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Anonymous
posted on 3 Dec 2016
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
6 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Tell us aboujt yourself (HR)
- Q2. Technical Questioning on your Internships and projects
- Q3. Technical questioing on courses adjacent to your Internships and projects
- Q4. Resume Run through (PORs, etc to be elaborated)
- Q5. Strength and weaknesses (HR)
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Grades cutoff : 60%
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: 2-3 minutes prep time
10-12 minutes GD (Conclusion expected)
Duration: 15 minutes
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Tips: Be prepared on your Projects and internships
Read through the compay website and understand their bussiness
Skills: Technical Questions, Management & Tendering Process, Management Skills, Technical Skill And Speaking Skill, How Well Do You Speak When Your Mistakes And Weak Points Are Pointed Out
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Grades cutoff : 60%
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: 2-3 minutes prep time
10-12 minutes GD (Conclusion expected)
Duration: 15 minutes
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Tips: Be prepared on your Projects and internships
Read through the compay website and understand their bussiness
Skills: Technical Questions, Management & Tendering Process, Management Skills, Technical Skill And Speaking Skill, How Well Do You Speak When Your Mistakes And Weak Points Are Pointed Out
College Name: IIT Madras
Anonymous
posted on 3 Dec 2016
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Dec 2015.
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Resume Shortlist Criteria :- Grades above 60%
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: 2-3 minute time to gather your thoughts
Rest of the time for GD
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Tips: Be prepared on your internships and projects
Go through the vedanta website without fail, and understand their bussiness
Skills: Technical Questions, HR Skills, Management Skills
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Resume Shortlist Criteria :- Grades above 60%
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: 2-3 minute time to gather your thoughts
Rest of the time for GD
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Tips: Be prepared on your internships and projects
Go through the vedanta website without fail, and understand their bussiness
Skills: Technical Questions, HR Skills, Management Skills
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, why Schlum?, why are you a best fit?, why field engineer?, what do you know abt oil extraction and the sector?
- Q2. Drilled from every technical point in the resume without any gap, simultaneously had to solve a puzzle; some HR questions about what is the best thing about wor...read more
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Tips: Project that you are an all-rounder
Round: Group Discussion
Tips: Talk and Talk sense
Duration: 30 minutes
Round: HR Interview
Tips: Be thorough with who you are and what you want to do in life
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Tips: It is a stress round and once you identify this please do not get stressed
College Name: IIT Madras
Tips: Project that you are an all-rounder
Round: Group Discussion
Tips: Talk and Talk sense
Duration: 30 minutes
Round: HR Interview
Tips: Be thorough with who you are and what you want to do in life
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Tips: It is a stress round and once you identify this please do not get stressed
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Tell me about yourself?
- Q2. Why consult?
- Q3. Why Auctus?
- Q4. If not consult what else?
- Q5. Do you have a BCG shortlist? (They already know, pointless to go otherwise)
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Typical consult resume shortlist, depended on how many peaks a person had and what not.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: The interview was conducted well, personal interaction was quite friendly and at no point did the interviewer try to put any stress.
Typical HR round trying to gauge what your skills and motives are.
A standard market entry case.
However they arrived with just half as many panellists (as needed) and couldn't interview many people as such and very few were given second rounds. (Mostly whoever was eliminated from BCG final rounds, internal hot list was also present)
Tips: Having a BCG or another consult shortlist is very necessary. There would usually be communication between them, and they always take the ones rejected in final rounds of BCG.
Apart from that, they have the usual consult interviews, and the other write ups on the portal have well explained the process.
Skills: HR Skills, Case Solving Ability
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Typical consult resume shortlist, depended on how many peaks a person had and what not.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: The interview was conducted well, personal interaction was quite friendly and at no point did the interviewer try to put any stress.
Typical HR round trying to gauge what your skills and motives are.
A standard market entry case.
However they arrived with just half as many panellists (as needed) and couldn't interview many people as such and very few were given second rounds. (Mostly whoever was eliminated from BCG final rounds, internal hot list was also present)
Tips: Having a BCG or another consult shortlist is very necessary. There would usually be communication between them, and they always take the ones rejected in final rounds of BCG.
Apart from that, they have the usual consult interviews, and the other write ups on the portal have well explained the process.
Skills: HR Skills, Case Solving Ability
College Name: IIT Madras
Manish Prajapat
posted on 2 Dec 2016
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
6 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Internship Project?
- Q2. How do you convince people?
- Q3. What went wrong at BO?
- Q4. Why Wipro?
- Q5. What other companies are you sitting in?
- Q6. Some other technical Question
- Q7. Family background?
- Q8. If so much work, why don't you apply for Government jobs?
- Q9. How far can you believe your friends?
- Q10. Order: Fame, Power, and Money
- Q11. Explain yourself in line
- Q12. I know you technically, let's test you on the psychometric data and we will check how software works
- Q13. Name your friends who did intern in Wipro, and rate them based 4 parameters. Define parameters yourself
- Q14. What feedback did you receive from the internship?
- Q15. Which is your dream Company? Based on my answer he asked me 10 other questions
- Q16. What's your BP? Why not MS? "I was able to convince that MS is not for me" Then Why not MBA?
- Q17. If all situation go worse in the factory, what would you do?
- Q18. A guesstimate
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: It is pretty straight forward. They will shortlist you, if either you have decent CG or good projects/internship. Within a branch, they took 10-15 ppl.
Tips: Make a clear single page resume. Don't try tricks like 1.5 page or reducing the font size to add more content, that just irritates interviewer. Keep it in the standard format. If you are not able to fit your doings on one page, put only best one.
Round: Test
Experience: Questions will be thrown at you in different frame structures. It was not a qualifying step but they grill in interview based on the psychometric result generated by the software.
Tips: Try to be consistent in your answer. Try to keep your answer in the direction of what company wants.
Duration: 20 minutes
Total Questions: 80
Round: Stress Interview
Experience: It was kind of stress round, they never let me complete my answer and was alternating in tech - HR question
Tips: Be confident, there is no right or wrong. You may not be able to complete your sentence for 80% time. In such situation just be quick to change your answer as the question changes.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: You need to pitch in yourself, they gonna take only 1/20 ppl for the shortlisted ones.
Tips: Be confident
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: It is pretty straight forward. They will shortlist you, if either you have decent CG or good projects/internship. Within a branch, they took 10-15 ppl.
Tips: Make a clear single page resume. Don't try tricks like 1.5 page or reducing the font size to add more content, that just irritates interviewer. Keep it in the standard format. If you are not able to fit your doings on one page, put only best one.
Round: Test
Experience: Questions will be thrown at you in different frame structures. It was not a qualifying step but they grill in interview based on the psychometric result generated by the software.
Tips: Try to be consistent in your answer. Try to keep your answer in the direction of what company wants.
Duration: 20 minutes
Total Questions: 80
Round: Stress Interview
Experience: It was kind of stress round, they never let me complete my answer and was alternating in tech - HR question
Tips: Be confident, there is no right or wrong. You may not be able to complete your sentence for 80% time. In such situation just be quick to change your answer as the question changes.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: You need to pitch in yourself, they gonna take only 1/20 ppl for the shortlisted ones.
Tips: Be confident
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
6 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Question on Projects done in internship and my master's thesis were asked.
- Q2. Was then decided to choose a favorite topic in Chemical Engineering. Asked some fundamental questions on that
- Q3. Questions about why pharmaceutical field and why specifically DRL
- Q4. Relate concepts learnt in Chemical Engineering to Pharmaceutical field
- Q5. Asked to explained some scientific phenomenon in real life world
- Q6. How others describe you as person
- Q7. Any plans for Higher studies
- Q8. Where do you see yourself after 2-3 years
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: No Negative marking and Sectional Cutoff for each of the two parts
Tips: Be as fast as possible.
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 100
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Company decided to go for direct interview round due to very few number of students.
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: The interviewers were interested in testing the fundamental concepts.
Tips: Be prepared. Do a good research on the pharmaceutical industry and also about the company.
Skills: Chemical Engineering Basics
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: No Negative marking and Sectional Cutoff for each of the two parts
Tips: Be as fast as possible.
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 100
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Company decided to go for direct interview round due to very few number of students.
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: The interviewers were interested in testing the fundamental concepts.
Tips: Be prepared. Do a good research on the pharmaceutical industry and also about the company.
Skills: Chemical Engineering Basics
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. What do you know about the company and the profile ?
- Q2. Which programming language are you familiar with ? Do you know R ?
- Q3. What is Machine Learning ?
- Q4. Is it true that statistical models and Machine Learning are the same ?
- Q5. What makes you special to this profile ?
- Q6. What makes you unique for the corporate world ?
- Q7. Tell me more about ML
- Q8. Folded my resume and asked what is the surface area of this ?
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Self-explanatory
Tips: Courses in ML, probab would be a plus.
Round: Test
Experience: It was a mix of aptitude, quant and technical questions
Duration: 1 hour
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I first told the interviewer about what I knew about the role and IBM. Added stuff about IBM Watson. He probed further about that. I told him I didn't know the details but threw in a guess about it being similar to Amazon Web services. Luckily I was right. He asked the basic funda about ML. Explained stuff to him. About the statistical models vs ML question, I emphasized that statistical models might be the core of ML, but ML encompasses details about the whole process. Special to profile - Said I have requisite theoretical as well as practical know-how. Talked about projects provided practical knowledge. Unique for corp. world - Talked about how I am a teamplayer by being a part of a lot of teams throughout insti time. He then asked, how would you tackle a bully. I said zero tolerance to bullies in my team. Then asked how would you tackle a bully who is your senior/client - Said I will be diplomatic as there is a tradeoff between how I can minimize abuse and how much damage it will cause. But, will make sure that I start small and then push for larger changes. Then asked more about ML - Told him about Supervised, unsupervised, RL, Deep. Surface area - standard guesstimate stuff
Tips: If you have done a course in ML, you will sail through. This time it looks like they were trying to expand their team
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Self-explanatory
Tips: Courses in ML, probab would be a plus.
Round: Test
Experience: It was a mix of aptitude, quant and technical questions
Duration: 1 hour
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I first told the interviewer about what I knew about the role and IBM. Added stuff about IBM Watson. He probed further about that. I told him I didn't know the details but threw in a guess about it being similar to Amazon Web services. Luckily I was right. He asked the basic funda about ML. Explained stuff to him. About the statistical models vs ML question, I emphasized that statistical models might be the core of ML, but ML encompasses details about the whole process. Special to profile - Said I have requisite theoretical as well as practical know-how. Talked about projects provided practical knowledge. Unique for corp. world - Talked about how I am a teamplayer by being a part of a lot of teams throughout insti time. He then asked, how would you tackle a bully. I said zero tolerance to bullies in my team. Then asked how would you tackle a bully who is your senior/client - Said I will be diplomatic as there is a tradeoff between how I can minimize abuse and how much damage it will cause. But, will make sure that I start small and then push for larger changes. Then asked more about ML - Told him about Supervised, unsupervised, RL, Deep. Surface area - standard guesstimate stuff
Tips: If you have done a course in ML, you will sail through. This time it looks like they were trying to expand their team
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
6 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. For this round he gave me lot of problems and asked to develop optimal algorithm to solve that. Problems were mainly on trees and number sequences
- Q2. In this round he mainly discussed my projects and asked me how these can be put to use in Paypal. He also asked some basic questions from ML
- Q3. HR round was just for formality
- Q4. Probability , question on calculating expected number of trials and puzzles
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: The coding question was:
Given a binary string containing 0's and 1's. You can split the string such that each partition should be a exponential of 5 (1,5,25,625...). You were asked to return minimum number of partition for the given string such each partition is exponential of 5. If no such partition exists return -1.
Examples: '101101101' Ans: 3 (101, 101, 101)
'111' Ans: 3 (1,1,1)
10101 Ans: -1
Tips: For MCQ's prepare DSA, OS and Networking. For DSA you can refer to cormen
For Coding question practice on either geeksforgeeks or from any of the coding platforms like hackerrank
The shortlist was mainly dependent on coding question
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Round: Puzzle Interview
Tips: Do lot of puzzles from heard on the street, -----/ , Try to search for more. It will be helpful in other interviews as well
Round: Technical Interview
Tips: Practice algorithm section from geeksforgeeks. There are lot of standard problems. The given questions were slightly modified version of standard problems
Round: Technical Interview
Tips: For this round you need to be well prepared with your projects and resume.
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: The coding question was:
Given a binary string containing 0's and 1's. You can split the string such that each partition should be a exponential of 5 (1,5,25,625...). You were asked to return minimum number of partition for the given string such each partition is exponential of 5. If no such partition exists return -1.
Examples: '101101101' Ans: 3 (101, 101, 101)
'111' Ans: 3 (1,1,1)
10101 Ans: -1
Tips: For MCQ's prepare DSA, OS and Networking. For DSA you can refer to cormen
For Coding question practice on either geeksforgeeks or from any of the coding platforms like hackerrank
The shortlist was mainly dependent on coding question
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Round: Puzzle Interview
Tips: Do lot of puzzles from heard on the street, -----/ , Try to search for more. It will be helpful in other interviews as well
Round: Technical Interview
Tips: Practice algorithm section from geeksforgeeks. There are lot of standard problems. The given questions were slightly modified version of standard problems
Round: Technical Interview
Tips: For this round you need to be well prepared with your projects and resume.
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Math+Fin(basic: no pre-requisite knowledge)
Tips: Subjective questions. So there is weightage for the approach being followed as well.
Duration: 2 hours
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: Be thorough with everything on your resume, if any course/projects in finance, definitely expect questions on them. Other questions can be puzzles/quant questions.
Tips: Convey thoughts/ideas clearly.
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Math+Fin(basic: no pre-requisite knowledge)
Tips: Subjective questions. So there is weightage for the approach being followed as well.
Duration: 2 hours
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: Be thorough with everything on your resume, if any course/projects in finance, definitely expect questions on them. Other questions can be puzzles/quant questions.
Tips: Convey thoughts/ideas clearly.
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
1 Interview Round
Interview Questions
- Q1. Phases of compiler
- Q2. Compiler optimisations
- Q3. Why to c over cpp
- Q4. Classes and structure and memory allocation for them
- Q5. My research area
- Q6. My professional experience
- Q7. Knowledge in cpp, c and debugging
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Asked about, basic cpp, c. compiler optimisations and phases, lex and yacc. why and how compiler optimisations help.
Tips: Its good.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: How good am i in c, cpp. My research area.
Tips: Question where not clear to me. when asked how good are you in cpp, in debugging, in firmware I was not able to understand what the interviewer was looking for.
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Asked about, basic cpp, c. compiler optimisations and phases, lex and yacc. why and how compiler optimisations help.
Tips: Its good.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: How good am i in c, cpp. My research area.
Tips: Question where not clear to me. when asked how good are you in cpp, in debugging, in firmware I was not able to understand what the interviewer was looking for.
College Name: IIT Madras
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