Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur

Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh

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Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur Placement Interview Questions

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posted on 23 Aug 2015

4 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 60

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: The topic was related to e-commerce. Overall nice experience, was able to put forward my points and summarize at the end.

College Name: IIT Kanpur
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posted on 23 Jan 2015

6 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Type of questions and details: Normal aptitude questions. Usually cutoff goes around 50, so you can estimate that it is about speed and not your intelligence.
Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 60

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: For group discussion they’ll ask recent topics, so a general knowledge of what’s happening and your ability to speak will take you through. There were 8 of us.
Tips: 1. Use moments of pause to deliver your ideas
2. It’s good to start the discussion and frame it, but it is not essential
3. Always put points, Flipkart doesn’t asks random topics so speaking absurd ideas will not be beneficial for you.
4. Always take note of what others are telling, they’ll ask you to conclude
5. If you’ll enter in an arguments, you are out of the discussion
6. Keep your nerves under control and deliver what you got
Duration: 30-60 minutes

Round: HR Interview
Experience: It was a Skype interview.
Tips: What went well for me was that I made some really good suggestions regarding the company like:
1. They should have live chat support
2. Option to try 2 items before buying 1 of them (in clothes and footwear)
3. No. of warehouses should be increased to assure faster delivery

General Tips: Read newspapers regularly (it really helps)
1. Don’t get into an argument in GD
2. Always speak points (casts good impression)
3. Speed is essential to qualify the test
4. Don’t panic and keep you nerves under control
5. In Case studies don’t jump to a conclusion immediately (ask them for
more and more information until you see you have considered all the
factors, then conclude)
6. Solve as many puzzles as possible so that the one you get in interview, you’ve solved already.
Skill Tips: Some MBA courses which have case studies might help. Doing probability and statistics is strongly recommended.
Skills:
College Name: IIT KANPUR
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posted on 18 Jan 2015

3 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

  • Q1. Questions on probability, puzzles, statistics and coding

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Flipkart had three profiles operations, analytics and coding. After the first shortlisting, they organized GD in the groups of ten. Moderator asked the candidates to speak one at a time. Finally 36 candidates were shortlisted for the interview.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The interviews were held based on the profile we chose and we were asked questions accordingly.

General Tips: 1. I was inclined in clearing CAT from my second year onwards.
2. I did a summer project in the second year and simultaneously joined Career Launcher.
3. I didn’t prepared much for the placements and was only focussed on CAT preparations during the seventh semester.
4. I did not give as much time in resume building as given by mates since I knew that I have nothing to mention about except my CPI.
5. CAT preparations helped me strengthen my aptitude and quant skills.
6. I was able to clear the tests of various companies just with my CAT knowledge.
7. I practised maths for entire month and was pretty confident in English and a week before the main exam, I did one or two mock papers daily.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
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posted on 16 Jan 2015

3 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Test (Quant, Logical Reasoning, English, DI)

Round: Interview
Experience: Round 1: I was asked to list out the factors that make an ecommerce venture successful. This was followed by “Why would ecommerce be successful in India?” . My answers were elaborate and full of facts and data. I listed down the factors and discussed why each one of them was a vital component. Again, this was a two way discussion , with the interviewer giving his inputs wherever required. The interviewer seemed to be impressed and confirmed my selection for the next and final round.

Round 2: None

Round: Interview
Experience: Round 1: “ Tell me something about yourself!”

Round 2: “Tell me something about yourself?” , “Why do you want to join flipkart?”, “ Do you have any problems with frequent relocation and warehouse kind of work?” At the end , I was asked to ask questions to clarify my doubts, if any, about the firm and got elaborate answers from the interviewer.

College Name: IIT KANPUR
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posted on 16 Jan 2015

2 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: In this interview they asked me questions about how e-commerce works and how flipkart can strengthen its position in the market. The answers which I gave were very general with common sense coming into play. The interviewee was impressed my answers and selected me for the next round.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: The next interview was an HR one and the panel grilled me on my resume. He also asked me questions about my
future goals, my strength and weaknesses etc. I was fully prepared for them and was very confident. Finally they offered me the job. The important point here was that one must be very much sure about the points written on his resume and should be to speak for 1-2 minutes about each sentence if asked for.

General Tips: Learnt from seniors and alumni what companies from different sector (Consulting, finance, core etc) looks for and prepared my resume accordingly. This also helped me to realize that my profile was weak for finance sector which requires a lot of preparation and hence I was less focused on this sector. Next I started preparing for aptitude test and practiced with the Career Launcher CAT test material (any coaching institute material would suffice). Next I started preparing for case studies through various books listed on SPO’s website. With the help of friends/wingmates I practiced different types of case studies in a proper interview like environment. Newspaper (economic times, hindu) reading were also an important part of my preparations, they kept me inform on various issues and they also gave me an idea of facts and figures essential for consulting firms. At the same time I also started preparing for HR interviews. After the results of various companies aptitude test were declared I fine tuned my preparations accordingly.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
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