Accenture

Accenture

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

4 Rounds ~21 Days Medium
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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

Software Engineer • Behavioral • medium

Tell me about a time you had a disagreement with a client regarding a technical requirement. How did you resolve it?

#Communication #Client Management #Conflict Resolution
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Software Engineer • Behavioral • easy

Describe a situation where you had to learn a new technology or framework quickly to meet a project deadline.

#Learning #Time Management #Agile
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Software Engineer • Behavioral • medium

How do you prioritize tasks when working on multiple deliverables for different stakeholders?

#Time Management #Prioritization #Stakeholder Management
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Software Engineer • Behavioral • medium

Tell me about a time your code caused a production issue. What happened and how did you fix it?

#Accountability #Problem Solving #Incident Management
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Software Engineer • Behavioral • medium

Describe a time you had to explain a complex technical concept to a non-technical stakeholder or client.

#Client Facing #Communication #Empathy
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Software Engineer • Behavioral • easy

Have you ever worked in a distributed Agile team? How do you ensure effective communication across different time zones?

#Agile #Collaboration #Remote Work
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Software Engineer • Behavioral • medium

Tell me about a time you proposed an improvement to an existing process or system that saved time or money.

#Innovation #Process Improvement #Initiative
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Software Engineer • Behavioral • hard

How do you handle scope creep when a client keeps adding new features mid-sprint?

#Agile #Negotiation #Project Management
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Software Engineer • Behavioral • medium

Describe a time when you had to work with a difficult team member. How did you handle the situation?

#Conflict Resolution #Teamwork #Emotional Intelligence
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Software Engineer • Behavioral • easy

Why do you want to work for Accenture, and how does IT consulting differ from working at a product company in your view?

#Motivation #Consulting #Career Goals
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Software Engineer • Coding • easy

Reverse a string without using any built-in reverse functions.

#String #Two Pointers
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Software Engineer • Coding • easy

Find the second largest element in an array of integers in a single pass.

#Array #Optimization
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Software Engineer • Coding • medium

Write a function to find the first non-repeating character in a string and return its index.

#String #Hash Map
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Software Engineer • Coding • medium

Write a SQL query to find the nth highest salary from an Employee table.

#SQL #Aggregation #Subqueries
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Software Engineer • Coding • medium

Merge two sorted linked lists into a single sorted linked list.

#Linked List #Pointers
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Software Engineer • Coding • medium

Find the intersection node of two singly linked lists.

#Linked List #Two Pointers
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Software Engineer • Coding • easy

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

#Stack #String
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Software Engineer • Coding • easy

Given an array of integers nums and an integer target, return indices of the two numbers such that they add up to target.

#Array #Hash Map
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Software Engineer • Coding • medium

Find the length of the longest substring without repeating characters.

#String #Sliding Window #Hash Set
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Software Engineer • Coding • medium

Implement a method to perform basic string compression using the counts of repeated characters (e.g., aabcccccaaa becomes a2b1c5a3).

#String #Array
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Software Engineer • System Design • hard

Design a scalable e-commerce checkout system. How do you handle inventory reservation to prevent overselling?

#Microservices #Distributed Systems #Databases #Concurrency
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Software Engineer • System Design • medium

How would you design a RESTful API for a banking application to transfer funds between accounts securely?

#API Design #Security #Transactions #Idempotency
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Software Engineer • System Design • medium

A client's legacy monolithic application is experiencing slow response times during peak hours. How would you approach identifying the bottleneck and scaling it?

#Performance #Scaling #Consulting #Observability
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Software Engineer • System Design • medium

Design a URL shortener service like Bitly.

#Hashing #Databases #Scalability #System Architecture
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Software Engineer • System Design • hard

How would you design a system to process millions of daily transactions and generate end-of-day reports for a client?

#Batch Processing #Big Data #Cloud #Message Queues
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Software Engineer • Technical • medium

How do you handle exceptions globally in a Spring Boot REST API?

#Spring Boot #Exception Handling #API Design
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Software Engineer • Technical • medium

Explain Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control concepts in Spring Boot.

#Spring Boot #Design Patterns #Java
Practice
Software Engineer • Technical • easy

What are the main differences between REST and SOAP web services?

#API #REST #SOAP
Practice
Software Engineer • Technical • medium

Explain the difference between Monolithic and Microservices architectures. When would you recommend microservices to a client?

#Microservices #Client Consulting #System Architecture
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Software Engineer • Technical • medium

How does Garbage Collection work in Java, and what are the different types of Garbage Collectors?

#Java #Memory Management #JVM
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Software Engineer • Technical • medium

Explain the concept of indexing in relational databases. How does it improve performance, and what are the trade-offs?

#SQL #Performance Tuning #Data Structures
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Software Engineer • Technical • easy

What is the difference between an Abstract Class and an Interface in Java 8 and above?

#OOP #Java
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Software Engineer • Technical • medium

How do you ensure thread safety in a multithreaded Java application?

#Concurrency #Multithreading
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Software Engineer • Technical • medium

Explain the CI/CD pipeline you used in your last project. What tools were involved?

#CI/CD #Jenkins #Git #Deployment
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Software Engineer • Technical • medium

What are the SOLID principles? Can you give a practical example of the Single Responsibility Principle?

#OOP #Design Patterns #Clean Code
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