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Updated May 28, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jan 2011 in Bangalore (India) (took 1+ week)

There were telephonic conversations followed by group interview. However, it was apparent during the discussion that management does not have clarity on role profile.

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Can you brief us about your profile so that we can think of selling the role profile to our management !!!

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I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Sep 2009 in Mumbai (India) (took a day)

Interview consisted of Accounting standard questions, about your personality and likes and achivements,
Also why PWC and Why CA as a profession. Then a case study to evaluate Logic and Ethics. HR interview and Technical interview for about 20-25 minutes each. Then a test of General knowledge and Techinal knowledge with recent developments in the area of expertise.

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Why do you want to join PWC

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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.

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1.0

Very Easy Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jan 2008 in Kolkata (India) (took 4 weeks)

It was simple. Purely technical and was about my past experiences. Followed by a partner interview which was about why PwC, and to check whether I am fit for PwC in terms of looks, appearance and delivery.

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What was you rank in engineering entrance exam, and what were my marks in high school?

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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Aug 2010 in Mumbai (India) (took 3 months)

There were 2 rounds of interview, 1st with Managing Consultant and than with Partner. Both were very informal with most questions being on personal experience and previous projects handled. They also discussed briefly on what will be my exact role and kind of projects, i will handle

Each Interv iew lasted for 30-45 minutes and there were no case questions or puzzles etc. Also there was no situation based questions like. So it was pity much straight forward interview with questions on past experience and an opening personal question "tell me about yourself"

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Why are not joining Company "X", where your X boss has gone

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Negotiation Details

There is very little scope of negotiations with average increase being around 5-10%. Obviously it will also depend on the base salary and how desperate PWC is in getting you on board.
Overall, they do not sway too much from their initial offer
Also, it took almost 2 weeks for them to roll out the offer after i got verbal confirmation. Negotiation was done with the HR person and talks with Partner was not really helpfull in negotiations

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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Jun 2010 in Kolkata (India) (took 5 days)

There are basically 3 round of interview.
1)Technical
2)Managerial
3)Business partner.
Technical is entirely based on their requirement and your skill set. It will conducted for approx 40 - 45 minutes. The level of difficulty is average /tough. They hardly ask any simple or silly questions. So be prepared.
Managerial is simple non technical round,where your communication skill will be tested by the manager and might ask you few simple questions
Business partner interview is very simple. It takes hardly 2 - 3 minutes. Simple questions like why change, family members, domestic travel. Mostly Yes or No type questions.
Finally HR round will be done to negotiate the salary

Interview Questions

If designing a dictionary then which collection classes will be used and their generic implementation, in core java.

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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed May 2010 in Hyderabad (India) (took a day)

I received the call directly from the hiring manager. He happened to receive my CV from management consultancy firm. Firstly the interview was re-scheduled couple of times.

The interview initially went well, but not sure why the interviewer started asking questions on areas i had clearly mentioned, i have never worked on. Infact he started asking on some areas which was not mentioned in my CV at all.

I know i did not fare well at that time itself. Do not have any glitches on that, but just one point which was of concern was that the interviewer was himself not very knowledgeable which was very evident with the questions he was asking on.

When i clearing said i am financials person, he started asking questions on Oracle Inventory, Purchasing which is not at all mentioned in my resume as worked upon.

further the interviewer started asking me some busines scenario questions which were very vague and not at all practical for ex. How do you handle the i expense reports for employee whose payroll as been transferred to US entity in the entity from where he was transferred. Now i am not sure why would transferring entity account for expenses when his payroll has been transferred to US entity.

Overall, it did not look like he was interested in hiring...

Interview Questions

How do you handle the i expense reports for employee whose payroll as been transferred to US entity in the entity from where he was transferred

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jan 2008 (took a day)

As an experienced candidate being interviewed for a lateral posting after completing my MBA, the interview consisted initially of a 1:1 interview, Group interview and a phone interview in that order. The 1:1 consisted of general questions on background, previous job etc to gauge the fit of the candidate for the job. The group interview consisted of a case study (mine was on an auto giant and the problems they may hypothetically face). The last round of interview was with the partner over the phone.