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user image Anonymous

posted on 11 Mar 2015

2 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: I prepared it on my own but I did SWAT analysis first and tried to highlight those points in which I am strong. I wrote the points in such a manner that interviewer should ask the Q about it. Since I was placement No I attended many PPTs. I think if you do not have any idea about the companies business the PPTs do help. I wanted to go to FLUENT only so I did not talk to anybody else.

College Name: IIT BOMBAY
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user image Anonymous

posted on 11 Mar 2015

3 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Yes, I did attend all placement talks till I got placed.

Round: HR Interview
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College Name: IIT BOMBAY
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user image Anonymous

posted on 11 Mar 2015

2 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: All the material provided by placement team. That's more than enough. All you need to do is to highlight the points that u are good at. And cover the points that u r not good at. They do help a lot. You can have some idea of which type of candidates the company is looking for.

Skill Tips: Take a lead and start conversation with the interviewer first. And look for opportunity to talk about your assets.
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
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user image Anonymous

posted on 11 Mar 2015

5 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Material I had was just resumes of seniors who got placed in my preferential companies. It's good to have lot many resumes to look at, but it's better to be focused on those kinds which suit your target companies. Then catch hold of a good lit. guy who can frame your resume points in a better way. This helped me to put more points in the given 2 pages restriction. Finally the resume was sent to all the seniors for proof read. Please note that it's not necessary to implement all the changes they suggest. Better try to understand why they proposed that change. Yeah, attending PPTs show you the kind of professionalism the company carry. Otherwise apart from those most awaited stuffs I didn't find PPTs of any help. No, I didn't talk to people before choosing but yeah after a bit of introspection and SWOT analysis of my own I chose the companies (by finding a right balance between the kind of job profiles I desire and what will suit me the best) and finally got a great feedback from seniors / friends.

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Definitely, in groups. The more you work in groups the better probability of getting honest feedback. GD being a group activity had to be done in groups.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: As far as HR is concerned, general questions everyone is aware of; rest specific to various companies can be found out through people.To crack HR you need to be very much clear in your thoughts. What I mean to say is, you must know the answer of What, Why, How of everything you did, right from schooling. To do this, I just kept on writing about my life from schooling till IIT life of around 10 years, in paper. You will not appreciate the power of this until you do, but take my word that by the time you have accomplished this task you have got all the answers you were looking for. This will definitely, make all your answers (to the HR questions) seem quiet natural, in the interview (which most of the people are not able to do). For interview I made myself prepared for all the answers of typical questions then had various practices sessions with friends.

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: Case studies I did some but just to get myself acquainted with these things because these are there in GDs only (for the kind of job profiles I was looking)

Skill Tips: These all are fart things, if you yourself are confident enough about the company. I hope I need not justify this statement. But yeah then also just don't step in the interview room with a wrinkled shirt. Just pull on something
formal which makes you confident. As far as etiquette is concerned, just be calm and compost. Try to make yourself relax and comfortable but do also keep in mind that you are in your job-interview.
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
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user image Anonymous

posted on 11 Mar 2015

7 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: I took suggestions about the basic format from my father and sister. Once I made my resume, I got it checked by one of my teachers. It is advisable to limit the document to 2 pages. Among other things, your first page should have academic achievements or extra-curricular achievements depending on which is more impressive, and depending on the target company. PPTs are an invaluable source of information for the HR part of the interview. In their PPTs, companies generally indicate what skills they are looking for from applicants. These will come in very handy in answering questions like - Why should we hire you? or What qualities of yours suits our company's requirements? Also, you get to know a lot about the company and its USP. This helps you in questions like Why do you want to join our company? This is especially useful for students of branches like civil, mining, and metallurgy seeking jobs in the software industry. Did you talk to anyone on how to choose jobs/companies? In what way. I just appeared in the companies that came first. Since these companies were excellent in their respective fields, I have no regrets in sitting for them. Apart from that, since our institute gives us the liberty to take more than one job, choosing jobs is not such a big dilemma.

Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: I only went through the puzzle sets of previous years placement papers. I suppose soft copies of these papers are in circulation in colleges.

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: We had to study the given case within a certain time limit. After that, we had to give an oral presentation, and there was an exhaustive discussion with the interview panel on the presentation.

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: It was a slightly modified form of a GD, but normal GD mantras hold good.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: It was a long and exhaustive interview based a technical project that you have done. This round is purely technical, so your project had better be good.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Shell had a rigorous procedure that was divided into 2 sessions separated by about 3 weeks. The first was a general group discussion (non-technical) and general HR interview (for candidates shortlisted from GD). The interview was very different in that we were asked to speak on a particular topic (like I was asked questions about transportation) and the interviewer, by cross-questioning you, would extract every bit of information that you know about the topic. Selected students advanced to the second session.
Tips: Decent communication skills and Good technical project

College Name: IIT BOMBAY
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user image Anonymous

posted on 11 Mar 2015

5 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: You will get numerous help from Google and also many workshops those are held before Placements.

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: For GD its a group work. Come up with a group involving people from you Hostel wing mates or departmental mates. Take any recent topic (non-political) and talk among yourselves.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: For interview you will get some soft copy titled "64 Interview Questions", go through that and also attend the class held by IMS b4 placement.

Round: Other Interview
Experience: They held a 3 phase of selection with an elimination round after 2 phase. 1st phase: They provide with a case study of 20-25 pages with 60 min of time. After that we are called for an interview session where one has to place 5 min verbal presentation on the case study. Then rest 20-25 min they will ask question on it. 2nd phase: Interview session on submitted project work (your BTEch/Mtech/Summer Internship) a week ago. Mainly on your managerial skills nothing technical. Then there will be elimination round followed by a GD. Then comes the final results.

Skill Tips: You better get acquainted with Case Studies.
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
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user image Anonymous

posted on 11 Mar 2015

3 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Stick to only those stuff which you can explain well, right or wrong. Can attend PPT as it gives you insight as to what the company wants from you. This certainly helps in the interview.

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Its GD funda was a bit different. It wanted us to allow others to speak as well apart from making your point even if the counter part was fucking dul. But this really paid as it was so in one of my GD.

Skill Tips: Go through the companies site in which you are going to apply.
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
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user image Anonymous

posted on 11 Mar 2015

3 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Whatever you write in your resume, you should be ready to defend it 100%.Resume should be company specific. Yes, I attended and gained from them too. While attending them one should look for two things 1. Are you sitting for the right job? 2. And if you are running for it, then what exactly the company is looking for. I didn't talk to anyone but it certainly helps in a way that you can't know everything in an hour PPT.

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: I can't help much in this regard as I didn't do anything specific, just the common things like reading newspapers, magazines, novels etc. Yes, there was a GD course in our curriculum. That helped a lot. For interview/GD/Test preparation did you prepare in groups or individually? Which one do you think helps the most? Both in a group and individually. Both help.

Skill Tips: Apart from preparation, have faith in yourself.
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
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user image Kaustubh Gupta

posted on 11 Mar 2015

9 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: It was a bit disappointing to not get shortlisted in a couple of companies I was looking forward to, but I really didn't expect much with my CPI (6 pointer during placements). But my internship helped me loads and gave my resume one 'spike' which became crucial.
Tips: Maintain a good CPI, as you've heard from every senior, but is necessary. Also keep a couple of profiles in your mind, which you want to work in, and then create a resume as such, and take up internships and POR's, all good spikes for which a recruiter, mostly including an IIT alumnus look for.

Round: Test
Experience: A make or break situation for me due to my poor CPI. Fortunately I got shortlisted in almost all companies for which I gave the test, for GD and so on, so it's a very very crucial part of the placement process.
Tips: Be smart during giving your tests. The recruiter judges your decision making skills and speed skills through this. Specially with students with an average CPI, this is the most important step as companies that come for mass recruitment make their decision on this basis.
Duration: 12 minutes
Total Questions: 50

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: For SnapDeal, they had what they called a Group Activity but it was per se a GD. They gave us a problem, a general aptitude question and they gave us hints in order to solve it. I tried to take charge and maintain decorum among 20 people there and it helped.
I was way more silent during my GD for Flipkart and that is the worst thing I could have done.
Tips: Always speak up. Content matters less, being smart and practical matters more. You can twist the points of another person, but keep your stand, whatever side you take. Just keep calm and speak your heart out. Also, give everyone a chance. If someone in the room hasn't spoken a word for some while, take the initiative to stop the discussion then and there and ask that person his/her views. A moderator is not always looking at a person who starts or ends well, he might be looking for a person who is a team player.
Duration: 20 minutes

Round: Problem Statement
Experience: Unfortunately never had the chance to tackle this part of the process.
Tips: Do what you feel is right, even if it's going wrong. An attempt matters, don't leave the space blank.

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: There were different approaches to tackle this problem, and I mostly took the most complicated and inaccurate one. But I was confident in what I was doing. I estimated the amount of pizzas delivered and purchased on the spot, estimated the number of people served by the outlet area-wise, where I could have used an age distribution method. I guesstimated the cost of one pizza, also dividing into sizes and also included other side orders. The interviewer was happy and got selected in to the next round. This is for a company by Indus Insights, a consulting firm.
Tips: Practice makes perfect. Cover all case interviews and practice hard, specially for a consulting firm obviously. Be confident with the method you use, and constantly interact with the interviewer. Do not underestimate the importance of keeping the interviewer in the loop. Tell him/her what you are thinking, even though it's rubbish, and ask them for clarifications wherever you're stuck. It's not just your problem solving skills, it's a test to how you present the solution to a potential client.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: I started off with my basic introduction i.e. Name, Branch, hometown etc. Then I shifted to my intern as it had been the most recent activity I had done. So on, I continued covering all my internships and POR and then told some of my hobbies. Regarding the why e-commerce question, I mentioned the fact that it's the fastest growing market in the world, and the company is among the top firms in this market.
Tips: Its important to prepare these questions before hand. These are make or break questions as these relate to whether you'll fit the dynamics of the firm. Its important to be energetic and lively. What you show in the interview is exactly what they perceive to be your general status and personality. Always saw the firm excites you and you should be aware of the functioning of the market and the firm. Studying up earlier is a must, regarding recent developments in general as well.
Don't be afraid to cross question regarding the company and other affairs related to the company.
I wasn't asked a behavioural question as such, but try not to get cocky. Keep it simple, and don't get frustrated.

Round: Guesstimate Interview
Experience: I started off by asking the time frame. Nothing was cleared by the interviewer so I started asking the basic questions, regarding city, etc. I broke down the costs i.e. Personal and related to maintenance. Asked a ton of questions in order to keep the interviewer involved.
Tips: A guesstimate is quite similar to a case interview, but this tests more general knowledge wherein a case questions your intellect on the case itself. Similar tips as to tackling a case, but you make loads of assumptions yourself. Read some population and area data of major Indian cities before hand, and keep asking whether the assumptions you're making sound reasonable or not. Don't worry if the answer is too random, it's more about the process rather than the figure.
Also, if you have read up before on how to solve guesstimates, you'll face something called as Sanity check. In the interview, you aren't asked to do one, try and avoid unless you are really confident.

General Tips: Don't lose hope. Placements are a tiring process. People with brilliant resumes don't get placed and haven't gotten placed yet. So keep on fighting, you will get placed in a good company with a good package soon. Also don't reject a company if the package is okay, it's your first job. You are being awarded money based on one interview, they don't know your work yet. So choose a job where you like the profile instead of the money.
Skill Tips: Speed is crucial in the tests. Half of the people usually complain on missing out on questions.
Skills: Speed, Aptitude
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
Motivation: It is a fast growing company in the fastest growing market. A company where growth is fast and leaning experience is endless. They have also taken up social projects towards which I have some inclinations so that helped.
Funny Moments: One of my friend got placed a day before me in Olacabs, and had a higher CPI than me. The day I got placed he was with me, and I could not help laughing the fact that I had a higher package.
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user image Pranay Kumar

posted on 10 Mar 2015

2 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: My experience with IITB racing for more than 2 years helped me with this process. Additionally, my work as an electronic differential engineer which required development of a detailed vehicle model was more closer to the

College Name: IIT BOMBAY
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