I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at PwC (Londres, Inglaterra) in Jan 2015
Interview
I applied online by doing the standard rigmarole, and a few days later, on a cold and blustery winter's night, got an email from PwC saying that they wanted to interview me over the phone. Shortly thereafter the interview took place. It was a very disappointing and dehumanising interview because it was clear that the woman interviewing me was simply reading from a sheet, asking me very bland and nebulous questions about teamwork and how I would help bring about a PwC-led utopian world. She had that monotone reading voice that many have that made her sound like she had the personality of an untoasted crumpet. Now, given that I never bothered to find out precisely what assurance is (I'm still uncertain), it's safe to say I was doomed from the start, and thus it transpired. My rejection email predictably followed the next day, coupled with a delightfully condescending 'performance review', presumably aimed at helping me transform myself into a PwC ubermensch.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time when you were working as part of a team? Did any conflicts arise? How did you resolve those conflicts? What was the end result? If you were working with your team here at PwC, and you had to decommission a thorium fusion reactor for a client in under a week, where would you begin, bearing in mind the PwC five-pronged flowchart of world beneficence? (this is obviously exaggeration, but it serves to illustrate the banality of the questions).
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at PwC
Interview
The new interview process covers several acumen areas: business, global, whole leadership, relationships, and technical. Several questions can be asked for each area and there will be follow up questions based on your response to the question. You will likely need to be able to provide examples of a time you demonstrated leadership, technical capabilities, or business acumen. Being caught up on current events will help for global acumen - this might not always be an essential question to get right for on campus interviews.
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at PwC (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2013
Interview
College Recruiting. PwC has a dedicated recruiting team that comes to all the schools in the area and sets up interviews. We then interviewed with managers or senior managers and then would get invited to the office for a partner interview. They would fly us to the office we are recuriting at or the closest office.