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4 Dec 2024
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5 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: The test was on Probability.
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Current Affairs. Abstract word 'RED' was the topic. We were given a very short duration to discuss. People who got lead over others were selected for further rounds.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Some puzzles were asked. I was also asked to provide brief solutions to the questions asked in the test.
Tips: One should be extremely good in Probability.
General Tips: One of the topics for case study was “you were left in a virtual world and given a set things. What things would you choose and Why? They have given a set of things. We need to explain the reasons for choosing them.
Prepare well for placements say like for at least 3-4 months.
College Name: IIT MADRAS
Experience: The test was on Probability.
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Current Affairs. Abstract word 'RED' was the topic. We were given a very short duration to discuss. People who got lead over others were selected for further rounds.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Some puzzles were asked. I was also asked to provide brief solutions to the questions asked in the test.
Tips: One should be extremely good in Probability.
General Tips: One of the topics for case study was “you were left in a virtual world and given a set things. What things would you choose and Why? They have given a set of things. We need to explain the reasons for choosing them.
Prepare well for placements say like for at least 3-4 months.
College Name: IIT MADRAS
Anonymous
posted on 30 Jun 2015
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Section 1: 30 questions – Quant Section 2: 20 questions- Speed Math
Tips: Don’t stick on to one single question which you are unable to solve. You need to complete it as quick as possible.
I prepared for Quant for about 10 days before the placements. But I think it would be better if one starts preparing much much earlier.
Duration: 30 minutes
Round: Other Interview
Experience: For me there were 3 rounds. All the 3 rounds went on the same note for me. They were constantly asking random questions. All you need to do is keep smiling and answer them properly. You can just say to all the questions he asks as “No idea sir”. There is nothing like you should be answering all his questions correctly.
In my 2nd round, he went through my resume. So you need to be very clear about what you wrote in the resume. You should not fake it as they will shoot many quick questions the moment you start to cup.
Tips: I answered most of the questions with a pleasant smile. One should not worry about their facial expressions and panic.
College Name: IIT MADRAS
Experience: Section 1: 30 questions – Quant Section 2: 20 questions- Speed Math
Tips: Don’t stick on to one single question which you are unable to solve. You need to complete it as quick as possible.
I prepared for Quant for about 10 days before the placements. But I think it would be better if one starts preparing much much earlier.
Duration: 30 minutes
Round: Other Interview
Experience: For me there were 3 rounds. All the 3 rounds went on the same note for me. They were constantly asking random questions. All you need to do is keep smiling and answer them properly. You can just say to all the questions he asks as “No idea sir”. There is nothing like you should be answering all his questions correctly.
In my 2nd round, he went through my resume. So you need to be very clear about what you wrote in the resume. You should not fake it as they will shoot many quick questions the moment you start to cup.
Tips: I answered most of the questions with a pleasant smile. One should not worry about their facial expressions and panic.
College Name: IIT MADRAS
6 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Questions related to aptitude and verbal ability. Similar to CAT level questions. Speed and accuracy is important.
Tips: Aptitude and Verbal are important for any placement test for that matter. Start and practice well before the tests. Don't miss your dream company because of your poor performance in tests. The more you practice, the easier you can get through.
Duration: 75 minutes
Total Questions: 60
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: The topic is to test how much you are inclined to the industry. Moderators are very helpful. Topic is the same for all the groups. One min time to prepare for the topic, about 10 min to discuss. Chance is given for everyone to conclude after GD.
Tips: You need to make relevant points. Even if we are struggling to make a step, they will help us.
Duration: 15 minutes
General Tips: 1. Aptitude and Verbal are important
2. It is important to define and understand the topic more than paying attention to start and conclude the GD. Knowledge on topic is important in GDs.. Allowing and involving other people shows how well you can perform in a team.
College Name: IIT MADRAS
Experience: Questions related to aptitude and verbal ability. Similar to CAT level questions. Speed and accuracy is important.
Tips: Aptitude and Verbal are important for any placement test for that matter. Start and practice well before the tests. Don't miss your dream company because of your poor performance in tests. The more you practice, the easier you can get through.
Duration: 75 minutes
Total Questions: 60
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: The topic is to test how much you are inclined to the industry. Moderators are very helpful. Topic is the same for all the groups. One min time to prepare for the topic, about 10 min to discuss. Chance is given for everyone to conclude after GD.
Tips: You need to make relevant points. Even if we are struggling to make a step, they will help us.
Duration: 15 minutes
General Tips: 1. Aptitude and Verbal are important
2. It is important to define and understand the topic more than paying attention to start and conclude the GD. Knowledge on topic is important in GDs.. Allowing and involving other people shows how well you can perform in a team.
College Name: IIT MADRAS
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: CAT kind of test.
Total Questions: 45
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Basic logical questions were asked.
Tips: Be thoroughly prepared with your resume. My TNA project (Had Djikstra's algorithm) was given a lot of importance,
General Tips: I feel that knowing a senior(who works at EXL) helped. He had come for the interviews. Know what you want beforehand. Your preparation will be better that way. Focus only on 2 areas. Don't try to go for everything. You will end up with nothing. Your resume is a paper telling people who you are and what your interests are. Don't run after anything that comes your way.(Only applicable if interests are not clear) All years Read up on what is happening in the world.1st-3 sems Explore as much as possible. Do random project and random PORs.You will be able to filter what you like.(or you don't) 4th sem Learn something in non civil related that you like and do an intern in that field. If you like civil, pursue a project under a prof.3rd year Choose interesting electives and minors. There are many civil minors that are interesting and have some non-core feel to it (eg TNA)
College Name: IIT MADRAS
Experience: CAT kind of test.
Total Questions: 45
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Basic logical questions were asked.
Tips: Be thoroughly prepared with your resume. My TNA project (Had Djikstra's algorithm) was given a lot of importance,
General Tips: I feel that knowing a senior(who works at EXL) helped. He had come for the interviews. Know what you want beforehand. Your preparation will be better that way. Focus only on 2 areas. Don't try to go for everything. You will end up with nothing. Your resume is a paper telling people who you are and what your interests are. Don't run after anything that comes your way.(Only applicable if interests are not clear) All years Read up on what is happening in the world.1st-3 sems Explore as much as possible. Do random project and random PORs.You will be able to filter what you like.(or you don't) 4th sem Learn something in non civil related that you like and do an intern in that field. If you like civil, pursue a project under a prof.3rd year Choose interesting electives and minors. There are many civil minors that are interesting and have some non-core feel to it (eg TNA)
College Name: IIT MADRAS
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: The test was based on three topics namely Quantitative Aptitude, Mathematics and English. The questions were easy to answer.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: A case study was asked for which I had to give a solution based on statistical methods.
Tips: But the B.tech project helped me in leading the interview. Lead the interview and don’t let them ask many questions on topics. Keep speaking.
Round: HR Interview
Tips: During interviews try to lead the interviews.Keep speaking and let them ask questions on your speech which you will be perfect to answer. If you let them ask, you may or may not be able to answer.
College Name: IIT MADRAS
Experience: The test was based on three topics namely Quantitative Aptitude, Mathematics and English. The questions were easy to answer.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: A case study was asked for which I had to give a solution based on statistical methods.
Tips: But the B.tech project helped me in leading the interview. Lead the interview and don’t let them ask many questions on topics. Keep speaking.
Round: HR Interview
Tips: During interviews try to lead the interviews.Keep speaking and let them ask questions on your speech which you will be perfect to answer. If you let them ask, you may or may not be able to answer.
College Name: IIT MADRAS
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Everything was objective. Not sure about the cutoff but they selected about 12 members. Quantitative+verbal questions were asked.
Duration: 180 minutes
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: We got 2mins for preparing before the GD began.
Group strength was minimal and. some people didn’t even speak making it easier to get through this round.
Tips: Speaking skills are required. Put forward sensible points. Leadership quality will help. Drive the group to discuss your point.
Duration: 10 minutes
Round: HR Interview
Tips: The spirit with which you deal the interview matters most. If it is a stress interview, try to be as cool as possible.
General Tips: I started towards the ending of October. It would definitely help if I had started earlier. If you are aiming for deloitte you don't have start anytime earlier than october. As many don't aim for deloitte please don't start late and repent later. There will be plenty of time during the semester to prepare for whatever profile and job you are aiming for.
2nd & 3rd years
If you are aiming for core companies get a very good project, you can pitch about. The project has to be purely linked to the dept concept. For example, in civil engineering I did a project on fusing BIM and Gaming. Although it seems cool, it doesn't help at all as far as core interview is concerned
In general if a person is aiming at a finance or a banking company at least one internship in the respective field SHOULD be done to bring weight to your resume.
Skill Tips: Any courses relating to infrastructure (IPM – offered by Ashwin Mahalingam ofCivil Dept will help).
Any BTP relating to infrastructure – like socio-economic evaluation of a project,that they liked in the resume, or performance in previous rounds etc.)taking BIM to govt, policy considerations etc would be job-fetchers.
College Name: IIT MADRAS
Experience: Everything was objective. Not sure about the cutoff but they selected about 12 members. Quantitative+verbal questions were asked.
Duration: 180 minutes
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: We got 2mins for preparing before the GD began.
Group strength was minimal and. some people didn’t even speak making it easier to get through this round.
Tips: Speaking skills are required. Put forward sensible points. Leadership quality will help. Drive the group to discuss your point.
Duration: 10 minutes
Round: HR Interview
Tips: The spirit with which you deal the interview matters most. If it is a stress interview, try to be as cool as possible.
General Tips: I started towards the ending of October. It would definitely help if I had started earlier. If you are aiming for deloitte you don't have start anytime earlier than october. As many don't aim for deloitte please don't start late and repent later. There will be plenty of time during the semester to prepare for whatever profile and job you are aiming for.
2nd & 3rd years
If you are aiming for core companies get a very good project, you can pitch about. The project has to be purely linked to the dept concept. For example, in civil engineering I did a project on fusing BIM and Gaming. Although it seems cool, it doesn't help at all as far as core interview is concerned
In general if a person is aiming at a finance or a banking company at least one internship in the respective field SHOULD be done to bring weight to your resume.
Skill Tips: Any courses relating to infrastructure (IPM – offered by Ashwin Mahalingam ofCivil Dept will help).
Any BTP relating to infrastructure – like socio-economic evaluation of a project,that they liked in the resume, or performance in previous rounds etc.)taking BIM to govt, policy considerations etc would be job-fetchers.
College Name: IIT MADRAS
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Questions were mostly on mental ability, aptitude and general knowledge. No one crossed the cut off which the company proposed. Since they came on day 16 they don’t have much choice other than decreasing the cutoff.
Duration: 60 minutes
Round: Technical Interview
Tips: No particular skills were required. It is better to know a great deal about finance. Knowledge acquired through minor courses did help.
General Tips: For third years1) Get a clarity on what you want to pursue.2) Start preparation as early as possible and keep focused.3) Focus more on 2-3 companies and prepare accordingly.
For 1st and 2nd years,1) Try to get a finance intern.2) Do a minor in finance
College Name: IIT MADRAS
Experience: Questions were mostly on mental ability, aptitude and general knowledge. No one crossed the cut off which the company proposed. Since they came on day 16 they don’t have much choice other than decreasing the cutoff.
Duration: 60 minutes
Round: Technical Interview
Tips: No particular skills were required. It is better to know a great deal about finance. Knowledge acquired through minor courses did help.
General Tips: For third years1) Get a clarity on what you want to pursue.2) Start preparation as early as possible and keep focused.3) Focus more on 2-3 companies and prepare accordingly.
For 1st and 2nd years,1) Try to get a finance intern.2) Do a minor in finance
College Name: IIT MADRAS
3 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Candidates were shortlisted based on resume and cover letter.In the cover letter, applicants were asked to write about ,why they are suitable for the position of risk analyst and why they are better than others.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The interview was of about 50 minutes and mostly technical questions were asked and also relating to maths course and probability.Questions were asked on core subjects also, like derivation Navier Stokes Equation.
Skill Tips: Revise all the maths courses you have mentioned in your resume. They look for people who have given exams like CFA.
Skills: Quantitative Skills, Analytical skills
College Name: IIT MADRAS
Experience: Candidates were shortlisted based on resume and cover letter.In the cover letter, applicants were asked to write about ,why they are suitable for the position of risk analyst and why they are better than others.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The interview was of about 50 minutes and mostly technical questions were asked and also relating to maths course and probability.Questions were asked on core subjects also, like derivation Navier Stokes Equation.
Skill Tips: Revise all the maths courses you have mentioned in your resume. They look for people who have given exams like CFA.
Skills: Quantitative Skills, Analytical skills
College Name: IIT MADRAS
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Short-list was made for the test based on CGPA cut-off of 8.0.
Round: Test
Experience: Questions like:
‘given a number n ,count the number of’3’s that appear in all numbers from 1 to n’ were asked.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: The interviews were fairly easy.They did not ask any technical questions in the technical round and both rounds were like HR rounds.Just let them know that you are interested in the company.
Skill Tips: CS courses might help and just let them know that you are interested in coding at some level.
College Name: IIT MADRAS
Experience: Short-list was made for the test based on CGPA cut-off of 8.0.
Round: Test
Experience: Questions like:
‘given a number n ,count the number of’3’s that appear in all numbers from 1 to n’ were asked.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: The interviews were fairly easy.They did not ask any technical questions in the technical round and both rounds were like HR rounds.Just let them know that you are interested in the company.
Skill Tips: CS courses might help and just let them know that you are interested in coding at some level.
College Name: IIT MADRAS
6 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: CGPA cut-off: 7.5
Round: Test
Experience: Questions were based on vibrations, structures and some other topics.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Core questions were asked, eg: working components of vehicle, deficiency of their products.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Questions put up were resume based.
Skill Tips: Good knowledge in Vibrations,Propulsion,Structures,ED is required and aptitude questions should be practiced a lot before giving this.
College Name: IIT MADRAS
Experience: CGPA cut-off: 7.5
Round: Test
Experience: Questions were based on vibrations, structures and some other topics.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Core questions were asked, eg: working components of vehicle, deficiency of their products.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Questions put up were resume based.
Skill Tips: Good knowledge in Vibrations,Propulsion,Structures,ED is required and aptitude questions should be practiced a lot before giving this.
College Name: IIT MADRAS
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