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Accenture software engineer interview process, full loop: what I went through in 2026

backend_bekah · 6 replies

Just finished the full Accenture SWE loop for a mid-level role on their Federal tech side. Took about 5 weeks start to finish, which honestly felt fast given how big the company is.

Here's roughly how it went:

Week 1: Recruiter phone screen (30 min). Pretty standard stuff. They wanted to know my background, current stack (Java/Spring for me), and whether I had experience working on client-facing delivery projects. Nothing technical yet.

Week 2: Online assessment via Codility. Two coding problems, 90 minutes total. One was a medium-difficulty array/string manipulation thing, the other involved some graph traversal. Nothing that would break a Leetcode medium grinder.

Week 3: Technical phone screen with a tech lead. This surprised me a bit. We did a live coding problem in a shared doc (not a proper IDE), then pivoted into a design question. They wanted me to talk through a basic REST API design for a data ingestion service. Nothing wild, but you should be able to talk about database choice, caching, and failure handling without freezing.

Week 4-5: Virtual onsite. Three rounds back to back. One more coding round (again Leetcode medium territory), one system design round, one behavioral/leadership round. The behavioral round was heavy on their Core Values: client value, collaboration, respect, stewardship. Know those cold.

Leveling feels a bit opaque compared to companies with published leveling guides. My role was titled "Senior Software Engineer" which maps roughly to 4-6 YOE in practice.

Total time in interviews: around 6 hours across the process. Feedback was light. They said they'd have an answer in a week and they actually stuck to that, which was nice.

Happy to answer specifics if anyone's prepping for a similar track.

6 replies

newgrad_neil

Did they ask any SQL or data structure questions in the phone screen or was it purely OOP/API stuff? I'm coming from a CS background with Java and want to know how much to brush up on SQL.

backend_bekah

No SQL in my loop but I was interviewing for a backend eng role, not data. I've heard their data/analytics tracks include SQL. For the SWE track it was basically arrays, trees, some graph stuff. Standard algo prep should cover you.

sre_sol

The shared Google Doc coding thing is... a choice. I had the same experience at a consulting firm a while back. Autocomplete ghost leaves the building and suddenly you're remembering what ArrayList is called from memory.

veteran_vance

Thanks for this breakdown. Accenture Federal is on my shortlist since they do a lot of DoD work and my clearance would transfer. Good to see the loop is reasonable.

visa_vik

Do they sponsor H1B for the Federal track? Asking because I know a lot of federal contractor roles exclude non-citizens. Trying to understand if it's even worth applying.

backend_bekah

Honestly not sure on the Federal side specifically. For commercial tech roles they do sponsor, but Federal can have citizenship requirements depending on clearance level. Worth asking the recruiter explicitly early on so you don't waste a month.