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Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur Placement Interview Questions
Updated
27 Dec 2024
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4 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Adaptive DI test. Level of difficulty less than CAT.
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: This is a very simple case interview. The case was as follows: Client is a micro-lender, they loan funds from a big bank @ 6% SI and loan out the money to farmers at 10% and 20% SI. The segmentation is 60% and 40% respectively. Calculate profit/customer. What is the profit if 2% customers default (uniformly from both segments) on the loan? (Ans: loss incurred)
Tips: This is a very simple round, just stick to the essentials of keeping your structure + calculations neat & clean. Communicate well. You'll get through.
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: Case: We are a telecom company, planning to launch a new subscription plan. Decide if we should go ahead or not. The plan is as follows: We charge the customers $0.99 for the first 20 minutes and $0.08/minute thereafter. The cost incurred by the company is $0.07/minute. Should we go ahead with the plan?
You will be asked to draw a graph between Profit and minutes spent on a call. To come to a decision you might ask the interviewer for some more data like the distribution or the average time spent by a customer on a call. But none of this is information can be used to decide if we should go ahead with the plan. Unless you have a distribution of percentage of customers vs time spent on an avg call, you can not decide the fate of the plan.
On our campus, almost everybody answered a yes(go ahead) or a no for the plan and still got rejected. I think the actual answer is "None of the above. With the present information nobody can predict if the plan will be profitable in the long run.
Please do not say we can use historical data to come to a conclusion, I did, the question he then posed to me is can we really use historical data to predict the usage pattern of this plan by our customers?? The answer is no, we can not use historical data, as the customers will have an incentive to speak for close to 20 minutes per call.
I also looked at the problem from a customers point of view to check if a customer has an incentive to pick this plan over the others. I asked for the cheapest plan/s out in the market currently, so the interviewer told me that the cheapest plan cost the customer $0.08/minute.
After getting this data, I looked at intersection of the time band at which it becomes cheaper for the customer to pick our plan over the 8 cents plan and the time band which is profitable for us.
I came to the conclusion that the band is very narrow to be profitable and that I do not think that it will generate net profits. So we should not go ahead with the plan.
I assumed that there wont be a large chunk of customers in the above mentioned time band. This is what I think my mistake was.
I believe there is no way of definitely saying whether we should go ahead or not. Hence the answer must be Cant be Determined.
FYI: I also suggested him to launch it in a small region/zone so as to figure out the distribution of customers. No good.
Skills:
College Name: IIT Kanpur
Motivation: Chill out workplace. No pressure of work. But no future either :P wont land you in a great B-school. This is just an office opened by a recently grown American company. They have an office in India just to show the Investors that they plan on expanding and are investing in India and Philippines. I don't think the real work happens here. This might sound like a rant, but you should go ahead and prepare for this company. Its one of the best options straight out of college. Or to settle down or if you like to chill a lot....
Experience: Adaptive DI test. Level of difficulty less than CAT.
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: This is a very simple case interview. The case was as follows: Client is a micro-lender, they loan funds from a big bank @ 6% SI and loan out the money to farmers at 10% and 20% SI. The segmentation is 60% and 40% respectively. Calculate profit/customer. What is the profit if 2% customers default (uniformly from both segments) on the loan? (Ans: loss incurred)
Tips: This is a very simple round, just stick to the essentials of keeping your structure + calculations neat & clean. Communicate well. You'll get through.
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: Case: We are a telecom company, planning to launch a new subscription plan. Decide if we should go ahead or not. The plan is as follows: We charge the customers $0.99 for the first 20 minutes and $0.08/minute thereafter. The cost incurred by the company is $0.07/minute. Should we go ahead with the plan?
You will be asked to draw a graph between Profit and minutes spent on a call. To come to a decision you might ask the interviewer for some more data like the distribution or the average time spent by a customer on a call. But none of this is information can be used to decide if we should go ahead with the plan. Unless you have a distribution of percentage of customers vs time spent on an avg call, you can not decide the fate of the plan.
On our campus, almost everybody answered a yes(go ahead) or a no for the plan and still got rejected. I think the actual answer is "None of the above. With the present information nobody can predict if the plan will be profitable in the long run.
Please do not say we can use historical data to come to a conclusion, I did, the question he then posed to me is can we really use historical data to predict the usage pattern of this plan by our customers?? The answer is no, we can not use historical data, as the customers will have an incentive to speak for close to 20 minutes per call.
I also looked at the problem from a customers point of view to check if a customer has an incentive to pick this plan over the others. I asked for the cheapest plan/s out in the market currently, so the interviewer told me that the cheapest plan cost the customer $0.08/minute.
After getting this data, I looked at intersection of the time band at which it becomes cheaper for the customer to pick our plan over the 8 cents plan and the time band which is profitable for us.
I came to the conclusion that the band is very narrow to be profitable and that I do not think that it will generate net profits. So we should not go ahead with the plan.
I assumed that there wont be a large chunk of customers in the above mentioned time band. This is what I think my mistake was.
I believe there is no way of definitely saying whether we should go ahead or not. Hence the answer must be Cant be Determined.
FYI: I also suggested him to launch it in a small region/zone so as to figure out the distribution of customers. No good.
Skills:
College Name: IIT Kanpur
Motivation: Chill out workplace. No pressure of work. But no future either :P wont land you in a great B-school. This is just an office opened by a recently grown American company. They have an office in India just to show the Investors that they plan on expanding and are investing in India and Philippines. I don't think the real work happens here. This might sound like a rant, but you should go ahead and prepare for this company. Its one of the best options straight out of college. Or to settle down or if you like to chill a lot....
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2 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Questions are asked on basic Programming(sorting ,trees) , networking and some aptitude
Tips: Spending some time on networking for preparation can help to clear the test ( as they are mostly like knowledge checking Questions)
Duration: 45 minutes
Total Questions: 30
Round: Test
Experience: Only 2 Questions time will be sufficient .i was asked to write the pseudo code
1) on Dynamic programming
2) Graphs
Tips: explain your code by writing in your own language at the end of your pseudo code
Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 2
Skills:
College Name: IIT Kanpur
Experience: Questions are asked on basic Programming(sorting ,trees) , networking and some aptitude
Tips: Spending some time on networking for preparation can help to clear the test ( as they are mostly like knowledge checking Questions)
Duration: 45 minutes
Total Questions: 30
Round: Test
Experience: Only 2 Questions time will be sufficient .i was asked to write the pseudo code
1) on Dynamic programming
2) Graphs
Tips: explain your code by writing in your own language at the end of your pseudo code
Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 2
Skills:
College Name: IIT Kanpur
6 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: The test had two parts, the first part consisted of 20 objective aptitude questions and the second part had 5 subjective questions, which were of moderate level of difficulty. 30 people were shortlisted for the final round of interviews.
Round: technical interview
Experience: The first interview was mostly related to my resume and the projects related to statistics that I had done during internships. He also asked me some questions related to regression analysis followed by a simple puzzle.
Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: The second interviewer asked me two- three puzzles and then we had some discussion related to my interest in data science.
Round: case study interview
Experience: In third interview he asked me two puzzles followed by a case. The interviewer was very helpful and he only wanted to see my approach.
Round: technical interview
Experience: The final interview was a telephonic interview with a senior analyst. He asked me some questions on my internship projects. I was also asked a guess estimate problem.
General Tips: Do’s and Don’ts :
Concentrate on at most two sectors because it is very difficult to prepare for more than two sectors. Also, do not write anything which you are not sure about in your resume because you may feel that it would be helpful for getting shortlisted but considering that your resume would drive your interviews so it is very necessary that you are confident about the things in your resume. Placement Experience (write in different section for different companies)
Final Tips :
Start preparation as early as you can. Decide what kind of work you would like to do and then decide what sectors you want to prepare for. Be in touch with the seniors who are working in the firms that you are targeting. Their advice would be very helpful. Also do some mock interviews in wing or attend the workshops conducted by SPO.
College Name: IIT Kanpur
Experience: The test had two parts, the first part consisted of 20 objective aptitude questions and the second part had 5 subjective questions, which were of moderate level of difficulty. 30 people were shortlisted for the final round of interviews.
Round: technical interview
Experience: The first interview was mostly related to my resume and the projects related to statistics that I had done during internships. He also asked me some questions related to regression analysis followed by a simple puzzle.
Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: The second interviewer asked me two- three puzzles and then we had some discussion related to my interest in data science.
Round: case study interview
Experience: In third interview he asked me two puzzles followed by a case. The interviewer was very helpful and he only wanted to see my approach.
Round: technical interview
Experience: The final interview was a telephonic interview with a senior analyst. He asked me some questions on my internship projects. I was also asked a guess estimate problem.
General Tips: Do’s and Don’ts :
Concentrate on at most two sectors because it is very difficult to prepare for more than two sectors. Also, do not write anything which you are not sure about in your resume because you may feel that it would be helpful for getting shortlisted but considering that your resume would drive your interviews so it is very necessary that you are confident about the things in your resume. Placement Experience (write in different section for different companies)
Final Tips :
Start preparation as early as you can. Decide what kind of work you would like to do and then decide what sectors you want to prepare for. Be in touch with the seniors who are working in the firms that you are targeting. Their advice would be very helpful. Also do some mock interviews in wing or attend the workshops conducted by SPO.
College Name: IIT Kanpur
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Duration: 60 minutes minutes
General Tips: Do’s :
- Study everything ranging from Maths, Solids to Design.
- Keep the interviewers engaged.
Don’ts :
- Bluffing about your abilities is a strict no, it at once kills your chances.
- Don’t try to abruptly reject a problem, at least try to solve it.
College Name: IIT Kanpur
Duration: 60 minutes minutes
General Tips: Do’s :
- Study everything ranging from Maths, Solids to Design.
- Keep the interviewers engaged.
Don’ts :
- Bluffing about your abilities is a strict no, it at once kills your chances.
- Don’t try to abruptly reject a problem, at least try to solve it.
College Name: IIT Kanpur
3 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: There was a GD based on a case study.
Round: technical interview
Experience: The interview was based mainly on resume. They asked one question on Econometrics and one question on Microeconomics apart from the resume description. From resume they asked mainly about the projects and internships. Overall it was a great experience for a first job interview.
General Tips: Do’s and Don’ts :
1. Take 4-5 printouts of your resume before going for interview. Have a notepad and a pen with you in a folder along with the resume prints.
2. Don’t be frustrated. Always remember that there is a company meant for you. Now, it is possible that it may come on day 1 or day 7 or even later. Always keep faith and believe in yourself.
3. If you are placed and some of your friends are still in the process, support them and do help them in preparation. Moral support is very important in tough times. Don’t go home immediately once you are placed but stay here for a few extra days. This would mean a lot to them.
4. Sleep well during the placement season. You should sleep for at least 5-6 hours.
College Name: IIT Kanpur
Experience: There was a GD based on a case study.
Round: technical interview
Experience: The interview was based mainly on resume. They asked one question on Econometrics and one question on Microeconomics apart from the resume description. From resume they asked mainly about the projects and internships. Overall it was a great experience for a first job interview.
General Tips: Do’s and Don’ts :
1. Take 4-5 printouts of your resume before going for interview. Have a notepad and a pen with you in a folder along with the resume prints.
2. Don’t be frustrated. Always remember that there is a company meant for you. Now, it is possible that it may come on day 1 or day 7 or even later. Always keep faith and believe in yourself.
3. If you are placed and some of your friends are still in the process, support them and do help them in preparation. Moral support is very important in tough times. Don’t go home immediately once you are placed but stay here for a few extra days. This would mean a lot to them.
4. Sleep well during the placement season. You should sleep for at least 5-6 hours.
College Name: IIT Kanpur
2 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: interview
Experience: After my first interview, I was straight away moved to the Final round. They came for the analyst roles and were not actually looking for people with hardcore machine learning. I spoke a lot about a project of mine in which I had extensively used machine learning. The interviewers told that the analysts don't use such stuff and later put me in waiting list though my answers to all his questions in statistics were right.
Tips: It's very important to understand the company's profile and then speak accordingly.
College Name: IIT Kanpur
Experience: After my first interview, I was straight away moved to the Final round. They came for the analyst roles and were not actually looking for people with hardcore machine learning. I spoke a lot about a project of mine in which I had extensively used machine learning. The interviewers told that the analysts don't use such stuff and later put me in waiting list though my answers to all his questions in statistics were right.
Tips: It's very important to understand the company's profile and then speak accordingly.
College Name: IIT Kanpur
2 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: technical interview
Experience: There were 3 rounds, All related to statistics and machine learning and whatever stuffs I had mentioned in my resume. HR round was not there. The partner of the firm just briefed me a bit about the company and asked me to relax without asking any questions in the third round.
Tips: Interview will be fun if you are thorough about your resume and it will be a cakewalk to you.
General Tips: Do's :
1. Prepare for Aptitude very seriously. Puzzles are important but aptitude is must.
2. Be thorough about everything you had specified in your resume
3. Be honest while creating your resume (It helps a lot)
Don'ts :
1. Don't get broken if you are not getting selected in Day 1 or 2 or so.
2. Don't over-prepare for case interviews, they are fairly simple.
Final Tips :
Be confident about yourself. Your attitude in the interview matters a lot. And don't lie even a bit in your resume. Many got selected with a poor resume than those with huge exaggerations.
College Name: IIT Kanpur
Experience: There were 3 rounds, All related to statistics and machine learning and whatever stuffs I had mentioned in my resume. HR round was not there. The partner of the firm just briefed me a bit about the company and asked me to relax without asking any questions in the third round.
Tips: Interview will be fun if you are thorough about your resume and it will be a cakewalk to you.
General Tips: Do's :
1. Prepare for Aptitude very seriously. Puzzles are important but aptitude is must.
2. Be thorough about everything you had specified in your resume
3. Be honest while creating your resume (It helps a lot)
Don'ts :
1. Don't get broken if you are not getting selected in Day 1 or 2 or so.
2. Don't over-prepare for case interviews, they are fairly simple.
Final Tips :
Be confident about yourself. Your attitude in the interview matters a lot. And don't lie even a bit in your resume. Many got selected with a poor resume than those with huge exaggerations.
College Name: IIT Kanpur
3 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Interviews were driven to know the candidate better and their capabilities. They also didn’t waste much time asking students who they were sure not to recruit and conducting reasonably long interviews.
General Tips: Do’s :
1. Start preparing with the start of the summers.
2. Concentrate on your own preparation and not on what others are doing.
3. Keep the preparation time of HR to maximum 20 hours because HR accounts for just 20% weightage in your selection procedure.
4. Have patience.
5. Prepare every point written in the resume such that you are able to speak for at least 3 min on the subject. You might gain bonus points if you are aware of some latest developments or strategic changes in the field.
Don’ts :
1. Never bog down when you are either not shortlisted in the company who have been aiming for or when even after practice you are not getting the correct way.
2. Do not form very large groups for the preparation. Try making the preparation time that you spend with the group as efficient as possible with the least of bulla sessions.
College Name: IIT Kanpur
Experience: Interviews were driven to know the candidate better and their capabilities. They also didn’t waste much time asking students who they were sure not to recruit and conducting reasonably long interviews.
General Tips: Do’s :
1. Start preparing with the start of the summers.
2. Concentrate on your own preparation and not on what others are doing.
3. Keep the preparation time of HR to maximum 20 hours because HR accounts for just 20% weightage in your selection procedure.
4. Have patience.
5. Prepare every point written in the resume such that you are able to speak for at least 3 min on the subject. You might gain bonus points if you are aware of some latest developments or strategic changes in the field.
Don’ts :
1. Never bog down when you are either not shortlisted in the company who have been aiming for or when even after practice you are not getting the correct way.
2. Do not form very large groups for the preparation. Try making the preparation time that you spend with the group as efficient as possible with the least of bulla sessions.
College Name: IIT Kanpur
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Duration: 45 minutes minutes
Total Questions: 40
Round: guesstimate interview
Experience: As I belong to the Civil Engineering background, I was initially asked to justify how I am suited for analytics. I had an intern on marketing so he asked few simple questions on that. After that he gave me guesstimate. As I was solving the guesstimate, the interviewer was constantly questioning my approach and asking me to specify the source of every data (for eg. Population of India 1.2 bn, Source: Census report 2%) and he also kept questioning my approach and made me do the same guesstimate by three approach. After that he asked few puzzles which were simple and I was able to solve them.
Round: hr interview
Experience: Initially some HR questions and some simple probability questions. This was a very friendly and easy interview.
Round: hr interview
Experience: It was with the partner and it was a short interview (10 mins) and was entirely HR and he also asked few questions on my resume. It was more of a normal chit chat that an interview. I was given the offer.
General Tips: Do’s :
1. Practice in groups (aptitude, cases, guesstimates).
2. For HR preparation, if you are not sure about your communication skills it is good to practice aloud in your room or record while rehearsing.
3. Be energetic in the interview, try to drive the interview on your own.
Don’ts :
1. Take HR for granted if you have good soft skills.
2. For cases its better to practice mock rather than just reading through the case books.
College Name: IIT Kanpur
Duration: 45 minutes minutes
Total Questions: 40
Round: guesstimate interview
Experience: As I belong to the Civil Engineering background, I was initially asked to justify how I am suited for analytics. I had an intern on marketing so he asked few simple questions on that. After that he gave me guesstimate. As I was solving the guesstimate, the interviewer was constantly questioning my approach and asking me to specify the source of every data (for eg. Population of India 1.2 bn, Source: Census report 2%) and he also kept questioning my approach and made me do the same guesstimate by three approach. After that he asked few puzzles which were simple and I was able to solve them.
Round: hr interview
Experience: Initially some HR questions and some simple probability questions. This was a very friendly and easy interview.
Round: hr interview
Experience: It was with the partner and it was a short interview (10 mins) and was entirely HR and he also asked few questions on my resume. It was more of a normal chit chat that an interview. I was given the offer.
General Tips: Do’s :
1. Practice in groups (aptitude, cases, guesstimates).
2. For HR preparation, if you are not sure about your communication skills it is good to practice aloud in your room or record while rehearsing.
3. Be energetic in the interview, try to drive the interview on your own.
Don’ts :
1. Take HR for granted if you have good soft skills.
2. For cases its better to practice mock rather than just reading through the case books.
College Name: IIT Kanpur
1 Interview Round
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: First round of the interview was based on basic of VLSI as that of Intel but additional questions based on programming and algorithm (because cypress was offering two profile software and core hardware).
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The Second round was little bit harder than first one. Questions were based on the practical (Lab) problems. Overall he just wants to check the thinking level towards problems.
College Name: IIT Kanpur
Experience: First round of the interview was based on basic of VLSI as that of Intel but additional questions based on programming and algorithm (because cypress was offering two profile software and core hardware).
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The Second round was little bit harder than first one. Questions were based on the practical (Lab) problems. Overall he just wants to check the thinking level towards problems.
College Name: IIT Kanpur
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