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posted on 18 Mar 2015

5 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Having been a placement nominee for one year, I had the flavour of how to make resumes. However, my only guidance was batchmates  resumes.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Round 1 45 mins Test (CAT Type)
Round 2  Interview (HR & Case Study)  
Round 3  Interview (HR & Case Study). There was no GD (luckily) for this company and it being my first interview of the season, I was filled with nervousness.   Round 1: The guy was a cool guy mainly trying to understand how I was behaving & managing under stress.   Questions Asked: 1. Career Aim/Intersts (Normal HR questions) 2. Why business analyst? 3. What are the three essential qualities a CEO should have 4. Guess the number of chairs in IIT 5. Being from Kuwait, why do you want to work in India?

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Round 2 (2 people): One guy being an ex-IITian, he basically wanted to screw the interviewees. The other guy was a cool guy who involved in asking tech questions.   Questions Asked: 1 Career Aim/Intersts (Normal HR questions) 2. Why business analyst? 3. Why investment research (I had asked them about investment research oppurtunities) 4. Guess the number of whiteboards sold in IIT (a very very difficult question) 5. What is SENSEX? 6. Tech questions mainly related to aerospace like how does an aircraft fly. Pressure difference. Wake profile.

General Tips: To reach the interview stage, you have to get by a big hurdle which is the numerical test. Make sure you prepare for CAT it helps a lot in other places as well (I hadn't prepared ? and suffered a lot) . For Interviews. Practice guess estimates/ Case studies. Practice HR questions. Have a mock interview  Listen to the entire question before jumping to answer. Think for around a minute b
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: With the help of seniors & batch mates…….also resume workshop given by BCG is very helpful.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Test = 40   GD = 15   Inetrview = 8   Final offer = 4   Walk us through the GDs/Interviews of this company. The questions that you were asked and other details that you may remember would be of great help. (You may not write the answers you gave)   GD topic was about technical future of India.   Interview is totally about my resume points and what I know about steel. First question in every interview is & Tell me about yourself. Pls prepare it very carefully it is like first & last impression. Then prepare your resume points very strongly them as much flavor of industrial aspects & real life skills as possible. Finally you should have a fair idea about company business.

General Tips: Look nice and clean.
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: I followed the format provided by IITB. Referring to others resume also helps to put your credentials properly.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Three rounds of interview. One telephonic interview was also conducted.   Level 1-87   Level 2-35   Level 3-14 (Final offer). Most of the things one has mentioned regarding positions of responsibility in his resume.

General Tips: After revising my resume so many times, still I came across a mistake. Though I confidently pointed out the mistake but it may go against you. Dressing plays an important role in Management/Consulting Companies. It is also a part of your preparation that seriously you are taking the interview.
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: Referred to others resume especially seniors hell and finalized by sitting with some experienced friends.Yes for most of the companies help by attending PPT you get to know company profile and something about job profile help by attending PPT you get to know whether you are really interested in the kind of job company is going to offer and it helps to decide upon whether to go for it or not.

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: For GD I didn't refer anything but I can suggest u to go through periodicals. Preparation in groups helps a lot lot and lot for everything interview GD and also written tests. At least in my case it is true help you get to know where you are going wrong help Where is the scope for improvement help and also others views, ideas regarding different issues help can decide the best approach in different situations.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: For HR questions I think we referred question answers available on nethelp some of us have the printed copy help

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: For Technical purpose no specific book as such…revised the basic concepts

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: For HR questions I think we referred question answers available on net help some of us have the printed copy.

Round: Other Interview
Experience: Tell something about yourself. Give one word to describe you. General PI questions family background. If some other company is paying u more than us what you will do? The office hours may not be regular 9 to 6. you will have to work hard. you will not get your personal life then what will you do?
Tips: Prepare for GD. GD is very important

Skill Tips: In any interview show that how desperate you are for joining the company. Be confident, polite.
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
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posted on 18 Mar 2015

3 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: If you have good technical experience, it is fairly easy to write technical resume for VLSI companies. It should be short but should be able to convey all the information you want to.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: 2 rounds of interviews. One was personal and second was telephonic. For first round 87 people were shortlisted and for Second 37 were shortlisted. 14 made it to the final offers. Both of the interviews were technical. Though they had a short HR interview too. But the company was mostly looking at technical abilities. Questionnaire was based on you research work here at IIT Bombay. The HR had few basic questions about leaving in a new country.

General Tips: I had good resume to get shortlisted but preparation was not enough to crack the tests.   One must prepare well for the tests.
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
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user image Anonymous

posted on 18 Mar 2015

2 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: First round was a GD on ‘Privatization in India’. I spoke less but tried to speak sense and backed up all I said with concrete facts. It probably wasn’t the best of GDs. This one guy kept trying to interrupt every other guy who was speaking and needless to say, didn't make it to the next round. Some guys did not speak much and didn't go ahead either. This other guy rocked the GD. He spoke clearly and loudly and structured his thought process. He basically took the discussion ahead without seeming rude to anybody and always opened his mouth to speak sense.

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: Second round was a case study on a sweets company that wanted to boost sales by making employee salaries more performance based and to encourage them to find new markets. Outlined all the points but did not reach a final formula.. Didn't get much help from the interviewer either.. Didn't make it to the next round..      Your key learning from these experiences? What mistakes did you commit?   Study hard.. This is not an end sem or a mid sem.. This is the rest of your life..   At the end of the day, you must not be saying to yourself that I couldn't get so-and-so job because luck was against me.. truth is you didn't get the job because you were probably watching HIMYM the previous night..

General Tips: Didn't study for UBS-IT.. Later on, at a casual get-together by UBS, my interviewers actually told me that I was a strong potential candidate for recruitment and that I was perfect at everything except for the stuff I was supposed to be good at IT. Clothes would be nice.. Formal clothes would be better.. I know of one case where the guy actually went to the final round in casuals and totally pissed off the interviewing panel..   A blazer is not a must but I recommend you wear a tie at least. Be smart but not too smart, and confident but not too confident.. Don't be afraid to disagree with your interviewer on any point of time but do it politely and with tact.
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
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user image Anonymous

posted on 18 Mar 2015

4 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Company 1:   UBS – IT:   First round was a tech interview. Was shaky on the tech part but had my fundamentals on finance clear. Lasted about 25 minutes and made it through the second round.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Second round was a tech-cum-HR interview. Was put into situations with ethical dilemmas and asked what I’d do.. (answers should be obvious). Was asked about how I felt working in a multi-ethnic background and was asked most of the basic questions like why should we recruit you, etc, etc.. When it came to the tech part I was paddling up sh** creek without an oar. Coming from an elec background, I knew next to nothing about IT and most of the time was taken up by awkward silences.   2½ th round (if I could call it so): Was sitting lukkha-in-life when the CEO saw me, so he (thinking that I'd feel more entertained) decided to take another interview of mere giving me a case study (screwed up royally) and some questions on probability and logic. Threw a few more HR questions at me..

Round: Other Interview
Experience: 3rd round &; I find myself sitting in front of two pucca Londoners.. and when I say pucca, I mean PUCCA. This bald guy starts asking me stuff in this hyper-weird accent that went totally over my head. Had to stop him and POLITELY ask him to speak a little slower. They were nice chaps though.. they laughed and the rest of the interview was pretty much joking around with the occasional HR or tech question thrown in..   4th round was a simple test basic 5th standard stuff.. (no exaggeration

College Name: IIT BOMBAY
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posted on 18 Mar 2015

6 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Try to stick to the point and mention all your achievements. Don't include anything irrelevant as that might be seen as a mechanism to cover up white space & that will count more against you than if you actually had some empty space. Its also advisable not to write anything you can't back up.Don't bullshit. They WILL know

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Experience is invaluable in a GD. Try to sit in a few GDs just to get the hang of muscling it out in a GD. Try not to practice GDs with friends. Friends react to you a lot different than strangers and your behaviour is also compromised. Try sitting for GD practice conducted by coaching classes for B-schools ; they're the most ideal simulations of GDs.   A few pointers:  Speak.. (people who don't speak don't get shortlisted  big surprise). Listen before you speak  you must come across as a team player. Don't stay in your own world blabbing out your own points. React to the points others have made as well..Speak less if you have to.. but speak sense. For heaven sake don't:   o Bang the desks   o Get into angry outbursts   o Bullshit without getting your facts straight   o Have angry arguments with others in the GD

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The initial shortlist contained every DD/PG from Microelec.   The first round was a tech interview. Was asked about my internship, courses undertaken and my final year project. There was talk of extra-curricular activites also.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: The second round was an HR interview. A few round-about questions to find out how serious I am about coming to Taiwan. My future aspirations.. My concerns.. etc.etc.   .

Round: Other Interview
Experience: The third round was a telephonic interview from Taiwan. Was called at 8:00 in the morning the next day.. and needless to say I was asleep ?. I vaguely recall getting up and somehow telling my interviewer to call me in another 5 minutes. Was live and kicking by the time I got the call again. Talked about my final year project, my knowledge of VLSI softwares, my grades, and some other HR questions

General Tips: Get your tech fundaes straight. Study and study hard because frankly speaking, it's a good company. Your interviewer will likely be Chinese so you'll have to perk your ears up a bit and try to catch hold of as many words as you can. Also, whenever you're speaking, he's probably doing the same ear-perking thing.. so speak slow and clearly but puh-lease DO NOT SOUND CONDESCENDING while you do so. He may be Chinese but he's not a retard.   Also, get your facts straight about Taiwan. It is literally turning your back to the US and going east. Do your research about what the country like, what're the taxes there, what's the life like.. Don't sit for the company if you're finally not going to go there. You'll only be wasting a seat.   Having said that, personally I must say that from what I've heard, it's a great place. You'll be paid through the teeth and you'll be spending almost as much as here in India. I've heard professors who've been there, say that if New York was made in China it'd be called Taiwan.
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
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user image Anonymous

posted on 18 Mar 2015

6 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: On my own, with feedback from friends. Kept it simple, so that even a layman could understand what I've done in the various projects that I was involved in. It pays to be truthful, and yet, at the same time, to advertise one's achievements. In most of the interviews a random point on my resume was picked out and I was asked about it.

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: I did prepare in a group for the one day of case study prep that I did (and my other group member managed to get into BCG), so I guess it probably helps more than preparing alone.

Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: Typical puzzles come coupled with recurrences which can in turn be coded into algorithms. See if you can get your hands on any of these.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Interviews were puzzles based, plus algorithm/coding based. The puzzles weren't easy, but were doable with sufficient time. Two of my interviewers were happy to provide me with hints along the way and I kept telling them what I was thinking, no matter how naive it might be - for example, I'd give an exponential algorithm for a greedy/dynamic programming problem [if that's Greek and Latin to you you probably don't have a shot at Google!] and then tell them that it was a bad algorithm, and that I was trying for something better next. Typical minchange-optimal division type recurrence based algorithms were common, coupled with coding of the same algorithms [brushing up on coding skills helps!]. I was also asked questions on Operating Systems [some synchronization / TeX type questions], Cryptography and some puzzles based on simple intuition and mathematics.

Round: Other Interview
Experience: No Preparation. CSE BTech curriculum + common sense more than covers what one can be asked in the interview. It probably helps to be fresh with C++ syntax, however. Written test + 4 interviews (45 minutes each). 10 shortlisted at the end of the written test, 5 shortlisted at the end of the first two interviews, 4 (2 BTech, 2 MTech) made final offers.
Tips: Ideally, any BTech/DD from CSE should be well prepared without doing much, except probably practising coding. Algorithms: Greedy and Dynamic Programming crucial. Learn how to solve recurrences, if you don't know already. Don't know how important graph algos are, but searching, sorting are pretty important too. Brush up on these if you don't remember. Operating Systems: Synchronization

Skill Tips: Keep it cool with Google. Even a t-shirt is fine (they told me that - even though I was wearing a tie). Consulting interviews require the usual Shirt - Jacket - Tie combo. It helps to wear a jacket to hide the crumpled shirt inside. Smile!
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
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posted on 16 Mar 2015

4 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Copied the format from a senior. Got it proofread from friends. It is always better to attend these talks. Sometimes, some interviwers ask questions based on ppt. Also company expects that those interested in the profile of the company will attend its ppt.

Round: Test
Experience: Test and Interview based on the questions and answers you gave in the test. 8 were shortlisted at test, and finally 2 were recruited.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Interview was mostly technical. It was from courses covered in analog/digital courses.

College Name: IIT BOMBAY
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