Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
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27 Dec 2024
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1 Interview Round
Interview Questions
- Q1. “Why are you quitting Math for Finance?”
- Q2. “Why DB”
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: HR Interview
Experience: There were two people in my panel, one guy seemed senior, and the other, maybe an Analyst with a year or two of experience. He started with “Why are you quitting Math for Finance?” and I explained that I knew that Finance today was largely mathematical and quantitative, and that I hope to leverage my Math-Stat skills in the industry. After that, he asked me some questions on one of my projects in Mathematical Finance. He followed that up with some very easy questions, including pricing forwards etc, and then some general questions on Mathematical Finance, including Martingales, Stochastic Calculus, etc. This part was quite mathematical and non-trivial, and since I had prepared very well I answered all the questions, and he was impressed. Then there were some general questions - “why DB” and whether I had given GRE and what my score was. I knew I’m not good at lying, specially under-pressure, so I told them my true score (however, this meant that I had to spend a few minutes convincing them that I am not applying this year.) After that, I was asked whether I had any questions, and I asked some about the various roles in DB etc.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: In this interview there were four members on the panel, including one from HR. They said they were tired and that I had to drive the interview, which I was happy to do. I started introducing myself and then they wanted to know a bit about my projects etc, and then asked me some easy questions. One of them asked me some questions on derivatives (I had done a course on them) but they were rather easy as well. Then they asked me whether I had any questions on DB or if I knew enough about them. I said confidently that I had done my research on them and that I knew DB well. (I said this because I expected questions on DB from them, which I was confident I could answer.) However, they were happy with that and ended the interview there. This was one of the shorter interviews, and after the interview I was wondering if I should have asked a few questions instead of what I said, but thankfully it turned out well. I think it is best to be aggressive in any I-Banking interview.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Experience: There were two people in my panel, one guy seemed senior, and the other, maybe an Analyst with a year or two of experience. He started with “Why are you quitting Math for Finance?” and I explained that I knew that Finance today was largely mathematical and quantitative, and that I hope to leverage my Math-Stat skills in the industry. After that, he asked me some questions on one of my projects in Mathematical Finance. He followed that up with some very easy questions, including pricing forwards etc, and then some general questions on Mathematical Finance, including Martingales, Stochastic Calculus, etc. This part was quite mathematical and non-trivial, and since I had prepared very well I answered all the questions, and he was impressed. Then there were some general questions - “why DB” and whether I had given GRE and what my score was. I knew I’m not good at lying, specially under-pressure, so I told them my true score (however, this meant that I had to spend a few minutes convincing them that I am not applying this year.) After that, I was asked whether I had any questions, and I asked some about the various roles in DB etc.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: In this interview there were four members on the panel, including one from HR. They said they were tired and that I had to drive the interview, which I was happy to do. I started introducing myself and then they wanted to know a bit about my projects etc, and then asked me some easy questions. One of them asked me some questions on derivatives (I had done a course on them) but they were rather easy as well. Then they asked me whether I had any questions on DB or if I knew enough about them. I said confidently that I had done my research on them and that I knew DB well. (I said this because I expected questions on DB from them, which I was confident I could answer.) However, they were happy with that and ended the interview there. This was one of the shorter interviews, and after the interview I was wondering if I should have asked a few questions instead of what I said, but thankfully it turned out well. I think it is best to be aggressive in any I-Banking interview.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
1 Interview Round
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: HR Interview
Experience: I had my first interview with Tower Research. The interview lasted one hour, and the interviewer started with my resume. He asked me to explain my MSc. Project, which I did. I think I managed to convey the central idea of the project, and he seemed happy with it. I had practiced this earlier and that helped.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Next, he went over the written test that we had taken the previous day. He asked me whether I had tried any of the questions after the test. I was honest and told him that I did not expect to get shortlisted for Tower, since I had not done the C/C++ intensive Computer Science questions in the test and had done only the language-neutral / algorithm-based questions, and because I had two other interviews today, I had spent my time preparing for those. He was happy with that answer and asked me to try some questions in the interview.
I came up with an answer to one question, to which he gave me two hints to improve. I managed to use them in making the algorithm more efficient. Then he asked me some reasonably easy puzzles which I answered without difficulty. Lastly, he asked me to solve another question using an algorithm and a similar sequence of hint-giving and algorithm-improving followed.
By the end of this interview, I was very confident and totally tension-free. This was because I had performed my very best in the Tower interview, and I couldn’t imagine how I could have done better, given my background (limited CS) and preparation. In that sense, this interview made me lose all my interview-anxiety, and was crucial to my placement day.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Experience: I had my first interview with Tower Research. The interview lasted one hour, and the interviewer started with my resume. He asked me to explain my MSc. Project, which I did. I think I managed to convey the central idea of the project, and he seemed happy with it. I had practiced this earlier and that helped.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Next, he went over the written test that we had taken the previous day. He asked me whether I had tried any of the questions after the test. I was honest and told him that I did not expect to get shortlisted for Tower, since I had not done the C/C++ intensive Computer Science questions in the test and had done only the language-neutral / algorithm-based questions, and because I had two other interviews today, I had spent my time preparing for those. He was happy with that answer and asked me to try some questions in the interview.
I came up with an answer to one question, to which he gave me two hints to improve. I managed to use them in making the algorithm more efficient. Then he asked me some reasonably easy puzzles which I answered without difficulty. Lastly, he asked me to solve another question using an algorithm and a similar sequence of hint-giving and algorithm-improving followed.
By the end of this interview, I was very confident and totally tension-free. This was because I had performed my very best in the Tower interview, and I couldn’t imagine how I could have done better, given my background (limited CS) and preparation. In that sense, this interview made me lose all my interview-anxiety, and was crucial to my placement day.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
3 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: The test got delayed and was shifted to 2 in the afternoon. After giving the test, I generally used to go to room and slept for sometime until the results for short listed candidates are out.
Round: Interview
Experience: Got selected for interviews and had the first interview at 11:00 in the night. The interviewer was pretty cool and helpful, after a 10 mins discussion on intern project, we went ahead with some coding exercise to convert a number into hexadecimal and print it. He figured out bugs in the code and made me correct them. Talked about various operating systems concept like Memory Management and some algorithmic questions on Binary Search Tree. He asked a simple trivial puzzle as well. The interview went on for 40 mins and next was scheduled at 12:30 am..!!
Round: Interview
Experience: The lady who took the interview asked a well known puzzle on clock and then she asked me about my GRE score. Then was the time that I converted the Tech interview into HR interview. Gave her fundaes about why core job now and she was impressed.JDuring that time, students who couldn't clear for the next round were sent to room and I was asked to wait. That gave a hint that either it would be another interview or I am selected. Waited and the last interview was scheduled at 2:45 am in the night. Got pretty tired by that time and couldn’t even solve a simple coding problem. The interviewer laughed saying probably its late night issue. Then we just had a talk on BTP and some stuff on Hashing algorithms and we were done. The results were announced and I got placed. The day was mine or better to say the night was mine.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Experience: The test got delayed and was shifted to 2 in the afternoon. After giving the test, I generally used to go to room and slept for sometime until the results for short listed candidates are out.
Round: Interview
Experience: Got selected for interviews and had the first interview at 11:00 in the night. The interviewer was pretty cool and helpful, after a 10 mins discussion on intern project, we went ahead with some coding exercise to convert a number into hexadecimal and print it. He figured out bugs in the code and made me correct them. Talked about various operating systems concept like Memory Management and some algorithmic questions on Binary Search Tree. He asked a simple trivial puzzle as well. The interview went on for 40 mins and next was scheduled at 12:30 am..!!
Round: Interview
Experience: The lady who took the interview asked a well known puzzle on clock and then she asked me about my GRE score. Then was the time that I converted the Tech interview into HR interview. Gave her fundaes about why core job now and she was impressed.JDuring that time, students who couldn't clear for the next round were sent to room and I was asked to wait. That gave a hint that either it would be another interview or I am selected. Waited and the last interview was scheduled at 2:45 am in the night. Got pretty tired by that time and couldn’t even solve a simple coding problem. The interviewer laughed saying probably its late night issue. Then we just had a talk on BTP and some stuff on Hashing algorithms and we were done. The results were announced and I got placed. The day was mine or better to say the night was mine.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Why Transocean ?
- Q2. Why you are suited for this company ?
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: It was very simple. No preparation required.
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Different groups were made and given different topics.
Tips: Have strong views and sound reasons to back them in GD’s and presentation. They had one to one conversation with each candidate following the group discussions on his personal views on the case. Read the cases fast yet carefully.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Apart from the questions mentioned, resume based questions were asked.
Tips: Prepare HR well and do good homework on knowing about the company. It reflects in your interview and the questions that you ask.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Experience: It was very simple. No preparation required.
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Different groups were made and given different topics.
Tips: Have strong views and sound reasons to back them in GD’s and presentation. They had one to one conversation with each candidate following the group discussions on his personal views on the case. Read the cases fast yet carefully.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Apart from the questions mentioned, resume based questions were asked.
Tips: Prepare HR well and do good homework on knowing about the company. It reflects in your interview and the questions that you ask.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Why Mechanical Engineering?
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Questions related to courses of Design, MOS, TOM. It had tough MCQ’s based on formulae that had to be memorized and were calculation intensive.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: it was a 45-minute round with questions about yourself, CPI and extra-curricular activities.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Questions based on resume, internship and 2nd and 3rd year related projects. Short discussion on Extra-curricular activities.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Experience: Questions related to courses of Design, MOS, TOM. It had tough MCQ’s based on formulae that had to be memorized and were calculation intensive.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: it was a 45-minute round with questions about yourself, CPI and extra-curricular activities.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Questions based on resume, internship and 2nd and 3rd year related projects. Short discussion on Extra-curricular activities.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Why not MS?
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: It was constituted of two parts: Logic and DI. Both parts were simple. Questions were CAT type.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Simple C, C++ questions were asked. Technical questions based on internship project were asked. General questions asked to check reaction to sudden stress (for example: Why do earthquakes occur?).
Tips: Courses like DSP (application based) and information systems should be thorough. Knowing 1 programming language is very essential.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Resume based questions were asked.
Tips: Know complete details of your interns, BTP and resume thoroughly.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Experience: It was constituted of two parts: Logic and DI. Both parts were simple. Questions were CAT type.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Simple C, C++ questions were asked. Technical questions based on internship project were asked. General questions asked to check reaction to sudden stress (for example: Why do earthquakes occur?).
Tips: Courses like DSP (application based) and information systems should be thorough. Knowing 1 programming language is very essential.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Resume based questions were asked.
Tips: Know complete details of your interns, BTP and resume thoroughly.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Scheduling, real-time OS, and file system based questions
- Q2. Asked some in depth questions about file-handling in Linux
- Q3. C++ - IBM site tutorials, C-FAQ for C coding tutorials
- Q4. Family and educational background
- Q5. Tell me about yourself
- Q6. Went a little in-depth into Linux
- Q7. Will you join or not ?
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Questions based on O.S., compiler, DS, and C. The questions were basic, testing normal knowledge.
Total Questions: 20-25
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: It was a 20-minute round. Apart from the questions mentioned, one puzzle regarding number of rectangles on a chessboard was given.
Tips: Over all preparation in C, DSP course, OS and course in networking helps.
Round: HR Interview
Tips: Know about the company, PPT and website.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Experience: Questions based on O.S., compiler, DS, and C. The questions were basic, testing normal knowledge.
Total Questions: 20-25
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: It was a 20-minute round. Apart from the questions mentioned, one puzzle regarding number of rectangles on a chessboard was given.
Tips: Over all preparation in C, DSP course, OS and course in networking helps.
Round: HR Interview
Tips: Know about the company, PPT and website.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Why PWC?
- Q2. What do you know about PWC?
- Q3. Strengths and weaknesses
- Q4. Location preference
- Q5. Random questions:-How do earthquakes occur? What is metamorphosis?
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: CAT type questions were asked.
Duration: 60 minutes
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: As it was open for all departments, questions of a general kind about project and internship were asked. Favourite area and basic questions on it.
Round: HR Interview
Tips: Looking for people with good communication skills.
General Tips: If performance is good, chance to move to the consulting arm from the accounting arm, which handles financial advisory, etc.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Experience: CAT type questions were asked.
Duration: 60 minutes
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: As it was open for all departments, questions of a general kind about project and internship were asked. Favourite area and basic questions on it.
Round: HR Interview
Tips: Looking for people with good communication skills.
General Tips: If performance is good, chance to move to the consulting arm from the accounting arm, which handles financial advisory, etc.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Tell me about yourself
- Q2. What do you know about the company?
- Q3. What are your greatest strength and weaknesses?
- Q4. What are your ambitions in life?
- Q5. When are you getting married?
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: PART ONE: Verbal Ability, uses of articles (a, an, the) and a RC.
PART TWO: logical reasoning, standard IQ type Questions, was simple.
PART THREE: An essay, one out of two, one choice was nuclear deal and the other was education system in India.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Some regular puzzles were given, which were easy. A discussion on internship work.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: They are looking for people with good aptitude, very good communication skills and strong desire to learn. Also, someone with good academic record and clear career goals.
Tips: Do not panic in the interview.
General Tips: For GD, improve the content by reading and/or discussing among wing mates. Don't be aggressive but be assertive and ENERGETIC.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Experience: PART ONE: Verbal Ability, uses of articles (a, an, the) and a RC.
PART TWO: logical reasoning, standard IQ type Questions, was simple.
PART THREE: An essay, one out of two, one choice was nuclear deal and the other was education system in India.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Some regular puzzles were given, which were easy. A discussion on internship work.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: They are looking for people with good aptitude, very good communication skills and strong desire to learn. Also, someone with good academic record and clear career goals.
Tips: Do not panic in the interview.
General Tips: For GD, improve the content by reading and/or discussing among wing mates. Don't be aggressive but be assertive and ENERGETIC.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Do you know what it is like working in a factory?
- Q2. Why not higher studies?
- Q3. Do you have ethical issues regarding working in a cigarette factory etc?
- Q4. Reasons why I did not consider other options (higher studies, IAS, I-banks and so on)
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Technical Interview
Tips: Prepare to answer like your willingness to take up a job which involves routine work (might get boring after some time) and working with factory workers etc.
Some projects to probably check the soundness of technical knowledge.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Tips: Prepare to answer like your willingness to take up a job which involves routine work (might get boring after some time) and working with factory workers etc.
Some projects to probably check the soundness of technical knowledge.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
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