So had my first interview in one of the big 4 but it got me completely off guard. First one was call screening and then a technical interview. Now what I didn’t expect is rather than technicalities they focused on the consulting a lot more. Now the role that was marketed was technical/Architect and they even said that in current capacity you’ll work here as a technical person. I don’t think it went well. Coming from a technical background I was hoping for coding .
Is it always like this?

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My experience with tech at Big 4 is most can talk high level but few can really dig into the technical side in depth. So you’ll have high level interviews that are technically easy and then you’ll be stuck on implementation projects cause no one else can do the actual work. YMMV

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Yes so I asked this question actually at the end. And they were very happy to explain. Current engagement is decided in technical capacity. It client oriented with hands-on. It has about 4-5 members.
For future he said you might get assigned to a project straight away or might get engaged in POC, client technical consultancy.

In my experience, interviews have begun to focus more on soft skills than just core tech skills. What makes you think it went poorly?

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I wouldn't spend too much time worrying about it. It sounds like the opportunity sort of fell in your lap and you weren't really even looking. If it's meant to be, it'll happen. Good luck!

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They're probably aiming to fill a very specific role that just so happens to have a focus on consulting. Sounds unfortunate, unless you think you could be happy knowing there may be potential down the road to turn into what you were looking for

I've been hearing the same thing - I think it's very much soft skills focused all the way through like SC1 noted, because there's not a lot of people that can actually assess technical skill levels so they kinda just leave it be

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