Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
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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
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Asked about my project? Also asked me questions about ACID properties of database and indexing in a database
- Q2. There were also questions related to OOPS concepts including polymorphism, composition, aggregation, inheritance, Abstract classes, interface; difference betwee...read more
- Q3. There was another question on run time and compile time binding and under which category do we classify method overloading
- Q4. Code for deleting the duplicate nodes in a sorted link list?
- Q5. Printing root to leaf paths in a binary search tree
- Q6. Given an Array of Integers, Find two elements in the array whose sum is closest to zero?
- Q7. What are virtual functions, what is their role? Questions related to virtual functions?
- Q8. You are given the details of each transaction of each item i.e. item_name, quantity, price. So at the end of the day, you want top 50 items that have been sold....read more
- Q9. How do you quickly count the number of set bits in a 32-bit integer in linear time (with respect to the number of set bits)?
- Q10. Determining width of binary tree i.e. using breadth wise traversal
- Q11. Why files are preferred over databases?
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: There were questions from Operating Systems, C, Algorithms, Data Structures
Round: Test
Experience: This round had 15 questions.Data structures, C++ questions, algorithms (DFS/BFS)
Skills: java, OOP, Algorithm
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Experience: There were questions from Operating Systems, C, Algorithms, Data Structures
Round: Test
Experience: This round had 15 questions.Data structures, C++ questions, algorithms (DFS/BFS)
Skills: java, OOP, Algorithm
College Name: IIT KANPUR
6 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: I had no background in finance but still I was selected for Credit Suisse as I had a strong resume
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: There was a Group Discussion on the night before the placement for shortlisted candidates. GD went well as I did not haste into my chance and spoke in a calm manner with well thought out points. Some of us in GD were not letting others to speak. I was careful not to do that and after GD, I was pretty much confident that I would be shortlisted
Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: My first interview was with an alum who first told me that I had performed very well in my GD and then asked me a puzzle. I had done a similar puzzle before so I was able to answer that. It was followed by some questions on my resume especially my internship which also I was able to answer well. Then one more puzzle which I had not solved so I took some time to solve it following which he gave me one more puzzle which I had solved instantly
Round: Behavioural Interview
Experience: In the first round itself, I was asked to sell a crumpled piece of paper innovatively as I had been the Marketing Head in Antaragni. I guess I was able to do that really well. I remember I took some time and then came up with an innovative idea that the paper was made up of some special material that could be used to laminate phones if heated to a certain temperature with a machine I was providing with the paper. Also, I told him that the laminated cover would glow into various shades if titled to specific degrees after evening. This amused him and then he told me that I would be called for second round.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: My second round was with a senior member in the company who asked me a lot on my resume, stay in campus, post of election officer and some very tricky questions on all of these which I think I did really well as all those were really unexpected. He asked me a question on probability which I remembered I had discussed with my friends just 2 days before. I explained that question quite well and he seemed quite impressed with that. I was followed by some more puzzles and questions on general topics of finance which he had already told me that he had not expected me to answer them as I had no background in finance. Then the HR came in and asked me to meet the VP for the final round of interview.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: The third round of interview was carried on by the VP where he asked no more puzzles or questions but it was more of a discussion on all possible fields starting from campus life to politics of UP to recruitment of Sachin and the good performance of Kohli in recent matches. It looked more as if he wanted to know my perspective on various topics. He also asked about my internships and also the reasons why I wanted to join Credit Suisse. He made sure that I was not planning on doing a MBA right away and that I was really interested in joining Credit Suisse. He then told me a lot about the bank sector and as to why I should join Credit Suisse. He then asked me to wait and went to the director. He came back after a while and asked me to interview with the director
Round: HR Interview
Experience: the fourth round was with the Director who began by commenting on how cold Kanpur was that day. Then he told me that he had a sore throat so he wouldn't say much just that they wanted to hire me and did not want me to interview with any other firm.
General Tips: I would suggest you to plan your preparation well in advance and be clear in your mind about the sectors that you are sitting in placements for. Being realistic about the companies that you are targeting is very necessary and then preparing for the placements keeping those companies in mind keeps you really focused. I did not prepare for core companies so cannot really say much about them but as far as the non-core sector is concerned I would suggest that you start working on your resume from summers itself as it does not consume a lot of time and get it review by as many people as you can. Also start preparing quants in the initial week of your semester. For puzzles, if you like solving them, you can really spend time brainstorming them, it does help improve analytical skills. For case studies it is good to practice in groups of 3 with one being the interviewer, one being the interviewee, and the other being the observer. Try to solve as many different cases as possible. For HR questions it is recommended that you write down the important points that you would like to incorporate in your answer and keep that in mind when you are answering questions. Be well prepared on your resume, you should be able to speak about it for at least 1 minute. Also keep in touch with the seniors in the companies that you are targeting.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Experience: I had no background in finance but still I was selected for Credit Suisse as I had a strong resume
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: There was a Group Discussion on the night before the placement for shortlisted candidates. GD went well as I did not haste into my chance and spoke in a calm manner with well thought out points. Some of us in GD were not letting others to speak. I was careful not to do that and after GD, I was pretty much confident that I would be shortlisted
Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: My first interview was with an alum who first told me that I had performed very well in my GD and then asked me a puzzle. I had done a similar puzzle before so I was able to answer that. It was followed by some questions on my resume especially my internship which also I was able to answer well. Then one more puzzle which I had not solved so I took some time to solve it following which he gave me one more puzzle which I had solved instantly
Round: Behavioural Interview
Experience: In the first round itself, I was asked to sell a crumpled piece of paper innovatively as I had been the Marketing Head in Antaragni. I guess I was able to do that really well. I remember I took some time and then came up with an innovative idea that the paper was made up of some special material that could be used to laminate phones if heated to a certain temperature with a machine I was providing with the paper. Also, I told him that the laminated cover would glow into various shades if titled to specific degrees after evening. This amused him and then he told me that I would be called for second round.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: My second round was with a senior member in the company who asked me a lot on my resume, stay in campus, post of election officer and some very tricky questions on all of these which I think I did really well as all those were really unexpected. He asked me a question on probability which I remembered I had discussed with my friends just 2 days before. I explained that question quite well and he seemed quite impressed with that. I was followed by some more puzzles and questions on general topics of finance which he had already told me that he had not expected me to answer them as I had no background in finance. Then the HR came in and asked me to meet the VP for the final round of interview.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: The third round of interview was carried on by the VP where he asked no more puzzles or questions but it was more of a discussion on all possible fields starting from campus life to politics of UP to recruitment of Sachin and the good performance of Kohli in recent matches. It looked more as if he wanted to know my perspective on various topics. He also asked about my internships and also the reasons why I wanted to join Credit Suisse. He made sure that I was not planning on doing a MBA right away and that I was really interested in joining Credit Suisse. He then told me a lot about the bank sector and as to why I should join Credit Suisse. He then asked me to wait and went to the director. He came back after a while and asked me to interview with the director
Round: HR Interview
Experience: the fourth round was with the Director who began by commenting on how cold Kanpur was that day. Then he told me that he had a sore throat so he wouldn't say much just that they wanted to hire me and did not want me to interview with any other firm.
General Tips: I would suggest you to plan your preparation well in advance and be clear in your mind about the sectors that you are sitting in placements for. Being realistic about the companies that you are targeting is very necessary and then preparing for the placements keeping those companies in mind keeps you really focused. I did not prepare for core companies so cannot really say much about them but as far as the non-core sector is concerned I would suggest that you start working on your resume from summers itself as it does not consume a lot of time and get it review by as many people as you can. Also start preparing quants in the initial week of your semester. For puzzles, if you like solving them, you can really spend time brainstorming them, it does help improve analytical skills. For case studies it is good to practice in groups of 3 with one being the interviewer, one being the interviewee, and the other being the observer. Try to solve as many different cases as possible. For HR questions it is recommended that you write down the important points that you would like to incorporate in your answer and keep that in mind when you are answering questions. Be well prepared on your resume, you should be able to speak about it for at least 1 minute. Also keep in touch with the seniors in the companies that you are targeting.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
6 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: I had prepared first draft of the resume during summers and had got it reviewed by some of my friends. During the semester, I got it reviewed by some more people and got a finer version in 4-5 reviews. I had quite a few substance to put in so I was not as much worried about it. Resume feedback is very important and must not be ignored.
Round: Test
Experience: I did not intend to give CAT, and also I was not interested in joining business/analyst positions, hence I did not prepare for CAT.
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: I did not prepare for GD.
Round: Puzzle Interview
Tips: For some good puzzle and Quant problems you can refer: -----/, -----.html, -----/, -----
Round: HR Interview
Experience: In the First round he asked me to walk him through the resume. Then he asked me to elaborate about my project I did in Ecole Polytechnique. Later he asked me 2-3 questions on probability which I was able to solve.
In the Second round he asked me to tell me something that I had not mentioned in the resume and asked me my JEE rank and told something about the kind of work they do in EXL. It was a very short round.
General Tips: Firstly, do not blindly apply to any company. Have your preference and focus your preparation accordingly. Please do not follow the blind race.
Secondly if you are selected for your interviews in many companies in the same slot then take somebody with you who can manage your interview schedule well.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Experience: I had prepared first draft of the resume during summers and had got it reviewed by some of my friends. During the semester, I got it reviewed by some more people and got a finer version in 4-5 reviews. I had quite a few substance to put in so I was not as much worried about it. Resume feedback is very important and must not be ignored.
Round: Test
Experience: I did not intend to give CAT, and also I was not interested in joining business/analyst positions, hence I did not prepare for CAT.
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: I did not prepare for GD.
Round: Puzzle Interview
Tips: For some good puzzle and Quant problems you can refer: -----/, -----.html, -----/, -----
Round: HR Interview
Experience: In the First round he asked me to walk him through the resume. Then he asked me to elaborate about my project I did in Ecole Polytechnique. Later he asked me 2-3 questions on probability which I was able to solve.
In the Second round he asked me to tell me something that I had not mentioned in the resume and asked me my JEE rank and told something about the kind of work they do in EXL. It was a very short round.
General Tips: Firstly, do not blindly apply to any company. Have your preference and focus your preparation accordingly. Please do not follow the blind race.
Secondly if you are selected for your interviews in many companies in the same slot then take somebody with you who can manage your interview schedule well.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
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8 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Tips: Iterate it as many times as possible. get it reviewed by as many seniors as possible. Be precise in stating your works and achievements.
Round: Test
Experience: Aptitude material on the SPO website was sufficient. Shortlisting was done from a full fledged online test
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: I didn't prepare for any GD neither did face any.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Faced an online technical test. The company who hosted the test goofed up with the interface, so a lot of people wasted time over coding questions that could not be solved because of faulty interface. No request for retest was entertained. Shortlist was fixed on studying compile attempts, time devoted to various sections and other performance measures insensitive to the flaw.
Round: Interview 1
Experience: Ques 1: Given a compact data structures to store string sequentially: one byte stores length, l of the string; next l bytes contains the string characters.
Ques 2: Write a code to insert a given string in the ith place, making sure the DS is still compact.
Ques 3: Write tests to verify correctness.
Ques 4:How will you correct the parse tree for ((a+b)*c)/d? What all dat structures can you use.
Round: Interview 2
Experience: Ques 1: Given a function f that returns true/false based on whether the input string satisfies some criterion in C.
Ques 2: Write a function that verifies that all substrings of a given string satisfy the criterion in C.
Ques 3: You hand over n identical linked lists to n salesperson. After the day's work, these salesperson return back the lists. Merge these lists such that all insertions, deletions, updates are taken care of so that you can repeat this process for the next day.
Round: Interview 3
Experience: Told about myself, my interests, my work so far, my internship projects. Followed by a quick coding question.
int *p;p++
printf("%d", p);
int *f(){int q[12];return q;}
int *p= f();*p=23;
Whats the problem here?
Each interview ended with 'do you have any questions for us?'.
General Tips: Know about your course projects. Be clear with basic CS concepts like OS, compilers and databases Have sophistication in algorithms. Try to cooperate with SPO and make good use of their efforts. Start preparing as soon as possible. Try not to eat anything that might deteriorate your health during the placement. season. Develop priorities both sector and company wise.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Tips: Iterate it as many times as possible. get it reviewed by as many seniors as possible. Be precise in stating your works and achievements.
Round: Test
Experience: Aptitude material on the SPO website was sufficient. Shortlisting was done from a full fledged online test
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: I didn't prepare for any GD neither did face any.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Faced an online technical test. The company who hosted the test goofed up with the interface, so a lot of people wasted time over coding questions that could not be solved because of faulty interface. No request for retest was entertained. Shortlist was fixed on studying compile attempts, time devoted to various sections and other performance measures insensitive to the flaw.
Round: Interview 1
Experience: Ques 1: Given a compact data structures to store string sequentially: one byte stores length, l of the string; next l bytes contains the string characters.
Ques 2: Write a code to insert a given string in the ith place, making sure the DS is still compact.
Ques 3: Write tests to verify correctness.
Ques 4:How will you correct the parse tree for ((a+b)*c)/d? What all dat structures can you use.
Round: Interview 2
Experience: Ques 1: Given a function f that returns true/false based on whether the input string satisfies some criterion in C.
Ques 2: Write a function that verifies that all substrings of a given string satisfy the criterion in C.
Ques 3: You hand over n identical linked lists to n salesperson. After the day's work, these salesperson return back the lists. Merge these lists such that all insertions, deletions, updates are taken care of so that you can repeat this process for the next day.
Round: Interview 3
Experience: Told about myself, my interests, my work so far, my internship projects. Followed by a quick coding question.
int *p;p++
printf("%d", p);
int *f(){int q[12];return q;}
int *p= f();*p=23;
Whats the problem here?
Each interview ended with 'do you have any questions for us?'.
General Tips: Know about your course projects. Be clear with basic CS concepts like OS, compilers and databases Have sophistication in algorithms. Try to cooperate with SPO and make good use of their efforts. Start preparing as soon as possible. Try not to eat anything that might deteriorate your health during the placement. season. Develop priorities both sector and company wise.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Started working on my resume from 2013 summers.
Tips: Be done with your resume(7-8 revisions) and course revision by July-August.
Round: Test
Experience: Started solving questions from CL booklets from 2013
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Joined classes by Ashwini Dixit for GD, interview and Case study preparation.
General Tips: A strong resume, good oratory skills, focused and logical case study solving and good HR interview preparation is a must for Diamond.
Finally, do not fret over getting selected in as many companies as possible, you will anyways get just one job, so be focused in your preparation. Do not be overconfident about anything. Do as much background work through your seniors and your friends to find out what you really want to do and which company suits you. Prepare along with your friends and batch mates instead of preparing against them.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Experience: Started working on my resume from 2013 summers.
Tips: Be done with your resume(7-8 revisions) and course revision by July-August.
Round: Test
Experience: Started solving questions from CL booklets from 2013
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Joined classes by Ashwini Dixit for GD, interview and Case study preparation.
General Tips: A strong resume, good oratory skills, focused and logical case study solving and good HR interview preparation is a must for Diamond.
Finally, do not fret over getting selected in as many companies as possible, you will anyways get just one job, so be focused in your preparation. Do not be overconfident about anything. Do as much background work through your seniors and your friends to find out what you really want to do and which company suits you. Prepare along with your friends and batch mates instead of preparing against them.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: The company shortlisted 4 candidates. Preference was given to those with higher CPIs.
Tips: Resume is most important to get you to the interview. So prepare at least a month or 15 days in advance. prepare 2 resumes: one for non core in which you focus more on your POR's and extra curricular activities and one for core in which you focus more on your project relevant to your company profile.
Round: Test
Tips: practice a lot of questions especially which include verbal aptitude, logical reasoning, data interpretation and quantitative.
Round: Group Discussion
Tips: Participate in mock GD's organized by SPO's.Companies mostly give recent topics so daily news reading will be beneficial.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: There was a Skype interview in which the focus of the interviewer was mostly on projects and summer internships.
General Tips: Don't leave anything for the end. So prepare well in advance before end sems. Be confident. This is the most important thing.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Experience: The company shortlisted 4 candidates. Preference was given to those with higher CPIs.
Tips: Resume is most important to get you to the interview. So prepare at least a month or 15 days in advance. prepare 2 resumes: one for non core in which you focus more on your POR's and extra curricular activities and one for core in which you focus more on your project relevant to your company profile.
Round: Test
Tips: practice a lot of questions especially which include verbal aptitude, logical reasoning, data interpretation and quantitative.
Round: Group Discussion
Tips: Participate in mock GD's organized by SPO's.Companies mostly give recent topics so daily news reading will be beneficial.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: There was a Skype interview in which the focus of the interviewer was mostly on projects and summer internships.
General Tips: Don't leave anything for the end. So prepare well in advance before end sems. Be confident. This is the most important thing.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Family, School, College, PORs, Projects, Internships etc based questions
- Q2. Grilled a bit upon technical questions, puzzles
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: It had 30 questions to be done in 20 minutes
Round: Test
Experience: A consult based case study, as to how to launch a particular product according to the given market conditions
Duration: 10 minutes
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Questions varied from the personal, to internships, PORs, Social Initiatives
Round: Technical Interview
Tips: Have a good preparation of your resume, projects, internships
General Tips: Be yourselfDo not try to fool the interviewer Be confident with your resumeHave a mock interview before your placement season
Skills: Confidence, Analysis, Structuring your thoughts
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Motivation: good work culture, position and pay
Funny Moments: I was asked a few bollywood trivia questions and I replied all of them correctly
Experience: It had 30 questions to be done in 20 minutes
Round: Test
Experience: A consult based case study, as to how to launch a particular product according to the given market conditions
Duration: 10 minutes
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Questions varied from the personal, to internships, PORs, Social Initiatives
Round: Technical Interview
Tips: Have a good preparation of your resume, projects, internships
General Tips: Be yourselfDo not try to fool the interviewer Be confident with your resumeHave a mock interview before your placement season
Skills: Confidence, Analysis, Structuring your thoughts
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Motivation: good work culture, position and pay
Funny Moments: I was asked a few bollywood trivia questions and I replied all of them correctly
7 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Tips: Resume preparation was mostly done while I was preparing for the rest. One should thoroughly know about his/her interns, thesis and projects and should be confident presenting them in different ways depending on the profile of the company.
Round: Test
Experience: I practised a few CAT papers.
The test was both Aptitude and profile based technical test. FOA: flight mechanics and aerodynamics basics.
There weren't many numeric questions however more fundamental ones.
Round: Puzzle Interview
Tips: Puzzles from techinterview.org and from geeks4geeks.
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: GD preparation was not really required in any of the companies I was targeting.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: It went very smoothly. They introduce themselves and asked some simple questions on flight mechanics like the control surfaces on the airplane, terms like tail strike and depressurization. It seemed like they were more interested in knowing how you approached the problem rather than giving them the right solution.
Tips: Prepared Thermodynamics, Flight Mechanics, Aerodynamics, and Turbo machinery are very important.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: It was like any other HR interview. They asked me about my campus stay, my interest, about the profile I had applied for. they were interested in knowing what were my preferences between job and PhD.
Tips: Prepare for all common HR questions. The more genuine it sounds rather than prepared is what I would recommend.
General Tips: Sort out your priorities and target specific companies that interest you. Be realistic in making these choices and prepare accordingly. Understand the company profile and what they expect from you. Be confident in your interview. CV is very important. Your CV should pour focus on your strengths.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Tips: Resume preparation was mostly done while I was preparing for the rest. One should thoroughly know about his/her interns, thesis and projects and should be confident presenting them in different ways depending on the profile of the company.
Round: Test
Experience: I practised a few CAT papers.
The test was both Aptitude and profile based technical test. FOA: flight mechanics and aerodynamics basics.
There weren't many numeric questions however more fundamental ones.
Round: Puzzle Interview
Tips: Puzzles from techinterview.org and from geeks4geeks.
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: GD preparation was not really required in any of the companies I was targeting.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: It went very smoothly. They introduce themselves and asked some simple questions on flight mechanics like the control surfaces on the airplane, terms like tail strike and depressurization. It seemed like they were more interested in knowing how you approached the problem rather than giving them the right solution.
Tips: Prepared Thermodynamics, Flight Mechanics, Aerodynamics, and Turbo machinery are very important.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: It was like any other HR interview. They asked me about my campus stay, my interest, about the profile I had applied for. they were interested in knowing what were my preferences between job and PhD.
Tips: Prepare for all common HR questions. The more genuine it sounds rather than prepared is what I would recommend.
General Tips: Sort out your priorities and target specific companies that interest you. Be realistic in making these choices and prepare accordingly. Understand the company profile and what they expect from you. Be confident in your interview. CV is very important. Your CV should pour focus on your strengths.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
9 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: I had spent more than a month preparing my resume. I got it reviewed by my seniors and some professional organizations like VMock.
There was resume shortlisting which shortlisted 60 applications which was followed by a Group Discussion after which only 35 remained.
Tips: Start early and get it reviewed by as many people as you can.
Round: Test
Experience: I had joined Career Launcher for my aptitude test.
Tips: Take notes of shortcut formulas and try to increase your speed.
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Though I did not prepare much for the GDs, but I was regularly organizing the "Self Awakening Hour" in the campus in which we discussed the ideas for National Building and Youth Empowerment that eventually improved my communication skills.
Round: Technical Interview
Tips: Have a basic knowledge of coding, finance and statistics.
Round: Case Study Interview
Tips: Practice Case studies and guesstimates as much as you can.
Round: Puzzle Interview
Tips: Puzzles are also an inevitable part. -----/ is the best source for practiscing puzzels. Do all the puzzles in there
Round: HR Interview
Tips: Never try to memorize any answer. Let it come out spontaneously in front of the panel. Just be confident and never fake anything. they will judge you on the basis of the work you have done during your campus stay. They want to see something different be it Social Services or something Inter-IIT.
Round: Group Activity
Experience: It judged our capability of teamwork shortlisted 24 applicants for final interview.
General Tips: Be confident. Prepare well. Have basic knowledge of coding statistics and finance. Case studies, Guesstimates, puzzles are important. Review your resume and most importantly, never fake.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Experience: I had spent more than a month preparing my resume. I got it reviewed by my seniors and some professional organizations like VMock.
There was resume shortlisting which shortlisted 60 applications which was followed by a Group Discussion after which only 35 remained.
Tips: Start early and get it reviewed by as many people as you can.
Round: Test
Experience: I had joined Career Launcher for my aptitude test.
Tips: Take notes of shortcut formulas and try to increase your speed.
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Though I did not prepare much for the GDs, but I was regularly organizing the "Self Awakening Hour" in the campus in which we discussed the ideas for National Building and Youth Empowerment that eventually improved my communication skills.
Round: Technical Interview
Tips: Have a basic knowledge of coding, finance and statistics.
Round: Case Study Interview
Tips: Practice Case studies and guesstimates as much as you can.
Round: Puzzle Interview
Tips: Puzzles are also an inevitable part. -----/ is the best source for practiscing puzzels. Do all the puzzles in there
Round: HR Interview
Tips: Never try to memorize any answer. Let it come out spontaneously in front of the panel. Just be confident and never fake anything. they will judge you on the basis of the work you have done during your campus stay. They want to see something different be it Social Services or something Inter-IIT.
Round: Group Activity
Experience: It judged our capability of teamwork shortlisted 24 applicants for final interview.
General Tips: Be confident. Prepare well. Have basic knowledge of coding statistics and finance. Case studies, Guesstimates, puzzles are important. Review your resume and most importantly, never fake.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
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