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posted on 18 Mar 2015

5 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Didn't read any material saw resumes of my friends who pass out last year to see how to organize my points. Prepare my resume and refine it with the help of my friends several times

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Saw common HR questions from the websites and prepare answers for that .worked in groups in which one person acted as an interviewer.

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: For the case studies, I referred many e-books available to learn the basic procedure to solve case studies. Sample case studies are also available on sites of these companies (Mckinsey.com, BCG.com or Bain.com)

Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: Some companies asked puzzles. Common puzzles can be found on internet (pagalguy.com, brainvista.com , or orkut)

College Name: IIT BOMBAY
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user image Anonymous

posted on 18 Mar 2015

4 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Pre-Placement talks - Yes & it helped me a lot in deciding the field in which I want to make my carrier.

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: First there was a GD, among 35 people, from whom they choose 8 people for PI. We were 5 people in my group for GD. They left us to decide the topic for GD. We have to decide the topic in 2 minutes. The next 10 minutes was for actual GD & finally last 3 minutes to write the minutes of our GD on a paper.

Round: Other Interview
Experience: Then there was first round of PI, from which they finalized 5 people. Then there was telephonic interview (only for two students, including me), but they were not satisfied by it so they went for 2nd round of PI. They gave final offers to only 2 people, including me.

Skill Tips: Don't forget to bring your eyes, ears & mouth to GD/PI. Eyes, to see other person/interviewer in the eye. Ears, to listen what the other person is saying & mouth to speak what you think is the best reply.
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
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user image Anonymous

posted on 18 Mar 2015

7 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: I went to the resume writing workshop of Mckinsey. Got some useful tips from there. Referred to the resumes of few seniors. Also it's a good point to show the resume to some good seniors after having finalized it.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Prepared sample answers for the typical HR questions. I was asked a situation where I had to take some instantaneous decision on the spot. Was then asked a situation where I had to plan my work. Was then asked why Capone.

Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: Many companies ask puzzles,etc in the interviews so its always a good idea to try them before hand. Many good sites are available on googling for interview puzzles.

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: Case study. Simple calculation based case. No assumptions etc required. Don’t remember the question though. But the question could be easily cracked with simple application of maths. One should always ask the interviewer before making any assumptions. Also there's no need to panic. One should carefully listen to the hints.

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: Asked loads of cases. First was to calculate the market for a pair of female shoes in Mumbai. You are expected to ask for all the data i.e price, type of shoes etc. Then was asked to find the revenue of Barista in Mumbai,
market for Laptops in India, all the things you would tell to Walmart planning to set up retail outlet in India, if you were their Consultant, market for washing machines in India in 2009. The HR questions they asked were to elaborate on an academic as well as a non academic project, the advantages and disadvantages of working in teams.

College Name: IIT BOMBAY
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user image Anonymous

posted on 18 Mar 2015

5 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Resume inputs from batch mates & more importantly from seniors. Fine tuning the resume with inputs especially from seniors or batch mates who are already working helped a lot.

Round: Test
Experience: Shortlisting based on test

Round: HR Interview
Experience: 2-4 rounds of interviews. 2nd round again was a mix of business case studies and HR questions

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: 1st round had 2 Estimation Case studies along with some HR questions. For example, Calculate no. of cold drinks sold in India in a given year.

General Tips: For students going for Non-Tech companies, neglecting HR questions can be a big mistake (Not particularly sure how important. itis for Tech companies).Tell me about yourself seems to be the most innocent questions of all, but can prove to be a big pain ifleft for Impromptu.As far as case studies go, solve at least 5 different types of case in your group to get a feel for it.
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
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user image Anonymous

posted on 18 Mar 2015

5 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: I prepared my resume myself. For formats I referred resumes of my friends appeared last year for placements. Yes. I attended all pre-placement talks. Yes. Huge gains from these talks. No. I had my area defined already.

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Individually and also sometimes in group. It depends. I think group preparation helps more.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Books only. For C. Rest are tech mainly Proakis for DSP. Data structures (do this. Very imp). C fundamental questions. 3 ppl in the panel. Asked mainly about macros. Dsp questions. Sampling, nyquist theorem etc. then some resume questions.

Round: Test
Experience: Written test and then personal interview. Total candidates appeared for test were around 30+. Shortlisted candidates after test were approx. 6. Final offers 1. Different test for different streams. I took Communications Prepare for data structures and binary trees, graphs. Around 80 questions in one and half hours.
Tips: DSP, C, Data structures – queues, stacks, trees, graphs and Resume. Get the idea about the tests. They really help. U never know what will they ask. Intv is fine that can be handled. But test

patterns are most important

Skill Tips: Not that much required any formal dressing.
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
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user image Anonymous

posted on 18 Mar 2015

2 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Guesstimate Interview
Experience: Company 2:Capital One   Was asked a very simple guess-estimate about the earnings of a credit-card company with the launching of a new scheme. Did well ,but the next question about how a change in one of the variables would affect profit, was ill- explained. Realised I had become over-confident about solving the guess-estimate easily and hence messed up the second part. Most importantly, at one point during a casual conversation with the friendly interviewer, I let slip that my first interview was with BCG.I think that was uncalled for and raised the bar of his expectations and might have even seemed slightly boastful. Something any sensible candidate should avoid. I was never very keen on Capital one, and so they weren't keen on me either :) .Good Chemistry, but no job offer!

College Name: IIT BOMBAY
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user image Anonymous

posted on 18 Mar 2015

1 Interview Round

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: BCG   Direct shortlisting based on resume. Decent CPI, some exposure to organizational leadership, a good skill set represented through extra-curriculars/sports is one way to get shortlisted. Writing the resume well without underplaying achievements or exaggerating them is essential.   Prepared case studies for the BCG interview. Was given 2 cases primarily business cases by 2 interviewers.One was about growth prospects of a company manufacturing valves.Was quite a disaster since I was nervous and intimidated by the interviewer.Felt like a stress interview even though BCG did not believe in the concept.(In contrast,was very cool- headed in Grail interviews and it sure helped)   The second case was about a tractor manufacturer losing market share in Maharashtra but doing well in other arts of India. The interviewer was friendly and i had calmed down. So quickly figured out that the soil conditions were different and hence required   tractors of a higher horsepower.But then elaborated more on this,becoming complacent overall and not probing other possible reasons.Was then asked to do a role-play as a consultant convincing the manufacturer to adopt a new strategy.Did it well,but could have been more open-minded to all issues.

College Name: IIT BOMBAY
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user image Anonymous

posted on 18 Mar 2015

5 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Checked last year's resume provided by placement team. I attended most of them. Found some really good yet small companies doing good interesting work.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: -----/?interview . Looked on past year's resources collected by seniors. This is usually maintained department wise.

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Solved and discussed problems in group which helps in doing things fast and knowing more than one solution.

Round: Other Interview
Experience: One written test comprising 3 subjective questions. 3-4 Hrs of interviews. No of rounds may vary according to length of interviews. In written 3 programming Qs from 3 different sides. One is basic data structure code, other is some logical problem solving and third from OS side. 3 Technical Qs related to algo and one-2 designing and modelling Qs. Algorithm, data structure and C/C++. Little bit OS too. Some general puzzles.

Skill Tips: For tech companies dressing doesn't matter, no need of formal wear
- Wear anything sober
- Follow the instructions without fail
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
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user image Anonymous

posted on 18 Mar 2015

5 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Attended Resume writing workshop organized by the institute and clarified ideas on structure, content and language.   Collected and analyzed the resumes of several friends who were placed in the companies I was interested in.   Sat down to write a rough draft, then edited several times to include proper sub-categories and tables to improve readability.   Took the help of good critics and incorporated their suggestions to make my final draft.   The whole process took around 2-3 weeks.

Round: Test
Experience: Grail Research, primarily an analytics firm , conducted a preliminary written test comprising an assortment of DI questions,English comprehension ,numerical ability and a few analytical questions on business situations. These were doable without any company-specific preparation. Preparing a little for CAT helps though. They shortlisted around 60 people from around 400.Then conducted 2 interviews to shortlist around 25 candidates and in most cases took a third interview and made offers to 12 students.There was no GD even though 60 candidates were shortlisted. They proceeded directly to interviews, primarily guess- estimates in 2 rounds. The final round before selection was with Amit, the country head, who again asked a couple of guess-estimates with very little focus on numbers but taking in the approach of the candidate.

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: Some number-crunching was required, but approximation was encouraged overall.   My cases were pricing of an airline ticket and revenue of a restaurant in one day -both pretty simple cases. Proceeded systematically to arrive at reasonably accurate final answers. The interviewer was quite helpful and pointed out a couple   of mistakes , and I corrected them immediately after reasoning them out.
Tips: Case study preparation: Did it in a group of 4 people with complementary skills and excellent compatibility.That helped get assorted points of view during case discussions . One on one interviews is the way to go in the final stage of preparation, with the self playing the interviewer in a few cases.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: The second round was with Amit who asked me the revenue that PVR cinemas made in a day in India.Outlined my approach   first.Started with no. of PVR cinemas in the country,screens per PVR,seats per screen,cost per seat etc to arrive at a rough   number. He was convinced but then asked me to get more accurate,and to solve the case with minimum assumptions.So I   proceeded further to classify the screens in terms of language of a movie and included occupancy rate to refine my   calculations.I further related occupancy rate data to newspaper ratings of a movie and the possibility of getting one   information from the other.That was the final detail.Was made an informal offer then and there.
Tips: HR interview preparation: Spent 3-4 days in general pondering . Being open-minded and critically evaluating oneself in terms of strong points and weaknesses is vital. Equally important is a general idea on the kind of questions asked under HR category in one’s chosen companies. Was thorough with all the points in my resume and gave a couple of mock interviews.

General Tips: Take a few CAT pattern tests to brush up fundaes. Read the newspaper (any standard   daily) to improve and refine your ability to comprehend information in good English. Try your hand at a few basic guess-estimates, knowing some basic statistics about India can help. Do a couple of business cases to get a feel of common industry issues like pricing of product etc. Dress confidently, be yourself in the interview and solve the primarily numerical cases with minimum mistakes. That should get you the job.  Ps:GD may be part of selection procedure in future years. Materials that you may use:  Kellogg Consulting Casebook, Michigan case guide,Wharton casebook.   b) Case study material from leading consulting firms hosted on their web-sites.   c) A couple of business magazines which discussed real problems in companies in the form of cases. d) Some of the communities in ;Orkut; hosted good puzzle links.
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
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user image Anonymous

posted on 18 Mar 2015

3 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Took help from resumes of the seniors and put things accordingly.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: 2 rounds of written and same no of interview . After written 60 ppl were shortlisted and after 1st round of interview the no was 18 and finally 10 ppl got offers. First round was hr+technical   tell me about yourself, your strengths/weakness, your favorite subject then based on this some questions. like I said iron and steel making is my favourite subject ..i was asked to draw structure of carbon and iron carbon diagram...where do u see yourself after 5 years...why evalueserve? what do u know about kpo? want to ask anymore questions?

General Tips: Read ur CAT materials for written and for interview prepare basic hr questions .and some passion in at least one of the subject. Other Companies in which you were shortlisted. I was not prepared for interview and messed up the interview...i was confused
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
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