Accenture HireVue Interview Questions and How to Answer Them
Accenture graduate and campus candidates report a HireVue video interview in place of the old telephone screen. These are the questions they report, with how to answer them.
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How the Accenture HireVue works
Accenture HireVue questions candidates report
12 questions from Accenture HireVue interviews. Prepare a story for each type rather than a script for each question.
Motivation and fit
Tell me about yourself.
Why do you want to work at Accenture?
What do you know about Accenture, who are its competitors and how is it different?
Graduate Analyst
What are your strengths and weaknesses?
Behavioural
Tell me about a time you worked on a highly effective team. What made it successful?
Can you talk about one of your leadership experiences?
Singapore
Give an example of when you had to work with someone who was difficult to get along with.
Tell me about a time when you had to learn something quickly.
Describe a challenging situation you faced during a project and how you resolved it.
How do you prioritise tasks when facing a tight deadline?
Describe a situation where you had to manage conflicting requirements from different stakeholders.
Technology and business
How do businesses use technology?
Graduate Analyst
How to answer Accenture HireVue questions
Know Accenture against its rivals
Graduate candidates report being asked what they know about Accenture, who its competitors are and how it differs. Have three facts ready: what Accenture sells (consulting, technology work and managed services across areas such as AI and data, cloud, cybersecurity and strategy), one firm it competes with, and one thing Accenture does that the rival does not.
Give a real example for the technology question
“How do businesses use technology?” is reported as the hardest question for one graduate analyst. Avoid a list. Pick one business, one technology and one result, such as a retailer using data to cut stock waste, and say what it changed for its customers or costs.
Show you can embrace change
Accenture says its people “embrace change and create value for all our stakeholders.” The question about learning something quickly is the natural place for this: say what you had to learn, how you went about it and what you then delivered with it.
Treat stakeholders as clients
Conflicting stakeholder requirements and difficult colleagues come up in the reported questions, and Accenture’s work is client projects with many stakeholders. Say how you found out what each person needed, what trade-off you proposed and how you kept everyone informed.
Tips for recording your answers
- Use a desktop or laptop with the latest Google Chrome, as Accenture’s video interview page recommends.
- Turn off any VPN or proxy and use a broadband connection, not mobile data, before you start.
- Run the compatibility check on the login page well before your deadline.
- Use the practice question to check camera, sound and framing.
- Use the thinking time to note three words: the situation, what you did and the result.
- With up to three minutes, aim for about two, and look at the lens rather than your own picture.
Frequently asked questions
Does Accenture use HireVue?
Graduate and campus candidates report a HireVue video interview at Accenture, in place of a telephone screen. You log in through Accenture’s recruitment site to take it.
How many questions are in the Accenture HireVue?
Accenture does not publish a number. Candidates report five or six for graduate analyst roles and three to five for internships.
How long do you get to answer Accenture HireVue questions?
Candidates report about 30 seconds to read each question and up to three minutes to record the answer.
Can you retake Accenture HireVue answers?
Candidates report no retakes on the real questions. A practice question comes first.
What happens after the Accenture HireVue?
Candidates report an assessment centre or a case interview next, depending on the role.
Practise for the Accenture HireVue
Our AI interview practice uses the same one-way format: five questions on screen, 60 seconds to prepare, then up to a minute to answer on camera. Choose the finance focus and the questions lean towards finance, with feedback on relevance, clarity and structure and on what finance assessors look for, such as commercial awareness and integrity. You also get a model answer to your weakest question.
The questions are ours, not Accenture’s. Start answering before the 60 seconds are up to match a shorter thinking time, and since practice lets you re-record, do one session in a single take.
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