I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at PwC (Minneapolis, MN) in Nov 2014
Interview
I was flown out to an office that had a concentration of managers that worked within the same discipline as myself. I met with 2 managers and a director. Each interview was about 45 minutes in length and really focused on experience. Lot's of "tell me about a time..." questions. Since I was also interviewing for a technical position I was asked about my technical experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time that you had to deliver bad news about a project to a client?
All individual.
First to receive a HR call, which is the basic question and strength and weakness.
Then to interview with Senior manager
Finally interview with Partner
The questions are mainly on work experience and a few technical questions.
I interviewed for a position that's slightly out of my expertise. They took the time to understand why and was engaging to explain what the role requires. There were 3 of them.
Softball questions. Technical questions were nothing difficult and so weren't memorable. Interviews were more of a soft skills check than anything else. The decision was already made once my resume was seen.
Manager applicants have rated the interview process at PwC with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 66% positive. To compare, the company-average is 74.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Manager roles take an average of 37 days to get hired, when considering 172 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at PwC overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at PwC as a Manager according to 172 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 24%
Phone interview: 20%
Background check: 10%
Presentation: 10%
Skills test: 10%
Personality test: 9%
Group panel interview: 7%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
Drug test: 5%
Other: 1%
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