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4 Dec 2024
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I was interviewed in Dec 2016.
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Around 400 students applied for the company. Some 40 students were shortlisted from the resume. The company visited the institute for 3 different profiles. We were asked to fill a google doc and give our preference for the three profiles. Shortlisting was done according to the preference filled.
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: There were 8 people in the group. I managed to start the discussion and give it a direction. Everyone else were in agreement to the point I made which gave me a bonus. Each student had to give a concluding statement. Overall, I roughly spoke for around 3-4 minutes. 2 of us were shortlisted from the group.
Tips: 1. Always Always try to start the discussion.
2. If you are unable to start it, try giving a structure to the whole discussion.
3. Avoid deviating from the topic.
Duration: 20 minutes
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: This interview was majorly limited to my resume. It lasted around 40 minutes. We had a friendly discussion about my exchange semester in a foreign country. Technical questions were raised from my internship experience along with two guesstimates. Overall, the interview went very smooth. The interviewer was very friendly and even helped me clear a couple of roadblocks while solving a guesstimate.
Tips: 1. Try to build a connection with the interviewer.
2. Be thorough with your resume
3. Approach is all that matters during a guesstimate. Be sure to explain your approach clearly to the interviewer before you start. Make a proper flowchart on a piece of paper as you go along solving the guesstimate.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: A small HR interview which lasted around 10 minutes. I was asked all the common HR questions and was offered the role in the company at the end of this round.
Skills: Technical Skill And Speaking Skill, Guesstimate Skills
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Around 400 students applied for the company. Some 40 students were shortlisted from the resume. The company visited the institute for 3 different profiles. We were asked to fill a google doc and give our preference for the three profiles. Shortlisting was done according to the preference filled.
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: There were 8 people in the group. I managed to start the discussion and give it a direction. Everyone else were in agreement to the point I made which gave me a bonus. Each student had to give a concluding statement. Overall, I roughly spoke for around 3-4 minutes. 2 of us were shortlisted from the group.
Tips: 1. Always Always try to start the discussion.
2. If you are unable to start it, try giving a structure to the whole discussion.
3. Avoid deviating from the topic.
Duration: 20 minutes
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: This interview was majorly limited to my resume. It lasted around 40 minutes. We had a friendly discussion about my exchange semester in a foreign country. Technical questions were raised from my internship experience along with two guesstimates. Overall, the interview went very smooth. The interviewer was very friendly and even helped me clear a couple of roadblocks while solving a guesstimate.
Tips: 1. Try to build a connection with the interviewer.
2. Be thorough with your resume
3. Approach is all that matters during a guesstimate. Be sure to explain your approach clearly to the interviewer before you start. Make a proper flowchart on a piece of paper as you go along solving the guesstimate.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: A small HR interview which lasted around 10 minutes. I was asked all the common HR questions and was offered the role in the company at the end of this round.
Skills: Technical Skill And Speaking Skill, Guesstimate Skills
College Name: IIT Madras
I was interviewed in Dec 2016.
3 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Tell me about yourself
- Q2. How does Insurance companies work ?
- Q3. Who is an actuary and what are his roles ?
- Q4. What is India's GDP and its growth rate ?
- Q5. What are the Pros and Cons of Demonetization ?
- Q6. If there are two data sets each with 100 variables and having 10000 and 12000 policies verify the validity of the second data set assuming the first one is accu...read more
- Q7. Why do you want to work as an analyst ?
Interview Preparation Tips
College Name: IIT Madras
I was interviewed in Dec 2016.
3 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Are you aware of the role we are interviewing for
- Q2. How do you think you are suited for this particular role
- Q3. Any thoughts on latest technologies in the world
- Q4. Projects and internships related questions
- Q5. Tell me about yourself
- Q6. If I give you a new tool can you cope with it
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: HR Interview
Experience: I am actually from mechanical stream and so I was asked how will I fit for the role. I started talking about my internships and projects where I have used technology (coding stuff) and that I can learn new coding language quickly
Tips: Just make sure you highlight anything you have done related to coding and coding tools (ex. C, VBA, MATLAB,etc... anything)
Even if it is a small part that is related to a tool (above mentioned) mention the same
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: When asked tell me about yourself, I started saying the one I have prepared for the placements but then she asked to mention other stuff like what movies you watch, games you play, talking to people, hanging around with friends.
Then she went through my resume asking me to explain all the points from top to bottom. The key point here is highlight the points that include some tools (C,Excel VBA, MATLAB,Python etc)
Tips: While talking about tools you have used think in the lines of giving an input to the tool the output that comes is used for making few decisions/estimations and how is a data received in the project you have mentioned.Try matching everything you mention to this
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: Use the same principle I have told before. Mention your projects/internships related to coding even if it is small.
Skills: Enthusiasm, Learning Ability, Coding Skills
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: I am actually from mechanical stream and so I was asked how will I fit for the role. I started talking about my internships and projects where I have used technology (coding stuff) and that I can learn new coding language quickly
Tips: Just make sure you highlight anything you have done related to coding and coding tools (ex. C, VBA, MATLAB,etc... anything)
Even if it is a small part that is related to a tool (above mentioned) mention the same
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: When asked tell me about yourself, I started saying the one I have prepared for the placements but then she asked to mention other stuff like what movies you watch, games you play, talking to people, hanging around with friends.
Then she went through my resume asking me to explain all the points from top to bottom. The key point here is highlight the points that include some tools (C,Excel VBA, MATLAB,Python etc)
Tips: While talking about tools you have used think in the lines of giving an input to the tool the output that comes is used for making few decisions/estimations and how is a data received in the project you have mentioned.Try matching everything you mention to this
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: Use the same principle I have told before. Mention your projects/internships related to coding even if it is small.
Skills: Enthusiasm, Learning Ability, Coding Skills
College Name: IIT Madras
Anonymous
posted on 27 Jan 2017
I was interviewed in Dec 2016.
3 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Less Technical but more of HR like Why Manufacturing job, Why Jindal? Will You stay with us long?
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: They were mainly interested in people who are willing to work in their company for a long time. You have to convince them that you are really interested in core job and you will stay long. They did not ask technical much as my CG was high.
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: They were mainly interested in people who are willing to work in their company for a long time. You have to convince them that you are really interested in core job and you will stay long. They did not ask technical much as my CG was high.
College Name: IIT Madras
I was interviewed before Jan 2016.
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: The test was easy.General aptitude test preparation should be sufficient.Prepare via Pariksha and Indiabix websites.Keep the time constraint in mind
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 60
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: The interview was concentrated on case studies and puzzles and general hr questions like Why EXL and Why analytics.EXL do not expect analytics background at all.You just have to do your interviews well.Communicate your ideas in case studies very clearly and precisely.
Tips: Case studies-Basic preparation that students do for consult companies.Follow Caseinterviewcracked book to get the basic flavour and then practice with friends
Puzzles-www.techinterview.com was very helpful followed by heard on the street book
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: Very similar to previous round
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: The test was easy.General aptitude test preparation should be sufficient.Prepare via Pariksha and Indiabix websites.Keep the time constraint in mind
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 60
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: The interview was concentrated on case studies and puzzles and general hr questions like Why EXL and Why analytics.EXL do not expect analytics background at all.You just have to do your interviews well.Communicate your ideas in case studies very clearly and precisely.
Tips: Case studies-Basic preparation that students do for consult companies.Follow Caseinterviewcracked book to get the basic flavour and then practice with friends
Puzzles-www.techinterview.com was very helpful followed by heard on the street book
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: Very similar to previous round
College Name: IIT Madras
Anonymous
posted on 4 Jan 2017
I was interviewed in Dec 2016.
3 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Other Interview
Experience: A candidate had to broadly go through 3 interviews before the company decided to take her/him. Like most interview processes, the interviews had sequential importance and one had to clear the 1st to get called for the 2nd and clear 2nd to get called for the 3rd.
There were several panels (mostly single-person) with some senior officials from the company and some with just a year's experience.
My first interview was with a senior official. He asked questions based on my resume and particularly focused on my internship. He was genuinely interested in my project there and that eased the process for me. I gladly explained it and he immediately decided to promote me to the second round. 2 things that I believe were key to this were:
1. my project and level of contribution during one of my summer internships
2. my ability to communicate, connect with him and explain a complex project in the matter of minutes
Round: HR Interview
Experience: The second round was with one among the Leadership of the company. He was very clear, open and straightforward in his approach. He stated that there would be 3 quick segments to the HRish interview:
1. Telling about myself
2. Him asking me questions
3. Me asking him questions
Thus, it started with the routine "Tell me about yourself" and an overall gauging of my accomplishments and matching it to my resume. He was jolly in mood and asked what position I play as in football and made a couple mood-lightening comments.
The second segment. He asked me what I believed were my strengths. Then, he asked me to describe qualities of the ideal environment that I would like to work in. I took this opportunity to build on my answer about my strengths and match it with the kind of work the job offers. The next question was slightly offbeat, 'describe qualities of a place you would not want to work in'. I took a moment and answered carefully. His comment on my response was that it was 'Politically correct'
He was thoroughly satisfied with my interview, told me that he didn't want to waste any more time and immediately moved me to the next round.
Round: Other Interview
Experience: The final round was with the MD of the company. It was necessary for him to interview a candidate before he/she was selected.
All through the process, he ran through my resume. I believe he was looking for one and only one quality: Can the candidate communicate with highly experienced, senior officials and convey complex ideas?
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: A candidate had to broadly go through 3 interviews before the company decided to take her/him. Like most interview processes, the interviews had sequential importance and one had to clear the 1st to get called for the 2nd and clear 2nd to get called for the 3rd.
There were several panels (mostly single-person) with some senior officials from the company and some with just a year's experience.
My first interview was with a senior official. He asked questions based on my resume and particularly focused on my internship. He was genuinely interested in my project there and that eased the process for me. I gladly explained it and he immediately decided to promote me to the second round. 2 things that I believe were key to this were:
1. my project and level of contribution during one of my summer internships
2. my ability to communicate, connect with him and explain a complex project in the matter of minutes
Round: HR Interview
Experience: The second round was with one among the Leadership of the company. He was very clear, open and straightforward in his approach. He stated that there would be 3 quick segments to the HRish interview:
1. Telling about myself
2. Him asking me questions
3. Me asking him questions
Thus, it started with the routine "Tell me about yourself" and an overall gauging of my accomplishments and matching it to my resume. He was jolly in mood and asked what position I play as in football and made a couple mood-lightening comments.
The second segment. He asked me what I believed were my strengths. Then, he asked me to describe qualities of the ideal environment that I would like to work in. I took this opportunity to build on my answer about my strengths and match it with the kind of work the job offers. The next question was slightly offbeat, 'describe qualities of a place you would not want to work in'. I took a moment and answered carefully. His comment on my response was that it was 'Politically correct'
He was thoroughly satisfied with my interview, told me that he didn't want to waste any more time and immediately moved me to the next round.
Round: Other Interview
Experience: The final round was with the MD of the company. It was necessary for him to interview a candidate before he/she was selected.
All through the process, he ran through my resume. I believe he was looking for one and only one quality: Can the candidate communicate with highly experienced, senior officials and convey complex ideas?
College Name: IIT Madras
I was interviewed in Dec 2016.
6 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Write algorithm for swapping variables
- Q2. In shop, there are many types of soaps in a case, you have to remove one soap for giving space. how do you decide?
- Q3. Gave data of sales of some product in a year with varying prices. explain the possible reasons.
- Q4. Why are you interested in analytics?
- Q5. What are your weakness and how you overcome them?
- Q6. Who performed best in group activity?
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Easy aptitude questions,
given data about olympic medals secured by various countries. correlate the number of medals with gdp and some other details of the countries
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 20
Round: Group Activity
Experience: Gave a problem statement to group with four members with the characters of pirates of carribean. They asked to find a procedure to estimate the weight of pirate. Team has to present the solution after the activity. You will be judged during the activity as well as during the presentation.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: they wanted to test whether you can create new algorithms.
how you analyse data.what criteria you choose for analysing?
Round: HR Interview
Experience: checks whether you are interested in analytics. how you perceive group members.
Skills: Analytical Skills
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Easy aptitude questions,
given data about olympic medals secured by various countries. correlate the number of medals with gdp and some other details of the countries
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 20
Round: Group Activity
Experience: Gave a problem statement to group with four members with the characters of pirates of carribean. They asked to find a procedure to estimate the weight of pirate. Team has to present the solution after the activity. You will be judged during the activity as well as during the presentation.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: they wanted to test whether you can create new algorithms.
how you analyse data.what criteria you choose for analysing?
Round: HR Interview
Experience: checks whether you are interested in analytics. how you perceive group members.
Skills: Analytical Skills
College Name: IIT Madras
I was interviewed in Dec 2016.
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Describe the projects that you have done during the undergraduate studies?
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Company shortlisted the candidates for interview on the basis of their resumes.
Tips: Have a good core resume focusing the project work.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I described the projects that I had mentioned in my resume.
Tips: Have a good understanding of what you did in the projects which are mentioned on your resume.
Skills: Core Courses Concepts
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Company shortlisted the candidates for interview on the basis of their resumes.
Tips: Have a good core resume focusing the project work.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I described the projects that I had mentioned in my resume.
Tips: Have a good understanding of what you did in the projects which are mentioned on your resume.
Skills: Core Courses Concepts
College Name: IIT Madras
Anonymous
posted on 17 Dec 2016
I was interviewed in Dec 2016.
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. FEA and project related questions
- Q2. Normal HR questions introduce yourself and all
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Mostly som was asked
Tips: Prepare SOM very well
Duration: 55 minutes
Total Questions: 60
Round: Technical Interview
Tips: Prepare FEA basics
Skills: Ability To Think On Your Feet
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Mostly som was asked
Tips: Prepare SOM very well
Duration: 55 minutes
Total Questions: 60
Round: Technical Interview
Tips: Prepare FEA basics
Skills: Ability To Think On Your Feet
College Name: IIT Madras
I was interviewed in Dec 2016.
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: The test was to estimate your aptitude and coding ability. It was not too tough. For aptitude, I prepared from CAT prep books and pariksha.co(which helped a lot). For coding, practice in hackerrank.com would help a lot. It is good to know the basics of Data Structures and Algorithms.
Tips: Practice coding and improve your speed in aptitude.
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Around 40 people were shortlisted for GD. It happened in groups of 9. We were asked to choose a topic from given topics. Try to choose a topic which everyone could relate to. Initiate or conclude if you can, it will definitely get you some brownie points. Don't try to interrupt others but make sure the discussion was going in right direction.
Tips: Be confident and precise while you speak.
Duration: 15 minutes
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The first round of technical interview started with "Tell me about yourself". Then, I was asked to explain my technical projects and internships(coding related). Then they asked few puzzles and some questions on probability. If you have won any technical competitions, it would be a great plus point. Later I was asked if I have any questions for the interviewer. I asked them about the company's work culture and career growth. It is really important that you ask appropriate questions. Prepare them beforehand.
Tips: Practice Puzzels(Book: Heard on the street-quant and probability puzzels) and revise basics of probability(Bayes' theorem etc..)
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: The test was to estimate your aptitude and coding ability. It was not too tough. For aptitude, I prepared from CAT prep books and pariksha.co(which helped a lot). For coding, practice in hackerrank.com would help a lot. It is good to know the basics of Data Structures and Algorithms.
Tips: Practice coding and improve your speed in aptitude.
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Around 40 people were shortlisted for GD. It happened in groups of 9. We were asked to choose a topic from given topics. Try to choose a topic which everyone could relate to. Initiate or conclude if you can, it will definitely get you some brownie points. Don't try to interrupt others but make sure the discussion was going in right direction.
Tips: Be confident and precise while you speak.
Duration: 15 minutes
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The first round of technical interview started with "Tell me about yourself". Then, I was asked to explain my technical projects and internships(coding related). Then they asked few puzzles and some questions on probability. If you have won any technical competitions, it would be a great plus point. Later I was asked if I have any questions for the interviewer. I asked them about the company's work culture and career growth. It is really important that you ask appropriate questions. Prepare them beforehand.
Tips: Practice Puzzels(Book: Heard on the street-quant and probability puzzels) and revise basics of probability(Bayes' theorem etc..)
College Name: IIT Madras
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