Accenture

Accenture

Global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security.

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Recruiter Screen (30 min)

Standard fit check, behavioral questions, and resume overview.

Technical Loop (3-4 Rounds)

Deep dive into domain knowledge, coding, and system design.

Interview Question Bank

Backend Engineer • Behavioral • medium

Tell me about a time you had to push back on a client's or stakeholder's technical request because it wasn't feasible or scalable.

#Communication #Stakeholder Management #Problem Solving
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Backend Engineer • Behavioral • medium

Accenture often requires engineers to adapt quickly. Describe a situation where you had to learn a completely new technology stack in a very short time to deliver a project.

#Learning #Agile #Delivery
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Backend Engineer • Behavioral • hard

Tell me about a time you identified a major performance bottleneck in a system. How did you investigate and resolve it?

#Performance #Troubleshooting #Impact
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Backend Engineer • Behavioral • medium

How do you handle a situation where a critical production bug is reported, but you are in the middle of delivering a tight sprint commitment?

#Agile #Time Management #Incident Response
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Backend Engineer • Behavioral • hard

Describe a time when you had a disagreement with a senior engineer or architect regarding a system design choice. How was it resolved?

#Conflict Resolution #Collaboration #Design
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Backend Engineer • Behavioral • medium

Tell me about a time you had to explain a complex technical issue (like a microservices failure) to a non-technical client stakeholder.

#Client Facing #Empathy #Clarity
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Backend Engineer • Behavioral • medium

Describe your approach to mentoring junior developers on your team while maintaining your own project deliverables.

#Mentorship #Time Management #Team Building
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Backend Engineer • Coding • easy

Given an array of integers and a target value, return the indices of the two numbers that add up to the target. Assume exactly one solution exists.

#Arrays #Hash Maps
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Backend Engineer • Coding • easy

Write a function to determine if a string containing just the characters '(', ')', '{', '}', '[' and ']' is valid.

#Strings #Stacks
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Backend Engineer • Coding • medium

Given an array of intervals where intervals[i] = [starti, endi], merge all overlapping intervals and return an array of the non-overlapping intervals.

#Arrays #Sorting
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Backend Engineer • Coding • medium

Design and implement a data structure for a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache.

#Hash Maps #Doubly Linked Lists #Design
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Backend Engineer • Coding • medium

Given an array of strings, group the anagrams together. You can return the answer in any order.

#Strings #Hash Maps #Sorting
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Backend Engineer • Coding • medium

Find the kth largest element in an unsorted array. Note that it is the kth largest element in the sorted order, not the kth distinct element.

#Heaps #Quickselect #Arrays
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Backend Engineer • Coding • medium

Given a binary tree, find the lowest common ancestor (LCA) of two given nodes in the tree.

#Trees #Recursion #DFS
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Backend Engineer • Coding • easy

Write a SQL query to find the second highest salary from an Employee table. If there is no second highest salary, return null.

#Database #Queries #Aggregation
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Backend Engineer • Coding • medium

Write a SQL query to rank employees within their respective departments based on their salaries.

#Database #Window Functions
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Backend Engineer • Coding • medium

Given a string s, find the length of the longest substring without repeating characters.

#Strings #Sliding Window #Hash Maps
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Backend Engineer • System Design • medium

Design a highly available API Gateway for a microservices architecture. What features would you include?

#API Gateway #Microservices #Security #Routing
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Backend Engineer • System Design • hard

An enterprise client wants to migrate their legacy monolithic application to microservices. Walk me through your migration strategy.

#Migration #Strangler Fig Pattern #Microservices
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Backend Engineer • System Design • medium

Design a URL shortening service like Bitly. Focus on the data model and how you would scale the read requests.

#Scalability #Hashing #Caching #Databases
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Backend Engineer • System Design • hard

Design an inventory management system for an e-commerce platform that must handle high-traffic flash sales without overselling.

#Concurrency #Databases #Caching #Message Queues
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Backend Engineer • System Design • hard

Design a distributed rate limiter for a public-facing API to prevent abuse.

#Algorithms #Distributed Systems #Redis
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Backend Engineer • System Design • medium

Design a real-time notification system (Email, SMS, Push) for a banking application.

#Asynchronous Processing #Message Queues #Third-party APIs
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Backend Engineer • System Design • medium

How would you design a distributed caching layer using Redis for a read-heavy application? Discuss cache invalidation strategies.

#Caching #Redis #Performance
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Backend Engineer • System Design • medium

Design a centralized logging and monitoring system for a distributed microservices environment spanning multiple AWS regions.

#Observability #Logging #ELK Stack #AWS
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Backend Engineer • Technical • medium

What is the N+1 select problem in Hibernate/JPA, and how do you resolve it in a production enterprise application?

#Java #Hibernate #ORM #Performance
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Backend Engineer • Technical • easy

Explain Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control. How does Spring Boot implement these concepts?

#Java #Spring Boot #Architecture
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Backend Engineer • Technical • medium

Explain the difference between @Controller and @RestController in Spring. How does message conversion work under the hood?

#Java #Spring Boot #REST
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Backend Engineer • Technical • medium

How does the Circuit Breaker pattern work, and why is it essential in a microservices architecture?

#Architecture #Resilience #Spring Cloud
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Backend Engineer • Technical • hard

Compare RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka. In an Accenture client project, how would you decide which one to use?

#Kafka #RabbitMQ #Event-Driven Architecture
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Backend Engineer • Technical • hard

Explain the ACID properties. How do you maintain data consistency across multiple microservices where distributed transactions are required?

#ACID #Microservices #Saga Pattern #Two-Phase Commit
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Backend Engineer • Technical • medium

What is the difference between clustered and non-clustered indexes in a relational database?

#SQL #Indexing #Performance
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Backend Engineer • Technical • medium

How do you secure a REST API? Explain the lifecycle of a JWT (JSON Web Token) and how you handle token expiration.

#REST #JWT #Authentication #Authorization
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Backend Engineer • Technical • hard

Explain the concepts of Event Sourcing and CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation). When should they be used?

#Microservices #CQRS #Event Sourcing
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Backend Engineer • Technical • medium

How do you manage database schema migrations in a CI/CD pipeline for a large-scale application?

#CI/CD #Databases #Flyway #Liquibase
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