Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur

Kharagpur, West Bengal

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

Updated 12 Jan 2025

316 interviews found

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Yes, I joined the company

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Feb 2022.

4 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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2

Aptitude Test Round

Basics of ratio proportion,percentage,partnership, profit loss etc

3

Technical Round (3 Questions)

4

HR Round (3 Questions)

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Just brush up uour resume and final year project and be confident while telling answer.
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user image Anonymous

posted on 27 Oct 2022

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Oct 2021.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Don’t add your photo or details such as gender, age, and address in your resume. These details do not add any value.
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2

One-on-one Round (2 Questions)

3

One-on-one Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Guesstimate: Number of international cricket matches in a calendar year
  • Q2. Puzzle: Number of minimum matches required to get a winner among N participants

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare Guesstimates and puzzles (heard on the street)
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I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Oct 2021.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Properly align and format text in your resume. A recruiter will have to spend more time reading poorly aligned text, leading to high chances of rejection.
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2

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. As it came for on-campus looking for candidate with power systems background. Asked basics of power systems
  • Q2. Basic questions relates to data structures and C++

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - My experience was purely based on on-campus placements in IIT. Since they come for you. It's very moderate interview.
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user image Anonymous

posted on 10 May 2022

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before May 2021.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Double-check your resume for any spelling mistakes. The recruiter may consider spelling mistakes as careless behavior or poor communication skills.
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2

Coding Test Round

Discussion on Oops and asked to implement linked list and then asked to modify it to fit for a binary tree.

One qsts related to algos was asked too which I don't remember

3

HR Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Formal introduction of ourselves . Followed by few qsts on family and why IIFL

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Simple interview process. Focus on algos and oops concepts more.
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user image Anonymous

posted on 27 Dec 2021

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Dec 2020.

4 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

  • Q1. Direct Campus placement for technology analyst: Hackerrank coding round: 3 basic coding questions from data structure and algo.
  • Q2. Interview round: 1. BFS traversal, 2. Back tracking.
  • Q3. HR round: some basic questions.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - It was good experience. Interviewer was helpful.
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user image Amit Kumar

posted on 31 Jul 2022

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Jul 2021.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Aptitude Test Round

45 questions were asked, 60 minutes was given. Questions were easy.

2

HR Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Why teaching ? What was the motivation behind it ?
  • Q2. Tried to figure out if I genuinely wanna work there? Checked if I know something about Vedantu.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - - Introduction
- Why teaching ?
- Rate yourself on the scale of 10 for your knowledge for the particular subject
- Teach any topic ( 5-10 minutes )
- How will you relate this particular topic with real life and will make it easy for students to understand ans remember.
- 4_5 questions from that subject.
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user image Anonymous

posted on 20 Aug 2022

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Aug 2021.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Do not use an unprofessional email address such as cool_boy@email.com. It shows a lack of professionalism by the candidate.
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2

Coding Test Round

Easy DSA questions and some questions on resume

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Don't join if you are a fresher and want to grow as a developer. I had resigned that time I am writing this review
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user image Manikanta Nallamalli (Mittu)

posted on 5 Dec 2017

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2017.

Interview Preparation Tips

General Tips: Round 1: Resume screening. They shortlisted 96 people for the personal Interviews as they have the large requirement. Visiting profiles: Software + Hardware. Location: Bangalore

Round 2: Technical Interview

It was a grilling round of total 1 hr 45min. The interviewer seems so cool and has lots of patience. He was so keen on listening to all the words.

1. Tell me about your M.Tech project?
2. Tell me about your M.Tech Mini Project?
3. How would you design an efficient digital traffic light signal system?
4. Which part of the memory is allocated, when malloc and calloc are called for any variable?
5. How would you measure the stack space without using the task manager, when an application is running on a computer? Write an algorithm if possible!!!
6. When a game is running on a computer, what are the resources it will use on a computer? Firmware, Middleware, drivers, Application characteristics, stack
7. Rate yourself in C and C++?
8. What is a virtual function?
9. What is an Inline function?
10. What is the difference between malloc and calloc?
11. Tell me about the storage classes and their memory allocation?
12. Difference between int* const c and const int* c?
13. What is the virtual memory?
14. What is an abstract class and what is the use of it?
15. What is the difference between new and malloc?
16. What are cache and TLB?
17. If you're joined in Intel and was given a cubicle to work, which is far away from your department. How would you feel?
18. Continuation of Q.17, You agreed to stay away from the working department. Two months later, new joinees are given the cubicles to work, inside the department and still, you're working in the lab allotted initially. Now, how will you feel?
19. How would you test a black box using new test cases, given results for old test cases?
20. What are the precautions to consider while installing a new software on a new server? Check whether server is correct or not first and then start installation process
21. How would you check whether stack space is overflowed or not?
22. A simple code on brute force approach, Given a hotel check-in and checkOut list(of a month) containing a number of persons check-in and checkOut on each and every day, find out the days which has maximum check-in and maximum CheckOut?
23. A psychometric question, If your colleague who is a very close friend, is not following the code and conduct of the firm. What would you do, Whether you will report to the higher officials or not(Reporting to higher officials would break the friendship bond)?

Actually, I forgot many of the questions asked during the Interview. Overall, the interviewer was so helpful in giving the hints when required.

Round 3: Hr round- 20min interview

Tell me about your recent project?
Why Intel?
How many interviews do you have today apart from Intel?
What are your Preference departments in Intel?
Finale 33 placed(software+hardware)! I was one among them and I was selected for the software domain.
Tips: Go through all the OS concepts, Memory Management concepts
Skills: Basic C/C++, MMU, OS, Communication, Problem Solving, Decision Making Skills
College Name: IIT Kharagpur
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3 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Questions on acid properties, general sql queries, and nosql dB.. Questions on abstract classes, hierarchy, spring.
Tips: Prepare from geeksforgeeks. I found it very helpful in getting concepts right

Round: HR Interview
Experience: I told him what I wish to do, not limiting myself to the role specified
Tips: Be witty and spontaneous

College Name: IIT Kharagpur
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user image Phanikumar Atyam

posted on 6 Oct 2017

3 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Descriptive exam. If you are good with aptitude skills, you can clear this round.
Tips: Have a grip of probability.
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 10

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Questions about your analytical and programming skills

College Name: IIT Kharagpur
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