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Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai Placement Interview Questions
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Anonymous
posted on 27 Jan 2017
I was interviewed in Dec 2016.
3 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: They were mainly interested in people who are willing to work in their company for a long time. You have to convince them that you are really interested in core job and you will stay long. They did not ask technical much as my CG was high.
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: They were mainly interested in people who are willing to work in their company for a long time. You have to convince them that you are really interested in core job and you will stay long. They did not ask technical much as my CG was high.
College Name: IIT Madras
I was interviewed before Jan 2016.
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: The test was easy.General aptitude test preparation should be sufficient.Prepare via Pariksha and Indiabix websites.Keep the time constraint in mind
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 60
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: The interview was concentrated on case studies and puzzles and general hr questions like Why EXL and Why analytics.EXL do not expect analytics background at all.You just have to do your interviews well.Communicate your ideas in case studies very clearly and precisely.
Tips: Case studies-Basic preparation that students do for consult companies.Follow Caseinterviewcracked book to get the basic flavour and then practice with friends
Puzzles-www.techinterview.com was very helpful followed by heard on the street book
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: Very similar to previous round
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: The test was easy.General aptitude test preparation should be sufficient.Prepare via Pariksha and Indiabix websites.Keep the time constraint in mind
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 60
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: The interview was concentrated on case studies and puzzles and general hr questions like Why EXL and Why analytics.EXL do not expect analytics background at all.You just have to do your interviews well.Communicate your ideas in case studies very clearly and precisely.
Tips: Case studies-Basic preparation that students do for consult companies.Follow Caseinterviewcracked book to get the basic flavour and then practice with friends
Puzzles-www.techinterview.com was very helpful followed by heard on the street book
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: Very similar to previous round
College Name: IIT Madras
Anonymous
posted on 4 Jan 2017
I was interviewed in Dec 2016.
3 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Other Interview
Experience: A candidate had to broadly go through 3 interviews before the company decided to take her/him. Like most interview processes, the interviews had sequential importance and one had to clear the 1st to get called for the 2nd and clear 2nd to get called for the 3rd.
There were several panels (mostly single-person) with some senior officials from the company and some with just a year's experience.
My first interview was with a senior official. He asked questions based on my resume and particularly focused on my internship. He was genuinely interested in my project there and that eased the process for me. I gladly explained it and he immediately decided to promote me to the second round. 2 things that I believe were key to this were:
1. my project and level of contribution during one of my summer internships
2. my ability to communicate, connect with him and explain a complex project in the matter of minutes
Round: HR Interview
Experience: The second round was with one among the Leadership of the company. He was very clear, open and straightforward in his approach. He stated that there would be 3 quick segments to the HRish interview:
1. Telling about myself
2. Him asking me questions
3. Me asking him questions
Thus, it started with the routine "Tell me about yourself" and an overall gauging of my accomplishments and matching it to my resume. He was jolly in mood and asked what position I play as in football and made a couple mood-lightening comments.
The second segment. He asked me what I believed were my strengths. Then, he asked me to describe qualities of the ideal environment that I would like to work in. I took this opportunity to build on my answer about my strengths and match it with the kind of work the job offers. The next question was slightly offbeat, 'describe qualities of a place you would not want to work in'. I took a moment and answered carefully. His comment on my response was that it was 'Politically correct'
He was thoroughly satisfied with my interview, told me that he didn't want to waste any more time and immediately moved me to the next round.
Round: Other Interview
Experience: The final round was with the MD of the company. It was necessary for him to interview a candidate before he/she was selected.
All through the process, he ran through my resume. I believe he was looking for one and only one quality: Can the candidate communicate with highly experienced, senior officials and convey complex ideas?
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: A candidate had to broadly go through 3 interviews before the company decided to take her/him. Like most interview processes, the interviews had sequential importance and one had to clear the 1st to get called for the 2nd and clear 2nd to get called for the 3rd.
There were several panels (mostly single-person) with some senior officials from the company and some with just a year's experience.
My first interview was with a senior official. He asked questions based on my resume and particularly focused on my internship. He was genuinely interested in my project there and that eased the process for me. I gladly explained it and he immediately decided to promote me to the second round. 2 things that I believe were key to this were:
1. my project and level of contribution during one of my summer internships
2. my ability to communicate, connect with him and explain a complex project in the matter of minutes
Round: HR Interview
Experience: The second round was with one among the Leadership of the company. He was very clear, open and straightforward in his approach. He stated that there would be 3 quick segments to the HRish interview:
1. Telling about myself
2. Him asking me questions
3. Me asking him questions
Thus, it started with the routine "Tell me about yourself" and an overall gauging of my accomplishments and matching it to my resume. He was jolly in mood and asked what position I play as in football and made a couple mood-lightening comments.
The second segment. He asked me what I believed were my strengths. Then, he asked me to describe qualities of the ideal environment that I would like to work in. I took this opportunity to build on my answer about my strengths and match it with the kind of work the job offers. The next question was slightly offbeat, 'describe qualities of a place you would not want to work in'. I took a moment and answered carefully. His comment on my response was that it was 'Politically correct'
He was thoroughly satisfied with my interview, told me that he didn't want to waste any more time and immediately moved me to the next round.
Round: Other Interview
Experience: The final round was with the MD of the company. It was necessary for him to interview a candidate before he/she was selected.
All through the process, he ran through my resume. I believe he was looking for one and only one quality: Can the candidate communicate with highly experienced, senior officials and convey complex ideas?
College Name: IIT Madras
I was interviewed in Dec 2016.
6 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Easy aptitude questions,
given data about olympic medals secured by various countries. correlate the number of medals with gdp and some other details of the countries
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 20
Round: Group Activity
Experience: Gave a problem statement to group with four members with the characters of pirates of carribean. They asked to find a procedure to estimate the weight of pirate. Team has to present the solution after the activity. You will be judged during the activity as well as during the presentation.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: they wanted to test whether you can create new algorithms.
how you analyse data.what criteria you choose for analysing?
Round: HR Interview
Experience: checks whether you are interested in analytics. how you perceive group members.
Skills: Analytical Skills
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Easy aptitude questions,
given data about olympic medals secured by various countries. correlate the number of medals with gdp and some other details of the countries
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 20
Round: Group Activity
Experience: Gave a problem statement to group with four members with the characters of pirates of carribean. They asked to find a procedure to estimate the weight of pirate. Team has to present the solution after the activity. You will be judged during the activity as well as during the presentation.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: they wanted to test whether you can create new algorithms.
how you analyse data.what criteria you choose for analysing?
Round: HR Interview
Experience: checks whether you are interested in analytics. how you perceive group members.
Skills: Analytical Skills
College Name: IIT Madras
I was interviewed in Dec 2016.
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Company shortlisted the candidates for interview on the basis of their resumes.
Tips: Have a good core resume focusing the project work.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I described the projects that I had mentioned in my resume.
Tips: Have a good understanding of what you did in the projects which are mentioned on your resume.
Skills: Core Courses Concepts
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Company shortlisted the candidates for interview on the basis of their resumes.
Tips: Have a good core resume focusing the project work.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I described the projects that I had mentioned in my resume.
Tips: Have a good understanding of what you did in the projects which are mentioned on your resume.
Skills: Core Courses Concepts
College Name: IIT Madras
Anonymous
posted on 17 Dec 2016
I was interviewed in Dec 2016.
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Mostly som was asked
Tips: Prepare SOM very well
Duration: 55 minutes
Total Questions: 60
Round: Technical Interview
Tips: Prepare FEA basics
Skills: Ability To Think On Your Feet
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Mostly som was asked
Tips: Prepare SOM very well
Duration: 55 minutes
Total Questions: 60
Round: Technical Interview
Tips: Prepare FEA basics
Skills: Ability To Think On Your Feet
College Name: IIT Madras
I was interviewed in Dec 2016.
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: The test was to estimate your aptitude and coding ability. It was not too tough. For aptitude, I prepared from CAT prep books and pariksha.co(which helped a lot). For coding, practice in hackerrank.com would help a lot. It is good to know the basics of Data Structures and Algorithms.
Tips: Practice coding and improve your speed in aptitude.
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Around 40 people were shortlisted for GD. It happened in groups of 9. We were asked to choose a topic from given topics. Try to choose a topic which everyone could relate to. Initiate or conclude if you can, it will definitely get you some brownie points. Don't try to interrupt others but make sure the discussion was going in right direction.
Tips: Be confident and precise while you speak.
Duration: 15 minutes
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The first round of technical interview started with "Tell me about yourself". Then, I was asked to explain my technical projects and internships(coding related). Then they asked few puzzles and some questions on probability. If you have won any technical competitions, it would be a great plus point. Later I was asked if I have any questions for the interviewer. I asked them about the company's work culture and career growth. It is really important that you ask appropriate questions. Prepare them beforehand.
Tips: Practice Puzzels(Book: Heard on the street-quant and probability puzzels) and revise basics of probability(Bayes' theorem etc..)
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: The test was to estimate your aptitude and coding ability. It was not too tough. For aptitude, I prepared from CAT prep books and pariksha.co(which helped a lot). For coding, practice in hackerrank.com would help a lot. It is good to know the basics of Data Structures and Algorithms.
Tips: Practice coding and improve your speed in aptitude.
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Around 40 people were shortlisted for GD. It happened in groups of 9. We were asked to choose a topic from given topics. Try to choose a topic which everyone could relate to. Initiate or conclude if you can, it will definitely get you some brownie points. Don't try to interrupt others but make sure the discussion was going in right direction.
Tips: Be confident and precise while you speak.
Duration: 15 minutes
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The first round of technical interview started with "Tell me about yourself". Then, I was asked to explain my technical projects and internships(coding related). Then they asked few puzzles and some questions on probability. If you have won any technical competitions, it would be a great plus point. Later I was asked if I have any questions for the interviewer. I asked them about the company's work culture and career growth. It is really important that you ask appropriate questions. Prepare them beforehand.
Tips: Practice Puzzels(Book: Heard on the street-quant and probability puzzels) and revise basics of probability(Bayes' theorem etc..)
College Name: IIT Madras
Anonymous
posted on 15 Dec 2016
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
3 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: They started with some basic subjects mentioned in my resume then they focused more on my project and my internship
Round: HR Interview
Experience: They asked simple HR question don't lie in interview be simple tell about your original behavior
Skills: Communication And Confidence, Technical Questions
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: They started with some basic subjects mentioned in my resume then they focused more on my project and my internship
Round: HR Interview
Experience: They asked simple HR question don't lie in interview be simple tell about your original behavior
Skills: Communication And Confidence, Technical Questions
College Name: IIT Madras
Anonymous
posted on 15 Dec 2016
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: I appeared for PGET (Design profile). There was no shortlisting based on resume. There were total 40 questions (20 aptitude & 20 Technical). Total test duration was 1 hour. In aptitude section, questions were mostly from logical reasoning and numerical ability. In Technical section, questions were from SOM, FEA, DOM.
Tips: Questions were easy in both the sections. For Technical section solve previous year GATE question. For Aptitude solve www.Pariksha.co
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 40
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Those who cleared written test were called for technical interview. Interview process started with Tell me about about yourself. After that they asked questions related to M. Tech. and B. tech. Project. After project, they asked what are the subject that we have studied in our curriculum. They asked what Finite element Softwares I have used. Then they asked which solid element I have used in those Softwares.
Tips: Prepare your resume well, mostly questions from B. Tech. and M. Tech. Project. It's better if you know FEA software and you have taken FEA course. They mostly look for your approach to solve and analyze questions. If you don't know answers don't say no directly, try and recall those concepts, if you are not able to then say no. Be confident that is the most important aspect.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Those who cleared technical round were called for HR Round. It started with Tell me about yourself. Interview process was very smooth and it's just a interactive session. They asked simple HR questions. They asked about my family background. Even you are not fluent in english, don't worry. If you are able to converse and put your thoughts in front of them confidently, you will get through.
HR round is not elimination round, they might take all, if all of you have impressed them in both technical and HR rounds.
Tips: Do prepare some basic HR questions well. Confidence is the key.
Skills: FEA
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: I appeared for PGET (Design profile). There was no shortlisting based on resume. There were total 40 questions (20 aptitude & 20 Technical). Total test duration was 1 hour. In aptitude section, questions were mostly from logical reasoning and numerical ability. In Technical section, questions were from SOM, FEA, DOM.
Tips: Questions were easy in both the sections. For Technical section solve previous year GATE question. For Aptitude solve www.Pariksha.co
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 40
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Those who cleared written test were called for technical interview. Interview process started with Tell me about about yourself. After that they asked questions related to M. Tech. and B. tech. Project. After project, they asked what are the subject that we have studied in our curriculum. They asked what Finite element Softwares I have used. Then they asked which solid element I have used in those Softwares.
Tips: Prepare your resume well, mostly questions from B. Tech. and M. Tech. Project. It's better if you know FEA software and you have taken FEA course. They mostly look for your approach to solve and analyze questions. If you don't know answers don't say no directly, try and recall those concepts, if you are not able to then say no. Be confident that is the most important aspect.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Those who cleared technical round were called for HR Round. It started with Tell me about yourself. Interview process was very smooth and it's just a interactive session. They asked simple HR questions. They asked about my family background. Even you are not fluent in english, don't worry. If you are able to converse and put your thoughts in front of them confidently, you will get through.
HR round is not elimination round, they might take all, if all of you have impressed them in both technical and HR rounds.
Tips: Do prepare some basic HR questions well. Confidence is the key.
Skills: FEA
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Few questions on aptitude, and maths but mostly on finance, especially on valuation and ratio analysis
Tips: Go through basic ratios in finance and be thorough with concepts like regression.
Duration: 45 minutes
Total Questions: 15
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Tips: Certifications like FRM would be a great advantage. Try to do projects in analytics which are related to finance as well.
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Few questions on aptitude, and maths but mostly on finance, especially on valuation and ratio analysis
Tips: Go through basic ratios in finance and be thorough with concepts like regression.
Duration: 45 minutes
Total Questions: 15
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Tips: Certifications like FRM would be a great advantage. Try to do projects in analytics which are related to finance as well.
College Name: IIT Madras
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