Application:
I applied online via an employee referral
Overall take on the process:
Unprofessional, disorganized, and ghosted
Process: 3 months
HR Screening - standard and competent interviewer
Round 1 - Hiring Manager, was great. We kicked it off and he said he liked me. Questions were role related and behavioral.
Round 2 - Hiring Manager's boss. Really liked her as well. Questions were role related and more about fit. We talked for about 2 hours over lunch.
Round 3 - Head of the department. Mostly fit related questions. This was a new part of the process...because the Head of the Department said he wanted to meet every new person that was hired.
Here's where things got weird.
1 - HR that was handling the process went ghost. When I emailed him about my availability for the next round, his email was dead. Apparently, he abruptly left the company. I reached out to someone else on the team and they figured it out.
2 - It took 3 weeks to get the final interview scheduled. The interview went ok, but the director told me that his interview process was long AND that he didn't receive any follow-up regarding his offer for weeks, so he assumed he didn't get the job. He reached out a friend to his friend to figure out what went wrong, and the friend was like 'omg, the team thought they hired you and you had started. " So eventually HR and the hiring manager got it together.
This should've served as an omen.
So, I followed up with the replacement HR who facilitated the process after the interview to check on next steps. Crickets. So I followed up one more time with a call because, hey, the previous guy had warned me they drop the ball with offers. The HR lady was like, 'oh yea, I've been meaning to reach back out to you. I'll give you a call back in 15 minutes." She didn't call back. Unprofessional.
This was my first time where I had been through a final interview process where
1. The HR disappeared
2. The HR didn't communicate regarding the final steps.
There seems to be something broken with Accenture's HR workflow, follow-ups and offering process. If this is how they're treating people they want to impress, I can only imagine how employees get treated.