I am a third-year engineering student from The Northcap University. A little about me, I will be interning at Accenture this summer, I have previously worked at an ed-tech startup as an SDE Intern, and I have won several hackathons and scholarships during my college life 🙂 I am also Azure AI-900 and AWS Cloud Practitioner CLF-C02 certified.
In this article, I will be talking you through the selection process for the Advanced Application Engineer Intern position at Accenture off-campus/on-campus.
The Application
I applied with a referral from an Accenture employee on December 26th and received the application to apply on December 29th.
THE FIRST ROUND — TECHNICAL + COGNITIVE ROUND
The first round is a cognitive + technical assessment and was held in the second week of February. It is an Elimination Round with 90 questions to be solved in 1.5 hours distributed in the following pattern:
- English Ability -17 Ques [Easy — Medium]
- Critical Reasoning and Problem Solving – 18 Ques [Medium — Hard]
- Abstract Reasoning – 15 Ques [Easy — Medium]
- Common Application and MS Office – 12 Ques [Easy — Medium]
- Pseudo Code -18 Ques [Medium — Hard]
- Fundamentals of Networking, Security, and Cloud -10 Ques [Medium — Hard]
For the pseudocode section be prepared with concepts of data structures + Object Oriented Programming. The questions are tricky and conceptual. You need to know the theoretical applications of the data structures and debugging.
For the aptitude section, you can refer to IndiaBIX. You should also look through some past year’s questions from YouTube or PrepInsta.
For the Fundamentals of Networking, Security, and Cloud and Common Application and MS Office, you can look through PrepInsta notes or refer to YouTube channels for previous year questions.
THE SECOND ROUND — CODING ROUND
If you successfully qualify for the cutoff of the first round you immediately receive a notification for the second round. Both rounds happen on the same day.
This round consists of 2 coding + DSA-based questions
Question 1 : [Easy — Medium]
Question 2 : [Medium — Hard]
The criteria for passing this round varies depending on the position applied for in this round. For full-time roles, candidates are required to demonstrate at least one full output and one partial output. Meanwhile, for internships, showcasing at least one full output suffices. Based on the round 1 performance, some people qualified straight to the interview round and did not receive the link for this round, while others did not qualify for this round, and hence the other rounds.
THE THIRD ROUND — HR + TECHNICAL INTERVIEW
If you successfully pass both rounds 1 and 2, you advance to round 3, which is the interview stage. During this stage, for internship positions, one has to undergo a 20-minute interview session. The interview typically begins with a brief self-introduction, followed by discussions about projects and previous internship experiences. Some questions that were asked in this round —
- Introduce yourself
- Tell me about your projects
- Follow-up technical questions about projects
- What were your learnings from the project?
- What was the impact of the project?
- Have you ever worked in a group?
- What do you know about Accenture?
- Since I said I was familiar with Java and Python she asked me the difference between the two languages too.
- Any previous internship experience.
- You can expect some basic questions about Object-Oriented programming and Java or Python in this round.
RESULT
After the interviews progressed smoothly, I eagerly awaited the results. After 3 weeks of waiting, I finally received the task notification mail from Accenture and I knew I made it! I was offered a 2-month internship at Accenture, for the summer of 2024.
Thank you for reading, I hope this article will help you in case you are applying for Accenture. If you enjoyed reading about my experience, consider clapping👏 All the best on your internship journey 🙂