PwC Interview Questions & Partner Experience

Accounting & Professional Services
#1

Just had my PwC Partner Interview - It was heavily competency based, focusing on about 8 different ‘Tell me when you…’.

Here are the list of questions that I sourced from around the forum (Occurring in PwC Telephone or Partner Interviews)

  • When you’ve Asked to do something against your belief?
  • When you’ve had a conflict or Issue with a colleague/Customer
  • When you’ve Applied skill from university to work
  • When you’ve Acted with No Guidance
  • When you’ve Recognised an Error / Corrected someone’s mistake
  • When you’ve Given Feedback
  • When you’ve Looked for connections beyond your network?
  • When you’ve Developed a new or better way of doing something
  • When you’ve Shared knowledge
  • When you’ve Convince/persuade someone of something - Worked with a group which has opposing views
  • When you’ve Improved a piece of work after criticism / Received feedback and improved
  • When you’ve Demonstrated exceptional service
  • When you’ve Successfully managed a project – Challenges overcame, who supported you, Outcome
  • When you’ve Failed to accomplish something / deadline
  • Biggest Failure
  • When you’ve Built a relationship
  • When you’ve Worked with someone with a different style – how did this differ to your own.
  • When you’ve Weren’t given enough guidance
  • When you’ve Worked with people outside your usual network
  • When you’ve Complex problem / Unpredictable Circumstances
  • When you’ve Multiple projects and a short deadline
  • When you’ve Built a strong relationship for short time
  • When you’ve Dealt with some issue diplomatically
  • When you’ve Different roles while working on a project
  • When you’ve actively sought feedback
  • When you’ve Raised concern with a colleague or classmate
  • When you’ve Completed a task with no supervision
  • When you’ve Sought different perspectives to solve a problem / Raised concern with a peer
  • When you’ve Worked in a team to achieve a goal
#2

Hey, were the questions similar to the ones asked during the phone interview? Did your partner asked anything regarding current business issues? If yes, how did you answer?

#3

How do you feel you did? Have you received an offer/feedback?

#4

Felt it went good, heard some people had very informal chats with their interviews which was unlike mine. But, still waiting to hear back.

#5

Yeah similar ones revolving around the pwc professional. I wasn’t however it is something that may be asked under business accumen. I had prepared to talk about the EU Audit reform - auditors forced to change audit clients every 10 years, and only provide non-audit services to those clients equating to a maximum of 70% of the audit bill. This obviously has a knock on affect to consulting, so would’ve talked about that.

#6

Best of luck, mine is tomorrow

#7

How did it go???

#8

Thanks very much for posting this. Can I ask what kind of questions they asked about commercial awareness / business acumen? Congrats on getting the interview and best of luck to you!

#9

Your partner interview sounds like a very formal interview. Which office did you apply to?

#10

Hi, thanks for your sharing, could you share something about how did you pass your assessment centre?
thanks