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SAGLANI DIVYA HARISH cs15m041
posted on 2 Dec 2016
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
1 Interview Round
Interview Questions
- Q1. Give the length of longest absolute directory path string Discuss the DS used Optimize it
- Q2. Debuggng a code of Dining Philosopher Problem
- Q3. Design a system to find the millionth person liking particular comment. Many constraints
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Expected to talk about distributed system and networking stuff
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Expected to talk about distributed system and networking stuff
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. The questions are coding data structures
- Q2. How would you find a loop in a linkedlist?
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: The questions are from expectations.
Practice probability
Duration: 1 hour
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Questions are adaptive,I mean interviewer builds up questions basing on our answering
Skills: Data Structures and Algorithms, Mathematics, Probability And Statistics
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: The questions are from expectations.
Practice probability
Duration: 1 hour
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Questions are adaptive,I mean interviewer builds up questions basing on our answering
Skills: Data Structures and Algorithms, Mathematics, Probability And Statistics
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
3 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Given 2 arrays of n and n - 1elements which have n - 1 in common find the unique elements
- Q2. Given a social networking graph find the density of a person. Density is how many friends he had interaction with him and the person by the total number of frie...read more
- Q3. Given a map of coffee shops and a person on the map give the closest n coffee shops to him
- Q4. Why not higher studies ?
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Solved it using xor.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Designed it as 2 graphs and then find the activity and find density.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Preprocess it and give answer. There is no wrong or right just a design question.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Want to experience industry.
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Solved it using xor.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Designed it as 2 graphs and then find the activity and find density.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Preprocess it and give answer. There is no wrong or right just a design question.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Want to experience industry.
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Quickly sped through the test since I had enough aptitude practice. Left only one question unanswered
Tips: Practice aptitude (absolutely crucial, no other way around this)
The website pariksha.co would be a good place to start.
Also very important to have attempted enough mock aptitude tests to see how much of a chance you stand amongst your peers
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 30
Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: Started off with the standard 'tell me about yourself' question and 'Why analytics?'.
Then we moved on to a simple case. I had to put myself in the shoes of a supermarket owner having only one billing counter. I had to list down all possible factors that could possibly influence me into setting up more billing counters (say 3 or 4 more counters). I listed a powerful factor right off the bat. I then had to take a little guidance from the interviewer (who was very friendly btw) who helped me arrive at 3 more factors.
Then we moved on to the puzzle. I had solved it long ago and had found its solution to be one of the least intuitive ones I had come across, I couldn't remember the solution though. So i started by explaining my logic. Then with a little bit of guidance, was able to arrive at the final answer.
Then he looked at my resume and found that I had mentioned some analytics project in it. He started grilling me on that. Since I wasn't conversant with the math behind one of the algorithms I had used, I wasn't able to answer questions on those. He then asked me questions on another algorithm which I was able to answer pretty well.
Then before finishing up, he invited questions. I asked some good questions which he was impressed by.
Tips: Interviewers are pretty friendly and that helps vent out any pressure. Consider the interviews as friendly interactions rather than grilling sessions.
Have mock interviews with one of your friends on basic HR questions. It'll help build confidence as the day of the interview approaches
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: Started off with the interviewer asking why I wanted to get into EXL.
Then we moved on to the more technical part. He asked me which algorithms I was comfortable with. I mentioned neural networks as I was working on it as part of my Dual Degree Project. He then asked me some basic questions on neural networks (that also required some knowledge of the famous bias-variance concept) which I was able to answer pretty well.
He then moved on to questions from a course I had mentioned. We had some discussion on that question but I wasn't able to get to what he wanted to hear. But he left it at that and moved on to the next part.
Then I was asked which one I preferred more: working on projects that were hardcore technical data analysis, or rather qualitative business problems where you derive insights qualitatively. I preferred the first one and said that. I was then asked what I would do if I was assigned projects of the second type, my reply to which the interviewer found convincing enough.
He then invited questions to wrap up the interview. My questions here were again very impressive I guess. This part actually constituted one-fourth of my interview time. We had discussions at length
Tips: Again, do not let any pressure get to you. Interviewers from EXL might probably be one of the friendliest bunches you will ever come across.
Having those mock interviewers is crucial in building confidence
One thing I forgot to mention - they will test if you're someone who is planning to go for higher studies or MBA or something else of the sort. So, if you are planning to do that, make sure you have a good answer to convince them you're not going to ditch them
Skills: Data Analysis, Multivariate Data Analysis- MVA, Neural Networks, Interest In The Job
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Quickly sped through the test since I had enough aptitude practice. Left only one question unanswered
Tips: Practice aptitude (absolutely crucial, no other way around this)
The website pariksha.co would be a good place to start.
Also very important to have attempted enough mock aptitude tests to see how much of a chance you stand amongst your peers
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 30
Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: Started off with the standard 'tell me about yourself' question and 'Why analytics?'.
Then we moved on to a simple case. I had to put myself in the shoes of a supermarket owner having only one billing counter. I had to list down all possible factors that could possibly influence me into setting up more billing counters (say 3 or 4 more counters). I listed a powerful factor right off the bat. I then had to take a little guidance from the interviewer (who was very friendly btw) who helped me arrive at 3 more factors.
Then we moved on to the puzzle. I had solved it long ago and had found its solution to be one of the least intuitive ones I had come across, I couldn't remember the solution though. So i started by explaining my logic. Then with a little bit of guidance, was able to arrive at the final answer.
Then he looked at my resume and found that I had mentioned some analytics project in it. He started grilling me on that. Since I wasn't conversant with the math behind one of the algorithms I had used, I wasn't able to answer questions on those. He then asked me questions on another algorithm which I was able to answer pretty well.
Then before finishing up, he invited questions. I asked some good questions which he was impressed by.
Tips: Interviewers are pretty friendly and that helps vent out any pressure. Consider the interviews as friendly interactions rather than grilling sessions.
Have mock interviews with one of your friends on basic HR questions. It'll help build confidence as the day of the interview approaches
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: Started off with the interviewer asking why I wanted to get into EXL.
Then we moved on to the more technical part. He asked me which algorithms I was comfortable with. I mentioned neural networks as I was working on it as part of my Dual Degree Project. He then asked me some basic questions on neural networks (that also required some knowledge of the famous bias-variance concept) which I was able to answer pretty well.
He then moved on to questions from a course I had mentioned. We had some discussion on that question but I wasn't able to get to what he wanted to hear. But he left it at that and moved on to the next part.
Then I was asked which one I preferred more: working on projects that were hardcore technical data analysis, or rather qualitative business problems where you derive insights qualitatively. I preferred the first one and said that. I was then asked what I would do if I was assigned projects of the second type, my reply to which the interviewer found convincing enough.
He then invited questions to wrap up the interview. My questions here were again very impressive I guess. This part actually constituted one-fourth of my interview time. We had discussions at length
Tips: Again, do not let any pressure get to you. Interviewers from EXL might probably be one of the friendliest bunches you will ever come across.
Having those mock interviewers is crucial in building confidence
One thing I forgot to mention - they will test if you're someone who is planning to go for higher studies or MBA or something else of the sort. So, if you are planning to do that, make sure you have a good answer to convince them you're not going to ditch them
Skills: Data Analysis, Multivariate Data Analysis- MVA, Neural Networks, Interest In The Job
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
6 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Circular queues, binary trees, recursion
- Q2. Asked about project
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: 3 very simple questions on hackerrank.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Questions: 3
Round: Group Discussion
Duration: 1 hour
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Asked me to code up a simple question
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: 3 very simple questions on hackerrank.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Questions: 3
Round: Group Discussion
Duration: 1 hour
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Asked me to code up a simple question
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 FinMechanics? What do you think we do?
- Q2. Questions about my Finance internships and projects
- Q3. Sorting Algorithms? What is their complexity?
- Q4. How would you develop an algorithm for an app like Splitwise with the objective of minimizing the number of transactions among a group of 5?
- Q5. There were questions based on my mechanical projects and also on my contribution to the FSAE team
- Q6. Basics questions on Finance- Options, VaR, CVaR, Bonds, Time value of money et cetera
- Q7. Tell me about yourself? Why FinMechanics? What do you know about us? Walk me through your resume
- Q8. Explain in detail about your internship
- Q9. What do you plan to do 5 years down the line? Plans of higher studies? Why not an MBA immediately? What are your long term goals?
- Q10. Tell me of a time when you had conflicting opinions in a team and how you resolved it
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: CGPA based shortlisting. I think there was a cut-off of 7.5.
Tips: CGPA is very important. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Try and maintain above 8.5 to get shortlisted for most companies.
Round: Test
Experience: Math section involved a few puzzles and a few quantitative aptitude based questions. Programming section tested only the basics. It was language agnostic for the most part but a few questions were based on C. Finance section was probably designed to test your ability to learn new topics quickly. You could answer almost all the questions even without knowing finance as the underlying concept of the problem was explained in a paragraph above the question.
Tips: Practice Quant. Review syntax, data structures and algorithms for the programming section. Read 'DayOne' book's finance section for the finance part.
Duration: 2 hours
Total Questions: 30
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: The interview panel had two people. They were warm and welcoming. Started off with my introduction and some resume based questions. Was asked about my internship at Indian School of Business and my Dual Degree Project. Then a few coding questions and the interview ended with questions on finance.
Tips: Make sure that you project your capabilities well in Math, Programming or Finance.
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: All the employees (around 10 people) who came for the interviews were present in the room. It was slightly intimidating in the beginning to face so many interviewer. But they were really friendly and the interview went pretty well.
Tips: Refer 64 HR Questions book for HR preparation. Don't read the answers but use the questions to prepare your answers.
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: CGPA based shortlisting. I think there was a cut-off of 7.5.
Tips: CGPA is very important. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Try and maintain above 8.5 to get shortlisted for most companies.
Round: Test
Experience: Math section involved a few puzzles and a few quantitative aptitude based questions. Programming section tested only the basics. It was language agnostic for the most part but a few questions were based on C. Finance section was probably designed to test your ability to learn new topics quickly. You could answer almost all the questions even without knowing finance as the underlying concept of the problem was explained in a paragraph above the question.
Tips: Practice Quant. Review syntax, data structures and algorithms for the programming section. Read 'DayOne' book's finance section for the finance part.
Duration: 2 hours
Total Questions: 30
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: The interview panel had two people. They were warm and welcoming. Started off with my introduction and some resume based questions. Was asked about my internship at Indian School of Business and my Dual Degree Project. Then a few coding questions and the interview ended with questions on finance.
Tips: Make sure that you project your capabilities well in Math, Programming or Finance.
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: All the employees (around 10 people) who came for the interviews were present in the room. It was slightly intimidating in the beginning to face so many interviewer. But they were really friendly and the interview went pretty well.
Tips: Refer 64 HR Questions book for HR preparation. Don't read the answers but use the questions to prepare your answers.
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Jan 2016.
3 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Basic Data structure and algorithmic questions
- Q2. Introduce yourself and project
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: It will be easy
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: Project related questions
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: It will be easy
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: Project related questions
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Asked me about my research work That's it
- Q2. Asked about the course project that i did in BE and MS
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: There was one question which was little tricky , but not that difficult
Total Questions: 1
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: There was one question which was little tricky , but not that difficult
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: There was one question which was little tricky , but not that difficult
Total Questions: 1
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: There was one question which was little tricky , but not that difficult
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Basic question on my inclination of work, and my family background.
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: There was a np complete problem given. Brute force solution worked
Duration: 3 hours
Total Questions: 1
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: There was a np complete problem given. Brute force solution worked
Duration: 3 hours
Total Questions: 1
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. What is advantage of dfs over bfs and vice versa?
- Q2. What is web service and types of web services and advantage and disadvantage?
- Q3. Design one encoding sheme
- Q4. It was very cool round . They asked some questions about my past experience and what are the new skill that I learned in IIT. who is ur idle person and why, whi...read more
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Those who have cgpa greater than equal to 8.0 are shortlisted.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Basic knowledge should be clear . Otherwise you can't solve complex problems.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: It was very good experience . HR was very helpful. Please be honest with HR .
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Those who have cgpa greater than equal to 8.0 are shortlisted.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Basic knowledge should be clear . Otherwise you can't solve complex problems.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: It was very good experience . HR was very helpful. Please be honest with HR .
College Name: IIT Madras
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