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Updated 11 Jan 2025

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Analyst Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 17 Jul 2024

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Technical questions are asked of medium difficulty

Round 2 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Tell me about yourself
  • Q2. Values of our company

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare well from you cv

Analyst Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. N-th Fibonacci NumberYou are given an integer ‘N’, your task is to find and return the N’th Fibonacci number using matrix exponentiation. Since the answer can be very large, return the answer modulo 10^9 +7. Fibonacci number is calculated u... read more
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Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
6-8 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Jan 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. What is Hash map? What app did you build How do u maintain app life cycle
  • Ans. 

    A hash map is a data structure that allows for efficient storage and retrieval of key-value pairs.

    • A hash map uses a hash function to convert keys into array indices.

    • It provides constant-time average case complexity for insertion, deletion, and retrieval operations.

    • Hash maps are commonly used in programming languages and databases for fast data access.

    • Example: HashMap map = new HashMap<>();

    • map.put("appl

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Senior Developer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. What is your current CTC and what is your expected CTC?
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Tax Associate Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 26 Apr 2024

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Verbal, Accounts, logical reasoning

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Accounting Standaards, Journals, Trail Balance

Top PwC Tax Associate Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. What is the accounting procedure for Bad debts
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Tax Associate Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. 1- Difference between Traditional IRA VS Roth IRA 2- What is Sch H? 3- Suppose in sch C if the net loss is $10,000 which includes home office expenses of $5000 then how much home office expenses can be deducted? 4- Liability vs Provision? 5... read more
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Technology c Interview Questions & Answers

user image Yash Murarka

posted on 30 May 2024

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

60 minutes 45 questions

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Concepts of OOPS,SQL, MS Excel

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 (27)

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via campus placement at Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore and was interviewed before Mar 2023. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - One-on-one 

(5 Questions)

  • Q1. Tell me about yourself
  • Q2. Why PwC India and why a career in management consulting
  • Q3. Since you are a fresher, why should I select you over people with more work experience and/ or with more relevant qualifications like CA/ CFA
  • Q4. Mini case: Suppose you have been contracted by a trucking company. They are facing an issue in terms of collections, their debtor turnover is way less than the industry standard. Walk me through the proces...
  • Q5. Do you have any questions for me
Round 2 - HR 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. Why do you want to join PwC India
  • Q2. Where do you see yourself in the next 5 years
  • Q3. Do you have any more questions for me

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for PwC Management Consultant interview:
  • Business Case
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Very standard campus recruiting process; solving cases and being thorough with your resume goes a long way.

Management Consultant Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Case study: Assuming you are the product manager for a warehousing module, how will you develop a warehouse inventory module
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Get interview-ready with Top PwC Interview Questions

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

Simple coding test with easy to medium level questions

Round 2 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. What motivated you to get into this field ?
  • Q2. What are your long term goals

Software Developer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Maximum Subarray SumGiven an array of numbers, find the maximum sum of any contiguous subarray of the array. For example, given the array [34, -50, 42, 14, -5, 86], the maximum sum would be 137, since we would take elements 42, 14, -5, and ... read more
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Manager Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 27 May 2024

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Questions about PMP

Top PwC Manager Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. How to schedule thermal power after bundling with solar and wind?
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Manager Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. There is a chairman of a conglomerate. He has been on the post for 10 years, and is extremely dominating. He treats the various business heads like children, not letting them take any major decision. While the chairman has negatives, he bel... read more
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Chartered Accountant interview

user image Mudit Yadav

posted on 16 Nov 2021

Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Sep 2023. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - Aptitude Test 

General knowledge and efficiency test

Round 3 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Why should we hire you
  • Q2. Why this organisation

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be patient and knowledge ful

Student Intern Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Have you finished the database and data structures courses in you study program?
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Senior Associate Interview Questions & Answers

user image Sukanya Basu

posted on 25 Sep 2023

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Mar 2023. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Don’t add your photo or details such as gender, age, and address in your resume. These details do not add any value.
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Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. I have interviewed for Devops engineer mostly asked questions based on my domain. There are 4 rounds of interview 1st technical round, 2nd manager round and 3rd is director round and 4th is hr round, It w...
  • Q2. Describe devops cicd pipeline and each steps associated with it? AWS questions Difference between RUN CP , COPY and ADD command in docker file What is parent and child pom xml

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for PwC Senior Associate interview:
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Jenkins
  • Terraform

Top PwC Senior Associate Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. What is Materiality, How to decide Materiality , who decide what will be the level of Materiality ?
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Senior Associate Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. On an average, how many invoices can you process in a day?
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PwC Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in PwC interview for freshers?
PwC interview process for freshers usually has 2-3 rounds. The most common rounds in the PwC interview process for freshers are Technical, One-on-one Round and Aptitude Test.
How to prepare for PwC interview for freshers?
Go through your CV in detail and study all the technologies mentioned in your CV. Prepare at least two technologies or languages in depth if you are appearing for a technical interview at PwC. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at PwC expect are Leadership Development, Research Analysis, Management, Advisory and Consulting.
What are the top questions asked in PwC interview for freshers?

Some of the top questions asked at the PwC interview for freshers -

  1. Mention some specific instance of data breach loss suffered by any MNC and how ...read more
  2. What are the Fundamental Accounting Assumptio...read more
  3. Do you know about stlc explain something about st...read more
How long is the PwC interview process?

The duration of PwC interview process can vary, but typically it takes about less than 2 weeks to complete.

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PwC Interview Process for Freshers

based on 66 interviews in last 1 year

Interview experience

4.1
  
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People are getting interviews through

based on 95 PwC interviews
Campus Placement
Job Portal
Referral
Company Website
WalkIn
Recruitment Consultant
45%
19%
17%
6%
1%
1%
11% candidates got the interview through other sources.
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High Confidence means the data is based on a large number of responses received from the candidates.

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