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Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur

Kharagpur, West Bengal

What if you can't knock at your Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur seniors' door for advice? Read their placement interview questions and crack your next interview. 🏆

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Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur Placement Interview Questions

Updated 12 Jan 2025

310 interviews found

Associate Software Engineer Interview Questions

user image bharath kumar

posted on 12 Dec 2016

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.

3 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Asked to write code on paper and checked basic algorithmic and coding skills

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Checked approach, knowledge of advanced data structures and coding skills

Round: HR Interview
Experience: For boat question my answer was if I push customer out of boat, without customer company would be worthless, and if I push company, there is possibility of builting it from scratch. I won't sacrifice myself as I am selfish and if I get convinced that my sacrifice yields something very big may be I will think about it.
Tips: Don't lose hope till the end.. My number was last in the shortlist and I waited around 10 hours for my first round

College Name: IIT Kharagpur
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Consultant Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 5 Dec 2016

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.

6 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: The test consisted of normal aptitude questions, around 400 word essay and coding on strings. You had to write the actual code or pseudo code or even a logical literature that would briefly state how the code would work.
Tips: Practice normal quants, be updated about current affairs (eg: demonetization, surgical strikes) for essay, and be familiar with code or at least with basic algorithms like sorting.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes
Total Questions: 33

Round: HR Interview
Experience: The questions were normal HR questions where I was asked about my recent internships and few of my skills like R, C++.
Tips: Know your CV inside out and do preparation for each part of your CV in details if asked in the interview.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The questions were not very hard and HR was helping whenever I was stuck in the guesstimate problem.
Tips: Prepare for basic programming, guesstimate, normal aptitude questions and sound knowledge of various projects/internships done.

Skills: Aptitude, Programming, Logical Puzzles, Guesstimate Skills
College Name: IIT Kharagpur
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Consultant Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 5 Dec 2016

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.

5 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: The test consisted of normal aptitude questions, around 400 word essay and coding on strings. You had to write the actual code or pseudo code or even a logical literature that would briefly state how the code would work.
Tips: Practice normal quants, be updated about current affairs (eg: demonetization, surgical strikes) for essay, and be familiar with code or at least with basic algorithms like sorting.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes
Total Questions: 40

Round: HR Interview
Experience: The questions were normal HR questions where I was asked about my recent internships and few of my skills like R, C++.
Tips: Know your CV inside out and do preparation for each part of your CV in details if asked in the interview.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The questions were normal HR questions where I was asked about my recent internships and few of my skills like R, C++.
Tips: Know your CV inside out and do preparation for each part of your CV in details if asked in the interview.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The questions were not very hard and HR was helping whenever I was stuck in the guesstimate problem.
Tips: Prepare for basic programming, guesstimate, normal aptitude questions and sound knowledge of various projects/internships done.

Skills: Aptitude, Programming, Logical Puzzles, Guesstimate Skills
College Name: IIT Kharagpur
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Consultant Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 5 Dec 2016

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.

3 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Firstly, an online test was conducted (120 minutes duration) consisting of questions on Quantitative (30), Aptitude (30), Verbal (30) and Probability and Statistics (30). If you have prepared well, this won
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Consultant 1 Interview Questions

user image Mehbub Hassan

posted on 4 Dec 2016

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.

5 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

  • Q1. Walk me through your resume
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  • Q2. Internship: what you did, what you achieved and what you learned
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  • Q3. Why analytics? Since you have a lot of things related to finance in your CV, why don't you go for finance?
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  • Q4. A lot of questions on probability and statistics. (Since I had projects and achievements related to that)
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  • Q5. What are your hobbies? (And then trying to give a guesstimate question related to the hobby. E.g. to estimate the fleet size of Air India, for someone who menti...read more
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  • Q6. Market entry case: Entering into noodles market. Should we enter, and if so, how to capture a high market share?
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  • Q7. Puzzles: 25 horses 5 tracks, Monty hall problem, 8-queen problem, Random Airplane Seats
    Add Answer
  • Q8. Why EXL?
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  • Q9. Estimate the no. of Rs. 1000 notes in India before demonetization
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  • Q10. Estimate the no. of people participated in Delhi Marathon
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  • Q11. How would you estimate the distance between Delhi and Beijing?
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Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: The test was conducted online by Cocubes. 20 questions were from Quant+DI, 10 from LR, and 10 from Verbal+RC. Out of some 600 students who took the test, around 80 students were selected for the next round.
Tips: A sincere effort for CAT would definitely help you get through the test.
Duration: 45 minutes
Total Questions: 40

Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: Each round of interview covered case interview, guesstimates, puzzles and CV based questions. There was no separate HR round as such. Each round went for some 30-40 minutes.
Tips: Walk the interviewer through your thought process while you are solving puzzles or guesstimates. It is always beneficial to practice a lot of puzzles from different sources and hence get a common puzzle in the interview than to solve a completely new puzzle on the day of the interview. Because practically, an average student can't solve any of the 4 above-mentioned puzzles in 2-3 minutes, if (s)he hasn't faced it earlier.

Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: This round of interview was taken by a senior official. It was more of a stress interview, where I was being asked to come up with a number of different approaches to solving a given guesstimate question.
Tips: Keep calm. They are concerned about your approach. Make sure you are communicating properly.

College Name: IIT Kharagpur
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Software Engineer-1(A) Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 3 Dec 2016

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.

5 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Mostly syntax based questions in C, get prepared for weird functionalities of operators. General quant questions & few questions electronics
Tips: Speed & problem solving ability are being tested in this round
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 50

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I just answered questions and interviewer was impressed by the way I solved them.
Tips: Just answer the question properly on paper and solve them. Try to be interactive.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I was asked to solve a case using Data Structures & Algorithms
and was asked about its complexity, functioning etc.,

Tips: Be as cool as possible. Interviewer gives ample amount of time to solve the question. Don't try to solve the problem early try to explore the given case and interviewer will help you to the solution.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Went well and interviewer was impressed when I was answering questions.
Tips: Take a few seconds time and try to answer the questions. Dont hurry up. Try to expressive & speak in your own words rather than some prepared text.

Skills: Algorithmic Approach To Problem Solving, Analyzing And Problem Solving Skills, Inter Person Communication Skills
College Name: IIT Kharagpur
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Associate Interview Questions

user image Aman Choudhary

posted on 27 Sep 2016

I applied via Campus Placement

5 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Resume Shortlist was strictly done on the basis of CGPA ! All candidates with CGPA 7.0 and above were shortlisted for the test.

Round: Test
Experience: A total of 30 questions were given to completed in a short span of 35 minutes. A set of 5-6 questions were based on a set of three graphs (generally line chart, pie chart, bar graph). Questions were based on simple calculations and test was aimed at keeping a check on accuracy and speed of the candidate
Tips: Practice a few Data Interpretation exercise to understand the graphs easily.
Duration: 35 minutes
Total Questions: 30

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: The case was about Market entry for a Money Lender in a village. The case included identification of potential customer segment, revenue streams. Then there was some data provided regarding the interest and various kind of loan models that would be used by the lender. I was then asked to work on the profitability. This case was more on the qualitative side.
Tips: - Keep communicating with the interviewer. Involve him in the case solving process.
- If at any point of time, you are unsure about the approach you are following, ask the interviewer.

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: The case was about a credit card company who uses various kind of marketing strategies (mail, calls etc) for customer acquisition. The interviewer started with the discussion on the marketing techniques. The data included costs, acquisition rate, and the average profits. I was asked to calculate the break even point.
The case was numerical and easy to crack once the data was provided.


Tips: - Calculate accurately. Never answer wrong because of the speed.

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: The case was about a bank who was observing a higher delinquency rate and fraud. The data provided was about loss per customer, average revenue etc. The case typically numerical after some discussion on strategy about reducing fraud.


Skills: Speed, Accuracy, Ability To Analyse
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Kharagpur
Motivation: Good Perks, Big Brand.
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Scientist Interview Questions

user image SAI TEJA

posted on 19 Apr 2016

1 Interview Round

Interview Questions

  • Q1. How many laws of thermodynamics? Applications of each of them. What is dB Amp
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  • Q2. IC engines- Spark plug, how combustion takes place, what is dtsi, why is it used, Types of engines- 2 stroke vs 4 stroke
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  • Q3. Humidity ratio- how is it measured? ( Two types) What does 1 ton refrigerator mean? Parts of refrigeration cycle? Which is the smallest component?
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  • Q4. What would you like to do? ( Design of rockets or design of electronic components with heat transfer applications) Then
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  • Q5. What material will you choose Al or Mg for designing and why? What is concurrent engineering?
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  • Q6. What is difference between rocket and missile?
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Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The interview was very technical and basic.
Tips: Try to smile as interviewers will be serious first to test your stress levels. Prepare subjects related to your project and be thorough in basics of any of three favorite subjects. You can pick maths as well :)

Skills:
College Name: IIT Kharagpur
Motivation: It is THE place for students looking for research in INDIA.
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Software Engineer Interview Questions

user image Surendra Verma

posted on 15 Feb 2016

6 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Shortlist cut was 0.0 cgpa
Tips: Need to mention Programming skill in any one of three language C , C++ ,Java

Round: Test
Experience: Test was Average, Many question were from INDIABIX.COM , computer network, operating system ,data structure, c , c++ language
Tips: Understand Data Structure and Algorithm deeply, At least read about computer networks, operating system , DBMS 3-4 times for basic good understand, refer various site
Duration: 180 minutes

Round: Test
Experience: Two question were given , we have to write the code on A4 size sheet
Tips: Deep understanding of STACK AND QUEUE
Duration: 60 minutes

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Previous Test (2 Questions on A4 size sheet) were discussed and is there any improvement that can be done, discussed each and every step.
Tips: Comments is important using programming
present with demo example (various cases)

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Be calm and show your interest in the company,
ask question about company, what are activity other than techincal technical stuff
Tips: Smile , if possible talk in Hindi - English,Try to Make the interview in discussion

General Tips: Practice Daily , Understand Each and Every Step in Detail , Try to code in A4 size paper then computer
Skill Tips: Read Good Books , Practice Daily

Skills: Algorithms And Data Structures
College Name: IIT Kharagpur
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Business Analyst Interview Questions

user image G Akhil

posted on 11 Feb 2016

5 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

  • Q1. You have 10 boxes of balls (each ball weighing exactly10 gm) with one box with defective balls (each one of the defective balls weigh 9 gm). You are given an el...read more
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  • Q2. Guesstimate- 1) Find the number of petrol bunks in India?
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  • Q3. Guesstimate- 2) Find the no of cricket balls sold in a year in India?(I told cricket is my hobby so interviewer asked question related to cricket)
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  • Q4. Basic Finance question: Put option, Call option, payoff diagrams etc.,
    Add Answer
  • Q5. Tell me about yourself?
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  • Q6. Your short term goal and long term goal?
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  • Q7. Any issues working in Gurgaon?
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Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: It was easy and try to practice daily, you can easily crack the test. I guess around 100 people has given the test and 65 got shortlisted for interviews.
Tips: Indiabix is a very good website, it helps in getting better and better by giving mock tests.
TIME materials

Duration: 60 minutes

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Basically i thought of getting into a field of data analytics but they did not come here for data analyst. He asked me questions related to quantitative finance. Since i had financial engineering course in previous semester so it was bit easy and i didn't even prepare particularly for finance. Anyways finance knowledge is not mandatory, if you have it is an added advantage. I answered every question very confidently, so it created some good impression. All that matters is how confidently you are answering the questions (important questions are puzzles and guesstimates) with a smile on your face. The interviewer is so kind and that really boosted me up. Then he asked about coding, i told frankly that i'm not interested in coding but i know analytical languages like SAS, R etc., and in case if you want i can learn coding. Overall it was a great experience.
Tips: Heard on the street book and geeksforgeeks for puzzles
Have some idea on guesstimates(from Quora)
John C Hull book for finance

Round: HR Interview
Experience: It was basic HR questions and i know that i will surely get selected for this company after my technical interview so easily answered them. Finally as i hail from Visakhapatnam(South) so she asked me any issues working in Gurgaon? I told i don't have any problems and i'm pretty fine with that. And most important thing ask some questions after the completion of your interview. Thanks and good luck. Hence i got selected as Business Analyst in financial services. 9 people got offers from those 65 shortlisted people.
Tips: Do not get nervous & Put a smile on your face.
Be confident you will surely get selected.
Thanks
Akhil

General Tips: Stay calm and confident
Skill Tips: Tips are as mentioned above in interviews.
Skills: Logical Puzzles, Guesstimation Cases, Finance Basics, Analytical Skills
College Name: IIT Kharagpur
Motivation: Standard Company and basically profile is very good. Profile- Business Analyst in Financial services.
Funny Moments: I enjoyed each and every moment
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