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4 Dec 2024
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4 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: GD was conducted for shortlisted candidates and candidates were divided into groups of 6 people.There were 3 topics and each topic was discussed for 2 minutes.No specific rules,like each person needs to speak,are to be followed during the GD.Anyone can initiate,intervene,etc. Finally we were asked to link all three topics and this discussion went on for another 2 minutes.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Only a single round lasting about 40-45 minutes.There were only 4 people in the panel and technical as well as HR questions were asked. First I was asked to go through my own resume, “Introduce/Tell us about yourself?". E.g.:“Where have you shown leadership qualities?Have you led a
team?Size of team? What new initiatives did you take?”.Core questions starting form basics like “How does an airplane fly?” to specific questions about the different types of engines used in airplanes,their specifications, etc. were asked. HR questions were put up like"What was the most difficult decision in your life?" and grilled on my internship for 15-20 minutes which I did in Transocean. (Another oil field services company).
General Tips: You need to be very good in the basics of your
core courses and if you have done an internship in the oil industry,
you will definitely be grilled on that.Questions will be asked in quick succession.
Skill Tips: Highlight any intern in Oil industry or anything related to that in your resume.Any POR or any sport activity which shows your leadership qualities should me mentioned in your resume.
Skills: Leadership qualities, Athletic, Quick thinking, presence of mind
College Name: IIT MADRAS
Experience: GD was conducted for shortlisted candidates and candidates were divided into groups of 6 people.There were 3 topics and each topic was discussed for 2 minutes.No specific rules,like each person needs to speak,are to be followed during the GD.Anyone can initiate,intervene,etc. Finally we were asked to link all three topics and this discussion went on for another 2 minutes.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Only a single round lasting about 40-45 minutes.There were only 4 people in the panel and technical as well as HR questions were asked. First I was asked to go through my own resume, “Introduce/Tell us about yourself?". E.g.:“Where have you shown leadership qualities?Have you led a
team?Size of team? What new initiatives did you take?”.Core questions starting form basics like “How does an airplane fly?” to specific questions about the different types of engines used in airplanes,their specifications, etc. were asked. HR questions were put up like"What was the most difficult decision in your life?" and grilled on my internship for 15-20 minutes which I did in Transocean. (Another oil field services company).
General Tips: You need to be very good in the basics of your
core courses and if you have done an internship in the oil industry,
you will definitely be grilled on that.Questions will be asked in quick succession.
Skill Tips: Highlight any intern in Oil industry or anything related to that in your resume.Any POR or any sport activity which shows your leadership qualities should me mentioned in your resume.
Skills: Leadership qualities, Athletic, Quick thinking, presence of mind
College Name: IIT MADRAS
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: GD was conducted for shortlisted candidates and candidates were divided into groups of 6 people.There were 3 topics and each topic was discussed for 2 minutes.No specific rules,like each person needs to speak,are to be followed during the GD.Anyone can initiate,intervene,etc. Finally we were asked to link all three topics and this discussion went on for another 2 minutes.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Only a single round lasting about 40-45 minutes.There were only 4 people in the panel and technical as well as HR questions were asked. First I was asked to go through my own resume, “Introduce/Tell us about yourself?". E.g: “Where have you shown leadership qualities? Have you led a team? Size of team? What new initiatives did you take?” Core questions starting form basics like “How does an airplane fly?” to specific questions about the different types of engines used in airplanes,their specifications, etc. were asked. HR questions were put up like"What was the most difficult decision in your life?" and grilled on my internship for 15-20 minutes which I did in Transocean. (Another oil field services company).
General Tips: You need to be very good in the basics of your core courses and if you have done an internship in the oil industry, you will definitely be grilled on that.Questions will be asked in quick succession.
Skill Tips: Highlight any intern in Oil industry or anything related to that in your resume.Any POR or any sport activity which shows your leadership qualities should me mentioned in your resume.
Skills: Leadership qualities, Athletic, Quick thinking, presence of mind
College Name: IIT MADRAS
Experience: GD was conducted for shortlisted candidates and candidates were divided into groups of 6 people.There were 3 topics and each topic was discussed for 2 minutes.No specific rules,like each person needs to speak,are to be followed during the GD.Anyone can initiate,intervene,etc. Finally we were asked to link all three topics and this discussion went on for another 2 minutes.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Only a single round lasting about 40-45 minutes.There were only 4 people in the panel and technical as well as HR questions were asked. First I was asked to go through my own resume, “Introduce/Tell us about yourself?". E.g: “Where have you shown leadership qualities? Have you led a team? Size of team? What new initiatives did you take?” Core questions starting form basics like “How does an airplane fly?” to specific questions about the different types of engines used in airplanes,their specifications, etc. were asked. HR questions were put up like"What was the most difficult decision in your life?" and grilled on my internship for 15-20 minutes which I did in Transocean. (Another oil field services company).
General Tips: You need to be very good in the basics of your core courses and if you have done an internship in the oil industry, you will definitely be grilled on that.Questions will be asked in quick succession.
Skill Tips: Highlight any intern in Oil industry or anything related to that in your resume.Any POR or any sport activity which shows your leadership qualities should me mentioned in your resume.
Skills: Leadership qualities, Athletic, Quick thinking, presence of mind
College Name: IIT MADRAS
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: focus on first round of clearance ( MCQ) rather than directly starting with GD. nterview preparation you should start early.
Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 50
College Name: IIT MADRAS
Experience: focus on first round of clearance ( MCQ) rather than directly starting with GD. nterview preparation you should start early.
Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 50
College Name: IIT MADRAS
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: It was a two hour objective pattern test. Questions were mostly on mental ability, aptitude and general knowledge.
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: There were 9 people in a group. It went for half an hour.
They looked for leadership qualities, whether you started the discussion, whether you are able to express your thoughts, whether you are standing on your views etc.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: There were three rounds. They asked HR questions, few puzzles and also few tech related questions.No particular skill are required. Minor knowledge didn’t help much.
College Name: IIT MADRAS
Experience: It was a two hour objective pattern test. Questions were mostly on mental ability, aptitude and general knowledge.
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: There were 9 people in a group. It went for half an hour.
They looked for leadership qualities, whether you started the discussion, whether you are able to express your thoughts, whether you are standing on your views etc.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: There were three rounds. They asked HR questions, few puzzles and also few tech related questions.No particular skill are required. Minor knowledge didn’t help much.
College Name: IIT MADRAS
3 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Was a written test. Was based on puzzles.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: 2 rounds of interview were conducted. Both were based on puzzled. They want to check ones logical thinking approach.
College Name: IIT MADRAS
Experience: Was a written test. Was based on puzzles.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: 2 rounds of interview were conducted. Both were based on puzzled. They want to check ones logical thinking approach.
College Name: IIT MADRAS
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: The person should be a team player, should have good interpersonal skills, and should have good leadership qualities to control the flow of the discussion. Being a good conflict manager also helps.
Round: Other Interview
Experience: Puzzle solving type question was asked. For first question I solved it using Binary Sorting Method. Basically, throw the egg from 500th floor. If it doesn’t crack then go to 750th floor, if it cracks then go to 250th floor. And continue. (Egg is quite strong of course). And for second, I used volume of each ball and void fraction. They see your approach rather than the numbers.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: I told them that I’m not sure about what I would be doing after 5 years but I have a vision to be a decision maker of the company. I also told them frankly that I wasn’t really interested in Chemical Engineering.
Round: Other Interview
Experience: Interview was taken by the director. For first question, I answered,” It’s in Bombay and I am from Bombay.” For second, I told the director about the new low in oil prices along with its trends and reasons for the same. Demand and supply was used as a reason.
General Tips: The person should be a team player, should have good interpersonal skills, and should have good leadership qualities to control the flow of the discussion. Being a good conflict manager also helps.
Skill Tips: Should be a team player. Should have a good story to tell. Should be interesting -There should be key take away for everything you do. For example for my events core-ship, we cut a few events to increase quality, quantity and price money of other events we founded Sangam to bring all clubs under one umbrella. Won’t really help in interview directly but will help in problem solving.
Skills: Interpersonal skills, Systems identification, Numerical Techniques, Time series, Linear algebra, Multivariate Data analysis
College Name: IIT MADRAS
Experience: The person should be a team player, should have good interpersonal skills, and should have good leadership qualities to control the flow of the discussion. Being a good conflict manager also helps.
Round: Other Interview
Experience: Puzzle solving type question was asked. For first question I solved it using Binary Sorting Method. Basically, throw the egg from 500th floor. If it doesn’t crack then go to 750th floor, if it cracks then go to 250th floor. And continue. (Egg is quite strong of course). And for second, I used volume of each ball and void fraction. They see your approach rather than the numbers.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: I told them that I’m not sure about what I would be doing after 5 years but I have a vision to be a decision maker of the company. I also told them frankly that I wasn’t really interested in Chemical Engineering.
Round: Other Interview
Experience: Interview was taken by the director. For first question, I answered,” It’s in Bombay and I am from Bombay.” For second, I told the director about the new low in oil prices along with its trends and reasons for the same. Demand and supply was used as a reason.
General Tips: The person should be a team player, should have good interpersonal skills, and should have good leadership qualities to control the flow of the discussion. Being a good conflict manager also helps.
Skill Tips: Should be a team player. Should have a good story to tell. Should be interesting -There should be key take away for everything you do. For example for my events core-ship, we cut a few events to increase quality, quantity and price money of other events we founded Sangam to bring all clubs under one umbrella. Won’t really help in interview directly but will help in problem solving.
Skills: Interpersonal skills, Systems identification, Numerical Techniques, Time series, Linear algebra, Multivariate Data analysis
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. People with quantitative and analytical skills are preferred. 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. People with quantitative and analytical skills are preferred. They look for people who have given exams like CFA.
Skills: Quantitative Skills, Analytical Skills
College Name: IIT MADRAS
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: I performed well in the written test, and there was a speaking and listening test too. I felt quant was most important for the tests, fast mathematics, then technical questions. Technical questions generally asked by core companies. Some programming based companies also ask such technical questions.
Puzzles can help you in answering quant questions also. The tests were mostly MCQ. Some tests were there which had subjective question papers. None of the core companies had subjective type, but coding companies had such questions.
They were write a program to do *task* type questions. The programming language to write the code in, was our choice. The language options were C, C++, Python, Java. Python was rarely asked, though.
Duration: 3 hours minutes
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Don't quite actually remember those topics. But, skills they wanted to test was to see how well they were able to express their ideas, but without outwardly disrupting others while talking.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: The interview was at least 40 minutes, with 5 minutes of HR interview for my current work profile.
The HR usually starts with “Tell me about yourself”. Then they go through the resume, and ask about the project (DDP, in my case) and internship. This was done by the HR team, just to see how the candidate is putting forth his ideas and contributions clearly.
Tips: Since I cleared the tests, I was allowed to appear for the interviews, but after that, the CGPA played a major role in the final selection. Hence people with low CGPA had to perform exceptionally well to compensate for the low CGPA. However, I don’t know of the internal mechanism of shortlisting, so I was of the opinion that CGPA did not result in elimination of candidates, (except for the candidates who were eliminated due to the cutoff CGPA). But it played a role in the final selection.
For managerial positions, PoRs like coordships, coreships etc can be used to pitch your leadership qualities. They can start a chain of conversation that involves the work you did, on how you managed to execute the task efficiently, which ends up working in your favour.
Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: Two puzzles were given in the interview. I did well in both, hence got selected. Another puzzle was to measure 45 minutes of time elapsed by using two candles, both of which take 1 hour to burn out completely.
General Tips: I was weak in thermodynamics, so he covered that course revision, for core placements. I prepared from the material sent by Shruti. That was all I prepared. The Coursera for R language was not that useful for me as I was looking for a managerial position.In case of resume shortlists, students who had done management, operations research or economics courses were preferred.
Otherwise, one has to justify your selection through good pitching. Finance companies are sort of open minded; they are looking for people who would do the job. Anyways, they will be providing training, so the knowledge in finance gained through independent means is not quite significant. It will, however, give an edge in the tests, as finance and quant based questions will be asked. They won’t go deep info finance.
I also suggest to freshies and second years to complete the core credited intern in the second year itself so that they can take up an intern of their choice, be it either research intern or core intern in their 3rd year summer. It offers much greater flexibility to the students. It will be useful, especially for non-core placements. I started preparing for the interviews late. I did not put pen to paper, to write down his answer for the ice-breaking questions like “Introduce yourself”. It would be better to write those answers down and get them polished, rather than trying to remember it and/or make it up spontaneously.
Skill Tips: For handling pressure, I suggest that after the interviews are over, just eat and get a good night’s sleep. Preparing/analyzing about the performance in the interview would only make you more anxious, affects sleep, and this would affect your performance in the interviews the next day. The additional one hour of preparation is not going to make a big difference.
Skills: Speaking Ability, Ability to express your ideas, Capable of managing things efficiently
College Name: IIT MADRAS
Experience: I performed well in the written test, and there was a speaking and listening test too. I felt quant was most important for the tests, fast mathematics, then technical questions. Technical questions generally asked by core companies. Some programming based companies also ask such technical questions.
Puzzles can help you in answering quant questions also. The tests were mostly MCQ. Some tests were there which had subjective question papers. None of the core companies had subjective type, but coding companies had such questions.
They were write a program to do *task* type questions. The programming language to write the code in, was our choice. The language options were C, C++, Python, Java. Python was rarely asked, though.
Duration: 3 hours minutes
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Don't quite actually remember those topics. But, skills they wanted to test was to see how well they were able to express their ideas, but without outwardly disrupting others while talking.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: The interview was at least 40 minutes, with 5 minutes of HR interview for my current work profile.
The HR usually starts with “Tell me about yourself”. Then they go through the resume, and ask about the project (DDP, in my case) and internship. This was done by the HR team, just to see how the candidate is putting forth his ideas and contributions clearly.
Tips: Since I cleared the tests, I was allowed to appear for the interviews, but after that, the CGPA played a major role in the final selection. Hence people with low CGPA had to perform exceptionally well to compensate for the low CGPA. However, I don’t know of the internal mechanism of shortlisting, so I was of the opinion that CGPA did not result in elimination of candidates, (except for the candidates who were eliminated due to the cutoff CGPA). But it played a role in the final selection.
For managerial positions, PoRs like coordships, coreships etc can be used to pitch your leadership qualities. They can start a chain of conversation that involves the work you did, on how you managed to execute the task efficiently, which ends up working in your favour.
Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: Two puzzles were given in the interview. I did well in both, hence got selected. Another puzzle was to measure 45 minutes of time elapsed by using two candles, both of which take 1 hour to burn out completely.
General Tips: I was weak in thermodynamics, so he covered that course revision, for core placements. I prepared from the material sent by Shruti. That was all I prepared. The Coursera for R language was not that useful for me as I was looking for a managerial position.In case of resume shortlists, students who had done management, operations research or economics courses were preferred.
Otherwise, one has to justify your selection through good pitching. Finance companies are sort of open minded; they are looking for people who would do the job. Anyways, they will be providing training, so the knowledge in finance gained through independent means is not quite significant. It will, however, give an edge in the tests, as finance and quant based questions will be asked. They won’t go deep info finance.
I also suggest to freshies and second years to complete the core credited intern in the second year itself so that they can take up an intern of their choice, be it either research intern or core intern in their 3rd year summer. It offers much greater flexibility to the students. It will be useful, especially for non-core placements. I started preparing for the interviews late. I did not put pen to paper, to write down his answer for the ice-breaking questions like “Introduce yourself”. It would be better to write those answers down and get them polished, rather than trying to remember it and/or make it up spontaneously.
Skill Tips: For handling pressure, I suggest that after the interviews are over, just eat and get a good night’s sleep. Preparing/analyzing about the performance in the interview would only make you more anxious, affects sleep, and this would affect your performance in the interviews the next day. The additional one hour of preparation is not going to make a big difference.
Skills: Speaking Ability, Ability to express your ideas, Capable of managing things efficiently
College Name: IIT MADRAS
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posted on 30 Jun 2015
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: For Amada Soft:3D geometry, and CS1100 level C,C++ coding questions were asked.
Round: Behavioural Interview
Tips: Amadasoft wasn't concerned about CGPA. For Futures First, present yourself as if you’re going to be in the company for a few years. CGPA not a selection criteria for Futures First.
General Tips: Start preparing from 3rd year summer. Learn from websites and use Google effectively. I got a lot of help from immediate seniors/alumni.Don't ignore quant. Also do some case studies.
College Name: IIT MADRAS
Experience: For Amada Soft:3D geometry, and CS1100 level C,C++ coding questions were asked.
Round: Behavioural Interview
Tips: Amadasoft wasn't concerned about CGPA. For Futures First, present yourself as if you’re going to be in the company for a few years. CGPA not a selection criteria for Futures First.
General Tips: Start preparing from 3rd year summer. Learn from websites and use Google effectively. I got a lot of help from immediate seniors/alumni.Don't ignore quant. Also do some case studies.
College Name: IIT MADRAS
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: It was normal aptitude test involving maths and puzzles. There was no coding.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: They shortlisted some 25(not sure) after the test and first 10 had only HR and remaining 15 had both HR and technical interviews. I had only HR in which they asked about my project,why software,why our company,blah blah blah and normal stuff like this.
Skill Tips: First give some practise tests online, solve puzzles, learn atleast C till lists(linked lists etc), and do sorting algorithms.
Skills: Web Technologies, PHP, javascript, HTML, Mysql, redis, sphinx
College Name: IIT MADRAS
Experience: It was normal aptitude test involving maths and puzzles. There was no coding.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: They shortlisted some 25(not sure) after the test and first 10 had only HR and remaining 15 had both HR and technical interviews. I had only HR in which they asked about my project,why software,why our company,blah blah blah and normal stuff like this.
Skill Tips: First give some practise tests online, solve puzzles, learn atleast C till lists(linked lists etc), and do sorting algorithms.
Skills: Web Technologies, PHP, javascript, HTML, Mysql, redis, sphinx
College Name: IIT MADRAS
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