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Round: Test Experience: Online written test, consisting of quantitative and verbal ability.
Round: Group Discussion Experience: General topic group discussion.
Round: Interview Experience: Two-on-one interview. I was asked about projects and internships. Nothing particularly challenging. (They were planning on mass recruitment. Selected 26 students out of the ~40 students shortlisted for GD).
Skill Tips: CGPA above 7 is required. Skills: Quantitative skills, Verbal skills College Name: IIT KHARAGPUR
Round: Test Experience: Counter, types, difference, synchronous vs asynchronous Various designs using logic gates like full adder, multiplexer, XOR, XNOR, D-FF etc. Design of inverter with different rise and fall times. Anything invented by company or any big achievement of company must be known. eg- for IBM they asked me Who designed RISC microprocessor as it was designed by IBM. Tips: Just practice from any book available in market for aptitude and reasoning book by R.S.Aggarwal is sufficient. try to solve some question papers. Be calm. Don’t be nervous when questions are hard because the level of questions will be same for everyone.
Round: Interview Experience: Questions on Favorite Subject(at least 2), Project and Internships. Tips: Be confident If you don’t know say NO. However if possible try to answer something and you may say that you forgot and if time will be given you can solve. After getting the question, think and then reply. At the end ask some questions which will show your enthusiasm to for them. Smile. Sell yourself. Don’t be nervous and get rejected by underperforming.
Round: Interview Experience: Introduction About Company, PPT etc. About your hobbies/interests/home/paren’ts/previous places you visited or stayed. Your extra curricular activities. Tips: Say about your strengths, use the usual ones like hardworking, honest and so on.Substantiate with examples which happened in your life and you handled it properly. Any social activity will add much advantage.
General Tips: For written test R S Agarwaal aptitude and reasoning is sufficient. For Technical, whatever is studied in curriculum is sufficient. Also project and internship parts should be well known. At last One thing one should keep in mind that one has to sell oneself so do whatever you think can describe yourself and that will be beneficial for your customer(company). All the best for all the participants from my heart and soul. Skill Tips: CGPA Greater than 8 is a positive point. Mine is 7.8 so i got 1.75 lack less salary than my colleagues. Tell about Social activity Any group activity in college. Projects are required because it teaches us how to use our knowledge. Also we get practical experience of theories. Internships, if done will be much more beneficial. One has to sell oneself so show them that you are better than others in some fields and that will be beneficial for the company. How company can utilize your strengths. Skills: Math, Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning, Cadence/ verilog College Name: IIT KHARAGPUR
Round: Test Experience: It’ll be tough. For CS and ECE people, it will be a smooth ride if you know algorithms and data structures.
Round: Interview Experience: I was asked to solve puzzles. Mainly sorting algorithms; heap and bubble. To sum up, a lot of programming knowledge and algorithm analysis will be required. Tips: Don’t fumble, it’s very important to be confident. If there’s something you don’t know, don’t hesitate to accept it.