Accenture Interview Experience for Advance Application Engineer Analyst (On-Campus)

Accenture came to our campus Vellore Institute of Technology in July 2023 end offering a Super Dream FTE. After registering we had our exam in August after 10-15 days of registration. Almost all the ones who are eligible are allowed to take the test. Almost 5000+ students from all four campuses of VIT appeared for the test.

Eligibility: All Branches, CGPA 6.5+, 65% in boards.

Round-01 (Online Assessment- Aptitude + Coding):

1. It consists of two rounds internally, the first one was the aptitude + technical MCQS and the other one was coding. Only if you clear the first round you will be allowed for the coding round. Aptitude consists of logical + verbal + quants.
2. Technical MCQS consists of computer science fundamentals / MS – Office / Cloud and Networking. There was also a section consisting of pseudo- codes and you need to find their outputs.
3. Coding questions were easy / medium (depends upon the person too, I felt them easy). We have 45 minutes to solve them. You have to write the code from scratch. Also, some people have problems based on dynamic programming as well.
4. Also, you can see just two test cases, hidden test cases aren’t visible nor do you know how many of them are failing/ Passing. So do think of edge cases as well.

The Coding questions asked to me were:

Question – 01: Given two integers x and y , find the count of numbers that ends with either 2 , 5, or 7.

Question – 02: Given an array of integers you have sort them according to their number of set bits and return them.

Note: The questions were different for different people.

Tips:

1. If you are done early do close the test and come back. Time also matters. The ones who solved both too didn’t get selected for next round since they took almost full time. I solved both of them in just 20 minutes and came back.
2. Do practice a lot for aptitude and pseudo codes. You can refer to indiabix, preinstall or GFG articles for that.
3. While coding do think of edge cases and constraints as well.

Results were instantly sent through WhatsApp by Accenture and you proceeded to another round, also you will get results from your PAT team. A total of 300 students were selected for the next round.

Round-02 (Communication round):

This round was a non-elimination round but was made compulsory, It consisted of speaking and listening tests. You can refer to YouTube videos for that.

Round-03 (Technical cum Managerial Interview):

After two days we got a link for choosing a slot for an interview which is going to be held on 25th of August 2023.
As usual, the interview started with him introducing himself and he asked me to introduce myself. He was in some tech-lead position in the Accenture Gurgaon office for the past 5-6 years. This round was more resume and project-based.
Remember to make an interview flow into your side. For example, I told him at the end of my introduction that my favourite programming language is C++. Just because I wanted him to ask him questions about C++ and it happened too. Then he asked me more about C++, Data structures and algorithms that I know, and their use cases.
He asked me about one real-world example where DSA is used. I answered, Suppose we need to go from place A to B on a map, we can have many routes and the shortest possible route. So, to find the shortest path we use BFS (algorithm) and to implement BFS we use queues (data-structure). He asked me a scenario, what if a path exists on a map but the path doesn’t exist really how you can come up with a solution that fewer people can use? I told him to sort the path based on the priority that which one is used by most people. For 10-15mins we discussed only about DSA.
Then he asked questions related to projects. My projects were MERN-based. So he asked me why reacted and not angular. Then he asked me to explain one project from scratch that you are very comfortable with. I told everything about one of my projects and also showed a live demo. Then he asked me general questions about it, like future enhancements and why people will use that etc.
Then he asked for any questions from my side. I asked him:

• If I get selected, what will be my role and how the projects are going to be assigned?
• As you have been in Accenture for the past couple of years, what are the things that you love the most in Accenture?

The interview lasted for around 40 minutes. He seemed satisfied with all of my answers and the interview seemed more like a discussion.

Tips: Be yourself and don’t panic. My interview was scheduled for 11 am but happened at 12:30 pm so don’t panic about it. Also, treat it more like a conversation.
After 2-3 days of the interview, we got an email from a placement team having a list of selected people and I was one of them.

Final Result – Selected
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