Your seniors at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur were your true well-wishers, they shared their placement interview questions for you. 🙏
Round: Test Experience: It had 3 parts. Data manipulation, number series and calculations.
Round: Test Experience: . Typical questions on what will be the output of the program?
Round: Technical Interview Experience: Questions on various areas of CSE, especially Programming languages and thesis work. Questions on Database connectivity in Java , CGI, DFA,DMA etc.
Tips: ISL works 80% in java and 20% in C. Thus prepare Java well before appearing for the IBM-ISL .Java proficiency, more than one programming languages .Good in C or Java . Basic knowledge in databases, Operating systems.
Round: interview Experience: Interview began with a very interesting question that if I was given 2 year time what would I work upon which would prove beneficial for the company. Basically, I was given a chance to show how innovative I could be. Then they asked two questions from my courses: one from Convex Optimization and other from Information Theory. This followed with one coding question. They told me to write full code. I don’t remember exactly but something based on doubly linked list. After this, they asked two puzzles directly from Pratik Poddar’s blog. I was able to answer all their questions.
Round: Questions Experience: They selected 5 students for 2nd round. They gave 3 questions. One from algorithm, one from designing of a data structure and third was crazy guy on airplane puzzle. I was able to do 2 questions but got confused in one question. Result: 3 were selected out of 5. I was the wait listed candidate and 1 out of those 5 was rejected.
Round: Test Experience: It had 3 parts: Data manipulation, number series and calculations.
Round: Test Experience: Technical test on C. Typical questions on what will be the output of the program.
Round: Technical Interview Experience: Questions were based on various areas of CSE, especially Programming languages and thesis work. Questions on Database connectivity in Java , CGI, DFA, DMA etc were also asked. Tips: ISL works 80% in java and 20% in C. Thus, prepare Java well before appearing for the IBM-ISL. Must have basic knowledge in databases, Operating systems.