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Software Engineer (Level Unspecified)

Accenture accounts where the candidate's role isn't stated: campus candidates from ASE/AASE drives (2021-2024) and two experienced hires.
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7
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45
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Everything here except the section marked official comes from candidates' public accounts of their own interviews. Processes vary by team, location and year, so this is not the company's official process or a complete list.

The process candidates reported

How many of the 6 accounts mention each round, in the order rounds usually came.

Most common path · 3 of 6 accounts

  1. Cognitive and Technical Assessment
  2. Coding Assessment
  3. Communication Assessment
  4. Technical + HR Interview
See all 4 reported sequences

Candidates describe 4 different orders, so treat any order as one candidate’s experience.

  • Cognitive and Technical Assessment → Coding Assessment → Communication Assessment → Technical + HR Interview · 3 accounts
  • Technical Interview → Technical Interview 2 → HR Interview · 1 account
  • Online Assessment → Communication Assessment → Technical + HR Interview · 1 account
  • Online Skill Assessment → Technical Interview → HR Interview · 1 account
  1. Cognitive and Technical Assessment3 of 6 · 0 questions
  2. Technical Interview2 of 6 · 20 questions
  3. Coding Assessment3 of 6 · 2 questions
  4. Technical Interview 21 of 6 · 3 questions
  5. Communication Assessment4 of 6 · 0 questions
  6. HR Interview2 of 6 · 3 questions
  7. Technical + HR Interview4 of 6 · 17 questions

Questions candidates reported

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Cognitive and Technical Assessment

0 questions · 3 of 6 accounts

90 MCQs on English, reasoning, MS Office, pseudocode and networking/cloud; eliminating.

Candidates who described this round didn’t name specific questions.

Technical Interview

20 questions · 2 of 6 accounts

Experienced hires: core Java (OOP, strings, collections, multithreading, Java 8) and Spring Boot; one five-year candidate lists no questions.

  1. Tell me about yourself.

    Behavioral

  2. Explain OOP in Java with real-life examples.

    Java

  3. Why are pointers not used in Java?

    Java

  4. What are the uses of the static keyword for methods, variables and classes?

    Java

  5. Why is String immutable?

    Java

  6. Show all 20 questions

    1. What are the types of constructors?

      Java

    2. What is the difference between HashMap and TreeMap?

      Java

    3. What is multithreading, and what are the ways to implement it?

      Java

    4. What is join() in multithreading?

      Java

    5. What are synchronized blocks?

      Java

    6. How does garbage collection work in Java?

      Java

    7. What are the Java 8 features?

      Java

    8. What is a functional interface?

      Java

    9. What are predicates and method references?

      Java

    10. What are the lifecycle methods in Spring Boot?

      Spring Boot

    11. What is autowiring, and what are the ways to do it?

      Spring Boot

    12. Explain annotations such as @Configuration, @ComponentScan, @Component and @Controller.

      Spring Boot

    13. Spring Boot vs Spring MVC

      Spring Boot

    14. What are the HTTP methods and their uses?

      Backend

    15. What is the difference between monolithic and microservice architectures?

      Backend

Coding Assessment

2 questions · 3 of 6 accounts

Two coding questions; one 2024 account names a prime check and a string-format task.

  1. Check whether a given number is prime

    DSA / Coding

  2. Given a string, return the first character + the string's length + the last character

    DSA / Coding

Technical Interview 2

3 questions · 1 of 6 accounts

One experienced account: a coding round with heap sort and a Spring Boot GET API flow.

  1. Implement heap sort

    DSA / Coding

  2. Write the basic flow of a GET API in Spring Boot

    Spring Boot

  3. Spring Boot vs Spring MVC

    Spring Boot

Communication Assessment

0 questions · 4 of 6 accounts

A spoken-English test, non-eliminating.

Candidates who described this round didn’t name specific questions.

HR Interview

3 questions · 2 of 6 accounts

Experienced hires: introduction, project difficulties, location preference and salary.

  1. Tell me about yourself.

    Behavioral

  2. What difficulties did you face during the project?

    Behavioral

  3. What is your location preference?

    Behavioral

Technical + HR Interview

17 questions · 4 of 6 accounts

Campus candidates: 10-25 minute interviews on internships, projects, difficulties, disliked subjects, group vs individual work, and the SDLC.

  1. Tell me about yourself.

    BehavioralReported by 3 candidates

  2. Explain your projects.

    OtherReported by 2 candidates

  3. Do you have any questions for us?

    BehavioralReported by 2 candidates

  4. Tell me about your past internship experience.

    Behavioral

  5. What difficulties have you faced?

    Behavioral

  6. Show all 17 questions

    1. What is your least favourite subject in college, and why?

      Behavioral

    2. What is unique about your college?

      Behavioral

    3. What are the phases of software development (e.g. the waterfall model)?

      Other

    4. What difficulties did you face during the project?

      Behavioral

    5. What differences have you found between group and individual projects (pros and cons)?

      Behavioral

    6. What was your role in the project?

      Behavioral

    7. What are your hobbies and aspirations?

      Behavioral

    8. Why did you choose this project?

      Other

    9. Is your mentor or are your teammates helping with the project?

      Behavioral

    10. Have you faced challenges or pressure? How did you deal with them?

      Behavioral

    11. Which language do you prefer for coding?

      Other

    12. Which subjects did you dislike most? If given a project in that subject, what would be your plan?

      Behavioral

What stands out in these accounts

  • Campus candidates describe the same assessments and short interview as the ASE accounts.
  • Two experienced candidates (1.9 and 5 years) describe a primary-skill online test or two technical rounds on Java and Spring Boot, then HR.
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Compiled by hand from 6 public first-hand accounts of Accenture interviews (2021–2024) on sites such as LeetCode Discuss, Medium and GeeksforGeeks. A question is listed only when a candidate stated it, in the round they said it came from; reposts of one account count once. Wording is the candidate’s. There are no answers here by design: the point is what was asked.