Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai
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I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Explain your M.Tech Final year project
- Q2. What is value you have added to your project?
- Q3. What are other designs that you tried for your prototype?
- Q4. What are the results you got?
- Q5. Why do you want to join this job?
- Q6. What will you do if deadline is preponed on short notice and now you dont have enough time to finish work?
- Q7. How will you convince your senior who is disagreeing on something but you think the methods or solution you are suggesting is correct?
- Q8. What excites and upsets you ?
- Q9. What is the advice that your friends has given you recently?
- Q10. What is your passion?
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Resume is shortlisted based on the CGPA and project you are doing in final year.
Tips: So try to maintain the CGPA above 9
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: There was only one person who interviewed me for technical round. This round went for about 20 min.I explained my project starting from the reason why I took this project and the design and fabrication part involved. What is remaining work that I have to do. What are appliations of the project etc.
Tips: From your side you try to thoroughly explain the project. They should feel that you know in and out everything about your project. They will not check for correct answer,interviewer only checks your approach. Think and answer properly.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: HR interview was took by one lady.It went for about 30 min. I told that I want this job because when I looked the profile it was the kind of work I always wanted to do. And the company is working in the areas in which I am interested. For second question I told them that I will properly manage my team and assign that work to people in which they are good and accordingly we will try to finish the work. I answered third question by saying that I will be polite to my senior and try my best to bring to his notice the pros of the solution/methods that I am suggesting. I told them that when I give my 100% to my work and still people dislike it then that upsets me. The advice I always get is that I should also spend time to have fun and not just work always which I do. I always focuss more on my work and then if I have time I go out
Tips: Just answer what you feel in this round but always think of a story which will justify your answer.
Skills: Thinking Approach, Passion, Project, Willingness, Body Language In Interview, Eye Contact, Confidence, Communication
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Resume is shortlisted based on the CGPA and project you are doing in final year.
Tips: So try to maintain the CGPA above 9
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: There was only one person who interviewed me for technical round. This round went for about 20 min.I explained my project starting from the reason why I took this project and the design and fabrication part involved. What is remaining work that I have to do. What are appliations of the project etc.
Tips: From your side you try to thoroughly explain the project. They should feel that you know in and out everything about your project. They will not check for correct answer,interviewer only checks your approach. Think and answer properly.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: HR interview was took by one lady.It went for about 30 min. I told that I want this job because when I looked the profile it was the kind of work I always wanted to do. And the company is working in the areas in which I am interested. For second question I told them that I will properly manage my team and assign that work to people in which they are good and accordingly we will try to finish the work. I answered third question by saying that I will be polite to my senior and try my best to bring to his notice the pros of the solution/methods that I am suggesting. I told them that when I give my 100% to my work and still people dislike it then that upsets me. The advice I always get is that I should also spend time to have fun and not just work always which I do. I always focuss more on my work and then if I have time I go out
Tips: Just answer what you feel in this round but always think of a story which will justify your answer.
Skills: Thinking Approach, Passion, Project, Willingness, Body Language In Interview, Eye Contact, Confidence, Communication
College Name: IIT Madras
Aravindhan Selvam
posted on 7 Dec 2016
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. 1. Introduce yourself 2. Why did you choose mech 3. Questions based on your Projects 4. How do you add value to TATA 5. What if TATA decides not make any automo...read more
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Tips: For Tech- Be strong in one liners (Study Hand book by Made Easy)
Aptitude- See the questions of Ambition Box
psychometry- Be in a stable mind set while answering question
Duration: 2 hours
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: After you explain about project, they design questions based on your project.
Tips: - Update yourself abt TATA
- Update yourself abt Automobile industry in India
- Be confident and clear while answering
- Connect yourself with TATA for what ever question HR asks
- Last but not least "In interview, Its ok to do mistakes but don't do blunders"
Skills: Management Of People And Situations, Your Depth In Automobile Sector, Emotional Quotient, Clear Communication
College Name: IIT Madras
Tips: For Tech- Be strong in one liners (Study Hand book by Made Easy)
Aptitude- See the questions of Ambition Box
psychometry- Be in a stable mind set while answering question
Duration: 2 hours
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: After you explain about project, they design questions based on your project.
Tips: - Update yourself abt TATA
- Update yourself abt Automobile industry in India
- Be confident and clear while answering
- Connect yourself with TATA for what ever question HR asks
- Last but not least "In interview, Its ok to do mistakes but don't do blunders"
Skills: Management Of People And Situations, Your Depth In Automobile Sector, Emotional Quotient, Clear Communication
College Name: IIT Madras
swathi p g
posted on 7 Dec 2016
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
6 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Introduce yourself
- Q2. Explain Your Mtech project
- Q3. My project was in the field of superplasticity. Hence he asked its applications in automotive industry
- Q4. What is your favorite subject
- Q5. My favorite subject was Metal Forming. Hence he asked which manufacturing process is used in chassis manufacturing?
- Q6. What are the different types of joining methods ?
- Q7. In my resume I have listed my subjects including FEA. He asked me various applications of FEA in automotive sector
- Q8. You will be placed in various manufacturing plants. Are you willing to relocate?
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: We, the students of IIT Madras are supposed to upload resumes in the placement portal corresponding to whichever companies we want. The eligibility criteria was CGPA above 6.0 in 10th,12th and graduation and PG min 60 % in post graduation
Round: Test
Experience: They were asking a mixture of verbal, quantitative analyses, and technical questions. The technical questions were of GATE level from various topics of mechanical engineering ranging from thermal, strength of materials, manufacturing etc. 28 people were shortlisted after this round
Duration: 2 hours
Total Questions: 60
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: In the panel there was only one person. He asked me both HR and Technical questions. Before this round they had given a form to each and everyone of us which includes details about our profile. in short, it was another resume.
Tips: Go through the company website and learn about the company history, its various flagship products and other technical facilities. In my interview I had said FEA can be applied in crash test facilities in the company.
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: We, the students of IIT Madras are supposed to upload resumes in the placement portal corresponding to whichever companies we want. The eligibility criteria was CGPA above 6.0 in 10th,12th and graduation and PG min 60 % in post graduation
Round: Test
Experience: They were asking a mixture of verbal, quantitative analyses, and technical questions. The technical questions were of GATE level from various topics of mechanical engineering ranging from thermal, strength of materials, manufacturing etc. 28 people were shortlisted after this round
Duration: 2 hours
Total Questions: 60
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: In the panel there was only one person. He asked me both HR and Technical questions. Before this round they had given a form to each and everyone of us which includes details about our profile. in short, it was another resume.
Tips: Go through the company website and learn about the company history, its various flagship products and other technical facilities. In my interview I had said FEA can be applied in crash test facilities in the company.
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Dec 2015.
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: A bunch of Tech projects and 8+ CGPA
Tips: If you don't have a very high CGPA, make sure your profile looks diversified - show some CFI projects, CS courses and coding experience
Round: Technical Interview
Tips: Prepare a short and a detailed explanation of all the projects in your resume. Show enthu while talking about the things you said you are passionate about.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Not interested in a PhD? I quoted Elon Musk for the answer.
Skills: Machine Learning, Core Mechanical Concepts, Coding Skills
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: A bunch of Tech projects and 8+ CGPA
Tips: If you don't have a very high CGPA, make sure your profile looks diversified - show some CFI projects, CS courses and coding experience
Round: Technical Interview
Tips: Prepare a short and a detailed explanation of all the projects in your resume. Show enthu while talking about the things you said you are passionate about.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Not interested in a PhD? I quoted Elon Musk for the answer.
Skills: Machine Learning, Core Mechanical Concepts, Coding Skills
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
6 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Which is the best sorting algorithm and why?
- Q2. Derive time complexity expression for merge sort algorithm
- Q3. Estimate number of trees in chennai
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: I just prepared general aptitude from pariksha.co and basic programming ability from the book, "let us c" and "tutorials point-programming" which made me crack the test
Tips: Practice more to improve your speed in tests
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: They gave us three topics and have to choose one of them after some discussion: 1. Artificial intelligence-will man be ever replaced by machines, 2. Introduction of gadgets at an early age of education, 3. Is youth of India confident or confused.
I suggested the introduction of gadgets topic and convinced entire team to choose the topic. Then i initiated the talk and gave a conclusion statement; used some data division to explain my point in the discussion (though i'm not sure if my data is right or not i was confident throughout)
Tips: In any GD:
1. Try to be confident and initiate the GD
2. Try to speak in data oriented way if your profile is related to analytics or consultancy
3. Try to manage the flow of GD according to the defined structure
Round: Technical Interview
Tips: Be very confident in whatever you say
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Tips: If you don't know some topic which they are asking, just tell that you have not studied that but tell them you would like to give a try if you have some approach but not sure of it
Skills: Programming Skills In Any Language Like C, General Aptitude, Data Structures And Algorithms, Analytics And Coding
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: I just prepared general aptitude from pariksha.co and basic programming ability from the book, "let us c" and "tutorials point-programming" which made me crack the test
Tips: Practice more to improve your speed in tests
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: They gave us three topics and have to choose one of them after some discussion: 1. Artificial intelligence-will man be ever replaced by machines, 2. Introduction of gadgets at an early age of education, 3. Is youth of India confident or confused.
I suggested the introduction of gadgets topic and convinced entire team to choose the topic. Then i initiated the talk and gave a conclusion statement; used some data division to explain my point in the discussion (though i'm not sure if my data is right or not i was confident throughout)
Tips: In any GD:
1. Try to be confident and initiate the GD
2. Try to speak in data oriented way if your profile is related to analytics or consultancy
3. Try to manage the flow of GD according to the defined structure
Round: Technical Interview
Tips: Be very confident in whatever you say
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Tips: If you don't know some topic which they are asking, just tell that you have not studied that but tell them you would like to give a try if you have some approach but not sure of it
Skills: Programming Skills In Any Language Like C, General Aptitude, Data Structures And Algorithms, Analytics And Coding
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Dec 2015.
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. They asked me about my projects, some ML questions, a few coding questions
- Q2. Not interested in a PhD? I quoted Elon Musk for the answer
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: A bunch of Tech projects and 8+ CGPA.
Skills: Core Mechanical Concepts, Machine Learning, Coding Skills
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: A bunch of Tech projects and 8+ CGPA.
Skills: Core Mechanical Concepts, Machine Learning, Coding Skills
College Name: IIT Madras
Data Scientist NLP and ML Interview Questions
Anonymous
posted on 7 Dec 2016
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
3 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Easy Aptitude questions - Time was also sufficient.Later was coding test - The questions are math involved like some kind of mathematical structure to be coded. Not DSA and high funda algo level. I solved the coding test in Python each in less than 20 lines of code
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Overall there were 3 round of interviews. I was asked two questions on coding to check basics in first round, which took about 30 minutes. Next interview was on Machine Learning for about an hour.It started with understaning my past activities at the institute.I had few projects on Machine learning, so started asking questions about those projects in detail and few additional questions on ML concepts like PCA, regularisation etc.Knowing NLP would be of great advantage but not necessary as i myself didnot.
Next was more of a culture fit interview unlike HR. Few generic situations were introduced and asked on how i would react in those cases.
The whole process is in no way intense or pressured. All the rounds went smoothly and mainly centered about resume/projects one did in the past
Skills: Mathematical Logic, General Coding And Problem Solving, Machine Learning, NLP
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Easy Aptitude questions - Time was also sufficient.Later was coding test - The questions are math involved like some kind of mathematical structure to be coded. Not DSA and high funda algo level. I solved the coding test in Python each in less than 20 lines of code
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Overall there were 3 round of interviews. I was asked two questions on coding to check basics in first round, which took about 30 minutes. Next interview was on Machine Learning for about an hour.It started with understaning my past activities at the institute.I had few projects on Machine learning, so started asking questions about those projects in detail and few additional questions on ML concepts like PCA, regularisation etc.Knowing NLP would be of great advantage but not necessary as i myself didnot.
Next was more of a culture fit interview unlike HR. Few generic situations were introduced and asked on how i would react in those cases.
The whole process is in no way intense or pressured. All the rounds went smoothly and mainly centered about resume/projects one did in the past
Skills: Mathematical Logic, General Coding And Problem Solving, Machine Learning, NLP
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Dec 2015.
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Tips: Revise intermediate maths and first year c language course
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 11
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: Hr wanted to know if you have coding experience or not. Any math Olympiad is an added advantage. Asked JEE rank too.
Tips: Provide examples where you used coding
College Name: IIT Madras
Tips: Revise intermediate maths and first year c language course
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 11
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: Hr wanted to know if you have coding experience or not. Any math Olympiad is an added advantage. Asked JEE rank too.
Tips: Provide examples where you used coding
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: There were totally 8 sections to the test. But they could be broadly put under 4 categories. Firstly all questions were compulsory to attempt and there was no negative marking. Aptitude: Basic quantitative math questions were asked. There was one simple programming question where one could code in C/Java in your local IDE and upload the code file. It was a DO or DIE question, either you get the question and proceed to the next questions of the test or the test gets stopped if the code is not successfully compiled within 5 attempts. This programming question, as was told was an important criteria to filter out candidates for the next round. There was a descriptive question asking about a recent team project done.
Tips: Achievements in sports and other extra curricular activities are valued. Mention them in the resume, if applicable.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: In this round, they look for the candidate's experience in coding in whatever language mentioned in the resume - I was asked to write some simple codes in c. I was also asked to explain some projects from the resume.
Tips: basic knowledge of data structures, resume preparation
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: In this round, the questions were mostly based on the resume and the projects done. Also, HR questions like What do you know about Schlumberger, How do you perform in a team, What makes you unique from the other candidates etc. were asked. They also ask if you have any questions from your side - Better to ask questions if you have one or if you can't think upon any specific question, ask them a doubt from whatever they have said(usually they say a lot about their company and principles before they ask you for questions)
Tips: Prepare for a HR interview separately, resume preparation
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: There were totally 8 sections to the test. But they could be broadly put under 4 categories. Firstly all questions were compulsory to attempt and there was no negative marking. Aptitude: Basic quantitative math questions were asked. There was one simple programming question where one could code in C/Java in your local IDE and upload the code file. It was a DO or DIE question, either you get the question and proceed to the next questions of the test or the test gets stopped if the code is not successfully compiled within 5 attempts. This programming question, as was told was an important criteria to filter out candidates for the next round. There was a descriptive question asking about a recent team project done.
Tips: Achievements in sports and other extra curricular activities are valued. Mention them in the resume, if applicable.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: In this round, they look for the candidate's experience in coding in whatever language mentioned in the resume - I was asked to write some simple codes in c. I was also asked to explain some projects from the resume.
Tips: basic knowledge of data structures, resume preparation
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: In this round, the questions were mostly based on the resume and the projects done. Also, HR questions like What do you know about Schlumberger, How do you perform in a team, What makes you unique from the other candidates etc. were asked. They also ask if you have any questions from your side - Better to ask questions if you have one or if you can't think upon any specific question, ask them a doubt from whatever they have said(usually they say a lot about their company and principles before they ask you for questions)
Tips: Prepare for a HR interview separately, resume preparation
College Name: IIT Madras
Amaresh Bind
posted on 7 Dec 2016
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Jan 2016.
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: CGPA cutoff of 7.5 to go in next round
Round: Group Discussion
Duration: 10 minutes
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: Mainly based on internships written on resume and B. Tech Project
Probable reasons for Rejection:
probable reason 1 :
Q1. You have written on your resume that you know programming languages, do you have an interest in going into IT industry?
Ans. In the modern world, automation is everywhere. It is plus point to know these languages to pick up with changes and get benefit using these languages.
Q2. Can you explain how it can be used in the chemical engineering sector?
Ans. I explained this, how it could have been used in my internship project to get relevant data from a lot of data.
Q3. Did you use it anywhere?
Ans. No, in the internship I used excel function to reach the result.
Probable reason 2:
Q1. Tell me about your weakness.
Ans. Hesitate to say no.
Q2. What are you doing to improve it?
Ans. I believe that I should always stand with one who stands with me. So I think I should not change my this habit.
Q3. One more weakness. The previous one is very common.
Ans. I don't want to wait for people if I have some work, I'll say and go.
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: CGPA cutoff of 7.5 to go in next round
Round: Group Discussion
Duration: 10 minutes
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: Mainly based on internships written on resume and B. Tech Project
Probable reasons for Rejection:
probable reason 1 :
Q1. You have written on your resume that you know programming languages, do you have an interest in going into IT industry?
Ans. In the modern world, automation is everywhere. It is plus point to know these languages to pick up with changes and get benefit using these languages.
Q2. Can you explain how it can be used in the chemical engineering sector?
Ans. I explained this, how it could have been used in my internship project to get relevant data from a lot of data.
Q3. Did you use it anywhere?
Ans. No, in the internship I used excel function to reach the result.
Probable reason 2:
Q1. Tell me about your weakness.
Ans. Hesitate to say no.
Q2. What are you doing to improve it?
Ans. I believe that I should always stand with one who stands with me. So I think I should not change my this habit.
Q3. One more weakness. The previous one is very common.
Ans. I don't want to wait for people if I have some work, I'll say and go.
College Name: IIT Madras
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