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Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected
I applied via campus placement at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi and was interviewed in May 2023.
4 Interview Rounds
1
Resume Shortlist Round
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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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2
Aptitude Test Round
45 questions in 60 mins
3
Technical Round (1 Question)
- Q1. Introduce yourself Add Answer
4
HR Round (1 Question)
- Q1. Why is your CGPA what it is? View Answers (1)
Interview experience
Excellent
Difficulty level
Easy
Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
-
I applied via Referral and was interviewed before Oct 2023.
1 Interview Round
1
One-on-one Round (1 Question)
- Q1. What do you want to do in this space View Answers (1)
I applied via Referral and was interviewed before Dec 2021.
3 Interview Rounds
1
Resume Shortlist Round
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2
Aptitude Test Round
PwC gamified assessment - testing on memory, analytical skills, reaction time. ends with numerical assessment
3
One-on-one Round (2 Questions)
- Q1. Why PwC? Different from other big 4 Add Answer
- Q2. Why this department? Add Answer
Interview Preparation Tips
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be proactive and engaged in interview. Show you passion for the respective industry and programme you're applying for. Learn about pwc and their work
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Hello All,
I am currently working as a Senior Consultant with PwC since May 2022. I have an offer from Tech Mahindra of 20LPA (17.5 fixed) and currently I am in a package of 13LPA(11.69 fixed).
Total exp: 6 years as Business Analyst
Will it be a good decision to switch to Tech Mahindra or stay with PwC for longer term?
Need your guidance and help on deciding the same?
Thanks in advance
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Interview experience
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Duration
-
Result
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2 Interview Rounds
1
Group Discussion Round
Ai was the topic, speak for less than 2 minutes
2
HR Round (1 Question)
- Q1. Why ey? What do you know about gen.ai Add Answer
Interview Preparation Tips
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - stay calm and it will be fine
Interview experience
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected
I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Sep 2023.
3 Interview Rounds
1
Resume Shortlist Round
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.
View all tips
2
Case Study Round
One is about the profit improvement and the other one is about market entry
3
Behavioral interview Round (2 Questions)
- Q1. Behavior and case Add Answer
- Q2. Working experience Add Answer
2 Interview Rounds
1
Resume Shortlist Round
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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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2
One-on-one Round (2 Questions)
- Q1. Have your basics clear Add Answer
- Q2. Tell me about yourself Add Answer
Interview Preparation Tips
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be confident while giving the interview and ask question at the end
I applied via campus placement at Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow
1 Interview Round
Interview Questions
- Q1. Tell me something about yourself
View Answers (1)
- Q2. Tell me about some problems you faced working in a team in your previous company
View Answers (1)
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: There is a finance department with a car dealer. The other executives in the office question the use of finance department. Discuss.
Me: What are the current functions of finance department?
Interviewer: Normal operations of finance desks at a care dealer.
Me: So, they provide loan to customers
Interviewer: yes.
Me:Does other banks also have desks at the car dealer's showroom.
Interviewer: Yes, 5-6 other banks also sit there.
Interviewer: Around 10% or less than that.
Me: What are our loan rates like?
Interviewer: They are a little higher than other banks.
ME: Summarized the findings till now and stated the question that we need to explore.
Me: I would like to explore the fact that why would even 10% of people get their loans from the fin.Dept.
Interviewer: Ya, what can be the possible reasons?
Me: Maybe, they are not getting loans from other banks i.e. they are not that creditworthy.
Interviewer: yes, but why in that case a finance dept. bear the risk that a bank doesn't want to.
Me: Because, the finance dept. is internal to the car dealer, so they can charge higher rates and higher down payments. this can help finance dept. in reducing the risk of non-payment.
Interviewer: Ok, and what can be the other way in which an internal finance dept help the car dealer.
Me: The finance dept. can offer the customers to sell back their old car and buy new car again after 2-3 years and the finance dept will renew the loan.
Interviewer:Ok, why wouldn't a bank do that?
Me:Because banks lose their interest on the remaining loan. But an internal finance dept. can afford to lose some interest on the context of selling a new car and making profit on it.
interviewer: Fine.
Me: I would like to summarize the case once.
Tips: 1. Listening is very important component of the case interview. Listen to clues well.
2. Summarizing the case, and data once or twice in between the case at times help, when you have lots of data and you feel that you may have lost your focus.
3. Summarizing at the end of case interview in very important.
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: A car service company is planning to open a huge service station which will service cars from all/major car companies.
Discuss the aspects that he should consider before opening such a station.
I started with one or two enquiries about the service station to gauge the scope of the case.
I came to know that we need to find out what cars will the station service, what are the services that we will offer etc.
I suggested that i will focus on one particular city and then start with the discussion. Interviewer was fine with it.
Key aspects that came out of the case:
1. Station should focus on few brands only which could help the station capture a hogh percentage of market
2.Station can offer three kind of services:
- Regular repair services: High volume, low profit
-Periodic car service : Mid volume, mid profit, regular customers
-Accidental services: low volume, high profit
I offered to provide last two services and forgo the first service.
Few more points were discussed related to a station in Delhi, where I talked about purchasing and driving patterns particular to Delhi and how few specialized services can help in generating more profit there.
Tips: Take some time and explore all possible options. A free and open mind is very important in a case interview.
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: A manufacturer produces 3 products A,B and C. He currently concentrates more on A. But, his financial manager says that he should concentrate on C. The revenue, profit, units sold, time taken to produce a unit A, B and C
Tips: Do not get bogged down by too much data. See what is important for you.
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: A telecom service operator incurs huge cost in communicating one-2-one with its customers. Help the firm in reducing its cost.
The firm may be communicating with its customers using three possible mediums:
-postal
-SMS
-Service calls
Focusing on Postal:
Postal billing is affected by few factors, such as:
-Distance of communication
-Frequency of communication
-Number of customers to communicate with
Distance of communication
After few questions, we came to know that the company sends all letters from a central hub. So distance can be reduced by sending the bills from each city office. A printing setup can be established in each city office and bills can be dispatched locally.
Frequency of communication
We can explore the option of not sending the bills each month. But, in that case customers won't be paying their bills also each month.
Suppose cost of a post in Rs 10.
@12% annual interest rate, for a bill of amount less than 500 Rs, interest lost for two months will be less than rs 10.
Therefore, for bills less than 500 amount, bills can be sent once in two months.
Number of customers
Customers can be asked for an option if they actually want paper bill or not.
But this option was rejected by interviewer on account that ideally all customers will want a paper bill.
The interviewer also agreed about the assumption that cost of sms or calls won't be that significant.
Tips: I didn't come up with interest rate and loss of interest rate and loss of interest concept on my own.
I thought about it but rejected it thinking that it may be out of scope of the case. But then the interviewer had to give me direct hints about this. Do not reject any idea on your own. Discuss it with interviewer and give him the option of rejecting or exploring it further. They would like to see the breadth of your thinking. So, any 'out of the box' idea can actually help during the interview.
Skills:
Duration: 3
College Name: IIM Lucknow
Experience: There is a finance department with a car dealer. The other executives in the office question the use of finance department. Discuss.
Me: What are the current functions of finance department?
Interviewer: Normal operations of finance desks at a care dealer.
Me: So, they provide loan to customers
Interviewer: yes.
Me:Does other banks also have desks at the car dealer's showroom.
Interviewer: Yes, 5-6 other banks also sit there.
Me: What are our loan rates like?
Interviewer: They are a little higher than other banks.
ME: Summarized the findings till now and stated the question that we need to explore.
Me: I would like to explore the fact that why would even 10% of people get their loans from the fin.Dept.
Interviewer: Ya, what can be the possible reasons?
Me: Maybe, they are not getting loans from other banks i.e. they are not that creditworthy.
Interviewer: yes, but why in that case a finance dept. bear the risk that a bank doesn't want to.
Me: Because, the finance dept. is internal to the car dealer, so they can charge higher rates and higher down payments. this can help finance dept. in reducing the risk of non-payment.
Interviewer: Ok, and what can be the other way in which an internal finance dept help the car dealer.
Me: The finance dept. can offer the customers to sell back their old car and buy new car again after 2-3 years and the finance dept will renew the loan.
Interviewer:Ok, why wouldn't a bank do that?
Me:Because banks lose their interest on the remaining loan. But an internal finance dept. can afford to lose some interest on the context of selling a new car and making profit on it.
interviewer: Fine.
Me: I would like to summarize the case once.
Tips: 1. Listening is very important component of the case interview. Listen to clues well.
2. Summarizing the case, and data once or twice in between the case at times help, when you have lots of data and you feel that you may have lost your focus.
3. Summarizing at the end of case interview in very important.
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: A car service company is planning to open a huge service station which will service cars from all/major car companies.
Discuss the aspects that he should consider before opening such a station.
I started with one or two enquiries about the service station to gauge the scope of the case.
I came to know that we need to find out what cars will the station service, what are the services that we will offer etc.
I suggested that i will focus on one particular city and then start with the discussion. Interviewer was fine with it.
Key aspects that came out of the case:
1. Station should focus on few brands only which could help the station capture a hogh percentage of market
2.Station can offer three kind of services:
- Regular repair services: High volume, low profit
-Periodic car service : Mid volume, mid profit, regular customers
-Accidental services: low volume, high profit
I offered to provide last two services and forgo the first service.
Few more points were discussed related to a station in Delhi, where I talked about purchasing and driving patterns particular to Delhi and how few specialized services can help in generating more profit there.
Tips: Take some time and explore all possible options. A free and open mind is very important in a case interview.
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: A manufacturer produces 3 products A,B and C. He currently concentrates more on A. But, his financial manager says that he should concentrate on C. The revenue, profit, units sold, time taken to produce a unit A, B and C
Tips: Do not get bogged down by too much data. See what is important for you.
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: A telecom service operator incurs huge cost in communicating one-2-one with its customers. Help the firm in reducing its cost.
The firm may be communicating with its customers using three possible mediums:
-postal
-SMS
-Service calls
Focusing on Postal:
Postal billing is affected by few factors, such as:
-Distance of communication
-Frequency of communication
-Number of customers to communicate with
Distance of communication
After few questions, we came to know that the company sends all letters from a central hub. So distance can be reduced by sending the bills from each city office. A printing setup can be established in each city office and bills can be dispatched locally.
Frequency of communication
We can explore the option of not sending the bills each month. But, in that case customers won't be paying their bills also each month.
Suppose cost of a post in Rs 10.
@12% annual interest rate, for a bill of amount less than 500 Rs, interest lost for two months will be less than rs 10.
Therefore, for bills less than 500 amount, bills can be sent once in two months.
Number of customers
Customers can be asked for an option if they actually want paper bill or not.
But this option was rejected by interviewer on account that ideally all customers will want a paper bill.
The interviewer also agreed about the assumption that cost of sms or calls won't be that significant.
Tips: I didn't come up with interest rate and loss of interest rate and loss of interest concept on my own.
I thought about it but rejected it thinking that it may be out of scope of the case. But then the interviewer had to give me direct hints about this. Do not reject any idea on your own. Discuss it with interviewer and give him the option of rejecting or exploring it further. They would like to see the breadth of your thinking. So, any 'out of the box' idea can actually help during the interview.
Skills:
Duration: 3
College Name: IIM Lucknow
I applied via campus placement at Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow
1 Interview Round
Interview Questions
- Q1. Tell me something about yourself?
View Answers (3)
- Q2. Why consulting
View Answers (1)
- Q3. About a project on wireless communications
Add Answer
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: Nokia is currently the leader in the market for mobile phones in India. Motorola is far behind it and wants to increase its market share by around 10%. Give three suggestions for doing the same.
I started off by asking about the price segments in which the mobile phones are sold. These were sold in all categories from low price to the very expensive ones. Then I inquired if the features available in similarly priced models of other cos differed but the answer was no.
So basically price was not the issue.
Then i inquired if the expenditure on advertising was comparable to the other cos to which the answer was yes..
I suggested that probably the people were skeptical about certain features of the mobile sets, like their durability wtc. upon which the company never focused in advertisements. So probably a survey could be conducted to find if there is anything particular that the people are skeptical about.
Also the company could have a tie-up with CDMA vendors like reliance or TATA Indicom, where the mobile sets are provided along with the connection.
Tips: You should be thorough with your resume and study the sectors related to your past projects pretty well.
Skills:
Duration: 2
College Name: IIM Lucknow
Experience: Nokia is currently the leader in the market for mobile phones in India. Motorola is far behind it and wants to increase its market share by around 10%. Give three suggestions for doing the same.
I started off by asking about the price segments in which the mobile phones are sold. These were sold in all categories from low price to the very expensive ones. Then I inquired if the features available in similarly priced models of other cos differed but the answer was no.
So basically price was not the issue.
Then i inquired if the expenditure on advertising was comparable to the other cos to which the answer was yes..
I suggested that probably the people were skeptical about certain features of the mobile sets, like their durability wtc. upon which the company never focused in advertisements. So probably a survey could be conducted to find if there is anything particular that the people are skeptical about.
Also the company could have a tie-up with CDMA vendors like reliance or TATA Indicom, where the mobile sets are provided along with the connection.
Tips: You should be thorough with your resume and study the sectors related to your past projects pretty well.
Skills:
Duration: 2
College Name: IIM Lucknow
I applied via campus placement at Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow
1 Interview Round
Interview Questions
- Q1. Asked about job profile
Add Answer
- Q2. How was your day?
Add Answer
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: There was a painting on the wall. You have to bid for it in an auction on behalf of your client. How will you do its valuation? How will you justify to your client in case you are bidding for it in excess of Rs. 1 crore?
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: An FMCG company wants to enter into packaged fruit juice segment in India. What all aspects should it take into account?
Value proposition of fruit juices w.r.t to its substitutes? Why different packaging, pricing strategy?
Tips: Try to cover as many aspects as possible.
Skills:
Duration: 2
College Name: IIM Lucknow
Experience: There was a painting on the wall. You have to bid for it in an auction on behalf of your client. How will you do its valuation? How will you justify to your client in case you are bidding for it in excess of Rs. 1 crore?
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: An FMCG company wants to enter into packaged fruit juice segment in India. What all aspects should it take into account?
Value proposition of fruit juices w.r.t to its substitutes? Why different packaging, pricing strategy?
Tips: Try to cover as many aspects as possible.
Skills:
Duration: 2
College Name: IIM Lucknow
6 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Tell me abiut yourself
Add Answer
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: It was a shortlisting done on the company side basis on resume
Tips: Keep your resume as diverse as possible. Try to be an all rounder!
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Make your point in a systematic manner.
Tips: Speak 3-4 valid points.
Duration: 45 minutes
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: All questions are based on your resume, current events and about the company
Tips: Try to look passionate, smile and be as flexible as possible
Experience: It was a shortlisting done on the company side basis on resume
Tips: Keep your resume as diverse as possible. Try to be an all rounder!
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Make your point in a systematic manner.
Tips: Speak 3-4 valid points.
Duration: 45 minutes
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: All questions are based on your resume, current events and about the company
Tips: Try to look passionate, smile and be as flexible as possible
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PwC interview process for freshers usually has 2-3 rounds. The most common rounds in the PwC interview process for freshers are Resume Shortlist, Aptitude Test and One-on-one Round.
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