Associate applicants have rated the interview process at PwC with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 77% positive. To compare, the company-average is 65.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Associate roles take an average of 54 days to get hired, when considering 117 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at PwC overall takes an average of 44 days.
Common stages of the interview process at PwC as a Associate according to 117 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 22%
Phone interview: 14%
Skills test: 12%
Group panel interview: 10%
Personality test: 10%
Presentation: 9%
IQ intelligence test: 8%
Background check: 7%
Other: 4%
Drug test: 4%
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Smooth and pleasant experience. Went through assessments (Behavioural assessment - consisting of numerical and problem solving quizzes, English grammar MCQ, and English essay writing), followed by 2 interviews. They gave me a great impression.
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What was the biggest challenge you faced in your previous workplace?
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.
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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.
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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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They asked me to speak towards my leadership initiative and also gave me a case question that had some targeted follow-up questions.