I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at PwC (Los Angeles, CA) in Jan 2010
Interview
The interview process involved at least 9 individuals. It seemed like the whole team was interviewing me. I was with other candidates and each of us was placed in a separate room. A panel of 3 to 4 individuals would come in and speak with me, once they were done another set would come in. Overall the interview process was intense but pleasant, and it had a lot more behavioral questions than technical questions. I ended up not getting the position. I was told by the recruiter that the position was filled by an internal candidate. Months later I was contacted by the same group again asking if I was still interested in the position. Apparently they really liked me and wanted me to interview with the director and partner of the group. I went in the interview and expected the best, but leaving unhappy. The interview with the partner went from really well to bad. I had a slip up and said Price Waterhouse instead of PricewaterhouseCoopers. He really gave me a hard time about it, and that is when our interview ended. I am guessing he was originally from Coopers and Lybrand. Later the recruiter reached out to me and told that the position was filled by another internal candidate. I really wish they had not contacted me the second time around.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There wasn’t anything that was unexpected, everything was pretty straightforward.
Takes quite a long time to complete the process, mostly 2 months to complete the full process. But, they will always be very through with the back ground checks. If you are looking forward to work here, never postpone your given Interview dates.
There were 4 rounds , HM 2. Technical round 3.technical round 4. Partner round. 2nd round Was 1:1 and 3rd round was with panel . The interveiw was average mostly on experience (related t data engineering)
Timely responses, recruiter email and call to check high level knowledge. Recruiter did not know many specifics about position, just was general screening. then 3 video one on one interviews, last interview was with partner. All staff were friendly and kind, all from group I would be joining.