Associate applicants have rated the interview process at PwC with 2.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 77.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Associate roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 12 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at PwC overall takes an average of 24 days.
Common stages of the interview process at PwC as a Associate according to 12 Glassdoor interviews include:
Presentation: 25%
One on one interview: 19%
Group panel interview: 13%
Drug test: 13%
Phone interview: 6%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Skills test: 6%
Background check: 6%
Personality test: 6%
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at PwC (London, England) in Feb 2018
Interview
Began with introductions and a brief discussion of background, followed by 4-5 generic interview questions ,with the rest of the interview dedicated to discussing the team's subject focus and testing knowledge of the main concepts.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a time you worked in a team to solve a problem.
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me to speak towards my leadership initiative and also gave me a case question that had some targeted follow-up questions.