Associate applicants have rated the interview process at PwC with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 78% positive. To compare, the company-average is 74.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Associate roles take an average of 34 days to get hired, when considering 776 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 Associate according to 776 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 21%
Phone interview: 13%
Background check: 12%
Personality test: 11%
IQ intelligence test: 10%
Skills test: 10%
Group panel interview: 9%
Presentation: 8%
Drug test: 5%
Other: 2%
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I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at PwC (Bengaluru) in Mar 2021
Interview
I was interviewing for PWC AC. The whole interview process was good, it consisted of an online test, followed by group discussion on the latest topic, followed by one technical and HR interview(all was conducted through google meet) . But the planning was not up to the mark from the recruitment team. I was informed about my HR interview 15 minutes prior to the meeting.
One main issue I noticed was the communication. They had informed one CTC at the beginning of the process and that was reduced drastically when I got the offer letter. The HR contacted me and I informed her, regarding this concern, she said she would get back, but there was no response in spite of reaching out via email and phone calls. Even the recruiter who assisted me in the process was not responding. This complete ignorance was not expected from a big 4. I got contacted by two other HR's regarding my offer status update but even they were of no help.
I am not sure about the work environment, which I heard was pretty good but if they cannot respond with a yes or a no and end up completely ignoring the candidate's concern, leaving them hanging, then I don't know where the trust factor lies.
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Question 1
1. Questions were purely based on resume, the skills mentioned
2. Projects
3. Why do you want to shift
Made it to a case round where they asked fairly basic questions about a business case and what I would do with new data. Pretty standard for consulting interviews, nothing unexpected.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given this new data for the business case we gave you, how would you update your recommendations?
Online test and then in person interview. The online tests were faily standard. Interview process followed why pwc and why the role etc . They then asked if I wanted to ask them anything and I could tell that they were interested to see if I'd researched the role and company and had applicable questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why audit and why PwC?
How do you cope with trikcy situations? Clients aren't always easy
My interview process was a total of 3 rounds. The first and last round was mostly behavioral questions, and the 2nd round had some casing aspects / scenario based prompts.
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Question 1
They asked me to speak towards my leadership initiative and also gave me a case question that had some targeted follow-up questions.