Accenture Interview Experience For Packaged App Development Associate 2024

Accenture started hiring the 2024 batch and I appeared for the different stages of the interview for the Associate Software Engineer role.

Duration: 90 minutes

The section on Cognitive Assessment is as follows :

• English
• Problem-Solving
• Abstract Reasoning

All the questions were MCQ and some of the frequently asked questions were from the below topics –

• Data arrangement
• Find missing terms from the series
• Coding Decoding
• Distance and Direction. I started travelling in the North direction, then moved West…What direction is A face now?

The section on Technical Assessment is as follows :

• Pseudocode
• MS Office
• OS, DBMS, Computer Networks
• Cloud
• Network and security

All the questions were MCQ, some of them are mentioned below

• Which keyword is used to come out of recursion? [Ans. return]
• Evaluate float a = 5/2 , float b = 5/2.0 , float c = 5.0/2.0, float d = 5.0/2 ?
• Which operator ( &, |, ^) returns true if any of the sub-condition is true?
• What is the common method of authenticating users in the network? [Ans. Password]
• What is the purpose of the IEEE 802.11 standard in network security?
• What is the gutter margin?
• What does Ctrl+D do in MS Excel?
• The default alignment of paragraph in MS Word is _?
• Which of the following symbols is not used in Flowchart?

Duration: 45 minutes

After submitting the Stage 1 assessment, within a few minutes, I received the pop-up to proceed for Coding Ability (one needs to clear the cut-off to appear for the next round).

There were 2 coding questions. I dont remember the first question it was easy. You will be given a class and main function and have to handle input and output. You don’t get to know how many test cases you passed. The second question is as follows-

• Tanu appeared in three Olympiads. The marks of three Olympiads are given as input. Help her find the minimum marks out of 3 papers.

Duration: 45 minutes

I cleared the previous round and received a link to appear for Stage 3 after 4-5 days. This round involves recording your voice while answering. After submitting the first attempt, I was informed that my score could not be calculated because of too much background noise. “Crisis can convert every challenge into an opportunity”, I am happy that I could perform better in the next attempt.

• Reading – There were 8 sentences in English and you have to read them aloud one by one.
• Repeat – You hear a sentence and have to repeat it. There were 16 sentences in different accents. I was not able to recite 2 of them because of my inability to understand the accent.
• Question – This consisted of 24 General questions that were asked and you answered them one by one. Example: “What colour be mixed with Yellow to form a green colour?”, “Tanu is a sweet person, Is she good at making friends or not” etc…
• Sentence Build – The system recites a Jumbled sentence and you have to recite the correct sentence in the next 20 seconds.
• Story Retelling – The system recites a story that might be 6-7 sentences long and you have to recite it back in the next 40 seconds duration.

Duration: 20 minutes

I appeared for a 1:1 interview on 17th May, two days after Round 3. I was first asked a few questions if I have active backlogs, interviewed at Accenture for 3 months, graduation completion etc. I was asked to give an Introduction and the rest question were related to my Introduction.

• Which is closer to you, your hometown or your current city?
• In 1 minute speak something about your current city.
• What projects have you done?
• Describe your learnings from the previous 4 years.
• Tell me about a challenging situation in your life.
• Do you have any questions?

The interview procedure with Accenture was good and the interviewer asked me to wait for a few months for the result.