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EXL ServiceIndian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai Placement Interview Questions
Updated
4 Dec 2024
22 interviews found
I applied via Campus Placement
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Based on whether you have experience in analytics, maths or programming.
Tips: If you're serious about EXL, work on a data science project, intern or take up a few courses in data science. Probability and Statistics is a 'must do course'.
Round: Test
Experience: Had 4 questions. One was based on probabilty, another was a puzzle, a data interpretation question and finally a case study question, involving a bit of guesstimate analysis.
Tips: Be strong in probability and puzzles. Do one or two cases with a friend while preparing for any kind of internship.
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: No group discussion
Round: HR Interview
Experience: I was asked about myself, my interest areas, the reason for applying for EXL. That was pretty much it
Tips: Be thorough and genuine with all kinds of HR questions
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Based on whether you have experience in analytics, maths or programming.
Tips: If you're serious about EXL, work on a data science project, intern or take up a few courses in data science. Probability and Statistics is a 'must do course'.
Round: Test
Experience: Had 4 questions. One was based on probabilty, another was a puzzle, a data interpretation question and finally a case study question, involving a bit of guesstimate analysis.
Tips: Be strong in probability and puzzles. Do one or two cases with a friend while preparing for any kind of internship.
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: No group discussion
Round: HR Interview
Experience: I was asked about myself, my interest areas, the reason for applying for EXL. That was pretty much it
Tips: Be thorough and genuine with all kinds of HR questions
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Tips: Project / Internship in analytics would add more value to resume
Round: Other Interview
Experience: It was telephonic interview again elimination one.
-- puzzle, resume specific questions were asked
Tips: - Be thorough with your resume and past internships/Projects
Round: Problem Statement
Experience: i didn't get enough time to solve all questions in data interpretation. Basically it was designed to test how we perform under pressure
Tips: Don't get tensed if you couldn't solve all problems. Solving two/ three correctly would help you to get through
General Tips: -Be clear with your resume. be very specific
- Solve as many Puzzles as possible
Skills: Puzzle Solving Capability, Basic Preparation, Analyzing And Problem Solving Skills
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: I was very much interested in analytics and Exl does analytics in all verticals
Funny Moments: --
Tips: Project / Internship in analytics would add more value to resume
Round: Other Interview
Experience: It was telephonic interview again elimination one.
-- puzzle, resume specific questions were asked
Tips: - Be thorough with your resume and past internships/Projects
Round: Problem Statement
Experience: i didn't get enough time to solve all questions in data interpretation. Basically it was designed to test how we perform under pressure
Tips: Don't get tensed if you couldn't solve all problems. Solving two/ three correctly would help you to get through
General Tips: -Be clear with your resume. be very specific
- Solve as many Puzzles as possible
Skills: Puzzle Solving Capability, Basic Preparation, Analyzing And Problem Solving Skills
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: I was very much interested in analytics and Exl does analytics in all verticals
Funny Moments: --
I applied via Campus Placement
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Other Interview
Experience: Q1.Tell me about yourself.
Then I was asked about my past internship, PoRs
Then I was asked why I wanted to do a non core internship.
After that, I was asked a puzzle (Similar to a puzzle in the book "Heard on the Street".
Then I was asked a guesstimate question. It was: Estimate the amount of Surf (washing powder) used in India everyday.
It lasted for around half an hour. It was a telephonic round
Tips: Be thorough with your resume. They mainly asked resume based questions in this round.
Regarding puzzles and guesstimates, walk your interviewer through your answer.
General Tips: Be thorough with your resume.
Practice puzzles and guesstimates.
Practice a few cases.
Skills: Presentation Of Facts In Resume, Project And Internship, Guesstimate Skills, Case Solving Ability, Quantitative Aptitude
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Q1.Tell me about yourself.
Then I was asked about my past internship, PoRs
Then I was asked why I wanted to do a non core internship.
After that, I was asked a puzzle (Similar to a puzzle in the book "Heard on the Street".
Then I was asked a guesstimate question. It was: Estimate the amount of Surf (washing powder) used in India everyday.
It lasted for around half an hour. It was a telephonic round
Tips: Be thorough with your resume. They mainly asked resume based questions in this round.
Regarding puzzles and guesstimates, walk your interviewer through your answer.
General Tips: Be thorough with your resume.
Practice puzzles and guesstimates.
Practice a few cases.
Skills: Presentation Of Facts In Resume, Project And Internship, Guesstimate Skills, Case Solving Ability, Quantitative Aptitude
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: 15 people were short listed from the entire lot.
Tips: High CGPA or course in R programming will be helpful in getting shortlisted.
Round: Telephonic interview
Experience: general HR questions like describe yourself was asked. I was questioned on my tennis knowledge (extra curricular) and detailed description of intern too.
Tips: Be thorough with your resume from start to end and you should be able to explain what you did in interview.
Round: Test
Experience: Difficult questions related to data interpretation mixed with probability were asked to solve within 7 minutes. One guess-estimate question and one case study type problem were asked to be solved within 23 minutes.
Tips: calculations should be done fast and assumptions properly written.
Duration: 30 minutes
Total Questions: 6
General Tips: Be very thorough with your resume and some general HR questions.
Skill Tips: Be calm and not get tensed is a must,
Skills: Analyzing And Problem Solving Skills
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: This is a very diverse company and major attraction is that it applies decision analytics to solve business problems. Being interested in a finance and coding a bit, this profile seemed the right fit.
Funny Moments: I was quizzed on my knowledge of tennis like how many Grand slam has Leander paes won and what was the semi final score of US open.
Experience: 15 people were short listed from the entire lot.
Tips: High CGPA or course in R programming will be helpful in getting shortlisted.
Round: Telephonic interview
Experience: general HR questions like describe yourself was asked. I was questioned on my tennis knowledge (extra curricular) and detailed description of intern too.
Tips: Be thorough with your resume from start to end and you should be able to explain what you did in interview.
Round: Test
Experience: Difficult questions related to data interpretation mixed with probability were asked to solve within 7 minutes. One guess-estimate question and one case study type problem were asked to be solved within 23 minutes.
Tips: calculations should be done fast and assumptions properly written.
Duration: 30 minutes
Total Questions: 6
General Tips: Be very thorough with your resume and some general HR questions.
Skill Tips: Be calm and not get tensed is a must,
Skills: Analyzing And Problem Solving Skills
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: This is a very diverse company and major attraction is that it applies decision analytics to solve business problems. Being interested in a finance and coding a bit, this profile seemed the right fit.
Funny Moments: I was quizzed on my knowledge of tennis like how many Grand slam has Leander paes won and what was the semi final score of US open.
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Questions were similar to that in CAT. Question based on logic, reasoning and English were asked with every section having 20 questions. Shortlisted students were selected for interviews.
Duration: 60 minutes
Round: HR Interview
Experience: A case was given which had to be analysed and I was to suggest different solutions and justify them.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Consisted of HR questions and guess estimate questions.Also a few analytics question were asked.
Skill Tips: My projects related to analytics,basic knowledge on engineering, spontaneity was tested. The PDF's uploaded by the BC,solving puzzles from the Internet helped.Also I talked to my seniors which gave me a good idea as to what to expect of the interview. Basic preparation on all the core courses. Reading from the materials provided by the BC. Reading TIME material,brushing up on coding concepts (from NPTEL lectures), learning R(analytics software) from coursera helped.
Skills: Analytics
College Name: IIT MADRAS
Experience: Questions were similar to that in CAT. Question based on logic, reasoning and English were asked with every section having 20 questions. Shortlisted students were selected for interviews.
Duration: 60 minutes
Round: HR Interview
Experience: A case was given which had to be analysed and I was to suggest different solutions and justify them.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Consisted of HR questions and guess estimate questions.Also a few analytics question were asked.
Skill Tips: My projects related to analytics,basic knowledge on engineering, spontaneity was tested. The PDF's uploaded by the BC,solving puzzles from the Internet helped.Also I talked to my seniors which gave me a good idea as to what to expect of the interview. Basic preparation on all the core courses. Reading from the materials provided by the BC. Reading TIME material,brushing up on coding concepts (from NPTEL lectures), learning R(analytics software) from coursera helped.
Skills: Analytics
College Name: IIT MADRAS
6 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: It was not that difficult and so the cut offs were high. I started the quant preparation from RS Agarwal (found it too repetitive so stopped midway) and started with Arun Sharma(first 2 levels of few important topics like logical reasoning and statistics).Always target to be in the top so that you have your interviews early because last year the hiring team were in a hurry and so they rushed with the interviews of later part students. Few people call these LUCK FACTORs.
Tips: Remember the imp. topics would be Probability, Statistics ,Work-Time.
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: Questioned me about my college activities , few common puzzles and then came the most interesting part. They gave me a case study based on sports since I had mentioned my interests. It had to do with probability, Bayes Theorem and logic...sum real bad logic...I liked this even though I had no basic idea of how to start with this .It was as if He was teaching me there itself on these .We discussed a lot-almost 20 minutes on this .At times he used to stress out few questions and I had to ensure that I stayed firm with my answers. They try to confuse you. You just keep smiling and be firm with your answers. Stay damn confident with yours. Then he moved onto another case study wherein I had to list all types of data to be collected , decisions to be made if I were to start an ice-cream shop in a famous shopping mall. It was a discussion wherein I needed to justify my decisions on how to make maximum profits in any situation. Took almost 45 minutes to come out
Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: This one was with a very cool person who continuously kept on offering me Oreo biscuits This round had to do with puzzles which you will find in How to Ace the BrainTeaser (I don’t recollect which were the puzzles). I could answer 3 of the 5 asked. Then he moved to C programming. Asked me to write code to print few patterns , optimize them further and that was it. Took hardly 20 minutes for this round.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: He started with questions like Why Data analytics ? Where could this field be used ?(almost everywhere-just for facts : almost every top IT firm especially the banking firms are having a data analytics team) We had discussions on different topics that he raised. One of them which I remember is: Suppose one of the hospitals in your city has been having an increasing number of patients, then please quote the possible factors leading to the ill-health of the citizens. How to ease the different issues in medical field using data analysis? It was just a discussion and I was quite sure that he liked my points.I also asked him about how to utilize this field of data analysis to improve the current business markets of India and how differently did countries like USA used data for business than in INDIA. Overall this was an interactive session. He kept me busy and I also did keep him busy answering my questions. This might have lasted for 40 minutes and then it was all over
College Name: IIT MADRAS
Experience: It was not that difficult and so the cut offs were high. I started the quant preparation from RS Agarwal (found it too repetitive so stopped midway) and started with Arun Sharma(first 2 levels of few important topics like logical reasoning and statistics).Always target to be in the top so that you have your interviews early because last year the hiring team were in a hurry and so they rushed with the interviews of later part students. Few people call these LUCK FACTORs.
Tips: Remember the imp. topics would be Probability, Statistics ,Work-Time.
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: Questioned me about my college activities , few common puzzles and then came the most interesting part. They gave me a case study based on sports since I had mentioned my interests. It had to do with probability, Bayes Theorem and logic...sum real bad logic...I liked this even though I had no basic idea of how to start with this .It was as if He was teaching me there itself on these .We discussed a lot-almost 20 minutes on this .At times he used to stress out few questions and I had to ensure that I stayed firm with my answers. They try to confuse you. You just keep smiling and be firm with your answers. Stay damn confident with yours. Then he moved onto another case study wherein I had to list all types of data to be collected , decisions to be made if I were to start an ice-cream shop in a famous shopping mall. It was a discussion wherein I needed to justify my decisions on how to make maximum profits in any situation. Took almost 45 minutes to come out
Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: This one was with a very cool person who continuously kept on offering me Oreo biscuits This round had to do with puzzles which you will find in How to Ace the BrainTeaser (I don’t recollect which were the puzzles). I could answer 3 of the 5 asked. Then he moved to C programming. Asked me to write code to print few patterns , optimize them further and that was it. Took hardly 20 minutes for this round.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: He started with questions like Why Data analytics ? Where could this field be used ?(almost everywhere-just for facts : almost every top IT firm especially the banking firms are having a data analytics team) We had discussions on different topics that he raised. One of them which I remember is: Suppose one of the hospitals in your city has been having an increasing number of patients, then please quote the possible factors leading to the ill-health of the citizens. How to ease the different issues in medical field using data analysis? It was just a discussion and I was quite sure that he liked my points.I also asked him about how to utilize this field of data analysis to improve the current business markets of India and how differently did countries like USA used data for business than in INDIA. Overall this was an interactive session. He kept me busy and I also did keep him busy answering my questions. This might have lasted for 40 minutes and then it was all over
College Name: IIT MADRAS
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: 3 sections - Quant, Verbal and Logical Reasoning.No sectional time limit and sections could be attempted in any order. However, they might have section-wise cut-offs (not sure) and so each section must be given importance. It is a speed based test. Level of difficulty is easy to moderate
Tips: you need to be quick. Do not waste too much time on any question. All questions contain equal marks. You can come back to the remaining questions later.Try maximizing your score in the apti. A lot of preference is given to the high scorers of the apti.
Round: Other Interview
Experience: It started with a brief introduction-Tell us about yourself. Till the time you answer, one panellist goes through your resume.Be thorough with everything you write in your resume. Do not write fake stuff, they question you on anything that you have written.They asked me about everything- projects, seminar topic, languages mentioned, extra-curricular activities A lot of SQL questions were asked. They ask concepts, queries, syntax. The had questioned me a lot on JOINS.
Tips: Support everything you say with an example. (eg. if u say you have leadership qualities, give an example of when you have been a leader).If you don’t know an answer, tell it to them honestly. Don’t try to fool them.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Standard puzzles that you normally prepare for interviews were asked. Do not give away the answer immediately as if u know it by heart. Think aloud and explain them every step. It does not matter even if the final answer is wrong, the approach is important. In my case, I wasn’t prepared with the puzzle I was asked so I explained it to them from myperspective. Even though the final answer was wrong, the approach was correct so they qualified me for the next round. Also, they smartly try to confuse you. So remain confident in what you say. Do not argue if you are very confident, explain it to them politely. In the tech part of the interview, basic java/c/c++ questions wereasked. (what is object oriented programming? What is inheritance?
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Be prepared with all sorts of HR questions- strengths, weaknesses, happiest moment, proudest moment etc). Why EXL? One Fermi question was asked in this round. Again here, the approach is important, not the final answer. Beprepared with a question to ask at the end of the interview- it could be abt the company/ data analytics or anything. That shows your interest in the job
Skill Tips: Don’t panic or be nervous. Stay calm. Once the interview starts, they make you feelvery comfortable.
College Name: IIT MADRAS
Experience: 3 sections - Quant, Verbal and Logical Reasoning.No sectional time limit and sections could be attempted in any order. However, they might have section-wise cut-offs (not sure) and so each section must be given importance. It is a speed based test. Level of difficulty is easy to moderate
Tips: you need to be quick. Do not waste too much time on any question. All questions contain equal marks. You can come back to the remaining questions later.Try maximizing your score in the apti. A lot of preference is given to the high scorers of the apti.
Round: Other Interview
Experience: It started with a brief introduction-Tell us about yourself. Till the time you answer, one panellist goes through your resume.Be thorough with everything you write in your resume. Do not write fake stuff, they question you on anything that you have written.They asked me about everything- projects, seminar topic, languages mentioned, extra-curricular activities A lot of SQL questions were asked. They ask concepts, queries, syntax. The had questioned me a lot on JOINS.
Tips: Support everything you say with an example. (eg. if u say you have leadership qualities, give an example of when you have been a leader).If you don’t know an answer, tell it to them honestly. Don’t try to fool them.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Standard puzzles that you normally prepare for interviews were asked. Do not give away the answer immediately as if u know it by heart. Think aloud and explain them every step. It does not matter even if the final answer is wrong, the approach is important. In my case, I wasn’t prepared with the puzzle I was asked so I explained it to them from myperspective. Even though the final answer was wrong, the approach was correct so they qualified me for the next round. Also, they smartly try to confuse you. So remain confident in what you say. Do not argue if you are very confident, explain it to them politely. In the tech part of the interview, basic java/c/c++ questions wereasked. (what is object oriented programming? What is inheritance?
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Be prepared with all sorts of HR questions- strengths, weaknesses, happiest moment, proudest moment etc). Why EXL? One Fermi question was asked in this round. Again here, the approach is important, not the final answer. Beprepared with a question to ask at the end of the interview- it could be abt the company/ data analytics or anything. That shows your interest in the job
Skill Tips: Don’t panic or be nervous. Stay calm. Once the interview starts, they make you feelvery comfortable.
College Name: IIT MADRAS
1 Interview Round
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: HR Interview
Experience: resume grilling, puzzles asked if you have got no analytics background, finance background is not required.
Skills: analytical skills
College Name: IIT MADRAS
Experience: resume grilling, puzzles asked if you have got no analytics background, finance background is not required.
Skills: analytical skills
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
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