I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Accenture (Austin, TX) in Jan 2013
Interview
Applied to Accenture form their website. Got a email first from a recruiter with a few screening questions and when a good time would be to contact.
After that I got a screening call about some of my past projects and how I dealt with problems. It was more of a personality and communication screening. From there the recruiter asked me to take an assessment test online.
The assessment test was about 40 coding, pattern and a discrete math questions. You have an hour to complete it.
After I passed the assessment I got an email scheduling an in person interview. The interview took about 3 hours and consist of 4 different stages. First part starts off with a presentation about Accenture and what their values and benefits are. Next was a technical interview that asked about some of my projects and how I confronted problems and debugging strategies. Next was a HR interview and was about were I saw myself with Accenture and why I wanted to peruse a career with them. The last interview was a more in depth technical interview. There I was asked more coding questions and design patterns. I was given a snippet of Java code and needed to figure out the output. It was about a 40 line snippet.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There wasn't any trick question. Common programming questions. Overloading and overriding. OOP concepts (Polymorphism, abstract and interface) and Design Patterns.
Interview was nice but it was much technical heavy and the interviewer had asked both the technical and HR related questions and also some general knowledge and current affairs questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about your college projects and what is your and other team members role in the project
After assessment, Interview is Initial screening only, nothing technical. Consists of common questions so you should practice. I think most candidates get the job. Overall a good experience and would recommend to others.
Had long aptitude rounds followed by 3 coding questions. All were pretty easy. Followed by a 10 minute interview held online, not technical, just asked personal questions. The coding questions had web design (HTML & CSS), basic DSA (python, C# or java)