Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
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Updated
27 Dec 2024
6 interviews found
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Interview
Experience: In the first round of interviews, I was asked a few general questions and was given a case to solve. I did it correctly .
Round: Stress Interview
Experience: It was cakewalk for me owing to my good communication skills.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: It was cakewalk for me owing to my good communication skills.
General Tips: - Give importance to apti, resume and interview simultaneously. Don’t ignore any.
- Work on communication skills. Your technical skills won’t help much in interviews.
- Aptitude and resume get you to an interview; work on both.
- Don’t apply to any company blindly. Work on your priorities. Its intelligent to apply to a small number of companies and focus honestly.
- Think of an interview as a chat. Remember, the interviewers are normal people who won’t bite.
- Work on your nervousness. Use meditation if you get nervous even after preparation.
College Name: IIT Kanpur
Experience: In the first round of interviews, I was asked a few general questions and was given a case to solve. I did it correctly .
Round: Stress Interview
Experience: It was cakewalk for me owing to my good communication skills.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: It was cakewalk for me owing to my good communication skills.
General Tips: - Give importance to apti, resume and interview simultaneously. Don’t ignore any.
- Work on communication skills. Your technical skills won’t help much in interviews.
- Aptitude and resume get you to an interview; work on both.
- Don’t apply to any company blindly. Work on your priorities. Its intelligent to apply to a small number of companies and focus honestly.
- Think of an interview as a chat. Remember, the interviewers are normal people who won’t bite.
- Work on your nervousness. Use meditation if you get nervous even after preparation.
College Name: IIT Kanpur
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: There were 15 questions from quant’s, 10 questions from data interpretation with 1 mark each and -.5 for wrong answer also there were 2 case studies with 10 marks each with no –ve marks. Total 45 marks question, I did only 9 from quant and 7 from DI total 16 out of 25 questions and didn’t touch case studies. Quanta and DI were very basics level.
In those 16, 1 question was wrong so basically I did 14.5 out of 45, but with a accuracy of 90%. Didn’t expect to get shortlisted but was very tensed and angry upon myself coz it was my level paper. But around 12 mid night shortlist came and I was at 11th position out of 31 students in the list.
There were total around 90 students who appeared for written test. They allowed Mtech and Mca guys not Btech.
Total Questions: 25
Round: TECHNICAL INTERVIEW
Experience: I went there and greeted him. Firstly he told me to introduce myself, later he asked what I like the most. I told analytical thinking and logical reasoning and yeah I relate it with data base.(since I knew they came for Data analyst profile).
He asked me about join, gave me a table and told me to perform all joins. I did that and he asked me about Order by clause and, having clause then asked me normal forms up to bcnf.
Later asked about pl/sql difference b/w sql and pl/sql, what is trigger explain in detail. Some basics questions of DBMS theory asked me about my 2 projects and at the end he gave me a situation where I have a grocery shop outside nit Surathkal, and from last few days/months I realized a downfall in sales, what possible reasons could I find? I gave him 8 reasons within 2/3 mins. He was impressed…
After 1st round out of 31 only 13 were selected and I was there in d list.
Round: TECHNICAL INTERVIEW
Experience: As soon as I entered the room, mam told me “Ooo tum aao aao ”. I smiled because I was the 1st guy during presentation who asked the first question (she made every1 clap for me there) and she remembered my face. And eventually she did study from IIT Kanpur so yes she was able to speak fluent Hindi (plus point for guys like me :p). with her there was a guy he asked me to write code for taking a no and converting it into binary and 1 question from array- very simple later she gave me a table with employee id, order date and order amount. A customer can place max 1 order in 1 day. I had to find the latest transaction of every customer with amount as well. i did it using max function over date and group by with sub query, she asked me about my resume at the end she gave me 7,9,21,63,100 and told me to find the no of numbers between 1 to 50000 which are exactly divisible by all, i did it in 1 min.
but she was smiling, I thought I made some mistake in hurry, then I asked mam m I doing right or wrong (in curiosity as I find very comfortable there) she smiled and said “Chalo bhago ynha se ye interview h ”.I said sorry but yeah she was impressed with my interview so told ki “you will learn all these things very quickly”.
Round: TECHNICAL INTERVIEW
Experience: After 2nd round 9 were selected and I was one of them. It was basically a Managerial round and it scheduled over Skype. I had to introduce myself as well as my family background. Here comes the harder part when he asked me why you have such a poor academic back ground? I was speechless for a moment but I started telling the truth.
I told despite getting 68% marks in my 10th I was the third topper of my class. I got 60.66 % in 12th but yeah there also out of 700 students only 14 got first division. So basically I concluded that in my state board marking is not that much good. He said ok but what happened in graduation(64%) when you studied in Delhi?(what to say now :p) I said sir I did it from IGNOU and you can Google the fact that even less than 5% of student are able to clear the degree in 3 years. Later I explicitly mentioned that I m not blaming my boards but this is the fact which can’t be change.
Now He asked what happened in PG here also you scored only 7.50 CGPA which is less than even standard score of 8(Meri to jaan hi nikal gayi :p). Then I told him that sir u can see my pointer in first semester is very less close to 6.5 but after that I constantly improved myself. He was smiling …..
He asked me about my family background and then I told him how I struggled, I was giving tuition in my grads to continue my education and after grads took a gap of 1 year and cleared all MCA entrance examination and now sitting in front of him.
Later asked about my best qualities….i told him that I can lead group of people very well. I gave example of me being captain of my department cricket team and I was class monitor through 3rd to 12th std and also some stuff regarding my college events. He noted down something .I don’t know what.
I was not sure that I could clear that interview. When the result came they called all 9 students and said that they find is difficult to eliminate 4 names .i was sure that I m out of picture now but fortunately my name was at 2nd position. Wowwwww
Round: HR Interview
Experience: It was telephonic round and just my hobbies and all, he asked me about my poetry writing hobby as well as Hindi Shayaris. I was told to recite 1 …when he listened, he was very impressed…
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Experience: There were 15 questions from quant’s, 10 questions from data interpretation with 1 mark each and -.5 for wrong answer also there were 2 case studies with 10 marks each with no –ve marks. Total 45 marks question, I did only 9 from quant and 7 from DI total 16 out of 25 questions and didn’t touch case studies. Quanta and DI were very basics level.
In those 16, 1 question was wrong so basically I did 14.5 out of 45, but with a accuracy of 90%. Didn’t expect to get shortlisted but was very tensed and angry upon myself coz it was my level paper. But around 12 mid night shortlist came and I was at 11th position out of 31 students in the list.
There were total around 90 students who appeared for written test. They allowed Mtech and Mca guys not Btech.
Total Questions: 25
Round: TECHNICAL INTERVIEW
Experience: I went there and greeted him. Firstly he told me to introduce myself, later he asked what I like the most. I told analytical thinking and logical reasoning and yeah I relate it with data base.(since I knew they came for Data analyst profile).
He asked me about join, gave me a table and told me to perform all joins. I did that and he asked me about Order by clause and, having clause then asked me normal forms up to bcnf.
Later asked about pl/sql difference b/w sql and pl/sql, what is trigger explain in detail. Some basics questions of DBMS theory asked me about my 2 projects and at the end he gave me a situation where I have a grocery shop outside nit Surathkal, and from last few days/months I realized a downfall in sales, what possible reasons could I find? I gave him 8 reasons within 2/3 mins. He was impressed…
After 1st round out of 31 only 13 were selected and I was there in d list.
Round: TECHNICAL INTERVIEW
Experience: As soon as I entered the room, mam told me “Ooo tum aao aao ”. I smiled because I was the 1st guy during presentation who asked the first question (she made every1 clap for me there) and she remembered my face. And eventually she did study from IIT Kanpur so yes she was able to speak fluent Hindi (plus point for guys like me :p). with her there was a guy he asked me to write code for taking a no and converting it into binary and 1 question from array- very simple later she gave me a table with employee id, order date and order amount. A customer can place max 1 order in 1 day. I had to find the latest transaction of every customer with amount as well. i did it using max function over date and group by with sub query, she asked me about my resume at the end she gave me 7,9,21,63,100 and told me to find the no of numbers between 1 to 50000 which are exactly divisible by all, i did it in 1 min.
but she was smiling, I thought I made some mistake in hurry, then I asked mam m I doing right or wrong (in curiosity as I find very comfortable there) she smiled and said “Chalo bhago ynha se ye interview h ”.I said sorry but yeah she was impressed with my interview so told ki “you will learn all these things very quickly”.
Round: TECHNICAL INTERVIEW
Experience: After 2nd round 9 were selected and I was one of them. It was basically a Managerial round and it scheduled over Skype. I had to introduce myself as well as my family background. Here comes the harder part when he asked me why you have such a poor academic back ground? I was speechless for a moment but I started telling the truth.
I told despite getting 68% marks in my 10th I was the third topper of my class. I got 60.66 % in 12th but yeah there also out of 700 students only 14 got first division. So basically I concluded that in my state board marking is not that much good. He said ok but what happened in graduation(64%) when you studied in Delhi?(what to say now :p) I said sir I did it from IGNOU and you can Google the fact that even less than 5% of student are able to clear the degree in 3 years. Later I explicitly mentioned that I m not blaming my boards but this is the fact which can’t be change.
Now He asked what happened in PG here also you scored only 7.50 CGPA which is less than even standard score of 8(Meri to jaan hi nikal gayi :p). Then I told him that sir u can see my pointer in first semester is very less close to 6.5 but after that I constantly improved myself. He was smiling …..
He asked me about my family background and then I told him how I struggled, I was giving tuition in my grads to continue my education and after grads took a gap of 1 year and cleared all MCA entrance examination and now sitting in front of him.
Later asked about my best qualities….i told him that I can lead group of people very well. I gave example of me being captain of my department cricket team and I was class monitor through 3rd to 12th std and also some stuff regarding my college events. He noted down something .I don’t know what.
I was not sure that I could clear that interview. When the result came they called all 9 students and said that they find is difficult to eliminate 4 names .i was sure that I m out of picture now but fortunately my name was at 2nd position. Wowwwww
Round: HR Interview
Experience: It was telephonic round and just my hobbies and all, he asked me about my poetry writing hobby as well as Hindi Shayaris. I was told to recite 1 …when he listened, he was very impressed…
College Name: IIT KANPUR
3 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: There were 25 MCQs and 2 case studies (one was guesstimate and other was a strategy case).
Round: Other Interview
Experience: We had 4 rounds of interviews, each lasting for about 15 minutes. In each one, they asked something from the resume and some puzzles, probability questions and this was again because I told them I like Maths. Last one was telephonic and they asked me about my family background.
General Tips: Be yourself. Prepare everything from your resume. Take a good sleep before the interview. Don't pretend to be over-smart and DO NOT argue with them.
Skills: Puzzle solving skills, Probability
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Experience: There were 25 MCQs and 2 case studies (one was guesstimate and other was a strategy case).
Round: Other Interview
Experience: We had 4 rounds of interviews, each lasting for about 15 minutes. In each one, they asked something from the resume and some puzzles, probability questions and this was again because I told them I like Maths. Last one was telephonic and they asked me about my family background.
General Tips: Be yourself. Prepare everything from your resume. Take a good sleep before the interview. Don't pretend to be over-smart and DO NOT argue with them.
Skills: Puzzle solving skills, Probability
College Name: IIT KANPUR
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: The test had 25 MCQs and 2 case studies, one guesstimate and the other was strategy case.
Total Questions: 25
Round: Other Interview
Experience: Had 4 rounds of interviews, of 15 minutes each.
Questions asked were from my resume, some puzzles and some questions on probability as I had mentioned my liking for maths.
Round: Other Interview
Experience: The last round was a telephonic one, where questions were asked about my family background.
General Tips: Prepare well from your resume. Rest well before your interview, it could affect your performance. And Do not to be over-smart. Do not argue with your interviewers.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Experience: The test had 25 MCQs and 2 case studies, one guesstimate and the other was strategy case.
Total Questions: 25
Round: Other Interview
Experience: Had 4 rounds of interviews, of 15 minutes each.
Questions asked were from my resume, some puzzles and some questions on probability as I had mentioned my liking for maths.
Round: Other Interview
Experience: The last round was a telephonic one, where questions were asked about my family background.
General Tips: Prepare well from your resume. Rest well before your interview, it could affect your performance. And Do not to be over-smart. Do not argue with your interviewers.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
3 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: There were 25 MCQs. This was followed by 2 case studies, one guess estimate and the other was strategy case.
Round: Interview
Experience: It was for about 15 minutes. There were 4 such rounds. Questions were asked from resume, Some puzzles and questions on probability were asked because I told them that I like mathematics.
Round: Interview
Experience: This was over the telephone. They asked about my family background.
General Tips: Be yourself. Prepare from your resume thoroughly.
Have enough sleep before your interview as this will affect your performance.
Do not pretend to be over-smart, and DO NOT argue.
And lastly, prepare well, as in the end, it will all seem worth your efforts.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Experience: There were 25 MCQs. This was followed by 2 case studies, one guess estimate and the other was strategy case.
Round: Interview
Experience: It was for about 15 minutes. There were 4 such rounds. Questions were asked from resume, Some puzzles and questions on probability were asked because I told them that I like mathematics.
Round: Interview
Experience: This was over the telephone. They asked about my family background.
General Tips: Be yourself. Prepare from your resume thoroughly.
Have enough sleep before your interview as this will affect your performance.
Do not pretend to be over-smart, and DO NOT argue.
And lastly, prepare well, as in the end, it will all seem worth your efforts.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Tell me about yourself which is not mentioned in your resume
- Q2. Why Citigroup?
- Q3. In an urn there are 100 balls. 60 white, 40 black, 50 spotted 50 non-spotted. What is the probability that a white ball chosen at random will be spotted?
- Q4. You did well in the test. So did you appear for CAT?
- Q5. What are your plans for higher studies?
- Q6. Suppose we do not offer you a job, then what?
- Q7. Where do you see yourself 3 years from now? 10 years from now?
- Q8. One trait you would like to improve upon
- Q9. Why not a PhD?
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Most of the questions were from DI and Quant. It was a speed test. The questions were easy, just that one had to do the maximum number of questions to qualify.
Tips: CAT preparation will help one to breeze through the test.
Duration: 30 minutes
Total Questions: 45
Round: Other Interview
Experience: It was a 20-minute one to one interview.
It started with the normal question “Tell me about yourself”. I had done my internship in one of the analytics firms, so she was interested in my project. I explained the work and she seemed impressed.
Round: Other Interview
Experience: Again, it was a 20-minute one to one round. The interviewer was interested in my internship project and asked me to explain it.
A few puzzles like the one mentioned were also asked.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: This interview was also a 20-minute one to round.
Another subsidiary of Citigroup had visited the campus the earlier day so she asked me if I had applied for it, I told her “No.” She asked “why ?” .. then I told her “I have my seniors at Citigroup and would love to work with them.” She seemed quite
impressed. She took the names of the seniors. (So if you have seniors in a company who know you, you can always mention their names. It shows you have a keen interest towards the company).
For the non Maths students there was a common question that, “If you were so interested in Maths (Analytics) why you didn’t choose Mathematics and Computing as your branch?”
Round: Other Interview
Experience: It was a 30-minute panel interview. This was a puzzle cum HR interview where all my previous interviewers were present.
Tips: From my experience I could feel they were for recruiting genuinely interested candidates, also recruiting someone who was good at problem solving.
General Tips: I would like to start this article by telling you something about your major concern, and that is “Will this economic crisis has a telling effect on your job prospects ?”. And the answer is both Yes and No. I am a 5th year Mathematics student and have closely seen the placements of 3 batches and from my experience, I can surely say that “One who prepares well , gets through, No matter how tough the situation is". It happened with my batch and your batch won’t be an exception (Unless a catastrophe happens).Dilemma: Most of you guys sitting for placement shall be in your 7th semester which is considered to be one of the most hectic of all the semesters. Many of you might be preparing for CAT, others for GRE, some of you would have got a tough guide for your final year project. So you need to prioritize things. You need to think it through; “A Realistic Self Analysis” always helps. I’ll share what I did. I did join coaching classes for CAT but my first priority always was placements and accordingly I planned and executed things. Getting a 99+ percentile and then clearing the GD and PI’s was too much of a risk for me to take. So this might be one of the better times to go for your MBA but always have other options ready just in case.Resume for Analytics Companies:Most of the analytics companies have a lot of Statistical Analysis and Data Management work. So, candidates having an experience in Data handling are preferred. If some project of yours involved Data Handling, mention it in detail. If you have done some of the applied Statistics courses in the Maths/IME department, mention it in your resume.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Experience: Most of the questions were from DI and Quant. It was a speed test. The questions were easy, just that one had to do the maximum number of questions to qualify.
Tips: CAT preparation will help one to breeze through the test.
Duration: 30 minutes
Total Questions: 45
Round: Other Interview
Experience: It was a 20-minute one to one interview.
It started with the normal question “Tell me about yourself”. I had done my internship in one of the analytics firms, so she was interested in my project. I explained the work and she seemed impressed.
Round: Other Interview
Experience: Again, it was a 20-minute one to one round. The interviewer was interested in my internship project and asked me to explain it.
A few puzzles like the one mentioned were also asked.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: This interview was also a 20-minute one to round.
Another subsidiary of Citigroup had visited the campus the earlier day so she asked me if I had applied for it, I told her “No.” She asked “why ?” .. then I told her “I have my seniors at Citigroup and would love to work with them.” She seemed quite
impressed. She took the names of the seniors. (So if you have seniors in a company who know you, you can always mention their names. It shows you have a keen interest towards the company).
For the non Maths students there was a common question that, “If you were so interested in Maths (Analytics) why you didn’t choose Mathematics and Computing as your branch?”
Round: Other Interview
Experience: It was a 30-minute panel interview. This was a puzzle cum HR interview where all my previous interviewers were present.
Tips: From my experience I could feel they were for recruiting genuinely interested candidates, also recruiting someone who was good at problem solving.
General Tips: I would like to start this article by telling you something about your major concern, and that is “Will this economic crisis has a telling effect on your job prospects ?”. And the answer is both Yes and No. I am a 5th year Mathematics student and have closely seen the placements of 3 batches and from my experience, I can surely say that “One who prepares well , gets through, No matter how tough the situation is". It happened with my batch and your batch won’t be an exception (Unless a catastrophe happens).Dilemma: Most of you guys sitting for placement shall be in your 7th semester which is considered to be one of the most hectic of all the semesters. Many of you might be preparing for CAT, others for GRE, some of you would have got a tough guide for your final year project. So you need to prioritize things. You need to think it through; “A Realistic Self Analysis” always helps. I’ll share what I did. I did join coaching classes for CAT but my first priority always was placements and accordingly I planned and executed things. Getting a 99+ percentile and then clearing the GD and PI’s was too much of a risk for me to take. So this might be one of the better times to go for your MBA but always have other options ready just in case.Resume for Analytics Companies:Most of the analytics companies have a lot of Statistical Analysis and Data Management work. So, candidates having an experience in Data handling are preferred. If some project of yours involved Data Handling, mention it in detail. If you have done some of the applied Statistics courses in the Maths/IME department, mention it in your resume.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
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