Accenture - interview guide

Accenture interview questions - a complete guide

The Accenture assessment runs in several stages, and you must clear each stage's cut-off. Here is how to prepare for every stage, and the interview questions.

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About Accenture

Accenture is a global professional services company - technology, consulting and operations. It hires a very large number of freshers in India, and its assessment runs stage by stage with a cut-off at each one.

This guide covers 13 Accenture interview questions with answers - what each question checks and how to answer it - plus the Accenture interview process, round by round, a 7-day preparation plan for freshers, tips and the mistakes to avoid.

Accenture hiring process

  1. Step 1: Mock assessment

    According to Accenture's India campus site, a mandatory mock test comes first to check your computer, software and internet.

  2. Step 2: Technical assessment

    About 45 minutes: common applications and MS Office, pseudocode, networking, security and cloud basics, and programming concepts.

  3. Step 3: Coding

    Three questions in about 60 minutes, which you can solve in a backend, SQL or front-end language.

  4. Step 4: Other stages and the interview

    Behavioural and cognitive assessments and a communication round are also reported. Each stage has sectional cut-offs. According to Accenture's official page, the assessment doesn't replace the interview - the interview follows it.

The mock test, technical (45 min) and coding (60 min, 3 questions) stages are from Accenture's India campus support page; 'the assessment doesn't replace the interview' is from Accenture's official recruitment page. The communication round is commonly reported.

Sources (checked 15 October 2026): Accenture India campus support (indiacampus.accenture.com), Accenture recruitment process (accenture.com). Hiring processes change - read the official notice before you apply.

Accenture interview questions and answers

Technical assessment topics

Topics like MS Office come up here too - and people skip them.

  1. 1.What does VLOOKUP do in MS Excel?

    What they're checking
    Practical knowledge of common applications.
    How to answer
    It finds a value in a table and returns a value from another column of the same row - like a name from an employee ID. Remember the syntax: VLOOKUP(value, table, column number, FALSE).

  2. 2.What is a firewall?

    What they're checking
    Security basics.
    How to answer
    A network's security guard - it allows or blocks incoming and outgoing traffic based on rules.

  3. 3.What are the cloud deployment models?

    What they're checking
    Cloud basics.
    How to answer
    Public (shared by everyone, like the big cloud providers), private (for one company only), hybrid (a mix of both).

  4. 4.Work out what this pseudocode prints.

    What they're checking
    The skill of reading logic.
    How to answer
    Track every variable's value line by line, and write out each loop iteration.

  5. 5.What is the SDLC? What is Agile?

    What they're checking
    Understanding of how software is built.
    How to answer
    SDLC = requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, maintenance. Agile = doing the work in short sprints, with feedback after each sprint.

Interview

  1. 6.Explain one of your projects.

    What they're checking
    Hands-on experience.
    How to answer
    The problem, your role, the technology and the result - in two minutes. Be ready for follow-ups.

  2. 7.Why Accenture?

    What they're checking
    Research and interest.
    How to answer
    The mix of consulting and technology, clients across industries - whatever genuinely appeals to you, linked to your goal.

  3. 8.Tell me about a time you learned something new quickly.

    What they're checking
    Learning agility - essential in consulting.
    How to answer
    A real example: what you had to learn, how you learned it (docs, a course, practice), and what you built with it.

  4. 9.Are you ready to work on any technology or at any location?

    What they're checking
    Flexibility.
    How to answer
    Be positive and honest. You can mention an area that interests you, but showing flexibility helps.

More questions

  1. 10.What is RPA (Robotic Process Automation)?

    What they're checking
    Awareness of automation.
    How to answer
    Software 'bots' that do repetitive computer work (filling forms, copying data) by clicking through it like a person.

  2. 11.What is a DDoS attack?

    What they're checking
    Security basics.
    How to answer
    Sending so much traffic to a server from many computers that it stops working for real users.

  3. 12.What do the Product Owner and Scrum Master do in Scrum?

    What they're checking
    Understanding of Agile teams.
    How to answer
    Product Owner - what to build and in what priority. Scrum Master - keeps the process smooth and removes blockers.

  4. 13.Tell me about a time you understood a user's real need.

    What they're checking
    Client thinking.
    How to answer
    What the user said, what the real problem turned out to be, and what you built - in STAR.

7-day preparation plan for the Accenture interview

  1. Day 1: Check the mock assessment setup and practise cognitive questions.
  2. Day 2: MS Office - Excel formulas, Word and PowerPoint basics.
  3. Day 3: Networking, security and cloud basics.
  4. Day 4: Pseudocode and programming concepts.
  5. Day 5: Coding - three questions in 60 minutes.
  6. Day 6: Communication practice and your project.
  7. Day 7: A mock interview and 'Why Accenture'.

Preparation tips

  • Take the mock assessment seriously - a setup problem costs you dearly in the real test.
  • Every section has a cut-off, so don't skip any section.
  • Spend a day revising MS Office (Excel formulas, Word and PowerPoint basics).
  • For coding, pick the language you are most comfortable in - SQL is also an option.

Mistakes to avoid

  • Skipping the mock assessment and hitting a setup problem in the real test.
  • Leaving out a section - every section has a cut-off.
  • Not studying MS Office because it seems 'easy'.

Frequently asked questions

What is in the Accenture technical assessment?

According to Accenture's campus site: common applications and MS Office, pseudocode, networking, security and cloud basics, and programming concepts - about 45 minutes.

What is the Accenture coding round like?

Three questions in about 60 minutes, which can be solved in a backend, SQL or front-end language.

Is there an interview after the Accenture assessment?

Yes. According to Accenture's official page, the technical assessment doesn't replace the interview.

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