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Filter interviews byIndian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur Placement Interview Questions
Updated
27 Dec 2024
408 interviews found
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. How is your day going? Walk me through your resume briefly What do you expect from our company?
- Q2. More about internship guess estimation
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Questions were easy to medium difficulty
Total Questions: 30
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Questions were easy to medium difficulty
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Some of my friends had questions like tell me about yourself, your internship project, what would you like to improve in yourself, most embarrasing moment.
Skills: Communication
College Name: IIT Kanpur
Experience: Questions were easy to medium difficulty
Total Questions: 30
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Questions were easy to medium difficulty
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Some of my friends had questions like tell me about yourself, your internship project, what would you like to improve in yourself, most embarrasing moment.
Skills: Communication
College Name: IIT Kanpur
I applied via Campus Placement
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Tell me about self
- Q2. Malloc vs calloc
- Q3. Work of VISA
- Q4. Cyber security related question
- Q5. Few probability questions
- Q6. One question on trees
- Q7. One on DP
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: 3 questions on hacker rank
1) something related to OOP. No option of using C or C++.
2)given string of numbers and k. k is number of elements taken continuously and find its minimum. Now of all the numbers for which minimum is found, find the maximum.
eg-k=3, array=1 4 2 3 3. So minimums are-1,2,2. Max of these is 2.
3) tree related question
Did not attempt 1st one. 12/13 cases passed in 2nd(run time error) and wrote something in 3rd(though none of the cases passed.
My friend had similar thing, but he was not selected for next round(probably because he did not write enough in 3rd question)
Tips: Don't just revise DS, try it by writing code as well
Don't lose hope even if you could not solve any question in which all the test cases were passed
Duration: 1h minute
Total Questions: 3
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I never expected to make it through but I was shortlisted(7 shortlisted) for interview.
Telephonic interview-lasted for around 40min.
He went through my resume but didn't ask much questions from it
Skills:
Duration: 2-3
College Name: IIT Kanpur
Experience: 3 questions on hacker rank
1) something related to OOP. No option of using C or C++.
2)given string of numbers and k. k is number of elements taken continuously and find its minimum. Now of all the numbers for which minimum is found, find the maximum.
eg-k=3, array=1 4 2 3 3. So minimums are-1,2,2. Max of these is 2.
3) tree related question
Did not attempt 1st one. 12/13 cases passed in 2nd(run time error) and wrote something in 3rd(though none of the cases passed.
My friend had similar thing, but he was not selected for next round(probably because he did not write enough in 3rd question)
Tips: Don't just revise DS, try it by writing code as well
Don't lose hope even if you could not solve any question in which all the test cases were passed
Duration: 1h minute
Total Questions: 3
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I never expected to make it through but I was shortlisted(7 shortlisted) for interview.
Telephonic interview-lasted for around 40min.
He went through my resume but didn't ask much questions from it
Skills:
Duration: 2-3
College Name: IIT Kanpur
I applied via Campus Placement
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Briefly go through your resume
- Q2. Why low CPI ?
- Q3. Some Basic questions regarding projects and puzzles
- Q4. Again why low CPI ? just to test your mantle
- Q5. Extra-Currics
- Q6. Strength and weakness
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Initial shortlisting was based on resumes. They were looking developers and people having background in stats. Also they shortlisted quite a few with international exposure and decent CPI.
Tips: Machine Learning, Coding Experience, Time-series Analysis
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: It was nice, they were quite adamant on testing my stress handling abilities by asking about my academics background. They were impressed by a project of mine related to time series analysis. The round was for about 40-50 minutes.
Tips: Understand each and every point from your resume. Be prepared about some puzzles. Can do online courses from Coursera on Data science & Machine Learning.
Skills: Generic Math Puzzles, Basics Of Machine Learning, Probability And Statistics, Algorithms And Data Structures, Ability To Cope Up With Stress
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Kanpur
Experience: Initial shortlisting was based on resumes. They were looking developers and people having background in stats. Also they shortlisted quite a few with international exposure and decent CPI.
Tips: Machine Learning, Coding Experience, Time-series Analysis
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: It was nice, they were quite adamant on testing my stress handling abilities by asking about my academics background. They were impressed by a project of mine related to time series analysis. The round was for about 40-50 minutes.
Tips: Understand each and every point from your resume. Be prepared about some puzzles. Can do online courses from Coursera on Data science & Machine Learning.
Skills: Generic Math Puzzles, Basics Of Machine Learning, Probability And Statistics, Algorithms And Data Structures, Ability To Cope Up With Stress
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Kanpur
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Sorting an array of strings
- Q2. Bumblebee puzzle
- Q3. Guess estimation
- Q4. Mostly about life decisions
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Test was good. It required basic programming (not high level programming).
There was 1 coding question and 30 MCQs. MCQs were based on DS and algorithms. While the coding problem could be done with simple programming and logic.
Tips: Practice a lot of coding problems from geeksforgeeks.org and interviewbit.com
Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 30+1
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: It was a pretty easy question. They just wanted to see if I can think in a proper direction if given a task. The interviewer was a sensible person (not some frustrated one who just wants to get over with it). It was a good experience.
Tips: Don't answer spontaneously. Take your time to think thoroughly, ask the interviewer relevant parameters, interact with the interviewer by telling him about your thinking process on paper (not just by talking) by writing on the paper.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: The HR of Target is a very good person. She encouraged me through every question she asked.
Tips: Just be calm. You may be asked about different experiences of your life, so take your time before answering the questions.
Skill Tips: Both requires a lot of practice and
Skills: Analytics And Coding
College Name: IIT Kanpur
Experience: Test was good. It required basic programming (not high level programming).
There was 1 coding question and 30 MCQs. MCQs were based on DS and algorithms. While the coding problem could be done with simple programming and logic.
Tips: Practice a lot of coding problems from geeksforgeeks.org and interviewbit.com
Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 30+1
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: It was a pretty easy question. They just wanted to see if I can think in a proper direction if given a task. The interviewer was a sensible person (not some frustrated one who just wants to get over with it). It was a good experience.
Tips: Don't answer spontaneously. Take your time to think thoroughly, ask the interviewer relevant parameters, interact with the interviewer by telling him about your thinking process on paper (not just by talking) by writing on the paper.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: The HR of Target is a very good person. She encouraged me through every question she asked.
Tips: Just be calm. You may be asked about different experiences of your life, so take your time before answering the questions.
Skill Tips: Both requires a lot of practice and
Skills: Analytics And Coding
College Name: IIT Kanpur
6 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Why finance? Why not your core branch?
- Q2. Questions regarding financial intruments like derivatives, forwards-futures, options etc
- Q3. How would you fit in? (give me some reasons to hire you)
- Q4. Some highlights from your resume?
- Q5. What does Bank of America do?
- Q6. What is investment banking?
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Common test for both profiles (IT and Investment Banking). Practise for programming questions if are not at all into coding. Rest all will be standard 'AMCAT' questions
Tips: Don't panic just by looking at programming questions. Some of them were easy and only required common sense to find out output of some given code.
Duration: 75 minutes minutes
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: CPI may play a role. You may have an edge if you have mentioned some projects and courses related to finance. The initial shortlist is very rational and unbaised; mainly based on test (they provided detailed analysis of our test performance, so the process of shortlisting was totally based on merit).
Tips: Apply for investment banking if you want to work in finance. Do *not* apply for IT profile if you don't want to code. That doesn't mean that IT profile is not good (compensation is the same and if you like to code it's a good work profile). If you apply for both; you will be interviewed for both the profiles.
They allowed walk-in interviews as well; so even if you were not shortlisted earlier, go there and ask to the SPO guys for walk-ins.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: There were 2 rounds for each profiles. I was interviewed twice for IT profile and only once for investment banking profile.
Questions will be asked on finance. If you have mentioned some finance/economics related project or course; be prepared to explain it.
I was also asked a puzzle (standard one).
Tips: Read about finance (basic level concepts); but be ready to be grilled more if you give correct answers to easy questions.
Round: Group Activity
Experience: 7 guys were shorlisted for the final selection. They gave us three rapid fire GDs back to back.
Topics- 1. Android vs ios | 2. Five things you'll need to survive in a jungle for 1 month | 3. How to prevent another Lehmann brothers like disaster?
Tips: Be confident. Don't try to create a fish market and chaos. I think they ultimately look for sense in the points you make.
General Tips: Show them that you're fascinated by finance and "want a career, not a job" attitude. Interviewers were very friendly so even if you get stuck, don't panic. He'll rescue you out.
Skills: Verbal Communication Skills, Logical Puzzles, Finance
College Name: IIT Kanpur
Motivation: Sheer interest in Investment Banking
Experience: Common test for both profiles (IT and Investment Banking). Practise for programming questions if are not at all into coding. Rest all will be standard 'AMCAT' questions
Tips: Don't panic just by looking at programming questions. Some of them were easy and only required common sense to find out output of some given code.
Duration: 75 minutes minutes
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: CPI may play a role. You may have an edge if you have mentioned some projects and courses related to finance. The initial shortlist is very rational and unbaised; mainly based on test (they provided detailed analysis of our test performance, so the process of shortlisting was totally based on merit).
Tips: Apply for investment banking if you want to work in finance. Do *not* apply for IT profile if you don't want to code. That doesn't mean that IT profile is not good (compensation is the same and if you like to code it's a good work profile). If you apply for both; you will be interviewed for both the profiles.
They allowed walk-in interviews as well; so even if you were not shortlisted earlier, go there and ask to the SPO guys for walk-ins.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: There were 2 rounds for each profiles. I was interviewed twice for IT profile and only once for investment banking profile.
Questions will be asked on finance. If you have mentioned some finance/economics related project or course; be prepared to explain it.
I was also asked a puzzle (standard one).
Tips: Read about finance (basic level concepts); but be ready to be grilled more if you give correct answers to easy questions.
Round: Group Activity
Experience: 7 guys were shorlisted for the final selection. They gave us three rapid fire GDs back to back.
Topics- 1. Android vs ios | 2. Five things you'll need to survive in a jungle for 1 month | 3. How to prevent another Lehmann brothers like disaster?
Tips: Be confident. Don't try to create a fish market and chaos. I think they ultimately look for sense in the points you make.
General Tips: Show them that you're fascinated by finance and "want a career, not a job" attitude. Interviewers were very friendly so even if you get stuck, don't panic. He'll rescue you out.
Skills: Verbal Communication Skills, Logical Puzzles, Finance
College Name: IIT Kanpur
Motivation: Sheer interest in Investment Banking
I applied via Campus Placement
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Why your CGPA is so low ?
- Q2. Questions regarding my Time Series Analysis Project
- Q3. Questions about numerical computations techniques like Newtons Raphson Method
- Q4. Walking through your resume
- Q5. 2-3 Puzzles (techinterview)
- Q6. Your inclination towards Startups doesn't support your job-application
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: CVs were shortlisted mainly on the basis of projects, international exposure and coding background. They were looking for two types of people : who were either having experience in the data analytics field (course,projects) or either having any internship in their department in which they have shown excellent performances.
Tips: Well prepared and reviewed resume would definitely gonna work.
Round: Stress Interview
Experience: It was a 40-50 mins interview in which they start grilling me from the point where I entered the room by asking your CPI is so low, can you justify ? And then there were above listed questions which were asked . Everything went great. They were impressed about my contribution on time-series project and then by my internship experience
Tips: Prepare well and understand each and every letter of your resume, they will go into sufficient details of it. Prepare puzzles, it will definitely help you.
Skills: Confidence, Generic Math Puzzles, Work Experience, Algorithms And Data Structures, Ability To Cope Up With Stress, Time Series
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Kanpur
Motivation: Excellent job profile in the emerging field of Data science, challenging job opportunities and growth possibilities
Experience: CVs were shortlisted mainly on the basis of projects, international exposure and coding background. They were looking for two types of people : who were either having experience in the data analytics field (course,projects) or either having any internship in their department in which they have shown excellent performances.
Tips: Well prepared and reviewed resume would definitely gonna work.
Round: Stress Interview
Experience: It was a 40-50 mins interview in which they start grilling me from the point where I entered the room by asking your CPI is so low, can you justify ? And then there were above listed questions which were asked . Everything went great. They were impressed about my contribution on time-series project and then by my internship experience
Tips: Prepare well and understand each and every letter of your resume, they will go into sufficient details of it. Prepare puzzles, it will definitely help you.
Skills: Confidence, Generic Math Puzzles, Work Experience, Algorithms And Data Structures, Ability To Cope Up With Stress, Time Series
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Kanpur
Motivation: Excellent job profile in the emerging field of Data science, challenging job opportunities and growth possibilities
I applied via Campus Placement
6 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Walk me through you resume?
- Q2. Do you have any experience in finance? Where did you learn about finance from ?
- Q3. P/E ratio ?
- Q4. What do you know about mergers and acquisitions ?
- Q5. If I give you Rs.5000 per month for a year or give you Rs.50000 at the beginning of the year, which is a better deal ?
- Q6. Draw the income statement for a carpenter who buys wood at certain price and sells it at ___ some price? try and mention all the possible expenditures which may...read more
- Q7. Question related to a finance project done by me : What are weather derivatives? Which countries as actually using it?
- Q8. Why Finance ? Why DB?
- Q9. Tell me something about yourself ?
- Q10. One negative quality that might affect your performance at DB
- Q11. Is less number of PORs a reason for your CGPA ?
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Resume short-listing was done on the basis of CGPA, extra curricular activities and only those having a overall strong profile with a good balance of PORs and academics were short-listed
Tips: Well, one thing that needs to be kept in mind is that your resume needs to be perfect from you side.When I say perfect, it means there should be no typographical errors, no spelling or grammatical mistakes. It should be edited properly and thoroughly checked so that any chances of mistakes can be nullified. Your resume should have information related to projects (research or applied), any intern-ship or other experience of similar kind, relevant courses ( finance or statistics course, in this case ), positions of responsibilities ( PORs ), extracurricular activities and other skill sets. Points in resume should be concise and self explanatory. You should keep in mind that the interviewer takes only a few seconds to review a resume and therefore appropriate details in your resume should be highlighted to make it easy for interviewer to review it. For Deutsche Bank, having a intern-ship experience or a academic project in finance or a foreign exposure definitely helps. PORs also helps in the same fashion. Your resume should be as uncluttered as possible and at the same time should have all the details of above mentioned things presented concisely.
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: It was the first time in many years that DB decided to have a group discussion round. So most of us did not have anyone to share their experience with us. We had around 6 people, at once, in this round. Personally, It was a good experience for me, although I did not read about this topic much and had a discussion with my friend about net neutrality just a few minutes before my GD. I spoke against net neutrality contrary to all other five candidates with me. I described how moving away from net neutrality will help in providing resources to more people and open up the gates of world of internet to the deprived ones. I was objected by al,most everyone in the group but the idea is to maintain your cool, listen to other candidates and try and defend your idea and express your opinion about the topic.
Tips: Some basic tips for every group discussion goes without saying. Starting or ending the course of discussion definitely helps but at the same time it is important to understand that it is not a compulsory action that needs to be taken .I observed it in my discussion that people were so much adamant about initiating the discussion that the moderator had to request people to calm down and not create a fish market there. The idea is to think wisely before you speak. After hearing the topic, you should take your time decide whether you wish to speak for or against and then think of various points and aspects of the topic. Its always helpful to take a pen and a notepad so that you can write the points in short which you can refer later in the discussion. You should NEVER switch from the stand you have taken in the beginning. This is regarded as a weakness so NEVER do that. At the same time it not at all means that you should initiate a war of words(quarrel) with the candidates who has expressing the opposite opinion in the discussion. You need to be humble, polite while you talk. Do not use HINDI/any other native language in the discussion. Be confident while you speak and let other other complete. Try not to interrupt someone and avoid blame game to other candidates, be generalised in you opinion instead of grilling other candidates. If you plan to start the discussion, It would be helpful if you describe the problem briefly, lay down the important points which you think needs to be discussed also can suggest the way discussion can be undertaken and at the same time invite other candidates to share their views when you have finished sharing yours. If you are planning to conclude a discussion, you must remember that its a discussion and not a debate, so it is not necessary that you discussion will end up with one party emerging as correct, so you should try to jot down all the points mentioned by the two parties during the discussion and a give a generalised overview of the discussion, instead of forcing your own opinion onto it. You can try and discuss the pros and cons that were explained by different candidates and try and give a possible solution to make the system better.
Topics of GDs for DB are generally based on the current issues in the country . So you should read about current issues as that will help you to use the recent events and other highlights during the discussion to support your point.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I was the first candidate from the short-listed candidates to be interviewed so the interviewers were not bored of taking interviews. The interview started well. I was not able to answer the very first finance question that they asked me related to P/E ratio. But, after that I was able to answer all questions comfortably. So overall the technical interview went well.
Tips: You should be aware of all the current issues. For that you can read Economic times follow Bloomberg, Business Insider regularly, talk and discuss with your other friends to learn more about the same. For the finance topics, you look at Khan Academy lectures on finance. They are very concise and at the same time introduce you to the basics of finance. You can also look at J.C. Hull's Options futures and derivatives. Sometimes they may ask some puzzles. For that Braingle.com and TechInterviews is a good site to begin with followed by PratikPoddar's CSE Blog. Its important that you remain confident throughout the interview. Its okay if you don't know answer to all the questions being asked. You can politely mention that you do not know answer to the following question and that you will follow up on the same after the interview and then at the end of the interview you can followup with the interviewer. This shows that you are interested to learn new things and are not here just because you are short-listed. It is good to ask question related to the company at the end of the interview. You can frame questions based on PPT of the company.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: All the questions were standard HR question. Other than the negative quality question, all the other question passed swiftly.
Tips: Answers should be prepared to these standard HR questions. Negative quality question should be answered carefully so that it does not influence your interview much.
Skills: Confidence, Finance Current Affairs, Finance Basics
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Kanpur
Motivation: I wanted to get some experience in finance and understand more about investment banking. This was the main motivation for me.
Funny Moments: I was held on the negative quality question for quite a few minutes. They asked me who are my friends here at IITK and asked what would they say about my negative quality. I happened to take up one of my friend's name who was one of the guys offered a PPO from DB and was also under the mentorship of one of my interviewers. He almost gave this a guy a call to enquire for my negative qualities. I ended up laughing over this incident in the interview which was not received pleasantly by the interviewer. One lesson learnt from this incident was t never laugh unless the joke is funny to interviewer :P :P .
Experience: Resume short-listing was done on the basis of CGPA, extra curricular activities and only those having a overall strong profile with a good balance of PORs and academics were short-listed
Tips: Well, one thing that needs to be kept in mind is that your resume needs to be perfect from you side.When I say perfect, it means there should be no typographical errors, no spelling or grammatical mistakes. It should be edited properly and thoroughly checked so that any chances of mistakes can be nullified. Your resume should have information related to projects (research or applied), any intern-ship or other experience of similar kind, relevant courses ( finance or statistics course, in this case ), positions of responsibilities ( PORs ), extracurricular activities and other skill sets. Points in resume should be concise and self explanatory. You should keep in mind that the interviewer takes only a few seconds to review a resume and therefore appropriate details in your resume should be highlighted to make it easy for interviewer to review it. For Deutsche Bank, having a intern-ship experience or a academic project in finance or a foreign exposure definitely helps. PORs also helps in the same fashion. Your resume should be as uncluttered as possible and at the same time should have all the details of above mentioned things presented concisely.
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: It was the first time in many years that DB decided to have a group discussion round. So most of us did not have anyone to share their experience with us. We had around 6 people, at once, in this round. Personally, It was a good experience for me, although I did not read about this topic much and had a discussion with my friend about net neutrality just a few minutes before my GD. I spoke against net neutrality contrary to all other five candidates with me. I described how moving away from net neutrality will help in providing resources to more people and open up the gates of world of internet to the deprived ones. I was objected by al,most everyone in the group but the idea is to maintain your cool, listen to other candidates and try and defend your idea and express your opinion about the topic.
Tips: Some basic tips for every group discussion goes without saying. Starting or ending the course of discussion definitely helps but at the same time it is important to understand that it is not a compulsory action that needs to be taken .I observed it in my discussion that people were so much adamant about initiating the discussion that the moderator had to request people to calm down and not create a fish market there. The idea is to think wisely before you speak. After hearing the topic, you should take your time decide whether you wish to speak for or against and then think of various points and aspects of the topic. Its always helpful to take a pen and a notepad so that you can write the points in short which you can refer later in the discussion. You should NEVER switch from the stand you have taken in the beginning. This is regarded as a weakness so NEVER do that. At the same time it not at all means that you should initiate a war of words(quarrel) with the candidates who has expressing the opposite opinion in the discussion. You need to be humble, polite while you talk. Do not use HINDI/any other native language in the discussion. Be confident while you speak and let other other complete. Try not to interrupt someone and avoid blame game to other candidates, be generalised in you opinion instead of grilling other candidates. If you plan to start the discussion, It would be helpful if you describe the problem briefly, lay down the important points which you think needs to be discussed also can suggest the way discussion can be undertaken and at the same time invite other candidates to share their views when you have finished sharing yours. If you are planning to conclude a discussion, you must remember that its a discussion and not a debate, so it is not necessary that you discussion will end up with one party emerging as correct, so you should try to jot down all the points mentioned by the two parties during the discussion and a give a generalised overview of the discussion, instead of forcing your own opinion onto it. You can try and discuss the pros and cons that were explained by different candidates and try and give a possible solution to make the system better.
Topics of GDs for DB are generally based on the current issues in the country . So you should read about current issues as that will help you to use the recent events and other highlights during the discussion to support your point.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I was the first candidate from the short-listed candidates to be interviewed so the interviewers were not bored of taking interviews. The interview started well. I was not able to answer the very first finance question that they asked me related to P/E ratio. But, after that I was able to answer all questions comfortably. So overall the technical interview went well.
Tips: You should be aware of all the current issues. For that you can read Economic times follow Bloomberg, Business Insider regularly, talk and discuss with your other friends to learn more about the same. For the finance topics, you look at Khan Academy lectures on finance. They are very concise and at the same time introduce you to the basics of finance. You can also look at J.C. Hull's Options futures and derivatives. Sometimes they may ask some puzzles. For that Braingle.com and TechInterviews is a good site to begin with followed by PratikPoddar's CSE Blog. Its important that you remain confident throughout the interview. Its okay if you don't know answer to all the questions being asked. You can politely mention that you do not know answer to the following question and that you will follow up on the same after the interview and then at the end of the interview you can followup with the interviewer. This shows that you are interested to learn new things and are not here just because you are short-listed. It is good to ask question related to the company at the end of the interview. You can frame questions based on PPT of the company.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: All the questions were standard HR question. Other than the negative quality question, all the other question passed swiftly.
Tips: Answers should be prepared to these standard HR questions. Negative quality question should be answered carefully so that it does not influence your interview much.
Skills: Confidence, Finance Current Affairs, Finance Basics
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Kanpur
Motivation: I wanted to get some experience in finance and understand more about investment banking. This was the main motivation for me.
Funny Moments: I was held on the negative quality question for quite a few minutes. They asked me who are my friends here at IITK and asked what would they say about my negative quality. I happened to take up one of my friend's name who was one of the guys offered a PPO from DB and was also under the mentorship of one of my interviewers. He almost gave this a guy a call to enquire for my negative qualities. I ended up laughing over this incident in the interview which was not received pleasantly by the interviewer. One lesson learnt from this incident was t never laugh unless the joke is funny to interviewer :P :P .
Parikshit Khanna
posted on 3 Dec 2015
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Standard Pribability questions and puzzles.E.g Decide the 3 fastest horses among 25 given that 5 can race at a time.Derive the heat transfer equation.etc
Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: Basic internship (finance) questions.Puzzles : If I can descend 1 or 2 steps a time what are the number of ways to descend a flight of 100 stairs.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Why Cs?
Skills:
College Name: IIT Kanpur
Experience: Standard Pribability questions and puzzles.E.g Decide the 3 fastest horses among 25 given that 5 can race at a time.Derive the heat transfer equation.etc
Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: Basic internship (finance) questions.Puzzles : If I can descend 1 or 2 steps a time what are the number of ways to descend a flight of 100 stairs.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Why Cs?
Skills:
College Name: IIT Kanpur
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. To advise an Indian Airline company on a new policy which will increase their revenue
- Q2. Estimate the total revenue of the cabs on Lucknow Airport
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: The aptitude test was conducted just after the PPT. It was a fairly simple multiple choice written test with three sections: Quant,Data and Verbal.
Tips: One of my friend who was preparing for CAT 2015 told me that majority of the questions were lifted from previous year's CAT papers. So it won't hurt to prepare from them if you are aiming for this company.
Duration: 40 minutes
Total Questions: 30
Round: Guesstimate Interview
Experience: Company released a shortlist of around 68 candidates based on the aptitude test. All 68 candidates were interviewed on Day 1 of the placement process. We were allocated buddies from the companies who gave us an idea of what the interview process will look like.
Interview Experience:
The problem statement given to me was ambiguous and the interviewer seemed very grumpy. I tried to clarify as much as I could, and kept thinking aloud. I started by writing a simple formula for my estimation. I followed the normal approach as you will for any guesstimate. The answer that I got was not even near to what you would expect, but I told him that I might have overestimated some of the numbers because of which I am getting the wrong answer.
Tips: 1. Stay calm and give your best: Just after the interview, I panicked as I thought they won't shortlist me for the next round as I goofed up on the final answer of the guesstimate. However, because my approach was right, they selected me for the next round .
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: The case study was very simple, and after clarifying the question and providing a rough structure to the case, the interviewer provided me with all the data even before asking for any.
What he tested was:
1. Basic Structuring of the case
2. Accurate calculations based on the data that was provided
After the calculations, he asked me for the synthesis on the case and recommendations.
Just after this, he asked me to analyze my strengths and weaknesses. As I was done answering this question ,he extended me an offer on the spot and I was not required to go for the third round. :)
Tips: 1. The case study is very very simple, just make sure that you structure the case well and do not make any mistakes on calculations.
General Tips: 1. Stay Calm and prepare well : I started my preparation on 25th December, and prepared case studies and a lot of guesstimates for the next 5 days
2. Do not look where other students are getting shortlisted: I was the first one who was extended an offer on Day 1 Slot 2, whereas all the other hotshots(OPCs,Core Team) etc were still struggling with their first rounds.
3. Prepare dedicatedly: For Indus Insights, simple guesstimates and simple case studies will suffice.
Skills: Ability To Make Quick Calculations, Aptitude
College Name: IIT Kanpur
Motivation: 1. Consulting profile
2. Great opportunity to interact with clients across different verticals.
Experience: The aptitude test was conducted just after the PPT. It was a fairly simple multiple choice written test with three sections: Quant,Data and Verbal.
Tips: One of my friend who was preparing for CAT 2015 told me that majority of the questions were lifted from previous year's CAT papers. So it won't hurt to prepare from them if you are aiming for this company.
Duration: 40 minutes
Total Questions: 30
Round: Guesstimate Interview
Experience: Company released a shortlist of around 68 candidates based on the aptitude test. All 68 candidates were interviewed on Day 1 of the placement process. We were allocated buddies from the companies who gave us an idea of what the interview process will look like.
Interview Experience:
The problem statement given to me was ambiguous and the interviewer seemed very grumpy. I tried to clarify as much as I could, and kept thinking aloud. I started by writing a simple formula for my estimation. I followed the normal approach as you will for any guesstimate. The answer that I got was not even near to what you would expect, but I told him that I might have overestimated some of the numbers because of which I am getting the wrong answer.
Tips: 1. Stay calm and give your best: Just after the interview, I panicked as I thought they won't shortlist me for the next round as I goofed up on the final answer of the guesstimate. However, because my approach was right, they selected me for the next round .
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: The case study was very simple, and after clarifying the question and providing a rough structure to the case, the interviewer provided me with all the data even before asking for any.
What he tested was:
1. Basic Structuring of the case
2. Accurate calculations based on the data that was provided
After the calculations, he asked me for the synthesis on the case and recommendations.
Just after this, he asked me to analyze my strengths and weaknesses. As I was done answering this question ,he extended me an offer on the spot and I was not required to go for the third round. :)
Tips: 1. The case study is very very simple, just make sure that you structure the case well and do not make any mistakes on calculations.
General Tips: 1. Stay Calm and prepare well : I started my preparation on 25th December, and prepared case studies and a lot of guesstimates for the next 5 days
2. Do not look where other students are getting shortlisted: I was the first one who was extended an offer on Day 1 Slot 2, whereas all the other hotshots(OPCs,Core Team) etc were still struggling with their first rounds.
3. Prepare dedicatedly: For Indus Insights, simple guesstimates and simple case studies will suffice.
Skills: Ability To Make Quick Calculations, Aptitude
College Name: IIT Kanpur
Motivation: 1. Consulting profile
2. Great opportunity to interact with clients across different verticals.
I applied via Campus Placement
1 Interview Round
Interview Questions
- Q1. General Round about your background
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: This company is very good in shorlisting the students. First they will shortlist the students from Civil, Mechanical, Chemical. It will take them to the interview round and in the final round will ask them if they know anything about coding. Ask them questions on machine leaning. As nobody knows it, than personally call the maths department and electrical department students and will finally take them. Such a 'chutiyaapa', if you really want to take a coding student then organise a coding test. Why waste the time of students and get their hopes high.
Tips: Coding is required and also machine learning. Do a course on machine learning and learn R if you can.
Skills:
Duration: 12
College Name: IIT Kanpur
Experience: This company is very good in shorlisting the students. First they will shortlist the students from Civil, Mechanical, Chemical. It will take them to the interview round and in the final round will ask them if they know anything about coding. Ask them questions on machine leaning. As nobody knows it, than personally call the maths department and electrical department students and will finally take them. Such a 'chutiyaapa', if you really want to take a coding student then organise a coding test. Why waste the time of students and get their hopes high.
Tips: Coding is required and also machine learning. Do a course on machine learning and learn R if you can.
Skills:
Duration: 12
College Name: IIT Kanpur
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