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4 Dec 2024
1.2k interviews found
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Jan 2016.
3 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Questions on linked list
- Q2. Questions on resume
- Q3. About my interests
- Q4. My interest in symantec
- Q5. Place to work
Interview Preparation Tips
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
6 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Tell me about yourself
- Q2. What are your weaknesses
- Q3. Tell me a time when you had to use creative thinking to solve a problem?
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: I think they mostly look for a well rounded profile with a decent PORs and Internships. Be sure to quantify whatever you have done and show the impact you have made.
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: They look for people who can speak out well and express their opinion in a clear concise manner. Try to start the GD by introducing yourself and structuring the GD. Express valid points. Appreciate others if they have made a valid point. Overall make sure you stand out.
Duration: 15 minutes
Round: Behavioural Interview
Experience: It was situation based interview. Took around 20 minutes. Try to connect whatever you have done with the questions. For example, if they ask you 'Tell me a time when you had to face a challenge and how did you overcome the challenge?'. SO connect it with your past experiences during an internship and then convince them how you overcame it.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: It was more like an general HR interview with the partner at E and Y. Don't be nervous. Talk clearly and try to connect with him.
Skills: Communication, Proficiency In English, Organisational Skills
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: I think they mostly look for a well rounded profile with a decent PORs and Internships. Be sure to quantify whatever you have done and show the impact you have made.
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: They look for people who can speak out well and express their opinion in a clear concise manner. Try to start the GD by introducing yourself and structuring the GD. Express valid points. Appreciate others if they have made a valid point. Overall make sure you stand out.
Duration: 15 minutes
Round: Behavioural Interview
Experience: It was situation based interview. Took around 20 minutes. Try to connect whatever you have done with the questions. For example, if they ask you 'Tell me a time when you had to face a challenge and how did you overcome the challenge?'. SO connect it with your past experiences during an internship and then convince them how you overcame it.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: It was more like an general HR interview with the partner at E and Y. Don't be nervous. Talk clearly and try to connect with him.
Skills: Communication, Proficiency In English, Organisational Skills
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Jan 2016.
3 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Questions on difference between C and C++
- Q2. Questions on Linked List, how to add and delete a node write complete program
- Q3. About my technical interests
- Q4. Tell me about yourself
- Q5. Why samsung
- Q6. Puzzle quetions like
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I have explained difference between C and C++ is classes and C++ uses OOPs, Have answered almost all the questions
Tips: Be clear with concepts of C++ , its most important in almost every interview, and data structures and algorithms atleast till Balanced Binary tree.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: I have answered all the questions well
Tips: Prepare for HR questions like tell me about yourself and about the company
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: I have explained difference between C and C++ is classes and C++ uses OOPs, Have answered almost all the questions
Tips: Be clear with concepts of C++ , its most important in almost every interview, and data structures and algorithms atleast till Balanced Binary tree.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: I have answered all the questions well
Tips: Prepare for HR questions like tell me about yourself and about the company
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. When and where did you code in your life?
- Q2. What is your big challenge you encountered during coding?
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: They asked two coding questions. 1. General coding question based on brute force method, No fancy algorithm is required. 2. Related to compiler design, we have to describe and define our own syntax.
Tips: For written coding exams, write code perfectly and neatly with properly defined variables. They will test your code writing skills. Comments are must. For syntax designing questions, consider all constraints and don't make syntax so complex.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Questions: 2
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: I explained my intern experience. During hr they will ask about your PORs, how you felt handling them etc
Tips: Be prepared with your most exciting, challenging, happiest, depressed moments in your life. Connect those with your coding time.
Skills: Communication, Coding Skills
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: They asked two coding questions. 1. General coding question based on brute force method, No fancy algorithm is required. 2. Related to compiler design, we have to describe and define our own syntax.
Tips: For written coding exams, write code perfectly and neatly with properly defined variables. They will test your code writing skills. Comments are must. For syntax designing questions, consider all constraints and don't make syntax so complex.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Questions: 2
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: I explained my intern experience. During hr they will ask about your PORs, how you felt handling them etc
Tips: Be prepared with your most exciting, challenging, happiest, depressed moments in your life. Connect those with your coding time.
Skills: Communication, Coding Skills
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Jan 2016.
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. What does Principal Component Analysis do?
- Q2. Why does it address this problem in the given way?
- Q3. (Looking at my mini-assignment)How did you implement Support Vector Machines?(the next question follows this)
- Q4. What are Kernals ?
- Q5. What uses does it have?
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: The test was pretty straight forward run of the mill aptitude questions
Tips: Practicing is not necessary but doing it might have a slight advantage
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 30
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: 1.I explained the concept of PCA stating the assumptions and conditions on how to implement it. I explained to him what the objective function was and justifying the approach to achieve it.
2.Explained the Concept of C-SVM,
3.Stated the primary objective of using kernal methods
4.Explained how Kernal functions can be used to give complex shapes to the seperating hyperplane
Tips: The interviewer wants to know the extent of your knowledge and the ability to think in the situation. He will guide you to the answer. Think of it as more like a conceptual discussion between two people.
If you are not sure of the answer walk him through your thought process
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: The test was pretty straight forward run of the mill aptitude questions
Tips: Practicing is not necessary but doing it might have a slight advantage
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 30
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: 1.I explained the concept of PCA stating the assumptions and conditions on how to implement it. I explained to him what the objective function was and justifying the approach to achieve it.
2.Explained the Concept of C-SVM,
3.Stated the primary objective of using kernal methods
4.Explained how Kernal functions can be used to give complex shapes to the seperating hyperplane
Tips: The interviewer wants to know the extent of your knowledge and the ability to think in the situation. He will guide you to the answer. Think of it as more like a conceptual discussion between two people.
If you are not sure of the answer walk him through your thought process
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
3 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Given an array of numbers find the subset of numbers that give zero sum.
- Q2. Explain how bfs works?
- Q3. Discussion on the projects I have done.
- Q4. Question on Linked List.
- Q5. Project Discussion
- Q6. Strengths and weaknesses. Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I couldn't find an optimal approach to the first question, so she skipped that question and proceeded to next questions. Remaining questions I have answered satisfactorily.
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: I told that my strength is problem solving and I can always find a way when there is a bottle-neck. Gave some examples of my experiences while doing my assignments.
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: I couldn't find an optimal approach to the first question, so she skipped that question and proceeded to next questions. Remaining questions I have answered satisfactorily.
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: I told that my strength is problem solving and I can always find a way when there is a bottle-neck. Gave some examples of my experiences while doing my assignments.
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Detecting loop in linked list
- Q2. Write code for dfs
- Q3. How to find cycle in graph
- Q4. What is hashing and how will you implement?
- Q5. Questions related to to resume
- Q6. No of pairs between 1 and N satisfy relation pow(a,3)+pow(b,3)=pow(c,3)+pow(d,3).a,b,c,d<=N
- Q7. -----.php?pid=514
- Q8. Questions related to resume
- Q9. Explain Merge sort
- Q10. Why do you want to join in paypal?
- Q11. Explain anything whatever you learned recently?
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: coding question related to palindrome portioning.MCQs related to cs fundamentals
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Skills: General Coding And Problem Solving
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: coding question related to palindrome portioning.MCQs related to cs fundamentals
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Skills: General Coding And Problem Solving
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Questions on digital systems
- Q2. 9 coins, one heavy. how many tries?
- Q3. Represent gates using arithmetic operations
- Q4. BTech Project Based
- Q5. Why Intel?
- Q6. Any other company interested in?
- Q7. My extra-curricular activities
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Toooo easy aptitude test, questions straight from Indiabix.com. 91 people were shortlisted to the interviews.
Tips: Just practice a few on Indiabix.com I would say, not even required to prepare.
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 20
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Once again, very easy. Just very very basic. Maximum, you need Digital IC Design course.
Tips: No tips, keep your calm and think.
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: Completely based on my B.Tech Project. They were a specific product development team looking for candidates for their team.
Tips: Just try to match their needs by relating everything on your resume to them.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Just random questions about you and your activities.
Tips: Nothing much from my side to offer here. 29 people got the offer. I was the only one who got it and rejected.
Skills: Digital Systems, Puzzle Solving Capability
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Toooo easy aptitude test, questions straight from Indiabix.com. 91 people were shortlisted to the interviews.
Tips: Just practice a few on Indiabix.com I would say, not even required to prepare.
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 20
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Once again, very easy. Just very very basic. Maximum, you need Digital IC Design course.
Tips: No tips, keep your calm and think.
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: Completely based on my B.Tech Project. They were a specific product development team looking for candidates for their team.
Tips: Just try to match their needs by relating everything on your resume to them.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Just random questions about you and your activities.
Tips: Nothing much from my side to offer here. 29 people got the offer. I was the only one who got it and rejected.
Skills: Digital Systems, Puzzle Solving Capability
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Given an array, Implement Binary search tree
- Q2. Given the above Binary search tree, print in ascending order
- Q3. Given an array of stock prices, find where to buy and where to sell for maximum profit in O(n)
- Q4. Resume based
- Q5. What are three problems Chennai faces?
- Q6. Which one would you solve and how and why?
- Q7. What is most interesting thing about Visa?
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: 4 Coding questions on Hackerrank platform, one and half hour time. I am not going to reveal the questions here, but one was a basic binary tree implementation and the other three were algorithmic and mathematical problems. They were kinda hard to solve in an hour and half. I could do only 1 and half of the other one. I got 115/300 points on that. I was one of the 16 people selected for the interview.
Tips: It all depends on how well you can focus on the test day. Just practice a lot on hackerrank.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Questions: 4
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The first two questions I was able to do fast enough. I was also asked a few questions on my resume and coding-related internship. The last one, I showed an O(n*n) algorithm first and then modified it to O(n). Around 45 minutes.
Tips: Be thorough on the coding part in your resume. Think out aloud!
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: Just a few normal questions regarding my projects and my favorite course and it's application to Visa. 15 minutes.
Tips: Once again, be thorough on your resume.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Once again a normal round, just random questions as to whether I am interested and good enough in communication. 15 minutes.
Tips: Don't get shaken. Be ready for all kinds of questions. Especially about Visa relation to what you do
Skills: Smart Coding
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: 4 Coding questions on Hackerrank platform, one and half hour time. I am not going to reveal the questions here, but one was a basic binary tree implementation and the other three were algorithmic and mathematical problems. They were kinda hard to solve in an hour and half. I could do only 1 and half of the other one. I got 115/300 points on that. I was one of the 16 people selected for the interview.
Tips: It all depends on how well you can focus on the test day. Just practice a lot on hackerrank.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Questions: 4
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The first two questions I was able to do fast enough. I was also asked a few questions on my resume and coding-related internship. The last one, I showed an O(n*n) algorithm first and then modified it to O(n). Around 45 minutes.
Tips: Be thorough on the coding part in your resume. Think out aloud!
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: Just a few normal questions regarding my projects and my favorite course and it's application to Visa. 15 minutes.
Tips: Once again, be thorough on your resume.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Once again a normal round, just random questions as to whether I am interested and good enough in communication. 15 minutes.
Tips: Don't get shaken. Be ready for all kinds of questions. Especially about Visa relation to what you do
Skills: Smart Coding
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Realizing the maximum solar power potential in Nepal
- Q2. Normal HR stuff
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: People rushed to put in their points.
Tips: Keep calm, listen and only say things that make sense.
Duration: 20 minutes
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: Approached the problem from all directions from acquiring capital, to maintenance, policy and environmental factors.
Tips: Think well before answering. Its better to show your understanding in multiple dimensions and thinking out of your comfort zone.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: It was a pleasant conversation.
Tips: Be authentic but respectful and optimistic, they like it.
Skills: Problem Solving Abilties, Communication
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: People rushed to put in their points.
Tips: Keep calm, listen and only say things that make sense.
Duration: 20 minutes
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: Approached the problem from all directions from acquiring capital, to maintenance, policy and environmental factors.
Tips: Think well before answering. Its better to show your understanding in multiple dimensions and thinking out of your comfort zone.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: It was a pleasant conversation.
Tips: Be authentic but respectful and optimistic, they like it.
Skills: Problem Solving Abilties, Communication
College Name: IIT Madras
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