Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
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Parikshit Khanna
posted on 3 Dec 2015
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Standard Pribability questions and puzzles.E.g Decide the 3 fastest horses among 25 given that 5 can race at a time.Derive the heat transfer equation.etc
Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: Basic internship (finance) questions.Puzzles : If I can descend 1 or 2 steps a time what are the number of ways to descend a flight of 100 stairs.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Why Cs?
Skills:
College Name: IIT Kanpur
Experience: Standard Pribability questions and puzzles.E.g Decide the 3 fastest horses among 25 given that 5 can race at a time.Derive the heat transfer equation.etc
Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: Basic internship (finance) questions.Puzzles : If I can descend 1 or 2 steps a time what are the number of ways to descend a flight of 100 stairs.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Why Cs?
Skills:
College Name: IIT Kanpur
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. To advise an Indian Airline company on a new policy which will increase their revenue
- Q2. Estimate the total revenue of the cabs on Lucknow Airport
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: The aptitude test was conducted just after the PPT. It was a fairly simple multiple choice written test with three sections: Quant,Data and Verbal.
Tips: One of my friend who was preparing for CAT 2015 told me that majority of the questions were lifted from previous year's CAT papers. So it won't hurt to prepare from them if you are aiming for this company.
Duration: 40 minutes
Total Questions: 30
Round: Guesstimate Interview
Experience: Company released a shortlist of around 68 candidates based on the aptitude test. All 68 candidates were interviewed on Day 1 of the placement process. We were allocated buddies from the companies who gave us an idea of what the interview process will look like.
Interview Experience:
The problem statement given to me was ambiguous and the interviewer seemed very grumpy. I tried to clarify as much as I could, and kept thinking aloud. I started by writing a simple formula for my estimation. I followed the normal approach as you will for any guesstimate. The answer that I got was not even near to what you would expect, but I told him that I might have overestimated some of the numbers because of which I am getting the wrong answer.
Tips: 1. Stay calm and give your best: Just after the interview, I panicked as I thought they won't shortlist me for the next round as I goofed up on the final answer of the guesstimate. However, because my approach was right, they selected me for the next round .
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: The case study was very simple, and after clarifying the question and providing a rough structure to the case, the interviewer provided me with all the data even before asking for any.
What he tested was:
1. Basic Structuring of the case
2. Accurate calculations based on the data that was provided
After the calculations, he asked me for the synthesis on the case and recommendations.
Just after this, he asked me to analyze my strengths and weaknesses. As I was done answering this question ,he extended me an offer on the spot and I was not required to go for the third round. :)
Tips: 1. The case study is very very simple, just make sure that you structure the case well and do not make any mistakes on calculations.
General Tips: 1. Stay Calm and prepare well : I started my preparation on 25th December, and prepared case studies and a lot of guesstimates for the next 5 days
2. Do not look where other students are getting shortlisted: I was the first one who was extended an offer on Day 1 Slot 2, whereas all the other hotshots(OPCs,Core Team) etc were still struggling with their first rounds.
3. Prepare dedicatedly: For Indus Insights, simple guesstimates and simple case studies will suffice.
Skills: Ability To Make Quick Calculations, Aptitude
College Name: IIT Kanpur
Motivation: 1. Consulting profile
2. Great opportunity to interact with clients across different verticals.
Experience: The aptitude test was conducted just after the PPT. It was a fairly simple multiple choice written test with three sections: Quant,Data and Verbal.
Tips: One of my friend who was preparing for CAT 2015 told me that majority of the questions were lifted from previous year's CAT papers. So it won't hurt to prepare from them if you are aiming for this company.
Duration: 40 minutes
Total Questions: 30
Round: Guesstimate Interview
Experience: Company released a shortlist of around 68 candidates based on the aptitude test. All 68 candidates were interviewed on Day 1 of the placement process. We were allocated buddies from the companies who gave us an idea of what the interview process will look like.
Interview Experience:
The problem statement given to me was ambiguous and the interviewer seemed very grumpy. I tried to clarify as much as I could, and kept thinking aloud. I started by writing a simple formula for my estimation. I followed the normal approach as you will for any guesstimate. The answer that I got was not even near to what you would expect, but I told him that I might have overestimated some of the numbers because of which I am getting the wrong answer.
Tips: 1. Stay calm and give your best: Just after the interview, I panicked as I thought they won't shortlist me for the next round as I goofed up on the final answer of the guesstimate. However, because my approach was right, they selected me for the next round .
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: The case study was very simple, and after clarifying the question and providing a rough structure to the case, the interviewer provided me with all the data even before asking for any.
What he tested was:
1. Basic Structuring of the case
2. Accurate calculations based on the data that was provided
After the calculations, he asked me for the synthesis on the case and recommendations.
Just after this, he asked me to analyze my strengths and weaknesses. As I was done answering this question ,he extended me an offer on the spot and I was not required to go for the third round. :)
Tips: 1. The case study is very very simple, just make sure that you structure the case well and do not make any mistakes on calculations.
General Tips: 1. Stay Calm and prepare well : I started my preparation on 25th December, and prepared case studies and a lot of guesstimates for the next 5 days
2. Do not look where other students are getting shortlisted: I was the first one who was extended an offer on Day 1 Slot 2, whereas all the other hotshots(OPCs,Core Team) etc were still struggling with their first rounds.
3. Prepare dedicatedly: For Indus Insights, simple guesstimates and simple case studies will suffice.
Skills: Ability To Make Quick Calculations, Aptitude
College Name: IIT Kanpur
Motivation: 1. Consulting profile
2. Great opportunity to interact with clients across different verticals.
I applied via Campus Placement
1 Interview Round
Interview Questions
- Q1. General Round about your background
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: This company is very good in shorlisting the students. First they will shortlist the students from Civil, Mechanical, Chemical. It will take them to the interview round and in the final round will ask them if they know anything about coding. Ask them questions on machine leaning. As nobody knows it, than personally call the maths department and electrical department students and will finally take them. Such a 'chutiyaapa', if you really want to take a coding student then organise a coding test. Why waste the time of students and get their hopes high.
Tips: Coding is required and also machine learning. Do a course on machine learning and learn R if you can.
Skills:
Duration: 12
College Name: IIT Kanpur
Experience: This company is very good in shorlisting the students. First they will shortlist the students from Civil, Mechanical, Chemical. It will take them to the interview round and in the final round will ask them if they know anything about coding. Ask them questions on machine leaning. As nobody knows it, than personally call the maths department and electrical department students and will finally take them. Such a 'chutiyaapa', if you really want to take a coding student then organise a coding test. Why waste the time of students and get their hopes high.
Tips: Coding is required and also machine learning. Do a course on machine learning and learn R if you can.
Skills:
Duration: 12
College Name: IIT Kanpur
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Simple Case Interview
- Q2. Main case Round
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....
I applied via Referral
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 Questions
- Q1. Prepare a PPT and sell yourself
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
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