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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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user image Anonymous

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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user image Anonymous

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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user image Anonymous

posted on 16 Mar 2015

4 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: I had gone through some sample resumes send by the placement team. With that knowledge I prepared my resume. Later I found out that my resume was too short. When I got an opportunity to edit my resumes, I expanded certain credentials to fill up the full two pages. I had attended five Pre-Placement talks but I did it just as a formality. Did not gain anything particular through those talks. Regarding choosing of jobs/companies, I had made up my mind long time before that I would be sitting only for those companies which are core or companies with minor deviations from core.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Desimone test was purely a technical one. BMD, SFD, deflection diagram, and other basic questions. Structural mechanics is the subject which I found mostly questioned in both the companies.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: In De Simone it was fully HR questions like : 
Why did you choose structural engineering?
How will you be able to cope up with the new environment in US?
Where do you see yourselves ten years from now?, what makes you different from other students I have interviewed before you?etc.

Skill Tips: I would say that self confidence is the biggest asset which any person should have during an interview irrespective of how much technical knowledge he has or how good his English is.
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
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user image Arun Prabhakaran

posted on 16 Mar 2015

4 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Tests your basic knowledge in c++ . Question were simple evaluation of c++ programs .
Tips: Read about pointers , struct  and all basic concepts in c++ .  Practise by solving lot of problems and write code to solve even to the obovios one .
Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 20

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I felt the interview little diffuclt compared to other interview that I had while I was applying for Internship (for other comapnies) . There were two people interviewing me. They went through my resume first. A lot of questions were asked from the resumes , mostly related to projects that I have done as a part of my course.
Tips: Go through job profile. Ensure that you have gud understanding of all the projects that you hou have done.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: My HR interview was taken just after I came out of my technical interview. I was not that confident in the starting. I was preapred for almost all the obvious questions like "Tell me about yourself?"  and all. Then she asked do you have problem with relocation . I replied that question with "I am from kerala , I did my 11th,12th in banglore , and currently studying in mumbai . So I am always going towards north". My answer worked out because I knew there is only location for samsung india Electronics(delhi noida). She laughed  and I guess that answer helped. When I came out of the  room, she called one of the coordinator and told that he is selected. :)
Tips: Preapare even to the oubvios question . Well I preapared a bunch of interview question that are usually asked and wrote answer and practised saying it(It helps a lot).  The less nevrous you are the better you get to intract with the interviewer . And smile :) .

Skill Tips: It was offline Test. Tests your basic knowledge of c++ programming. So its very easy to CRACK!!! :)  .
Skills: C++ Programming knowledge
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
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user image Anonymous

posted on 16 Mar 2015

6 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: I started by looking at some resumes from seniors. I Also attended McK resume workshop which helped me in writing down my start up entrepreneurial experience. After preparing first draft I took feedbacks from seniors and friends and incorporated the changes accordingly. I attended almost every ppt. It helped me a lot in choosing the correct companies. As, most of the companies explains the skill set required, this further helped me in writing down the resume accordingly. I think it is very important to attend ppts (atleast companies which you want sit for).

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Techinterview.org

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: BCG case studies. I prepared case interviews in group with a few friends who were short listed in McK and BCG,

Round: HR Interview
Experience: For HR I prepared alone. In my views one should start thinking and practicing HR Question, a month or two in advance to placements. It takes a lot of thought process and time to identify and express your own personality in those typical tell me about yourself kind of questions.

Round: Other Interview
Experience: It was resume based interview. I was asked about the projects that I mentioned in resume. More stress was given on DDP and seminar. I was asked to show ppt and samples of my DDP. A few Questions were about the Eureka, ConVis and Business planning.

Skill Tips: Think by yourself and don't do what everyone else is doing
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
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user image Deepali Adlakha

posted on 16 Mar 2015

4 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Simple
Tips: Online Coding Questions
Duration: 60 minutes

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Moderately difficult
Tips: Thorough understanding of all the algorithms is required.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Easy
Tips: Need to start a question afresh without attacking it the way you have solved questions in the past

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Easy/moderately difficult
Tips: The idea was not that easy to click.

Skills: Coding
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
Motivation: Facebook has revolutionised social networking.
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user image Ashwini Jain

posted on 15 Mar 2015

2 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

General Tips: Whatever you do, do it with honesty and complete.
Skills: Internship Work, Course grades, Software skills, Project works , Past Internships, Communication
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
Motivation: Best company in civil
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