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Accenture coding interview / online assessment, format and difficulty: took it last month so here's the breakdown

quietquit_quincy · 5 replies

Took the Accenture online assessment a few weeks ago while passively exploring options. Sharing the breakdown because honestly I couldn't find much recent info when I searched.

Platform: Codility. They emailed a link with a 5-day window to complete. I had 90 minutes once I started.

Format I got: 2 coding problems + 1 debugging problem. Problem 1: array manipulation, medium difficulty. Think "find the minimum operations to make all elements equal" type stuff. Nothing exotic. Problem 2: involved a basic graph (detect cycle or find connected components, I forget exactly). Medium again. Debug problem: they gave you broken code with a few bugs and you had to fix it in about 15 minutes. The language was Java but I've heard you can pick your language in some versions.

Difficulty: Honest answer is Leetcode medium. I didn't see any hard-tier problems. There's no adaptive difficulty that I noticed.

What I didn't see: No SQL questions, no system design, no multiple choice trivia. That might differ by role though. This was for a software engineering position in the commercial tech practice.

Time pressure: 90 minutes felt tight but manageable. I finished with maybe 10 minutes left.

Score/threshold: No idea what the pass bar is. I passed and moved to the phone screen, but I don't know my actual score.

One practical note: the coding environment in Codility is fine but not great. Test your environment before starting. I wasted 3 minutes figuring out how to run the tests.

5 replies

jp_newgrad

Did you get to choose the programming language or were you locked into Java? I'm more comfortable in Python and would hate to bomb a 90-minute window because of syntax.

quietquit_quincy

The debug problem was in Java but for the free-code problems I believe you could choose. I used Java since that's what I work in. Check when the link loads, before your timer starts.

analyst_ana

Thanks for this. I'm applying for a data analyst role and wondering if the OA is the same. I'd expect SQL to be in there. Did they differentiate by role or is it one generic OA?

hardware_hugo

Codility. Every company. Always. I've taken the same two medium-Leetcode problems in seventeen different Codility windows for seventeen different companies. The debugging section at least feels vaguely real.

bootcamp_bri

This is really reassuring. I've been drilling Leetcode hards thinking Accenture would be like a FAANG loop. Sounds like medium prep is totally sufficient.