Accenture

1. 1

   Coding test

   Coding assessment: backend DSA, SQL, frontend
   company platform with Safe Exam Browser60 min3 questionseasyeliminatory

   Section	Qs	Min	Topics
   Backend DSA	1	-	arrays, dynamic programming, hashing, modulo
   Database	1	-	SQL joins, group by, count, order by, subquery
   Frontend	1	-	HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DOM events

   arrays · dynamic programming · SQL joins · HTML CSS JavaScript

   C++ not allowed for DSA; only Python, Java, C#. SQL on MySQL. Duration 60 minutes in most accounts, 90 in one. Reports say solving about 2 of 3 questions was enough for shortlist. SQL seen as hardest by one candidate. Each question one mark, partial credit counted.

2. 2

   Other round

   Communication assessment (speaking, listening, reading, writing)
   company platform with Safe Exam Browser60 mineasyeliminatory

   Section	Qs	Min	Topics
   Listening and speaking	-	30	repeat sentences, passage recall, one-minute topic speech, fill in blanks
   Writing	1	15	formal email writing

   English fluency · email writing

   Total about 45 to 60 minutes; writing part reported as 15 or 30 minutes. Described as a mandatory screen, AI evaluated, fluency valued over perfect grammar. System readiness check is required; technical failures reportedly hurt shortlisting.

3. 3

   HR interview

   Interview, mostly HR with project discussion
   company platform30 min

   projects · teamwork and conflict · strengths and weaknesses · why this company · AI opinions · future aspirations · leadership and PORs · AI/ML and full stack projects

   Duration ranged 15 to 50 minutes (most near 30). Mostly HR; technical content limited to resume projects. One candidate got a fully project-technical interview. Non-CS candidates may be asked a few technical questions.

Advice from candidates

83 pieces of advice, in their own words. Names removed.

• The first test is very basic and you do not need to prepare anything specifically for it. For the coding test, a decent level of coding practice should suffice. You can follow the Strivers sheet to practice DSA problems. For the communication assessment, just make sure that you have good connectivity and you are in a noise-free environment.

  test · 2023-24

• And lastly for the interview round, prepare a very good introduction and have a few good projects to talk about. Also be ready to answer the HR questions well, you should look for standard HR questions available online and that should be enough.

  interview · 2023-24

• The entire hiring process of Accenture is available on the internet. Accenture has the exact same process for both on-campus and off-campus hiring, and thus you will find various resources available for each and every step of the process. So make sure to check them out beforehand.

  general · 2023-24

• Make sure to prepare questions to ask the interviewer at the end, as it creates a good impression.

  interview · 2023-24

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Question patterns reported

The kind of problem, not the problem itself. Our practice questions are written to match these patterns.

• Codingsubstring whose left and right digit sums are equal, sliding window
• Codingbasic array loop and deletion
• Codingmodify given front-end template to achieve a required change
• CodingSQL query using joins
• Codingsimple array task in Python
• HRmanage three late teams out of ten and report project status
• Codingeasy brute force with small constraints
• Codingtwo-pointer easy-medium
• Codingsimple recursion, tiny input
• CodingDP on graph (one account)
• Codingnon-adjacent selection maximising sum, house-robber style DP
• Codingpairwise adjacent sums with modulo filter
• Codingcircular adjacent-pair sums over array
• Codingjoin several tables from schema diagram, filter by condition
• Codingedit given page: add heading, style buttons, counter increment and decrement
• Otherwrite formal email inviting employees to an event
• Codingbasic implementation of standard data structures