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4 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Case: Our client is a leading cement manufacturing firm in India looking to enter the international markets. How will you formulate a plan of action to prioriti...read more
- Q2. My driver has been given an offer by Meru cabs to become a driver for them. What suggestion should I give him?
- Q3. Your client is Tata Sons and their hierarchy is such that all their other businesses are present below the CEO. In 2012, Mistry was appointed as the chairman of...read more
- Q4. Our client is a gear manufacturer who has expanded his father’s business from 1000 cr to 4000 cr however his profitability has dropped from 10% to 5%. Probe why...read more
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: This part is frustrating; especially while getting reviews after you've made a draft. However, after heavy editing based on advice from seniors, it gave me a good head-start and confidence to move on to future preparation towards placements.
Tips: Management consulting shortlist is very strongly resume based. Hence the resume is the most crucial asset for getting a shortlist in the first place. When you know the success rate for getting shortlisted is less than 10%, you better make sure your resume makes the cut.
Detailed instructions and tips on how to make a good consulting resume can be found in many books(I referred to 'Killer Consulting Resumes' by Wetfeet which is good to get your basics); It is too extensive for me to elaborate here hence I will avoid the commonly available knowledge about peaks, focus, etc.
Summarizing the most important aspect which according to me is - Make sure every bullet-ed point has three things - 'WHAT you did, WHY/HOW you did, and the RESULTS'. All 3 should be included in one single line of text in the most robust use of words making sure you convey these. Another extremely important step in making a resume is getting reviews from seniors and alumni in firms where you are applying. This part is irritating and frustrating at times because you will need multiple iterations till the resume is refined. The key is not to get affected while getting reviews from different people and stay as objective as possible - trust me, this is not that easy as it sounds, it gets demotivating when people are critiquing on what you did in your life and how should it be portrayed on paper. This process of getting comments will never stop even after multiple iterations because of difference in opinions among the reviewers; you need to stop when you have knowingly turned down several comments keeping your own perspective in mind till you are content with your resume.
Finally make sure you complete your resume well before deadlines to avoid blunders and dissatisfaction and make sure a printed copy looks aesthetically appealing.
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: General format for all the case study rounds was: (1) Tell me about yourself : I had prepared a list of what I wanted to speak about and memorized the key points to present a 2 minute monologue. However, I very keenly made sure to strike a conversation on any part where the interviewer interrupted me out of interest to ensure it sounded more like a conversation between two colleagues rather than a speech by a candidate to an interviewer. (2) Case: Coming back to the case mentioned in the question above:I considered 3 factors:(1) Market size for each geography and their growth rates(2) Market capture from competition(3) Profit per unitInterviewer: Using 1 graph each and nothing else, represent all of the 3 factors mentionedI drew the 3 most relevant graphs that came to my mind for each of the 3 factors mentioned. (3) Questions for the interviewer: I used to generally ask the guys outside the interview room to give me a brief introduction of the interviewer before the interview started. I used to use that information to ask a question to the interviewer in this part of the interview hoping to strike a chord with him before leaving.
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: Ask objective of driver? – Higher returns
·
Calc returns (profits) for each case as your driver and as a Meru cabs driverSalary 15000 per month + bonus of 1 month salary annually.
·
Meru cabs: Aggregator (no cabs of their own)
Driver need to get his own car and register on Meru cabs.
·
Cost on EMI: new car – 30000 p.m. Old car –
15000 p.m.
·
Cost of maintainence of old car: Rs 1.5/km
·
Meru promises 15 pickups of 20 km each day at Rs
30/km. There is an additional 50% driving distance which is not paid by client
·
Cost of fuel = Rs 72/L. Mileage 12 kmpl
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: I typically had never expected a case of this sort as it was too broad and undefined to give in an interview. However, it clearly looked like a case of organisational reconstruction and portfolio management. In the little time I had, I decided to give an idea of how I would proceed to solve such a case rather than really solve the case by using the BCG matrix. I clearly explained the matrix making sure I had conveyed that I knew what is actually was rather than just throwing jargon around.
I don't really know how the interviewer took my approach(as it was too text-bookish);he could neither object since it was an established case solving technique nor appreciate it as there was nothing creative in it.
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: Use costs and discuss – final problem was increased R&D costs for customization of various gears while adding new clients
Skills: Problem Solving, Pressure Handling, Communication , Logical Thinking, Hardwork, Presentation skills
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
Experience: This part is frustrating; especially while getting reviews after you've made a draft. However, after heavy editing based on advice from seniors, it gave me a good head-start and confidence to move on to future preparation towards placements.
Tips: Management consulting shortlist is very strongly resume based. Hence the resume is the most crucial asset for getting a shortlist in the first place. When you know the success rate for getting shortlisted is less than 10%, you better make sure your resume makes the cut.
Detailed instructions and tips on how to make a good consulting resume can be found in many books(I referred to 'Killer Consulting Resumes' by Wetfeet which is good to get your basics); It is too extensive for me to elaborate here hence I will avoid the commonly available knowledge about peaks, focus, etc.
Summarizing the most important aspect which according to me is - Make sure every bullet-ed point has three things - 'WHAT you did, WHY/HOW you did, and the RESULTS'. All 3 should be included in one single line of text in the most robust use of words making sure you convey these. Another extremely important step in making a resume is getting reviews from seniors and alumni in firms where you are applying. This part is irritating and frustrating at times because you will need multiple iterations till the resume is refined. The key is not to get affected while getting reviews from different people and stay as objective as possible - trust me, this is not that easy as it sounds, it gets demotivating when people are critiquing on what you did in your life and how should it be portrayed on paper. This process of getting comments will never stop even after multiple iterations because of difference in opinions among the reviewers; you need to stop when you have knowingly turned down several comments keeping your own perspective in mind till you are content with your resume.
Finally make sure you complete your resume well before deadlines to avoid blunders and dissatisfaction and make sure a printed copy looks aesthetically appealing.
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: General format for all the case study rounds was: (1) Tell me about yourself : I had prepared a list of what I wanted to speak about and memorized the key points to present a 2 minute monologue. However, I very keenly made sure to strike a conversation on any part where the interviewer interrupted me out of interest to ensure it sounded more like a conversation between two colleagues rather than a speech by a candidate to an interviewer. (2) Case: Coming back to the case mentioned in the question above:I considered 3 factors:(1) Market size for each geography and their growth rates(2) Market capture from competition(3) Profit per unitInterviewer: Using 1 graph each and nothing else, represent all of the 3 factors mentionedI drew the 3 most relevant graphs that came to my mind for each of the 3 factors mentioned. (3) Questions for the interviewer: I used to generally ask the guys outside the interview room to give me a brief introduction of the interviewer before the interview started. I used to use that information to ask a question to the interviewer in this part of the interview hoping to strike a chord with him before leaving.
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: Ask objective of driver? – Higher returns
·
Calc returns (profits) for each case as your driver and as a Meru cabs driverSalary 15000 per month + bonus of 1 month salary annually.
·
Meru cabs: Aggregator (no cabs of their own)
Driver need to get his own car and register on Meru cabs.
·
Cost on EMI: new car – 30000 p.m. Old car –
15000 p.m.
·
Cost of maintainence of old car: Rs 1.5/km
·
Meru promises 15 pickups of 20 km each day at Rs
30/km. There is an additional 50% driving distance which is not paid by client
·
Cost of fuel = Rs 72/L. Mileage 12 kmpl
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: I typically had never expected a case of this sort as it was too broad and undefined to give in an interview. However, it clearly looked like a case of organisational reconstruction and portfolio management. In the little time I had, I decided to give an idea of how I would proceed to solve such a case rather than really solve the case by using the BCG matrix. I clearly explained the matrix making sure I had conveyed that I knew what is actually was rather than just throwing jargon around.
I don't really know how the interviewer took my approach(as it was too text-bookish);he could neither object since it was an established case solving technique nor appreciate it as there was nothing creative in it.
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: Use costs and discuss – final problem was increased R&D costs for customization of various gears while adding new clients
Skills: Problem Solving, Pressure Handling, Communication , Logical Thinking, Hardwork, Presentation skills
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
3 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Google's APAC test is an online coding round. The test is for 3 hours and it has 4 coding questions.
Duration: 180 minutes
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I had 3 technical interviews. The questions asked in them consisted of algorithmic coding and design questions. The approach was more stressed upon. The interviewers were very helpful and they were generous in throw hints whenever I was blocked.
Skills: Algorithmic coding , C++
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
Experience: Google's APAC test is an online coding round. The test is for 3 hours and it has 4 coding questions.
Duration: 180 minutes
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I had 3 technical interviews. The questions asked in them consisted of algorithmic coding and design questions. The approach was more stressed upon. The interviewers were very helpful and they were generous in throw hints whenever I was blocked.
Skills: Algorithmic coding , C++
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
Bhupendra Soni
posted on 10 Mar 2015
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: My resume was mostly civil core with 2 core internships (one on designing & analysis and other on construction processes) and 4 core projects (mostly related to concrete). I had also mentioned about the designing softwares I had learnt in my internship and as a course.
Tips: Write each point in your resume properly depicting your core skills. Write about the learning outcomes from the projects and internships using easily understandable terms.
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: I simply followed the tips mentioned below.
Tips: There were 7 candidates in my GD group. Just grab opportunities to speak in between. Its great if you start or summarize or both. Try to put forward some different perspective/point if possible, rather than just agreeing or disagreeing with others and stand up to it. Eye contact is one important thing and the other is to address (turn head towards them) most of the people in your group while speaking. When someone speaks, your job is to listen while looking at them.
Duration: 10 minutes
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I had both HR and technical interviews at the same time in parallel. HR and Tech guy asked questions almost alternatively. It was chill, went on for 35 mins. Just to give you an idea, some of the questions were like, Define yourself in one word; Why should we visit your home city; Is Bandra-Worly sealink serving its purpose etc. They asked me about my projects and internships as well.
Tips: Eye contact is very important, it makes you look confident at least, if you aren't.
Don't be in a hurry to speak. Listen patiently and then you may take few seconds to frame your answer and then deliver. Speak only what you know about, as questions may escalate on something new which you have mentioned. And RELAX, as they are pretty chilled out.
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
Motivation: My friends have provided great feedback of the company. The SP group in itself is also pretty big in India.
Experience: My resume was mostly civil core with 2 core internships (one on designing & analysis and other on construction processes) and 4 core projects (mostly related to concrete). I had also mentioned about the designing softwares I had learnt in my internship and as a course.
Tips: Write each point in your resume properly depicting your core skills. Write about the learning outcomes from the projects and internships using easily understandable terms.
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: I simply followed the tips mentioned below.
Tips: There were 7 candidates in my GD group. Just grab opportunities to speak in between. Its great if you start or summarize or both. Try to put forward some different perspective/point if possible, rather than just agreeing or disagreeing with others and stand up to it. Eye contact is one important thing and the other is to address (turn head towards them) most of the people in your group while speaking. When someone speaks, your job is to listen while looking at them.
Duration: 10 minutes
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I had both HR and technical interviews at the same time in parallel. HR and Tech guy asked questions almost alternatively. It was chill, went on for 35 mins. Just to give you an idea, some of the questions were like, Define yourself in one word; Why should we visit your home city; Is Bandra-Worly sealink serving its purpose etc. They asked me about my projects and internships as well.
Tips: Eye contact is very important, it makes you look confident at least, if you aren't.
Don't be in a hurry to speak. Listen patiently and then you may take few seconds to frame your answer and then deliver. Speak only what you know about, as questions may escalate on something new which you have mentioned. And RELAX, as they are pretty chilled out.
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
Motivation: My friends have provided great feedback of the company. The SP group in itself is also pretty big in India.
7 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. What factors can you think of which will determine the pricing of product on our e-retail website?
- Q2. We add a lot of products and their descriptions on a laptop webpage, it will get too cluttered if we try the same for a mobile app. What things can be done diff...read more
- Q3. Which scrolling option is the best for e-retail websites? Vertical scrolling or horizontal product scrolling or each product on a different page or something el...read more
- Q4. What was your happiest moment in life?
- Q5. Tell me about your internships in short
- Q6. Strengths and weaknesses?
- Q7. What are your interests beyond academics?
- Q8. You seem to have a good CPI. Why are you not going for MS or MBA? Do you intend to go for any such thing some years later?
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Resume shortlist was CPI cutoff based mostly.
Tips: Highlight all your strong points in the resume and don't forget to make different resumes for different profiles you are targeting. Other than that, your resume is what you make of it in your 4 or 5 years of your stay here!
Round: Test
Experience: The test was common for software analyst as well as business analyst profile. So that was sort of a drawback for the people targeting business analyst profile. But most of the coding questions were easily solvable and required little knowledge of coding.
Tips: Just try to improve your aptitude skills and freshen up some basic C++ concepts - very basic ones. You'll do great!
Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: Though I am not able to recall the puzzles asked, but they were moderate in difficulty level, plus the interviewers were helping a lot and were very friendly
Tips: Practice some basic puzzles, mostly the ones asked for coding interviews (you can search them online). Keep your calm and think thoroughly. Also, don't hesitate to ask for help whenever required. They would love to offer help more than you would like to get!
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Since my background in coding was not that great, and I had already told them so, thus they mostly asked me strategic questions like the ones mentioned above.
Tips: Think logically and just spit out whatever comes to your mind would be the best option/strategy. They are looking for innovative answers and also a wide variety of alternatives, and then choose the best ones. Again, they will help you in case of any confusion or in case you need some example strategies.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: This round initially focused primarily on my internships. The interviewer seemed interested to know about the work done in internships, the accomplishments, the moments worth remembering from the foreign internships. Later she moved on to the hobbies, strengths, weaknesses and was quite involved with my life stories! She had a pad to note down my answers and judge abilities like communication skills, fluency, confidence in answers etc. At the end, I got the remark "This was by far the best interview I conducted" (and I was the last candidate to get interviewed!)
Tips: Answer the questions with total honesty and keep them involved with intriguing stories that depict your strengths or weaknesses. Interest them with your hobbies and be ready to answer questions on any hobby! Keep your stories prepared for the happiest moment, failures, things you would change in life etc. Read the book "64 HR interviews" and prepare answers for most of them. This round is mainly to see your confidence, your passion, your liveliness and your enthusiasm for the position.
General Tips: Most of the tips were discussed in respective questions. In general, I would like to say that never lose hope no matter how hard you struggle through the first few days. The moment you lose hope, things start going the wrong way. Also, give the interviews with relaxed and calm mind, after proper sleep. Take the interviews to the direction you want them to go - it can be easily done and I can tell you that from my own experiences. Be honest, otherwise you will take the interview to the direction you don't want it to go!
Skills: Confidence, Communication skills, Logical thinking , Problem solving, Brainstorming skills, Rational thinking
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
Motivation: It is a well reputed firm, a Fortune 50 company and the experience would be a good launchpad for ahead. I wanted a work-life balance slightly tilted towards "life" and Target is the company to go for that (which I came to know from my seniors, glassdoor.com etc.)
Funny Moments: There were no specific funny moments as such but overall, the interviews were relaxed and the interviewers were very friendly and cheerful. So I had some great moments while sharing my hobbies (eg. I told them I like to read poems so they asked me to recite one!) etc.
Experience: Resume shortlist was CPI cutoff based mostly.
Tips: Highlight all your strong points in the resume and don't forget to make different resumes for different profiles you are targeting. Other than that, your resume is what you make of it in your 4 or 5 years of your stay here!
Round: Test
Experience: The test was common for software analyst as well as business analyst profile. So that was sort of a drawback for the people targeting business analyst profile. But most of the coding questions were easily solvable and required little knowledge of coding.
Tips: Just try to improve your aptitude skills and freshen up some basic C++ concepts - very basic ones. You'll do great!
Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: Though I am not able to recall the puzzles asked, but they were moderate in difficulty level, plus the interviewers were helping a lot and were very friendly
Tips: Practice some basic puzzles, mostly the ones asked for coding interviews (you can search them online). Keep your calm and think thoroughly. Also, don't hesitate to ask for help whenever required. They would love to offer help more than you would like to get!
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Since my background in coding was not that great, and I had already told them so, thus they mostly asked me strategic questions like the ones mentioned above.
Tips: Think logically and just spit out whatever comes to your mind would be the best option/strategy. They are looking for innovative answers and also a wide variety of alternatives, and then choose the best ones. Again, they will help you in case of any confusion or in case you need some example strategies.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: This round initially focused primarily on my internships. The interviewer seemed interested to know about the work done in internships, the accomplishments, the moments worth remembering from the foreign internships. Later she moved on to the hobbies, strengths, weaknesses and was quite involved with my life stories! She had a pad to note down my answers and judge abilities like communication skills, fluency, confidence in answers etc. At the end, I got the remark "This was by far the best interview I conducted" (and I was the last candidate to get interviewed!)
Tips: Answer the questions with total honesty and keep them involved with intriguing stories that depict your strengths or weaknesses. Interest them with your hobbies and be ready to answer questions on any hobby! Keep your stories prepared for the happiest moment, failures, things you would change in life etc. Read the book "64 HR interviews" and prepare answers for most of them. This round is mainly to see your confidence, your passion, your liveliness and your enthusiasm for the position.
General Tips: Most of the tips were discussed in respective questions. In general, I would like to say that never lose hope no matter how hard you struggle through the first few days. The moment you lose hope, things start going the wrong way. Also, give the interviews with relaxed and calm mind, after proper sleep. Take the interviews to the direction you want them to go - it can be easily done and I can tell you that from my own experiences. Be honest, otherwise you will take the interview to the direction you don't want it to go!
Skills: Confidence, Communication skills, Logical thinking , Problem solving, Brainstorming skills, Rational thinking
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
Motivation: It is a well reputed firm, a Fortune 50 company and the experience would be a good launchpad for ahead. I wanted a work-life balance slightly tilted towards "life" and Target is the company to go for that (which I came to know from my seniors, glassdoor.com etc.)
Funny Moments: There were no specific funny moments as such but overall, the interviews were relaxed and the interviewers were very friendly and cheerful. So I had some great moments while sharing my hobbies (eg. I told them I like to read poems so they asked me to recite one!) etc.
6 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: I took a lot of help from seniors in making my resume. I had a lot of people review my resume most who were seniors already working in the industry. I think a person should review the resume again and again and again. After making a draft of my resume, I spent 3 days refining it with the help of other people and changed it a total of 25 times at least. I did not take any help from reading material or the internet for making my resume but I think getting it reviewed by so many people made up for it. Attending pre-placement talks is very important. That is one time when you can talk to your potential employers one on one and know exactly what you will be doing in the company. I attended pre-placement talks of all the companies that I was interested in and in my case I had narrowed my list to a few companies to apply to. I talked to my friends and seniors working in various different companies (especially the ones working Investment Banks) in choosing between companies.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: There is a standard list of HR questions in the institute by the name of HLPQ.doc. It helps to look at the standard HR questions and make a mental note of the points you would want to highlight in the answers to those questions. At the same time, memorizing answers is not advisable since it becomes quite obvious to the interviewer that the answers have been memorized.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Technical I read up parts of the book Options. Futures and Other Derivatives” by J.C. Hull to prepare for the interviews. I also bought a couple of books from the internet which helped a lot. One of them was Vault Guide to Advanced Finance
Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: There are many websites to practice puzzles (probability puzzles in my case)
Round: Other Interview
Experience: Quantitative Interviews and the other one had information about the company I was applying to (Merrill Lynch).
Skill Tips: Dressing well is an important part of the interview process. You should create a good first impression. For investment banks, wear a suit especially if you are applying for front office positions. Take a shower, shave and dress neatly (remember you get only one chance to create a good impression). Be nice and courteous to all the people of the company. Reach well before the time of the interview and always carry sufficient copies of your resume along with a notepad and pen
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
Experience: I took a lot of help from seniors in making my resume. I had a lot of people review my resume most who were seniors already working in the industry. I think a person should review the resume again and again and again. After making a draft of my resume, I spent 3 days refining it with the help of other people and changed it a total of 25 times at least. I did not take any help from reading material or the internet for making my resume but I think getting it reviewed by so many people made up for it. Attending pre-placement talks is very important. That is one time when you can talk to your potential employers one on one and know exactly what you will be doing in the company. I attended pre-placement talks of all the companies that I was interested in and in my case I had narrowed my list to a few companies to apply to. I talked to my friends and seniors working in various different companies (especially the ones working Investment Banks) in choosing between companies.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: There is a standard list of HR questions in the institute by the name of HLPQ.doc. It helps to look at the standard HR questions and make a mental note of the points you would want to highlight in the answers to those questions. At the same time, memorizing answers is not advisable since it becomes quite obvious to the interviewer that the answers have been memorized.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Technical I read up parts of the book Options. Futures and Other Derivatives” by J.C. Hull to prepare for the interviews. I also bought a couple of books from the internet which helped a lot. One of them was Vault Guide to Advanced Finance
Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: There are many websites to practice puzzles (probability puzzles in my case)
Round: Other Interview
Experience: Quantitative Interviews and the other one had information about the company I was applying to (Merrill Lynch).
Skill Tips: Dressing well is an important part of the interview process. You should create a good first impression. For investment banks, wear a suit especially if you are applying for front office positions. Take a shower, shave and dress neatly (remember you get only one chance to create a good impression). Be nice and courteous to all the people of the company. Reach well before the time of the interview and always carry sufficient copies of your resume along with a notepad and pen
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: I had attended a resume making workshop by McKinsey, that gave me some idea. But mostly it was by incorporating feedback (again and again and again) by some seniors.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: For these, I just came up with a list of questions that could be possibly asked by a recruiter. Coming up with such a list is fairly easy if you put yourself in the shoes of a recruiter. Some sample questions:
Tell us something about yourself?
Why this company? Why this work?
What are your strengths/ weaknesses?
Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
What kind of importance do you attach to ethics?
Can you work alone? In teams?
And so on. These questions do carry a lot of importance from a recruiters point of view and hence should be given a lot of time. Its not that difficult. Just pick up or make up some question which you think that your interviewer might ask and start thinking about how you would answer it; keep working on the answer and keep refining it until you are satisfied with it. Discuss your answers with some select few seniors (select few because you don't want to end up having a lot of opinions; and anyway, a seniors or anyone else's opinion should be strictly treated like an opinion- incorporate it only if it makes sense to you; do not blindly incorporate something just because somebody else has said it should be. Whatever answer you give, it has to be given with a lot of confidence, and that';s only possible if you can relate to the answer!) Some of these question can be very tricky. Take the following question for example: What are your weaknesses? Now you have to be very careful in answering such a question. You don't want to say something like I procrastinate a lot even though it might be true! Neither can you afford to raise an amused eyebrow by saying
something like My integrity is make greatest strength and my greatest weakness. You could say something like I spend most of my time working, and so my personal life takes a hit. Basically you have pointed out a weakness that you cannot balance your professional and personal life, but the recruiter would not give a damn as long as it's the personal part you cannot balance!
Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: For puzzles (logic and math): Google!
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: Lots of ebooks (Harvard, Wharton, Vault etc) available in the campus
Skill Tips: Be thorough with your resume, practice a lot of puzzles, brainteasers and cases. If you are sitting for a finance based company, read up a little on the area in which the company works (you will have to convince them of your interest in finance!). Think about and prepare answers on as many general questions as you can. Don't forget to suit up!
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
Experience: I had attended a resume making workshop by McKinsey, that gave me some idea. But mostly it was by incorporating feedback (again and again and again) by some seniors.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: For these, I just came up with a list of questions that could be possibly asked by a recruiter. Coming up with such a list is fairly easy if you put yourself in the shoes of a recruiter. Some sample questions:
Tell us something about yourself?
Why this company? Why this work?
What are your strengths/ weaknesses?
Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
What kind of importance do you attach to ethics?
Can you work alone? In teams?
And so on. These questions do carry a lot of importance from a recruiters point of view and hence should be given a lot of time. Its not that difficult. Just pick up or make up some question which you think that your interviewer might ask and start thinking about how you would answer it; keep working on the answer and keep refining it until you are satisfied with it. Discuss your answers with some select few seniors (select few because you don't want to end up having a lot of opinions; and anyway, a seniors or anyone else's opinion should be strictly treated like an opinion- incorporate it only if it makes sense to you; do not blindly incorporate something just because somebody else has said it should be. Whatever answer you give, it has to be given with a lot of confidence, and that';s only possible if you can relate to the answer!) Some of these question can be very tricky. Take the following question for example: What are your weaknesses? Now you have to be very careful in answering such a question. You don't want to say something like I procrastinate a lot even though it might be true! Neither can you afford to raise an amused eyebrow by saying
something like My integrity is make greatest strength and my greatest weakness. You could say something like I spend most of my time working, and so my personal life takes a hit. Basically you have pointed out a weakness that you cannot balance your professional and personal life, but the recruiter would not give a damn as long as it's the personal part you cannot balance!
Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: For puzzles (logic and math): Google!
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: Lots of ebooks (Harvard, Wharton, Vault etc) available in the campus
Skill Tips: Be thorough with your resume, practice a lot of puzzles, brainteasers and cases. If you are sitting for a finance based company, read up a little on the area in which the company works (you will have to convince them of your interest in finance!). Think about and prepare answers on as many general questions as you can. Don't forget to suit up!
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: It was with the help of seniors. Its always better to go through some seniors resumes before writing one. I also sent my resume to some seniors so as to get a feedback and to make the appropriate changes. Resume should not be taken as a 1 day job. Every point in the resume should be clear and should reflect the intended qualities. Also the proof reading task to identify small mistakes can be given to juniors. Yes , in the starting session of the placements I used to attend the ppts as they started in the last semester only. They help a lot in deciding about the companies but if one is not writing anything down then its very difficult to recall the points from a ppt that one has attended 2 months back. Its always better to have a conversation with seniors in different jobs so as to have an idea about the job profiles and work conditions so that a clear decision can be made.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: At the time of placements only a doc file with some standard HR questions was circulated within the batch. I went through it and prepared the HR questions once. I also gained some insight into case studies by the documents circulated by the batch mates.
Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: I didn't think that solving puzzles beforehand helps in an interview as if you already know them then its very difficult to hide it from the interviewer.
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: I just took basic GD fundaes that are available on google and from some of the friends who had attended some TIME and IMS GD sessions. Since I was preparing for CAT to some extent and used to appear for MOCK CATS. So it helped a lot in the tests as most of the tests are CAT based. So it’s better to go through some CAT practice books to prepare for the tests.
Skill Tips: Be properly dressed in an interview. Suit is not necessary but do get nice formals and a tie. It always helps to create a good impression as it tells them that you are interested in the company.
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
Experience: It was with the help of seniors. Its always better to go through some seniors resumes before writing one. I also sent my resume to some seniors so as to get a feedback and to make the appropriate changes. Resume should not be taken as a 1 day job. Every point in the resume should be clear and should reflect the intended qualities. Also the proof reading task to identify small mistakes can be given to juniors. Yes , in the starting session of the placements I used to attend the ppts as they started in the last semester only. They help a lot in deciding about the companies but if one is not writing anything down then its very difficult to recall the points from a ppt that one has attended 2 months back. Its always better to have a conversation with seniors in different jobs so as to have an idea about the job profiles and work conditions so that a clear decision can be made.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: At the time of placements only a doc file with some standard HR questions was circulated within the batch. I went through it and prepared the HR questions once. I also gained some insight into case studies by the documents circulated by the batch mates.
Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: I didn't think that solving puzzles beforehand helps in an interview as if you already know them then its very difficult to hide it from the interviewer.
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: I just took basic GD fundaes that are available on google and from some of the friends who had attended some TIME and IMS GD sessions. Since I was preparing for CAT to some extent and used to appear for MOCK CATS. So it helped a lot in the tests as most of the tests are CAT based. So it’s better to go through some CAT practice books to prepare for the tests.
Skill Tips: Be properly dressed in an interview. Suit is not necessary but do get nice formals and a tie. It always helps to create a good impression as it tells them that you are interested in the company.
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: I started with resumes of my seniors ( try having a look at seniors having a similar profile as yours, that helps), generally looking for a good format and how to put my points across. I noticed that the general pattern of all the good resumes was three fold: 1. Identifying the problem and defining it well. 2. What measures were taken.. 3. What results were obtained. Try to model all your subpoints in such a pattern. Using the list of adjectives and verbs given at MITs website ( google for MIT Resume writing tips) helps quite a lot. After prep of 1st draft, getting it edited by friends and seniors/elders is one of the most important steps. Don’t be shy about it, its better if your mistakes are pointed out by them rather then the interviewer ?.
Round: Behavioural Interview
Experience: There is a folder of case questions and a HLPQ(huge list of personality questions) floating around in the institute. Try getting hold of it. It is more then sufficient
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Prepare for CAT seriously, even if you don’t intend to do an MBA. It helps brush up your quantitative and analytical skills, which is the test basis for many a companies. In my case( in my group of friends), I found that whoever dint try giving CAT, eventually ended up suffering because of bad quantitative and DI skills. Everyone thinks that they will practice DI, but nobody does it finally. For interviews, write down the answers to questions in HLPQ in a similar threefold format, wherever possible : 1. problem faced. 2. Actions taken. 3. results. Dont learn the answers ( esp. language) by heart, doesn't help you in any way. Ask our friends to question you and practice. For interview, there is an approach saying that you should prepare a timeline & help of what happened in your life (major incidents) and then try to pick out some major incidents. Didn't follow that approach myself, so cant say
how much effective it is.
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: GDs No point doing it individually. Pick up a topic and do GD.
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
Experience: I started with resumes of my seniors ( try having a look at seniors having a similar profile as yours, that helps), generally looking for a good format and how to put my points across. I noticed that the general pattern of all the good resumes was three fold: 1. Identifying the problem and defining it well. 2. What measures were taken.. 3. What results were obtained. Try to model all your subpoints in such a pattern. Using the list of adjectives and verbs given at MITs website ( google for MIT Resume writing tips) helps quite a lot. After prep of 1st draft, getting it edited by friends and seniors/elders is one of the most important steps. Don’t be shy about it, its better if your mistakes are pointed out by them rather then the interviewer ?.
Round: Behavioural Interview
Experience: There is a folder of case questions and a HLPQ(huge list of personality questions) floating around in the institute. Try getting hold of it. It is more then sufficient
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Prepare for CAT seriously, even if you don’t intend to do an MBA. It helps brush up your quantitative and analytical skills, which is the test basis for many a companies. In my case( in my group of friends), I found that whoever dint try giving CAT, eventually ended up suffering because of bad quantitative and DI skills. Everyone thinks that they will practice DI, but nobody does it finally. For interviews, write down the answers to questions in HLPQ in a similar threefold format, wherever possible : 1. problem faced. 2. Actions taken. 3. results. Dont learn the answers ( esp. language) by heart, doesn't help you in any way. Ask our friends to question you and practice. For interview, there is an approach saying that you should prepare a timeline & help of what happened in your life (major incidents) and then try to pick out some major incidents. Didn't follow that approach myself, so cant say
how much effective it is.
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: GDs No point doing it individually. Pick up a topic and do GD.
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: I took help from my friends to prepare my resume. Also inputs from my seniors were very fruitful. Yes, I attended all the Pre-Placement talks. I think these PPTs are very important as they give the insight of the company and help you set your priorities.
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: For GDs the workshop conducted by IMS was very helpful. Also various other useful sites are listed below: -----/ -----.html. I prepared in groups and I believe preparing this way is very helpful.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Firstly this BePrepared is very useful for various interview experiences. In order to prepare for HR Questions I took help from my friends.
Round: Other Interview
Experience: Questions asked in the Interviews
Tell me about yourself, your family background. Describe a time when you were leading and influencing the direction of a project or task to deliver significant results Describe a situation when you faced a difficult problem and you were able to solve it.( details of the context, the action you took and the results that were achieved). Provide an example when you approached your work with a mindset of having limited resources or time. ( details of the context, the action you took and the results that were achieved). Describe a situation when you changed your decision after being influenced by others. Describe any innovative idea given by you and to what extent has it been implemented. Do you have any teaching experience, if yes then describe it. Describe a situation where you have carry forwarded the work of your predecessor and to what extent have you been successful in completing it.
Tips: First and foremost go through the site of the company. One should prepare thoroughly the for the HR interview. Also one should be consistent right from the beginning of the Selection procedure of the i.e written test, questionnaire and both round of interviews.
Skill Tips: Regarding dress you are expected to be in formals. Don't get nervous during the interview. Take your time to think and then answer the questions.
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
Experience: I took help from my friends to prepare my resume. Also inputs from my seniors were very fruitful. Yes, I attended all the Pre-Placement talks. I think these PPTs are very important as they give the insight of the company and help you set your priorities.
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: For GDs the workshop conducted by IMS was very helpful. Also various other useful sites are listed below: -----/ -----.html. I prepared in groups and I believe preparing this way is very helpful.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Firstly this BePrepared is very useful for various interview experiences. In order to prepare for HR Questions I took help from my friends.
Round: Other Interview
Experience: Questions asked in the Interviews
Tell me about yourself, your family background. Describe a time when you were leading and influencing the direction of a project or task to deliver significant results Describe a situation when you faced a difficult problem and you were able to solve it.( details of the context, the action you took and the results that were achieved). Provide an example when you approached your work with a mindset of having limited resources or time. ( details of the context, the action you took and the results that were achieved). Describe a situation when you changed your decision after being influenced by others. Describe any innovative idea given by you and to what extent has it been implemented. Do you have any teaching experience, if yes then describe it. Describe a situation where you have carry forwarded the work of your predecessor and to what extent have you been successful in completing it.
Tips: First and foremost go through the site of the company. One should prepare thoroughly the for the HR interview. Also one should be consistent right from the beginning of the Selection procedure of the i.e written test, questionnaire and both round of interviews.
Skill Tips: Regarding dress you are expected to be in formals. Don't get nervous during the interview. Take your time to think and then answer the questions.
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
3 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: There were 4 coding questions. All of them were simple. We wrote code on our laptop and submited code to volunteer in their pendrive. I soved three of them correctly and one partially correct. Still got shortlisted.
Tips: Skip
Duration: 90 minutes
Total Questions: 4
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: They asked me everything from my resume. So one should know everything about their projects and every point in resume. Also they asked few other technical questions.
Skill Tips: Do maximum questions from the site mentioned below. Also particaipate in quizzes and hackathons from hackerrank.com/ and -----/
Skills: Algorithms, Data structures
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
Experience: There were 4 coding questions. All of them were simple. We wrote code on our laptop and submited code to volunteer in their pendrive. I soved three of them correctly and one partially correct. Still got shortlisted.
Tips: Skip
Duration: 90 minutes
Total Questions: 4
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: They asked me everything from my resume. So one should know everything about their projects and every point in resume. Also they asked few other technical questions.
Skill Tips: Do maximum questions from the site mentioned below. Also particaipate in quizzes and hackathons from hackerrank.com/ and -----/
Skills: Algorithms, Data structures
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
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