Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
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27 Dec 2024
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5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Tell us about yourself ?
- Q2. Any knowledge of Networks/DS?
- Q3. Which projects do you like the most?
- Q4. How was your test ?
- Q5. Why CISCO ? Tell something about it
- Q6. Which companies have you applied for till day 4 ?
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: 30 questions on Technical knowledge - Basic C, DS, Microprocessor, OS, Networks, Circuit Designs.
20 questions on Aptitude.
Total Questions: 50
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: It was a 25-30 minute round. Apart from the questions mentioned, they asked questions related to BTP(Signal Processing) and Microprocessor 8085.
Tips: Basic C, EE 370 and Microprocessor 8085 will be helpful. They will look for Networks related questions. Revise the related courses and attend PPTs.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: It was a 15-minute round.
General Tips: Analytical thinking is important and you should have good technical knowledge and a decent academic record.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Experience: 30 questions on Technical knowledge - Basic C, DS, Microprocessor, OS, Networks, Circuit Designs.
20 questions on Aptitude.
Total Questions: 50
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: It was a 25-30 minute round. Apart from the questions mentioned, they asked questions related to BTP(Signal Processing) and Microprocessor 8085.
Tips: Basic C, EE 370 and Microprocessor 8085 will be helpful. They will look for Networks related questions. Revise the related courses and attend PPTs.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: It was a 15-minute round.
General Tips: Analytical thinking is important and you should have good technical knowledge and a decent academic record.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
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Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: It was an online test. The company who hosted the test messed up with the interface, and a lot of people had trouble with a coding question that could not be solved because of the faulty interface. There was no retest.
The shortlisting was done after studying compile attempts, time devoted to various sections and other performance measures.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Told about myself, my interests, my internship projects and my work so far.
A few coding questions were asked too.
In the end, they asked if i have any questions.
Tips: Interviewers are friendly. Be calm, give your best.
General Tips: Start preparing early.
Develop priorities both sector wise and company wise.
Take sufficient water and food with you. Interviews can start at 4 am on the first day!
Have enough copies of resume and transcripts with you.
If you have been shortlisted for many companies, it is preferable to have a portfolio manager who manages your phone during the day and enables you to focus on the interviews.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Experience: It was an online test. The company who hosted the test messed up with the interface, and a lot of people had trouble with a coding question that could not be solved because of the faulty interface. There was no retest.
The shortlisting was done after studying compile attempts, time devoted to various sections and other performance measures.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Told about myself, my interests, my internship projects and my work so far.
A few coding questions were asked too.
In the end, they asked if i have any questions.
Tips: Interviewers are friendly. Be calm, give your best.
General Tips: Start preparing early.
Develop priorities both sector wise and company wise.
Take sufficient water and food with you. Interviews can start at 4 am on the first day!
Have enough copies of resume and transcripts with you.
If you have been shortlisted for many companies, it is preferable to have a portfolio manager who manages your phone during the day and enables you to focus on the interviews.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Why interested in refinery ?
- Q2. Any plans for further studies ?
- Q3. Any Hands on Experience ?
- Q4. Why Chevron?
- Q5. Any setback, failure in life ?
- Q6. Tell about a situation where you disagreed and how you dealt with it
- Q7. Tell an incident of a technical problem and how you solved it
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Online test for personality profile was taken. They were looking for someone to fit into the corporate environment.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: There were 2 rounds to this interview. Each round was of 20-25 minutes. The panel consisted of 4 people. They wished to know if I had problems with mobility, i.e., it is good if one does not have problem related to mobility. They encouraged students to ask questions to them.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Apart from the mentioned questions, they also asked about MBA and career plans. They were looking for leadership qualities, confidence, passionate people, and ability to handle responsibilities.
Tips: Speak on something you are good at. Courses to be well versed in. “Petroleum Processing Engineering” will be helpful.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Experience: Online test for personality profile was taken. They were looking for someone to fit into the corporate environment.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: There were 2 rounds to this interview. Each round was of 20-25 minutes. The panel consisted of 4 people. They wished to know if I had problems with mobility, i.e., it is good if one does not have problem related to mobility. They encouraged students to ask questions to them.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Apart from the mentioned questions, they also asked about MBA and career plans. They were looking for leadership qualities, confidence, passionate people, and ability to handle responsibilities.
Tips: Speak on something you are good at. Courses to be well versed in. “Petroleum Processing Engineering” will be helpful.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. A situation where you had to take expertise from someone and why?
- Q2. A situation where you were not able to meet the deadline of your work and finally what was the response you got for your work?
- Q3. A situation where you had to do a thing which you had no prior knowledge about and what was the result?
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: The questions were related to Data Interpretation. I felt severe time constraint in the paper.
Tips: Selectivity among the questions proved beneficial in clearing the cut-off.
Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 30
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: Preliminary(Long before Placement Season)
It was a 10-minute one on one interview. They had given the link for few practice case-studies. The Case Study given at their website is the most important one. It helps you understand the standard approach they look for in a candidate.
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: This was a 50-minute interview during the placement season.
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: This was a 20-minute interview. It was a case interview similar to the first one.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: It was a behavioral Interview.
Tips: Questions were expected to be answered in detail.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Experience: The questions were related to Data Interpretation. I felt severe time constraint in the paper.
Tips: Selectivity among the questions proved beneficial in clearing the cut-off.
Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 30
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: Preliminary(Long before Placement Season)
It was a 10-minute one on one interview. They had given the link for few practice case-studies. The Case Study given at their website is the most important one. It helps you understand the standard approach they look for in a candidate.
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: This was a 50-minute interview during the placement season.
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: This was a 20-minute interview. It was a case interview similar to the first one.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: It was a behavioral Interview.
Tips: Questions were expected to be answered in detail.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
3 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Since, first short listing was done on the basis of resumes, so again it’s very important to highlight some spike in your career in the best possible way.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: The interview had 2 rounds initially after which one shortlist was given. In the first one, after asking some questions from my resume, like why consulting, about internship,etc..I was asked a case to estimate the washing machine market of India..I was asked to think and come up with some answer and take as much time as I want. I just focused domestic market but was then asked to look for industries also L...I lost some track here and was not able to clearly see what is the market to washing machines as far as industries are concerned apart from textiles...then I was asked to list out the factors of buying a new washing machine, I said the obvious ones and then was asked to come up with a number depicting the number of machines which will be sold next year..I was not at my best but somehow got some answer which the interviewer said is ok and the interview ended up in 30 minutes.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Later on, for the second interview, a partner called me in. He asked me about my pre IIT experiences and about my family background. Then he gave me simple case to calculate the number of cricket bats sold per year in India and then the market of this commodity. I did the case quickly and told him the steps and final answer which he said that that looked somewhat on the lower side and then asked me to leave. I asked me some questions and the interview was over in 15 minutes!!! L...shortlist came and I was not there.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Experience: Since, first short listing was done on the basis of resumes, so again it’s very important to highlight some spike in your career in the best possible way.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: The interview had 2 rounds initially after which one shortlist was given. In the first one, after asking some questions from my resume, like why consulting, about internship,etc..I was asked a case to estimate the washing machine market of India..I was asked to think and come up with some answer and take as much time as I want. I just focused domestic market but was then asked to look for industries also L...I lost some track here and was not able to clearly see what is the market to washing machines as far as industries are concerned apart from textiles...then I was asked to list out the factors of buying a new washing machine, I said the obvious ones and then was asked to come up with a number depicting the number of machines which will be sold next year..I was not at my best but somehow got some answer which the interviewer said is ok and the interview ended up in 30 minutes.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Later on, for the second interview, a partner called me in. He asked me about my pre IIT experiences and about my family background. Then he gave me simple case to calculate the number of cricket bats sold per year in India and then the market of this commodity. I did the case quickly and told him the steps and final answer which he said that that looked somewhat on the lower side and then asked me to leave. I asked me some questions and the interview was over in 15 minutes!!! L...shortlist came and I was not there.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
1 Interview Round
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: HR Interview
Experience: 1st interview..2 interviewers in the panel..again was asked why not further studies, why not core job and why finance..be prepared for these questions, if you yourself are convinced about these, then only you will be able to get them in your ideas, but don’t lie!! Then I was asked about my optimization project and one puzzle (I already knew some modification of that puzzle) and was asked to write an algorithm to solve a puzzle. I was asked questions on algorithms.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: There were 4 people in the panel, including VP. 1st question – again why not further studies!! Uff...I nearly laughed there that I am not tired of answering that question and completely convinced them about my plans and why I think about my career in that way...they asked why you don’t know much about finance, some basic questions on derivatives, stocks, bonds (please read about them from investopedia). It lasted for about 20 minutes and went well. Finally got a call from DB.
General Tips: Starting from identifying our interests, attending PPTs, making resume to the final interview..each step has its own significance and can’t be taken as trivial. So, let’s start..
The first thing I did was to identify some of the companies; I would like to get into and started collecting points for resume relevant to those firms or sectors. This is very important as requirements for finance may differ from that of consulting or Core and so on. So, as per the profile offered by these firms, things should be highlighted in the resume. Resume making should start ASAP so that there is much time to get it reviewed by seniors in those firms or by friends as this is a long iterative process. In my case, every other person pointed out some or the other statements which can be made better. Also resume making should start from scratch and not by “save as” the resume you have got from your friend or senior with your name. There are lots of resumes shared which can be looked upon for getting the idea of how to use strong verbs, what to emphasize in 1 or 2 page resume, formatting, etc but at the end, the resume should be yours completely.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Experience: 1st interview..2 interviewers in the panel..again was asked why not further studies, why not core job and why finance..be prepared for these questions, if you yourself are convinced about these, then only you will be able to get them in your ideas, but don’t lie!! Then I was asked about my optimization project and one puzzle (I already knew some modification of that puzzle) and was asked to write an algorithm to solve a puzzle. I was asked questions on algorithms.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: There were 4 people in the panel, including VP. 1st question – again why not further studies!! Uff...I nearly laughed there that I am not tired of answering that question and completely convinced them about my plans and why I think about my career in that way...they asked why you don’t know much about finance, some basic questions on derivatives, stocks, bonds (please read about them from investopedia). It lasted for about 20 minutes and went well. Finally got a call from DB.
General Tips: Starting from identifying our interests, attending PPTs, making resume to the final interview..each step has its own significance and can’t be taken as trivial. So, let’s start..
The first thing I did was to identify some of the companies; I would like to get into and started collecting points for resume relevant to those firms or sectors. This is very important as requirements for finance may differ from that of consulting or Core and so on. So, as per the profile offered by these firms, things should be highlighted in the resume. Resume making should start ASAP so that there is much time to get it reviewed by seniors in those firms or by friends as this is a long iterative process. In my case, every other person pointed out some or the other statements which can be made better. Also resume making should start from scratch and not by “save as” the resume you have got from your friend or senior with your name. There are lots of resumes shared which can be looked upon for getting the idea of how to use strong verbs, what to emphasize in 1 or 2 page resume, formatting, etc but at the end, the resume should be yours completely.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
2 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: After a few minutes of thinking someone started the GD, and I was the third person to speak and went in favor of them. It so happened that none after me had the good sense to take an opposing view. Consequently, people coming in later into the GD did not have many points to speak, and a few probably lost out on the chance to going into the next stage. Our GD concluded with everyone nodding their heads in unison to the topic. It was overall a pretty lame affair. I got selected for the interviews. As per Rishi(one of the interviewers from Trans and an alumni), they selected everyone who put forward coherent, well-formed thoughts. They were basically looking out for hints of a logical thought process.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: The company announced two rounds of interviews for final selection. The first round was a very quick(2-5 minute) elimination round in which it was clear that the recruiters merely wanted to decide on their doubts about a few candidates. These people were asked to introduce themselves and state the reason for their interest in transocean, while the rest were let go with questions like 'have you had your food'(not joking! one person was asked the name of his HOD and then they thanked him and told him that they'll talk to him in the next round). I belonged to the latter
group and after a half-hearted enquiry into my B.Tech project they thanked me and told me to wait for the second round.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: After the first round was over, they decreased the shortlist to 20 from an initial 30 odd students. Then they did a very interesting thing. The recruiters spoke to us and told us that they thought it unfair that the first student who comes in has no idea about the questions he’s going to face while the later interviewees get a chance to gain from his experience. So to overcome his they handed us copies of the evaluation sheet they were going to use to decide on us. The sheet included topics like personal presentation, strengths, weakness, risk taking ability, and mostly the usual HR interview topics.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: After about four hours of wait for my turn I was called in for the second round. It started off as a stress interview. They didn't even ask me to introduce myself, instead straightaway started off with 'Why Transocean'. I had barely spoken a few points when they literally jumped onto me in hindi,'arre yeh toh BHEL mein bhi hota hai', 'aur yeh interest hai toh ONGC join karo'. I defended each of my reasons and countered every point they raised,while trying to not get hassled, to the point of fighting it out with one of the interviewers that the profile for ONGC did not suit what I was looking for. He finally told me to trust him that similar work was done by ONGC as well. Apparently they were looking for aggression, so this went in my favour. Later they asked questions like 'how is the flying of an helicopter different from flying of a bird'. Something I reasoned out aloud and answered. Asked me a few simple questions on probability, all the time trying to hassle me, and rush me. Then came questions about how do I think I will adjust to the Transocean life, my strengths and my weakness. Thereafter they gave me a moral dilemma question of where my brother was in peril and I had a company responsibility worth millions. I was asked to choose between the two. I started off by stating that incase there was nothing special I could do for him, I would attend to my responsibility. Then they insisted that none else could help him. To which I bluntly answered that then I would abandon the company and go to my brother's help. They tried pressurizing me with question of my irresponsibility towards the company but I refused to budge.
Skill Tips: In the rapid fire stress situation, in the middle I was asked the question of whether I attended the Trans ppt. A 'yes' literally slipped out of my mouth, despite the fact that I had not. They then asked questions to corroborate the fact, of which I then cooked up answers to as I did not wish to back down. However after the interview I realized that there was no way that they would not have realized that I had bluffed.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Experience: After a few minutes of thinking someone started the GD, and I was the third person to speak and went in favor of them. It so happened that none after me had the good sense to take an opposing view. Consequently, people coming in later into the GD did not have many points to speak, and a few probably lost out on the chance to going into the next stage. Our GD concluded with everyone nodding their heads in unison to the topic. It was overall a pretty lame affair. I got selected for the interviews. As per Rishi(one of the interviewers from Trans and an alumni), they selected everyone who put forward coherent, well-formed thoughts. They were basically looking out for hints of a logical thought process.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: The company announced two rounds of interviews for final selection. The first round was a very quick(2-5 minute) elimination round in which it was clear that the recruiters merely wanted to decide on their doubts about a few candidates. These people were asked to introduce themselves and state the reason for their interest in transocean, while the rest were let go with questions like 'have you had your food'(not joking! one person was asked the name of his HOD and then they thanked him and told him that they'll talk to him in the next round). I belonged to the latter
group and after a half-hearted enquiry into my B.Tech project they thanked me and told me to wait for the second round.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: After the first round was over, they decreased the shortlist to 20 from an initial 30 odd students. Then they did a very interesting thing. The recruiters spoke to us and told us that they thought it unfair that the first student who comes in has no idea about the questions he’s going to face while the later interviewees get a chance to gain from his experience. So to overcome his they handed us copies of the evaluation sheet they were going to use to decide on us. The sheet included topics like personal presentation, strengths, weakness, risk taking ability, and mostly the usual HR interview topics.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: After about four hours of wait for my turn I was called in for the second round. It started off as a stress interview. They didn't even ask me to introduce myself, instead straightaway started off with 'Why Transocean'. I had barely spoken a few points when they literally jumped onto me in hindi,'arre yeh toh BHEL mein bhi hota hai', 'aur yeh interest hai toh ONGC join karo'. I defended each of my reasons and countered every point they raised,while trying to not get hassled, to the point of fighting it out with one of the interviewers that the profile for ONGC did not suit what I was looking for. He finally told me to trust him that similar work was done by ONGC as well. Apparently they were looking for aggression, so this went in my favour. Later they asked questions like 'how is the flying of an helicopter different from flying of a bird'. Something I reasoned out aloud and answered. Asked me a few simple questions on probability, all the time trying to hassle me, and rush me. Then came questions about how do I think I will adjust to the Transocean life, my strengths and my weakness. Thereafter they gave me a moral dilemma question of where my brother was in peril and I had a company responsibility worth millions. I was asked to choose between the two. I started off by stating that incase there was nothing special I could do for him, I would attend to my responsibility. Then they insisted that none else could help him. To which I bluntly answered that then I would abandon the company and go to my brother's help. They tried pressurizing me with question of my irresponsibility towards the company but I refused to budge.
Skill Tips: In the rapid fire stress situation, in the middle I was asked the question of whether I attended the Trans ppt. A 'yes' literally slipped out of my mouth, despite the fact that I had not. They then asked questions to corroborate the fact, of which I then cooked up answers to as I did not wish to back down. However after the interview I realized that there was no way that they would not have realized that I had bluffed.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
3 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: It was a subjective test and I gave it an honest try, leaving some of the most obvious ones but tackling some others which didn't require much of factual knowledge.
Round: Interview
Experience: I had no time to visit any of my courses on digital circuits and so the interview with Nvidia was more like a candid discussion. The interviewer told me that he liked me as a person and that he was impressed but opined that I wouldn’t be a fit for the company. Actually that was more of a mutual conclusion we reached at after 30 minutes of chatting (can’t exactly call that an interview).
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Experience: It was a subjective test and I gave it an honest try, leaving some of the most obvious ones but tackling some others which didn't require much of factual knowledge.
Round: Interview
Experience: I had no time to visit any of my courses on digital circuits and so the interview with Nvidia was more like a candid discussion. The interviewer told me that he liked me as a person and that he was impressed but opined that I wouldn’t be a fit for the company. Actually that was more of a mutual conclusion we reached at after 30 minutes of chatting (can’t exactly call that an interview).
College Name: IIT KANPUR
2 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Interview
Experience: My first interview started on the age old note of, “tell me something about yourself.” It proceeded through a few more questions to a case study of estimating the number of marriages in India per year.
Round: Interview
Experience: I fell for THE FRAMEWORK which is not the best thing to happen during a case study but thanks to the interviewer that I recovered and did a satisfactory job. In my second interview it was again some HR questions followed by the case about increasing the viewership of channel V. It being one of the very few channels I ever watched I did good justice to this case.
Round: Interview
Experience: My next interviewer jumped directly to a case which involved the cutting down of time spent in a medical procedure. Here, some of my Robin Cook novels and the series ‘Lost’ came to help and I was able to think in a medical fashion providing suggestions which the interviewer regarded to be good. But well, looks like I was destined to go for more interviews. So, a halfhearted goodbye Mckinsey.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Experience: My first interview started on the age old note of, “tell me something about yourself.” It proceeded through a few more questions to a case study of estimating the number of marriages in India per year.
Round: Interview
Experience: I fell for THE FRAMEWORK which is not the best thing to happen during a case study but thanks to the interviewer that I recovered and did a satisfactory job. In my second interview it was again some HR questions followed by the case about increasing the viewership of channel V. It being one of the very few channels I ever watched I did good justice to this case.
Round: Interview
Experience: My next interviewer jumped directly to a case which involved the cutting down of time spent in a medical procedure. Here, some of my Robin Cook novels and the series ‘Lost’ came to help and I was able to think in a medical fashion providing suggestions which the interviewer regarded to be good. But well, looks like I was destined to go for more interviews. So, a halfhearted goodbye Mckinsey.
College Name: IIT KANPUR
2 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: The first round was a group discussion wherein we were supposed to rank some objects on the basis of their perceived utility for the survivors of a plane crash in a rainforest. The key was to pick up the right spot to put your point and the authenticity of the point. I didn't do much talking but instead made a few good points.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: After a few starters I was told that they had nothing else to ask. Now that was a first timer, was it some new technique of stress interviewing. But apparently it wasn’t! I was asked to take 15 minutes to take a walk and then tell them if I would like to join the company. So, I walked and after talking to a few seniors at ITC I told them that I wanted to. The last interviewer was a big shot in the company and was very interactive. We talked for sometime and here was a person who actually believed that I was not going for higher education. And so I got the offer...
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Experience: The first round was a group discussion wherein we were supposed to rank some objects on the basis of their perceived utility for the survivors of a plane crash in a rainforest. The key was to pick up the right spot to put your point and the authenticity of the point. I didn't do much talking but instead made a few good points.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: After a few starters I was told that they had nothing else to ask. Now that was a first timer, was it some new technique of stress interviewing. But apparently it wasn’t! I was asked to take 15 minutes to take a walk and then tell them if I would like to join the company. So, I walked and after talking to a few seniors at ITC I told them that I wanted to. The last interviewer was a big shot in the company and was very interactive. We talked for sometime and here was a person who actually believed that I was not going for higher education. And so I got the offer...
College Name: IIT KANPUR
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