Candidates applying for Senior Data Scientist roles take an average of 10 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Accenture overall takes an average of 29 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Accenture as a Senior Data Scientist according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 29%
Phone interview: 29%
One on one interview: 14%
Background check: 14%
IQ intelligence test: 14%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
1. HR screening
2. Data challenge (take home exercise, demand forecast)
3. Technical tests (Review take home exercise + general data science questions such as machine learning / statistics and coding)
4. Management meeting
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
General questions in data science, mostly can be found in some data science textbooks.
Couple of question about the python data bases and overall techonolgies mentioned in the CV. Some discussion about architectual approaches based on the previous work. Overall expirience good but it seemed like recriuter was just going through my CV 30 min before the call nothing specific about the data science question,
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Accenture
Interview
Applied through referral: 2 rounds - first round with the hiring manager which was a technical round,
Second round with a functional head - nothing to write about, extremely disappointing behaviour by the interviewer, glad I wasn't selected.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Accenture (Bengaluru) in Jan 2025
Interview
It was 2 rounds of technical interview, mostly on projects (including what, how, why questions, and how it could have been better), and the final round was HR discussion. First was purely technical, indepth of the project and the second was managerial round
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What could you have done better, what are the other ways to implement this approach?