I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Deloitte in Apr 2014
Interview
I applied through a recruiter to join Deloitte Dublin. I was invited to a face to face technical interview and this was the worst interview of my life. The interview was held in London.
The reason why it was the worst interview of my life is that the interviewer was late by 45 minutes. The interview was due to start at 8 am and finish at 9 am and I had to go to work after that. The interviewer apologised but if I was the one who had been late I would've been walked out of the office.
He carried on with the interview and asked questions about C#, SQL, OOP, threads and general software engineering questions and some of his answers where wrong but he didn't know so he thought my answers where incorrect. He had about 10 years experience and I have only 2 years experience so he should have known the right answers but he didn't. As a result he said I had a few technical gaps which I did not.
I was very late for work because of his lack of punctuality but when I explained to him that I would be late to work he didn't even apologise or show empathy.
he wasn't even wearing a tie and he had rolled up sleeves in the interview yet he gave feedback that I was a bit too informal yet I had a full suit on and was very professional.
I have worked for a top 25 FTSE 100 company and a world top 20 global IT firm and have outstanding performance at both yet this guy thought I wouldn't be good enough to work at Deloitte?
After I realised that these big four firms do not want the best talent out there and are looking for people who are just good at making power point presentations and have the same level of incompetence as them.
Stay away if you are a top flight software professional!!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
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First approach by a recruiter call. After that I got a 3 back to back interview, then another recruiter call for salary negotiation. After a few rounds of thoughtful discussion, the offer was lower than expected.
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Total 4 rounds of interview, interviewers throughout the process were friendly.
1) online assessment with java,database MCQ with 2 programming questions for 90mins
2) leetcode style programming question easy to medium range
3) in depth discussion and questions from java, multithreading, java 8 features and code snippet outputs
4) project experience and discussion with manager
Consultant applicants have rated the interview process at Deloitte with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 70% positive. To compare, the company-average is 71.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Consultant roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 1,058 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Deloitte overall takes an average of 27 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Deloitte as a Consultant according to 1,058 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 23%
Phone interview: 16%
Skills test: 11%
Background check: 11%
Presentation: 10%
Group panel interview: 9%
Personality test: 8%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
Drug test: 4%
Other: 2%
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