batches on the basis of your experience
It is important to stay calm during the case interviews The interviewer will be ready to help you out so it is important to clarify your doubts. Take some time to understand the case question and confirm with the interviewer before
proceeding further.
Accenture Business Consulting
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Interview Experience 10
Name Deep Banerjee
Company Accenture Management Consulting Name of interviewer
and designation Vishwesh Prabhakar, Partner
Brief Profile Chemical Engineering from Bangalore, 1 yr Work Ex at Tesco Retail, 3.5 yrs at Indian Oil Corporation as Assistant Manager handling Supply Chain and Operations
Interview questions Round 1: Work related, Industry related, Latest Trends in Supply Chain, CV related, Case analysis, Related to current energy problems in India
Round 2: My apprehensions about Accenture Round 3: HR Questions
Narration of the case
interview “I’m a chemical manufacturer. Help me optimize my outbound logistics”
What do you think went right in this interview?
- Work experience matched with their requirement - Industry knowledge
- Information about the company What do you think
went wrong in this interview?
In the case interview, I mistook “optimize” as “cost reduction” only. Should have taken other factors into consideration.
Any tips for future batches on the basis of your experience
- Be energetic and enthusiastic
- I firmly believe that the first 2 minutes in an interview decide the outcome to a great extent
- In the case interview, even if you go wrong at some place, do not fluster and keep trying
Interview Experience 11
Name Ipsa Kalra
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Company Accenture Management Consulting Name of interviewer
and designation Round 1- Anurag Johri, Strategy Head Round 2- HR
Round 3-Saurabh Bhatnagar-Partner
Round Case in first round only
Brief Profile Graduation in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata. Fresher.
Interview questions Round 1: Started with some questions on leadership as I stated it as strength. Followed by 2 cases on projected soap and 4 wheeler market in 2020.
Round 2: Basic HR questions on weaknesses and anyone apart from me who should make it to AMC.
Round 3: Questions on academics (PGDM), ranging from MANAC to economics and MS Excel.
Keynesian Vs Classical Types of Costing Lookup in excel Branding
General questions on the current education system in India Narration of the case
interview I was asked to choose an industry of my choice. I chose FMCG sector. I was first asked to give the market size of the soap market in the year 2020. The interviewer was not looking at numbers but at multiple approaches. I gave the income segmentation approach, rural-urban divide
approach. He suggested the extrapolation of GDP approach. I also made a point that in the urban market soaps are soon being replaced by shower gels etc.
What do you think went right in this interview?
The interview started on a good note and they liked the way I spoke and conducted myself.
What do you think went wrong in this interview?
They expected me to suggest the GDP approach myself.
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Any tips for future batches on the basis of your experience
Consulting interviews require you to be able to give a holistic picture of the case presented. Keep the interviewer involved at every step.
Interview Experience 12
Name: Meghana Katiki
Company: Accenture Management Consulting Name of interviewer
and designation Vivek Mishra, Ridhima (HR) and one more Senior partner Brief Profile IIT Kharagpur, Biotechnology, Deloitte Consulting -23
Months
Interview questions Round 1: Case and CV
Explain me one of the projects you took up at Deloitte
Why consulting
Which subjects did you like in term 1
Based on my answer he said link Marketing and Economics.
Explain one initiative you took
Round 2: HR
What do you like about Accenture
What do you remember from Accenture’s PPT
Did you attend the session by our senior partner, Give one positive and one negative feedback
I handled the negative part very tactfully: starting with slight negativity but ending on a very positive note.
Would like to join IB or GTIN.
Understand the difference properly.
Round 3: CV
Walk me through your academic background.
Why did you leave something as promising as Biotechnology for something as mundane as Management consulting.
Tell me one challenging task that you did I gave the example of a project at Deloitte.
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Narration of the case
interview Well a guesstimate was given to me but I never realised it was one. I told about how demand is actually estimated in Apple and how they produce less than the estimation to keep the hype.
What do you think went right in this interview?
I knew from beforehand what they were looking for. I could project all those qualities in some or the other answer. My HR answers were well prepared and reviewed before I entered the interview.
I kept a smiling face though one of the interviewers’ kept a shrewd expression on his face.
I steered the interview in my way by giving answers of all HR questions based on experiences and stories and talking about things I knew very well so that I could handle the drilling questions.
What do you think went wrong in this interview?
I took Economics’ name as one of my favourite subjects and couldn’t answer some questions properly.
Any tips for future batches on the basis of your experience
Any company, any interview, HR answers are extremely important. More so to tailor the answers to the company. It is also important to understand the values and culture of the company and portray a fit in the interview. Accenture’s PPT is very important to them. If you are serious about that company make sure you attend the ppt.
Interview Experience 13
Name Preethi Viswanathan
Company Accenture Management Consulting Name of interviewer
and designation Senior Manager
Round Had three rounds of interviews
Brief Profile Electrical Engineering from Anna University; Prior work experience - 11 months as Graduate Engineer Trainee in Larsen & Toubro Ltd, ECC division
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Interview questions Round 1:
Some basic questions like tell me about yourself, other interviews for the day
Why did you choose consulting?
Questions on POR's mentioned in the CV and which I consider the most important among them
Why Accenture and how do I feel it is different from the other consulting firms?
I was also asked about my role models
Questions regarding power sector – what are the problems in the sector at present
Case on a pure-play thermal power generator with installed capacity of 2,000 MW in India. The company is making losses in the recent years
I went ahead with a lot of questioning regarding the company, type of clients current financial position, current risk exposure in terms of fuel, market etc and the related businesses that the company is already into.
I came up with a framework to analyses the profitability using the basic structure of costs and revenues. I first analysed on the cost side considering various parameters like fuel, distribution, overheads etc.
I was then told to focus only on the revenue side.
After further probing about the pricing and the sales volume (in MW) , the interviewer indicated that the power was sold only to the government. It was found that the company generated power which exceeded the government's requirement as per the contract with the company. I recommended that the excess power generated could be sold to private players to minimize losses
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Round 2: HR round
Questions on primary skills required for a person in consulting
Was asked about which of the skills I have and which I still need to develop
Question was again asked about why consulting and why Accenture?
Round 3:
The Partner asked me about my educational
background, my interest in music, my favourite course in Term I. After I told it was marketing, I was
questioned on some basics and was asked to explain my marketing project. I was also questioned on some challenges I faced here at IIM L.
Questions on work experience were asked maily relating to the role I had at L&T.
After that he urged me to ask questions as he felt I have been asked enough. I questioned him about some news which was mentioned in the RG doc about AMC opening an Innovation centre.
I further questioned him about the roles offered and the functions of IB and GTIN and sector preference for projects.
He explained the answers in a detailed fashion.
I was asked to wait for a while, the offer was made and I accepted it.
Narration of the case
interview Explained above
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What do you think went right in this interview?
I prepared well for HR answers and was able to answer the questions on consulting well.
Thorough knowledge about everything that I wrote on the CV
A firm answer about why I wanted to join AMC as it was asked in all rounds of my interview
What do you think went wrong in this interview?
Nothing that I can specifically point out.
Any tips for future batches on the basis of your experience
• For AMC, it pays well to know well about what work the company does and some recent
happenings that the company was involved in.
• Frame good questions for asking at the end of the interview as my third round was primarily based on that
• Generate a plethora of options when analysing a case. It shows that you can think in multiple directions. In summers, most companies look only for people with ideas rather than skills.
Hence, this is the most important phase of a case interview as far as summers are concerned.
• Thorough CV and HR preparation are of prime importance
Interview Experience 14
Name: Salonee Gupta
Company: Accenture Management Consulting Name of interviewer
and designation HR Head, Saurav
Round I had 3 rounds of interviews
Brief Profile Civil Engineer from Delhi College of Engineering, with 23 months experience in Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd.
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Interview questions Round 1: Some ice breakers like about yourself, walk me