Accenture Hack Diva Preparation Experience 2023

About the contest:

Accenture is an Irish-American professional services company based in Dublin, specializing in information technology (IT) services and consulting. Every year they organize a diversity hiring for women and PwD candidates. Accenture Hack Diva is also a diversity hiring contest organized by Accenture. This is designed to empower and encourage female students to showcase their skills and win BIG.

WINNING PRIZES:

1. The top 10 candidates will be awarded prizes worth ₹25,000.
2. Top shortlisted contestants will get an opportunity to participate in Accenture’s Fast-Track recruitment process.
3. The participants will be hired as Associate Software Engineers at ₹4.5 LPA.

Link of the contest: https://unstop.com/hackathons/accenture-hack-diva-accenture-628837

Eligibility Criteria:

1. Female students from any branch/stream who are pursuing a BE/BTech (full-time course) degree and graduating in 2023 or 2022.
2. 1st year, 2nd year, and 3rd year students are not eligible to register.
3. No Accenture employee can participate in this contest.

Overview of the contest :

There were total two rounds in the contest. First one was alwyas a Coding Fundamental based MCQ round and the second round was a Problem solving round. Both of the rounds were moderate lavel. But at the same time I would say this challenge is more tough than any other off campus hiring challange of accenture. Also, it was a protected challange, you will be under AI surveillance just like some other online coding contest.

So let’s see the rounds is brief :

MCQ round :

• Firstly it was not an elimination round. But my personal experience is, the marks you get, was important for your final selection after conding round for interview call and rewards.
• There was total 20 mcq to solve within 20 minutes.
• The questions were on Operation System, Database management system and SQL, Data structures and algorithm, OOPs Computer networks and MS office.

Start Date : 14 Apr 23, 03:00 PM IST End Date : 14 Apr 23, 11:59 PM IST

Within This time frame, you can start the test at any time.

Problem Solving Round :

• There was 2 coding questions you have to solve with in 45 minutes.
• Difficulty lavel was easy to medium type of Geeks for geeks practice questions.
• Languages allowed : C++, Java, Python, Javascript(May be there were other language, but these are the majorly used language that I can remember).

Start Date : 15 Apr 23, 03:00 PM IST End Date : 15 Apr 23, 11:59 PM IST

Problems	Link of the problem	Points	My overview
The first one was to find if a given string is present in the another given string as a substring of it or not. And total 14 test cases were there.	https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/check-string-substring-another/	10 points	I have first solved the question with m*n time complexity, and it was excepted, so I think their is not boundary of complexity and all. Solved
The second question was to find if given three strings are anagram of each other or not.	https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/check-whether-two-strings-are-anagram-of-each-other/ This is for two strings, but one can follow the same technique to solve this for three strings.	10 points	Solved

Result Declearation :

Alter completing the problem solving round, approximate 30 days later, the top 10 students list were published, and I was not one of them. But I got an interview related mail at time mid of june.

Conclusion :

This is a great opportuny fo female students who are willing to kick their career with accenture. Allmost every year this happens and one can easily participae just by applying with some basic details. Unlike the other accenture hiring challenge it contains os, dbms, and dsa mcqs, so prepare for that. And for the problem solving round, you can practice on geeksforgeeks and any other platform you preffer to. So start you journey from today for Accenture Hack Diva 2024. All the best !!