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Round: Test Experience: IPAT question paper with three sections. each section has its own time constraint. section 1 with no negativemarking. section 2&3 have -ve marking(1/4).section 1: purely number series. most of the questions follow the similar pattern.section 2: data matrices. 5*5 matrices are given with some data. questions asked by modifying some fields in someway. these are not at all tough. but time consuming.section 3: simple quantitative questions. Duration: 30 minutes
Round: Group Discussion Experience: Each group in GD had 13 members. First they asked each person to give their view/opinion about the topic. and then discussion started.They were impressed with my conclusion. Tips: Important thing that needs to be considered here is raising worthy points as well as giving nice conclusion.While giving conclusion, don't convey your point of view again. conclusion is the summary of all the points raised by all the members during the discussion. Duration: 30 minutes
Round: Technical Interview Experience: It was mostly concentrated on java. sql,jdbc. Few questions about B.Tech projects were also asked. In all the panels, there is some focus on HR questions also.
Round: HR Interview Experience: HR tested confidence, listening skills also. questions about hobbies, why should i hire u etc are fired. why btech%age is so low(i secured 62.5% in my btech)? Tips: Unless you feel them whole-heartedly, dont give standard answers to HR questions
General Tips: Don't waste your time.Even if you have an educational gap, make it a plus point by gaining extra skills. Have the attitude of dedicating yourself to your organization. Feel the responsibility. College Name: NIT WARANGAL
Round: Test Experience: Questions in the section were divided into 3 subsections one was data interpretation, another was number seriesand the third was quantitative.The level of the questions in the three sections was not very high but time constraintwas there. The quantitative questions were also very common and time was also enough in this section Duration: 31 minutes
Round: Group Discussion Duration: 30 minutes
Round: Technical Interview Experience: First obvious question was Tell something about you. They asked my favorite Subjects. I told- C, DS, DBMS
C & DS - 10 min1.w.a.p Reverse "IBM" String ?2.w.a.p reverse number?3.sorting types? explain some sorting technique?4.which is best sorting algorithm?5.what is the time complexity of quick sort? explain procedure?DBMS - 10 min6.what is primary key? foreign key? composite key?7.what is normal form? explain?8.what are types of normal forms ? explain?9.what is join ?types of joins? explain with tables and outputs?10.write a sql statement to find MAX SAL of employee table?11.write in Relation algebra ? Tuple Relation ? Domain Relation? explain the above statement with these formallanguages?Networks : 10 min12.what is network?13.what is intranet? internet?14.what is IP? explain?15.what is LAN ? MAN? WAN? Explain with Example?16.what are layers? why it is useful? how you communicate with that layers?17.explain all ISO-OSI Layers? with an application ? example ?extra related to my subject (Information security) - 5min18.what is Cryptography?19.what were specially that you learned apart from your career which is related to subject?in technical they asked some H.R questions in between.20. why IBM?21. do u have any career options?22.what is your strength?23.what is your weakness?24.what is your hobbies?Project - 5-10 min25.Came to My Project : Here I Have a Chance to express all my ideas,they really impressed very much by the way of approaching the problems in the project.finally do u have any question they asked?26. what type of projects doing by IBM in various domains?27. asked about related to the company ?Wait for Next Round. Some One definitely call you .. I told, Thank You Sir. Tips: Coming to the interviews stay cool & think aloud so that if u misunderstood the problem ,he will help uout
Round: HR Interview Experience: H.R Questions : more than 40 min1.tell some thing about your self?2.why IBM?3.Why i need to select you?4.how your telling that you r best?6.what is your weakness?6.can u work under pressure?7.what types of works you did in Projects? did u worked under pressure at that time?8.if your manager is given more work what will you do?9.if the manager is critical & very serious ? then how can you do the work?10.how you can handle if nobody in your team is not accepting your views?11.if you had a situation where in your team going to fight? what you will do?12.what seems you that you differ from others?13.do u had a situation in real life,where misunderstand came between any to? how solved?14.in your point of view how the manager will seems to be?15.if he is not cooperative? then what will you do?16.if your team people not working then what is your responsibility?17.will you work , if u give more work?18.can u relocate?19.do u have any preference in work-place ?20.do u have any questions?21.I asked about Company Environment !!you have to be Confident in the interview.and they see whether this person is Suitable for this job/not .HR Finally told, OK. Mr.Sunil Kumar. We Will Meet You Again ,Thank You Very Much. ALL THE BEST.FINALLY I M IN IBM.Because of this Simple Mantra---- If You Think "YOU CAN " definitely "YOU CAN"-----
General Tips: Regardless of which company you are aiming for, C,DS,OS,DBMS are a must . You have to be very strong as theseare the basics for a CSE student and there are some companies which ask only algorithms and others cover all theCSE subjects. College Name: NIT WARANGAL Motivation: Initially I was disappointed as I couldn't get through some of the companies which I expected,I would get throughand finally I went for IBM Where Their Area of Work is in Multidimensional .So I felt I chose the right company &luckily(perhaps) I was selected.
Round: Test Experience: Three types of paper was there i)data matrix questions ii)simple series question ii)quantitativeIt had time consuming questions. Tips: You need to practice well Duration: 34 minutes
Round: Group Discussion Duration: 13 minutes
Round: Technical Interview Experience: After the written process they focus on you communication skill,basic knowledge of your subjects, questions related to your project..Smple sql command,simple data structure questions were asked.
Round: Group Discussion Experience: The GD was split into 3 sections each lasting 10 minutes. In the first section, everyone gave their opening thoughtson the topic, and each person was given 30 seconds to speak. The next section was an open discussion where everyone got to speak freely on the issue. In the final section everyone had to give their concluding remarks, each was given around 30 seconds. Duration: 30 minutes
Round: Technical Interview Experience: Nothing too specific was asked. It was mostly about the projects and the subjects studied.
Round: Test Experience: I got the job as PPO.The aptitude test was very simple.
Round: Technical Interview Experience: It was technical as well as hr interview for us.It was an intern interview basically. So only questions in ds,os,c were asked.In C- about stack overflow,segmentation fault and things like that.OS- process states, about fork, how shell works.DS- he asked me to generate all possible permutations of a given string using strongly connected graph.Some small questions were also asked.I managed to answer most of the questions and it was not so tough.
General Tips: If you want to get into any good company the basic things to study arec,c++,ds,os,networking,dbms.If you are confident in these, you are all set to go for the battle.Study well. College Name: NIT WARANGAL
Round: Test Experience: We were given a paper which had 3 sections- mental ability,series and quant.Around 100 were selected from this round..Next we had a coding paper where we had to understand the code and give the output or what error.Altogether 38 were selected for 2 profiles- regular and extreme blue.Then each of the 38 candidates were interviewed and finally 9 were selected 7 for extreme blue and 2 for regular.
Round: Technical Interview Experience: I had an interview for about 1 and a half hour..I had a shaky start, with me fumbling in the very basic questions of c,c++,os. But i was quick to realize my mistake.Then the interviewer asked me how to get all possible combinations of a given string. I gave him a solution. He asked to take a different path.I gave him a solution in that path, then I gave many more. Not all of them were correct, only 1 or 2 were concrete. Others were just ideas in all possible directionsI don't know what impressed him but i got the internship opportunity and that too extreme blue.There was not much stress on HR round.
General Tips: As a matter of fact regular interns generally dont get a ppo, and if you happen to read this before the holidays, remember that you do not need to work extra hours. Make preparation for placements as your priority.They don't expect you to work that hard and will give ppo in most cases. College Name: NIT WARANGAL
Round: Test Experience: There were 3 sections. The first section of 13 minutes consisted of 15 questions on matrix manipulation. The second one was of 4 minutes and had 20 questions for finding the next number in series. The third had 12 quantitative questions and was of 15 minutes duration. Questions were MCQ and were quite simple. What mattered was how fast one could do the sums. Duration: 32 minutes
Round: Group Discussion Experience: GD was well moderated. Everyone got a chance to talk and to conclude. The importance was for the way of presentation rather than the relevance of the points made. Duration: 15 minutes
Round: Technical Interview Experience: Majority of the questions were from DS. Few questions from Database and Java too were asked. Only basics were asked.
Round: HR Interview Experience: The usual HR questions were asked like- tell me about yourself, what are your hobbies etc. Tips: Good communications skills and basic knowledge in DS can easily see you through.
Round: Test Experience: sec1 was a bit lengthy. sec2 was very easy sec3 had quantitative questions based on time and distance,time and work,%,avg,boat stream,profit and loss.Sections 2 and 3 had negative markingIn written test they selected 51 out of 70. Tips: Try to read any one matrix properly and answer all questions of that matrix. Don't try to ans all matrix questions. It takes time.But if u ans 2 matrix questions (2*5=10qsns) correctly,it is more then enough.Solve RS agarwal number series questions (chapter odd man out and number series from RS Agarwal).One imp thing is that all aptitude questions were from previous years papers of IBM, which can be found on the internet. Go through them. Duration: 31 minutes
Round: Group Discussion Experience: After written test, they divided the people into groups (13ppl*4group=52) and send them to GD. After giving the topic, HR went out of the room so as to give time for us to think about the topic. He gave five minutes.GD went for about 10miutes .Everyone had to conclude the GD, i.e., they gave everyone a chance.After GD, they selected 41 out of 51. Tips: Just speak imp points that count. Don't try to speak too much. Duration: 10 minutes
Round: Technical Interview Experience: The panel members were friendly.They asked only basics of c,c++,java,data structure(link list,stack,queue,tree), project,internship,os,dbms ,sql etc, difference between c++ and java,c++ features,why java is suitable for internet application,why java is better then c++,how to avoid multiple inheritance,memory functions like malloc, calloc, alloc, faralloc, realloc, write a code which shows all features of c++,some dbms questions etcAll questions were basics only. Tips: It is better for computer students to go a bit deeper into their subjects... but for others, it is better to have an overview of basics of programming languages andtheir subjects.Whatever you answer, answer perfectly and confidently.
Round: HR Interview Experience: HR round was just a formality. If you are in HR, it means you are selected.One important thing is to keep some club certificates like lnd club as they may ask.
Round: Internship-based Experience: I got selected for Xtreme Blue internship in my 3rd yr and got a ppo after my intern.
Round: Test Experience: There were two elimination rounds one technical and one aptitude.First one was an aptitude round for 1 hr which had three parts,quantitative(25 question),analytical(15 q) and a general aptitude part(15 q). Out of some 200 ,98 reached second round i.e. technical aptitude. Total Questions: 55
Round: Test Experience: Technical apti was also objective where we had 20 lengthy questions and had to answer in 35 minutes.In the first look questions seemed to be very lengthy and time consuming.It mostly tested my self confidence because there was a moment when i panicked and it took some time for me to realize that everyone must have been in the same situation.Out of 98 around 38 qualified this round and were called for the "interview". Tips: Its pretty easy to get through this round if u are good at programming but is almost impossible without concentration. Duration: 35 minutes Total Questions: 20
Round: Technical Interview Experience: They made me feel very comfortable which made me have my own pace of mind because of which i enjoyed my entireinterview process..I had two continuous technical rounds for nearly 1 hr 40 minutes out of which second was for some half an hour.They have gone into a few technical details like proc structures,exec implementation etc (in OS)
Round: Technical Interview Experience: In the second round, they asked questions in C and C++Questions included:If you have reached maximum number of processes possible in a system,how will you create a new process, you are given an array of numbers and you have to tell if any two numbers add up to a given number in minimal complexity and a few such algorithmic questions have been touched on. Tips: Go through C.A lot depends on how you answer "tell me about yourself".Try to use this question in your favour.
General Tips: 1) Don't panic in apttudei or interview ,no one wins in that case.2)A lot depends on how you answer "tell me about yourself".Try to use this question in your favour. College Name: NIT WARANGAL