I applied through other source. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Accenture (Pune) in Oct 2014
Interview
We were called based upon our ELitmus score. The drive was conducted in a college in Pune area. Initially, we had to fill a form which contained all educational details right from 10th, self identity details and communication details. The interview was a 2:1, where two people (one from HR and one from Technical) interview a candidate. For me, both of them were mechanical engineers (I myself am a mechanical engineer). Initially I gave a brief introduction about myself, stressing more on my strong areas. Further, few detailed questions were asked based on my project. In the end, the panel stressed heavily on 'Why Accenture after Mech. Engg', to which a suitable answer was given. Usually, candidates are expected to make some mistake while answering this question. The interview lasted for around half an hour and we were asked to wait in a class room, where the results were announced.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is more important, money or work satisfaction? Why do you want to join IT after studying mechanical engineering?
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Accenture (Jalandhar, Punjab) in Dec 2010
Interview
Initial Communication: It was through campus drive to our college.
PPT (Pre Placement Talk): Company representative briefed through the Hiring process and Accenture's milestone
First Round: It was a sort of reasoning aptitude test and questions were a bit tricky though they seem to be straightforward.Most of the questions were from Arithmetic, English grammar and numerical ability.Few questions were from data interpretation too.
*Here I would like to point out that the vendor Accenture hired to conduct First Round was arrogant in its behavior and treated the students badly. Neither their tone nor body language was supportive.A scared fresher got more scared.
Second Round: It was Technical round and interviewer was so cool and made me so comfortable that for a while I forgot that I am in an interview.Straightaway he asked me what you have prepared for the day rather than starting from his own bucket ! My obvious answer was c++ and data structure. Slowly we dig deeper into data structures and a bit in c++. Most of the question he asked revolved around memory management , and data structures usage .I was asked two questions from algorithm too breadth first search and difference between bubble sort and quick sort.
Third Round: It was an HR round. Being a fresher I was lesser number of question. This round revolved around which location I will prefer to work and Am I comfortable to travel, what are my future aspiration and of course the very obvious million dollar question 'Why you want to join Accenture?"
They displayed the selected freshers name and next day we were given our offer letter and they said joining date will be communicated to us later by email.It was December 2010.
Here the agony begins:
We were waiting for joining details but there was no response from them for at least next 4 month.When I sent them email, I used to get reply "We will tell you shortly".They continued to say this for an year and trust me It was most frustrating period of my life.
Finally I got call on 1 FEB 2012 i.e. 14 months later !
But again things does not end here, we were called at Chennai location ! Started to train us and the most awkward thing I found there was they assign you technical domain randomly without knowing your strength and weakness. Lets say some one is great at developing wonderful User Interface/UX , he/she might be assigned testing domain ! Horrible ! Horrble !
Horrible ! This was most unpleasing part of Accenture !
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You are good at academics , why you are not considering higher studies?
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Accenture (Mumbai) in Apr 2010
Interview
It was simple and not complicated since the scale of recruitment in my campus was huge.They needed more people.As a fresher keep up your basics and have a positive mindset.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Graduate project/internship in detail and cross questioning.