am excited to start.

Interview Questions

How'd you pick accounting?

Answer Question

Why PwC? Why Public? What is a time you had to make an unpopular decision and how did you stand by it? Leadership example.

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Negotiation Details

No I was not able to negotiate

Other Details

I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Sep 2010 in Boston, MA (took a day)

I expected the interviewer to ask me some kind of standard behavior questions like other interviewers do, but he didn't really ask that many questions at all. Most of times, he just talked talked talked about his work, the company, and some random stuff. It was one of the hardest interview ever.

Interview Questions

Do you really think this city (the location for the position I applied for) is right for you?

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Other Details

I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Sep 2009 (took 3 weeks)

1. do a 1:1 interview in University (around 30mins)
2. Group interview with case study, presentation & problem solving in their HR office(around half day)
3. Written test in their HR office(around half day)
4. Partner interview

Stage 1: make yourself presentable
Stage 2: be cooperative, active, talkative, interactive
Stage 3: need to write an essay with around 200 words
Stage 4: show your desire to work with the company

Interview Questions

This interview was done when i was Year 3 University student. Questions asked were common like "Introduce yourself", "What are you strengths and weaknesses"

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Other Details

I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Dec 2010 in New York, NY (took a day)

they aksed me why PWC? why this position, not not other big 4
there were total 3 back to back interview and we had a lunch at last.
They were pretty lots of candidate in the firm

Interview Questions

why pwc, why this position

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Other Details

I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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Yes | No

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Oct 2010 in Miami, FL (took 1+ week)

I meet the recruiter at a Beta Alpha Psi meeting. He invited to 2 career fairs to see with him and meet with other PWC employees. Two weeks later I was seelcted for a on campus interview. The first interview was laid back, it was more like a conversation. One week later I was invited to the office visit where I interviewed with a partner and 2 managers. I was a ask a lot of behavioral questions.