Accenture
Global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security.
4 Rounds
~21 Days
Medium
The Interview Loop
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
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System Design
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medium
Design a highly available API Gateway for a microservices architecture. What features would you include?
#API Gateway
#Microservices
#Security
#Routing
Backend Engineer
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System Design
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hard
An enterprise client wants to migrate their legacy monolithic application to microservices. Walk me through your migration strategy.
#Migration
#Strangler Fig Pattern
#Microservices
Backend Engineer
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System Design
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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
Backend Engineer
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System Design
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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
Backend Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a distributed rate limiter for a public-facing API to prevent abuse.
#Algorithms
#Distributed Systems
#Redis
Backend Engineer
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System Design
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medium
Design a real-time notification system (Email, SMS, Push) for a banking application.
#Asynchronous Processing
#Message Queues
#Third-party APIs
Backend Engineer
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System Design
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medium
How would you design a distributed caching layer using Redis for a read-heavy application? Discuss cache invalidation strategies.
#Caching
#Redis
#Performance
Backend Engineer
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System Design
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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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