Very straightforward, partners & senior managers were friendly and asked expected technical questions. Key thing to stand out is to really research the company and how the grad programme works - focus on exactly what you will do in assurance, what the role would look like and also some basic accounting understanding.
Accepted offer
Positive experience
Difficult interview
Application
I applied online. I interviewed at PwC (London, England) in May 2014
Interview
Online Tests + personality test (you get two goes at the online test, so don't worry)
Phone Interview (In reality, it doesn't last that long, make sure your answers are well structured, mostly competency, the rest are the standard why PWC? Why Audit? Why ACA? etc)
Assessment Centre (group task - just be a normal human being, written task - make sure you write a conclusion!, psychometric tests on paper - do not fail these, practise beforehand)
Partner Interview(mostly competency based)
Offer
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What do you know of our client base? Which do you most want to work with? And Why?
What do you know about ACA? Why ACA?
Something in the news that interests you and talk about it
They will usually ask 2 of the 3 questions in the phone interview.
Partner interview can be whatever the partner wants, but in my case it was all scripted and all just competency questions.
online application for graduate role had initial aptitude test. I passed and did the one way digital interview which was just answering 2 questions where you record your self. Passed and went to assessment center which was a group case study and interview.
There will be 2 parts in the interview process. First is case study and second is user interview. Case study is about if you become an auditor, how will you audit the client. The user interview is basic questions like experience, where will you be in 5 years, etc.