Career & Application at Accenture

Hi,

In general the interviews at Accenture are not that structured:

• No clear guidelines for cases, so the case depends on the interviewer
• 60% chance that it will be marketsizing
• 40% chance - profitability and general frameworks
• Interviewers are less demanding than at Big3. unless you meet an ex-big3 consultant as an interviewer
• For fit I would prepare: Story about yourself; Why consulting; Why Accenture; Leadership; Team work; Your questions to the interviewer

As for the lines - ACN strategy still has close ties to IT, and that's totally fine. In 3-4 years I believe that 70% of all consulting projects will be in digital for all companies. Also, Accenture is regrouping the lines every 5 years so the actual grouping does not matter.

It's a great company and you can make a transition. I've done it myself earlier.

Feel free to reach out for interview prep help

Best

Hi,

I worked at Accenture and McKinsey and here are my observations:

• Accenture is very international and lot's of the projects will come from abroad since Accenture is leading the global accounts
• Salaries are a bit higher than in Big4, but much lower than at MBBs
• Accenture has very deep expertise in digital and IT. Lots of Acn people make it to MBB digital branches now even without a downgrade
• Accenture a has much better culture than any other company in the industry

Best!

Hi,

I worked at Accenture and McKinsey and here are my observations:

• Accenture is very international and lot's of the projects will come from abroad since Accenture is leading the global accounts
• Salaries are a bit higher than in Big4, but much lower than at MBBs
• Accenture has very deep expertise in digital and IT. Lots of Acn people make it to MBB digital branches now even without a downgrade
• Accenture a has much better culture than any other company in the industry

Best!

Hi,

i have experience of working both at McKinsey and Accenture

1. Quality is much Higher at MBB. To give you a sence, what you are doing as an analyst at big4, at mck will be done by research department or even outsorced students. Though it's worth to say that if your director at big4 will be ex MBB, quality will be much higher
2. Knowledge base - McK knowledge base is extremely deep and helpfull. You have tons of materials on various topics
3. Support - at MBB you will have lots of people taking care of extra staff - doing research, visual design of slides, sophisticated models, oursourcing for making surveys in the field. At big4 you'll do that staff yourself
4. Costs - you will have better hotels, better dinners, better airline tickets, etc. This is important if you spend 90% of your life out of home
5. Exposurte to senior management may be higher, though it depends on the country. Since the projects are more expensive at MBB, you may have more senior people involved
6. Relocation to different countries - options highly depend on the org structure of MBB/Big 4 companiy. I've seen good and bad example in both. But since you have higher salaries and per diem, at MBB you'll definitely have a better lifestyle at MBB if you do relocation