Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

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Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai Placement Interview Questions

Updated 4 Dec 2024

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4 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

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Round: Test
Experience: Essay writing, 3 essay type questions (40, 40 and 60 marks) related to recent development in transportation sector were asked.
Duration: 2hrs minutes

Skill Tips: Try to write in a systematic way giving recent examples.
College Name: IIT MADRAS
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6 Interview Rounds

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Round: Test
Experience: More analytical thinking was tested than simple aptitude/ logical questions
Duration: 90-120min minutes

Round: Guesstimate Interview
Experience: They will just check your approach, they don’t even wait till you finish estimating a final no. This round will be only for10- 15 minutes.

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: This round is a bit long and depends on how much time you take to complete the case. They again look for yourapproach but final number is also important here.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: This again depends on the performance of the interviewee.
Tips: For any preparation HR round is the most crucial one, please don’t neglect it. If HR is prepared much advance one will be very clear about why they want that particular job and will be clear of all confusions during placements.

College Name: IIT MADRAS
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4 Interview Rounds

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Round: Test
Experience: They asked us our opinion on smart cities and development.
Duration: 1.5hrs minutes

Round: HR Interview
Experience: They asked us questions based on my transportation engineering related projects and courses. They were basically asking questions on any project that I have done and they were just checking how well I have applied the concepts even though it wasn’t related to transportation engineering. They also asked me about my extra-curricular activities.

General Tips: Doing a Finance based intern during second/third year would have helped in getting a fin company. For consulting big firms like McK and BCG, getting involved in many other activities during first and second year would have helped in building up an all round resume. Proper preparation for CAT would seriously be very helpful during non-core placement. First year- Try to explore everything in insti- be it sports, CFI, Drams, Choreo or learn any musical instrument. Don’t just mug and concentrate on CG. Try to build an all round personality.Second year- Try taking responsibilities and get involved in Fests like Shaastra, Saarang, CEA. Try to participate in them and build up a passion for anything that interests you the most.Third year- try to concentrate on your acads as the department courses become more interesting . Talk to profs to find out the area of your interest and start working on some dept. projects.Fouth year- Start preparing for non core placements atleast a month before the actual placement season. People interested in core, please don’t waste your time on placement preparation instead be involved in dept. project and work on it with full enthu. Do not let the placements affect your CG.
Skill Tips: Did not prepare for non-core companies. Knowledge about current affairs might help in non-core placements. Case in Point and Victor Cheng can be helpful for consulting.
College Name: IIT MADRAS
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posted on 9 Jul 2015

5 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Tips: Could use C/C++/Java to solve,
Duration: 120 minutes
Total Questions: 62

Round: Other Interview
Experience: Simple puzzles, Basic data structures and algorithms based question were asked.

Round: Other Interview
Experience: Asked about my Analytics intern – Explained some Text mining, machine learning techniques like Artificial Neural Networks. Also DDP and Projects – some Regression and Time Series Concepts.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Basic HR and background check, Also Check if you are genuinely interested and will not leave the company.

General Tips: Talk to people, read stuff, find out what interests you. Decide a few areas and prepare for those. Take part in insti clubs, get to know new stuff.There are a number of free online video courses available like coursera, edX, etc. Have a look at these, pick up one or two, learn whenever you have time. If possible, even submit the assignments and give the quizzes. A programming language cannot be learned just by reading a book or watching videos. You have to practice and do somehands-on exercises.While preparing for Puzzles and coding questions, do not directly go to the solution, always make an attempt, scribble your thoughts on a piece of paper.Participate in competitions (for both core and non-core), you ll learn a lot through such experiences than what you learn from textbooks.
Skill Tips: Speak confidently and explain your projects in simple terms. Ask if they want further explanation, and only then talk about it in depth.
College Name: IIT MADRAS
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Engineering Graduate Interview Questions

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posted on 8 Jul 2015

5 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

  • Q1. Finding the thrust of a an engine with given specifications
  • Q2. Finding the efficiency of a Rankine/ Brayton cycle
  • Q3. Given a truss structure with loads, and asking to find which elements were under tension which under compression?
  • Q4. Some question on what kind of bearings to be used
  • Q5. Some question on how to reduce the stress on a turbine blade- whether to increase the base dimensions or decrease it, something like that

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Problem Statement
Tips: Has to interact with related professors of the topic of interest to work on that subject.start interacting from 8th sem with profs and to start research..

Round: Written communication skills test
Experience: You are a member of the board of directors and have recently launched a new automobile design and it has become very popular. You are sure that if the design reaches the assembly line, you will have demand for the next one year.But today your chief engineer comes to you with a design flaw and says, if the vehicle moves with very high speed and has a head on collision with another vehicle, the fuel tank will disintegrate and come off with fuel leaking.CHOICES GIVEN :a) you can have a small fix, and limit the damage to vehicle moving with a very high velocity, having fuel tank filled more than 3/4th and having only head on collision. This will take a month.b) You can have the complete fix. This will take another 6 months and might change the look of the design
1. what are your first thoughts?2. What choices do you have?3. what are your actions

Skill Tips: Preparation topics 1) Propulsion2) Basic Strength ofMaterials3) Mechanical basic stuff related to bearings and tolerance 4) Product Design5) General knowledge about Jet engines and their industries.
College Name: IIT MADRAS
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Interview Questions

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posted on 8 Jul 2015

5 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: In this round there were different sessions including logical, technical questions on Networking, Operating Systems, etc. Out of all this part logical was easy and requires medium practice of quants. In technical all technical subject knowledge was checked at medium level, If you are form COMPUTER/IT/MCA then a quick revision to important subjects is required and most of the thing can be solved by common sense. It also had coding part in it, We were given two codes one which was easy and the other was bit tough. We were allowed to use online IDE’s.

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: In this we were divided in to group of 6-7 people and were given simple topic. The other topics were not very technical. Out of that students were selected.
Tips: IMP points for GD for Xoriant :1) If you start be sure that you are really good at it and can continue conversation for a while, otherwise don’t take a chance.2) Do speak politely with audible voice, and please don’t create fish market and do give chance for others to speak.3) Try to bring some good points and be expressive.4) Do be ready with a conclusion, as individual conclusion were asked.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: It is really very important of all as most eliminations are done in this and GD round. Do not fake yourself, be confident and try to speak about your projects if they are good. They will ask you basic code like factorial. Remember if you are highlighting your projects the next question will be about your role in it.
Tips: Do try to talk about new technology if you are working on any. They just want to see the SPARK in you, that’s it .Sell yourself good. Do practice basic codes please.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: This was very smooth yet very important round. They are very frank with you, but please be wise and don’t go into that flow. They asked me about my family and my interests and about my projects. Please try to show them that you are doing some-thing that is important and you have the learning attitude. As, I was in ROBOCON, they asked me lot about how I used to handle the extra-circular activity, some questions on leader-ship. After that I was asked to leave.After some time they again called me, and asked whether I was comfortable with the job at Pune. Which I undoubtedly replied yes. And after the interviews were done they announced the results and three students were selected.

College Name: IIT MADRAS
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Interview Questions

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posted on 8 Jul 2015

5 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Total 14 people were shortlisted after the aptitude. EXTC and ETRX students had MPMC, Digital Logic, Digital communication ,etc. and quants ,logic in aptitude test

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I said I am comfortable with linked lists (data structure). So he asked questions like find the Nth node to last in a linked list, find if it is a circular list. Some questions were based on microprocessors and microcontrollers.

College Name: IIT MADRAS
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posted on 7 Jul 2015

5 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Divide your time well for each section in aptitude test. Practice well and avoid solving long passages in the beginning. Make logical guesses for the remaining questions. No negative marking.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: ·

College Name: IIT MADRAS
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posted on 7 Jul 2015

5 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: There was no negative marking but I am not sure whether wrong answers were counted for elimination (though I feel they were not. The level of test was moderate and if you solve any CAT/CMAT books.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: There were 3 different panels (nos. might change). Allocation was done the basis of your performance in the test. I was ranked 3rd so I got a panel where I was first to enter. This gives you a lot of advantage if you absorb it effectively

Round: HR Interview
Experience: The interview was about my interest, family background, likes, dislikes, higher education. He had all my answers written on back side of my resume. Be firm and honest. Don’t try to match your answers with theirs. If you have higher education in plan have an alternative answer. Know you strengths. Know you weaknesses and what are you doing to overcome them. Know where you would see yourself 5 years down the line. 
And of course, Do you have any questions for me?

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: It was already 5 pm when I was called in for the interview and I was very exhausted. This was again a test of my programming skills. The atmosphere was not tensed at all as the interviewer was pretty relaxed and comforting

College Name: IIT MADRAS
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6 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: 15 simple quant and logic questions with negative marking.People who could solve even 10 correctly were able to clear the aptitude round.
Tips: Don’t get stuck on one question. Go further and come back to that question if time permits.

Round: video synthesis
Experience: You’ll be shown a video clip of around 2-3 minutes from a Hollywood movie.  You have to write your inferences about the clip. Please do not summarise. For example: We were shown a clip from the movie “2012”. The scene showed the crowd fighting to get on the airplane which was permitted only to the ones with a green card (richer section). Then the main character telling heads of nations about right and wrong.  Now to answer this correctly, you can write about the bravery of the man, discrimination between richer and the poorer sections, etc. And incorrect synthesis would be: people are fighting to get on the plane, man is giving a speech, etc. Write at least 3 major points and 2 sub points to support every major point.

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Groups of 4 were made. Likewise there were around 21 groups.  Each group was given a general management based problem, for example, the lowering sales of a so and so company. The group had to discuss about this problem and find a solution. There were 2 people from Musigma to guide during the GD. You can ask them necessary data related to the problem that is not mentioned. This will add to your scoring points.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Simple non tech interview. Feel free to talk anything   Be prepared for situation based questions such as, if you were the manager of a company then which kind of team will you prefer, generalists or specialists? I am the owner of a diaper producing company, I raised the price but still my sales are rising, how is that possible? Any lame but practically possible answer will do, but let him know that you are thinking. Don’t be quiet whatsoever.  I was asked about my family, the quality that I like the most about myself.  Be thorough with your resume because it will be scanned and will be the source to most of the interview questions. In the end, why musigma?  Then I asked him few questions about the company.

College Name: IIT MADRAS
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