National Institute of Technology, Surathkal
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Updated
20 Jan 2025
274 interviews found
Sundeep Vilasagarapu
posted on 3 Dec 2015
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: ROUND 1: 50 MCQ's (60 Minutes)
80% C/C++ Questions and 20% Quantitative Aptitude.
Most of the C/C++ questions are similar to the questions in test your C skills, geeksquiz.com and some recursion questions which will take time to solve. Quantitative aptitude is of normal level only. Around 200 people appeared and they have shortlisted 13 people.
ROUND 2: Two Coding questions (80 Minutes) Subjective (code on paper)
They gave Dynamic programming problems. Its better to write comments for each function and also derive the time complexity and they shortlisted 4 people.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Basic C/C++ concepts, Operating systems and projects based question were asked.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: HR round is cool ! But We need to give proper judgement for Why Wooqer? and why we should select you?
General Tips: It’s a long suspense as they announced the results after 2 days. But NEVER LOSE HOPE. Even though you got rejected in any company (Just feel for sometime as you can't take lite at that moment) hope that you have some good company waiting for you. Don't get depressed after rejecting in 2-3 companies. You will have your day as I myself got rejected in 6 interviews and I got selected in 7th company. WIN OR LOSE DOESN'T MATTER, FIGHT HARD.
If you are very good in coding then try to be the best in coding. And don't neglect Aptitude, Basics and HR Round. Try to do very fast in round-1 and leave the questions which take time. Coding and HR round are crucial
Skill Tips: C/C++ Books: **Let us C; **Test your C skills;Thinking in C++
Data structures: **Narasimha Karumanchi / Sourabh School videos(youtube)
Coding: **GeeksforGeeks; Leetcode; CodeChef.
Skills:
College Name: NIT Surathkal
Experience: ROUND 1: 50 MCQ's (60 Minutes)
80% C/C++ Questions and 20% Quantitative Aptitude.
Most of the C/C++ questions are similar to the questions in test your C skills, geeksquiz.com and some recursion questions which will take time to solve. Quantitative aptitude is of normal level only. Around 200 people appeared and they have shortlisted 13 people.
ROUND 2: Two Coding questions (80 Minutes) Subjective (code on paper)
They gave Dynamic programming problems. Its better to write comments for each function and also derive the time complexity and they shortlisted 4 people.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Basic C/C++ concepts, Operating systems and projects based question were asked.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: HR round is cool ! But We need to give proper judgement for Why Wooqer? and why we should select you?
General Tips: It’s a long suspense as they announced the results after 2 days. But NEVER LOSE HOPE. Even though you got rejected in any company (Just feel for sometime as you can't take lite at that moment) hope that you have some good company waiting for you. Don't get depressed after rejecting in 2-3 companies. You will have your day as I myself got rejected in 6 interviews and I got selected in 7th company. WIN OR LOSE DOESN'T MATTER, FIGHT HARD.
If you are very good in coding then try to be the best in coding. And don't neglect Aptitude, Basics and HR Round. Try to do very fast in round-1 and leave the questions which take time. Coding and HR round are crucial
Skill Tips: C/C++ Books: **Let us C; **Test your C skills;Thinking in C++
Data structures: **Narasimha Karumanchi / Sourabh School videos(youtube)
Coding: **GeeksforGeeks; Leetcode; CodeChef.
Skills:
College Name: NIT Surathkal
3 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: 1st Round : 30 Aptitude Questions (Difficulty Level-HIGH) with nega
tive marking- My Score 15/30, Highest in the test
+ 2 Coding Questions ( Dyanamic Programming + N-Queens Problem)
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Technical Interview- Questions based on recurssion DSA, HTML.
General Tips: Just know the project you have done in details , don't bluff
First Interview and got it in single shot.
Skill Tips: Karumanchi for DSA, w3 Schools for web related topics DBMS and SQL from Tutorial point.
Skills:
College Name: NIT Surathkal
Experience: 1st Round : 30 Aptitude Questions (Difficulty Level-HIGH) with nega
tive marking- My Score 15/30, Highest in the test
+ 2 Coding Questions ( Dyanamic Programming + N-Queens Problem)
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Technical Interview- Questions based on recurssion DSA, HTML.
General Tips: Just know the project you have done in details , don't bluff
First Interview and got it in single shot.
Skill Tips: Karumanchi for DSA, w3 Schools for web related topics DBMS and SQL from Tutorial point.
Skills:
College Name: NIT Surathkal
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Initial shortlisting
Experience: Only students from the CS and IT branches at NITK were permitted to enroll for the process. A minimum CGPA requirement was set after which 80 of us were eligible to write the aptitude test.
Round: Test
Experience: Written aptitude test: Consisted of 4 multiple choice papers - Logical reasoning, quant, English and basic programming for which we were given 20 minutes each. Felt that the questions were simple and pretty straightforward. The results were announced in the afternoon and 20 of us had cleared the test.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Technical Interview: I was asked moderate questions on algorithms, database systems and the projects I had done in college. The interviews went on till around 6 pm after which 11 of us progressed to the final round.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: HR interview: This was an interview that I really enjoyed. The HR manager began with the clichéd questions and then went on to ask some very interesting ones for about half an hour.
General Tips: "If you're keen on knowing what it was like to intern at J.P. Morgan, you could visit this link on my personal blog and read the article I had written about my internship.
Do not use the internship only as an opportunity to get employed. Assess what the firm has to offer you and whether a full-time job there would help you in the long-term scheme of things.
In any case, I do believe that an internship at J.P. Morgan would be a great way for you to get an insight into the corporate world, especially if you're keen on working in the technology sector in the financial services industry."
Skills:
College Name: NIT Surathkal
Experience: Only students from the CS and IT branches at NITK were permitted to enroll for the process. A minimum CGPA requirement was set after which 80 of us were eligible to write the aptitude test.
Round: Test
Experience: Written aptitude test: Consisted of 4 multiple choice papers - Logical reasoning, quant, English and basic programming for which we were given 20 minutes each. Felt that the questions were simple and pretty straightforward. The results were announced in the afternoon and 20 of us had cleared the test.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Technical Interview: I was asked moderate questions on algorithms, database systems and the projects I had done in college. The interviews went on till around 6 pm after which 11 of us progressed to the final round.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: HR interview: This was an interview that I really enjoyed. The HR manager began with the clichéd questions and then went on to ask some very interesting ones for about half an hour.
General Tips: "If you're keen on knowing what it was like to intern at J.P. Morgan, you could visit this link on my personal blog and read the article I had written about my internship.
Do not use the internship only as an opportunity to get employed. Assess what the firm has to offer you and whether a full-time job there would help you in the long-term scheme of things.
In any case, I do believe that an internship at J.P. Morgan would be a great way for you to get an insight into the corporate world, especially if you're keen on working in the technology sector in the financial services industry."
Skills:
College Name: NIT Surathkal
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. What is race condition and how can it be eliminated
- Q2. What is JCube?
- Q3. What is regression testing?
- Q4. Discussion on different sorting techniques
- Q5. Discussion on SQL and SQL optimisaion
- Q6. Software engineering principles
- Q7. Java and OOP's question
- Q8. Define Singleton class
- Q9. Explain Testing principles and Design principles
- Q10. Types of machine learning and methods and examples, they may give you a situation and ask you which technique is good and why
- Q11. Why choose you for VISA?
- Q12. Which profile is good for you?
- Q13. About the work culture at VISA Inc
- Q14. If u already have a placement, why this company
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Online Test on mettl.com
- 2 coding questions ( 15*2 = 30 marks ) - Moderate level
- 10 MCQs on Programming and Java ( 1*10 = 10)
- 6 MCQs on Machine Learning and Hadoop ( 1*6 = 6 )
- 6 MCQs on Computer Networks ( 1*6 = 6 )
- 6 MCQs on Computer Infrastructure and Architecture ( 1*6 = 6)
- 6 MCQs on Application security and Cryptography ( 1*6 = 6)
15 shortlisted from here including 8 B.Techs and 7 M.Techs for F2F interviews, which were taken by VISA employees from their US and Singapore offices( since they don't have any office at India ).
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: They may give you a situation and ask you to explain which Software engineering principles will you use. They ask you how will you explain the concept of stacks and queues to a 7 year old, or to a granny, so as to encourage programming(like seriously ? )
General Tips: Nothing as such, since this was my second on-campus placement, I had good experience of interviews.
Keep your fundamentals in all computer science subjects open. Unlike other companies they don't focus much on coding alone. The only other company which also looks at perfection in all computer science aspects is Xerox Research Center India.
Challenging and Equally rewarding, but seriously a unique experience with no much tension
Skills:
College Name: NIT Surathkal
Experience: Online Test on mettl.com
- 2 coding questions ( 15*2 = 30 marks ) - Moderate level
- 10 MCQs on Programming and Java ( 1*10 = 10)
- 6 MCQs on Machine Learning and Hadoop ( 1*6 = 6 )
- 6 MCQs on Computer Networks ( 1*6 = 6 )
- 6 MCQs on Computer Infrastructure and Architecture ( 1*6 = 6)
- 6 MCQs on Application security and Cryptography ( 1*6 = 6)
15 shortlisted from here including 8 B.Techs and 7 M.Techs for F2F interviews, which were taken by VISA employees from their US and Singapore offices( since they don't have any office at India ).
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: They may give you a situation and ask you to explain which Software engineering principles will you use. They ask you how will you explain the concept of stacks and queues to a 7 year old, or to a granny, so as to encourage programming(like seriously ? )
General Tips: Nothing as such, since this was my second on-campus placement, I had good experience of interviews.
Keep your fundamentals in all computer science subjects open. Unlike other companies they don't focus much on coding alone. The only other company which also looks at perfection in all computer science aspects is Xerox Research Center India.
Challenging and Equally rewarding, but seriously a unique experience with no much tension
Skills:
College Name: NIT Surathkal
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Oracle consisted of an initial aptitude test followed by two rounds of technical interviews, one managerial interview and a final HR round. The company utilised the intermediary rounds as the elimination rounds.
In oracle, 3 M.Tech students and one B.Tech student(that's me) were chosen.
General Tips: Be extremely well prepared for any company. Research about the company's profile extensively before the company's interview. HR panel always looks for candidates who are well aware of the company in order to measure the candidate's interest. Data structures are absolutely necessary for any company. Improve coding skills through frequent participation in competitive programming arena such as codeForces, codeChef, HackerEarth etc. "Software development job profile was offered to me.
Unnecessary and irrelevant questions are to be avoided. We should raise questions only if we have some genuine questions. However any question related to job profile or location preference could be raised. "
"It was very grueling and tiring at first but the sweet taste of placement makes it all worth it.
Placements are a turning point in everybody's career."
Skill Tips: For oracle, a lot of research into company needs to be made. Operating systems and databases require more amount of preparation and priority in Oracle.
For data structures, online materials are excellent and in case of OOPS concepts, stronghold in either C++ or java programming language is necessary.
Skills:
College Name: NIT Surathkal
Experience: Oracle consisted of an initial aptitude test followed by two rounds of technical interviews, one managerial interview and a final HR round. The company utilised the intermediary rounds as the elimination rounds.
In oracle, 3 M.Tech students and one B.Tech student(that's me) were chosen.
General Tips: Be extremely well prepared for any company. Research about the company's profile extensively before the company's interview. HR panel always looks for candidates who are well aware of the company in order to measure the candidate's interest. Data structures are absolutely necessary for any company. Improve coding skills through frequent participation in competitive programming arena such as codeForces, codeChef, HackerEarth etc. "Software development job profile was offered to me.
Unnecessary and irrelevant questions are to be avoided. We should raise questions only if we have some genuine questions. However any question related to job profile or location preference could be raised. "
"It was very grueling and tiring at first but the sweet taste of placement makes it all worth it.
Placements are a turning point in everybody's career."
Skill Tips: For oracle, a lot of research into company needs to be made. Operating systems and databases require more amount of preparation and priority in Oracle.
For data structures, online materials are excellent and in case of OOPS concepts, stronghold in either C++ or java programming language is necessary.
Skills:
College Name: NIT Surathkal
2 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: RESUME SHORTLISTING
Experience: Resume based shortlisting followed by one interview.
General Tips: Consistent preparation is required, try to be consistent keep on try new questions and brush up basics at regular time intervals as well. Don't focus on any specific topics try to cover basics of all the subjects in the curriculum they were very helpful, coordinators advised us a lot during preparation job of research engineer is offered and You should be very clear about the job profile before applying for it.
Skill Tips: Narsimha Karumanchi, geeks quiz, indiabix etc can help in preparation.
Skills:
College Name: NIT Surathkal
Experience: Resume based shortlisting followed by one interview.
General Tips: Consistent preparation is required, try to be consistent keep on try new questions and brush up basics at regular time intervals as well. Don't focus on any specific topics try to cover basics of all the subjects in the curriculum they were very helpful, coordinators advised us a lot during preparation job of research engineer is offered and You should be very clear about the job profile before applying for it.
Skill Tips: Narsimha Karumanchi, geeks quiz, indiabix etc can help in preparation.
Skills:
College Name: NIT Surathkal
2 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: cgpa shortlisting round
Experience: There was a shortlist based on the CGPA and they took one technical interview
General Tips: Try to answer as much as possible. Don't be over confident. Don’t get too stressed up on placement procedures.Concentrate more on the hardware part and the microprocessors.
It was a bit challenging.
Skill Tips: These subjects should be prepared well-
Database
Operating System
Distributed system
Skills:
College Name: NIT Surathkal
Experience: There was a shortlist based on the CGPA and they took one technical interview
General Tips: Try to answer as much as possible. Don't be over confident. Don’t get too stressed up on placement procedures.Concentrate more on the hardware part and the microprocessors.
It was a bit challenging.
Skill Tips: These subjects should be prepared well-
Database
Operating System
Distributed system
Skills:
College Name: NIT Surathkal
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Written round having coding 3 coding questions. All the questions were aimed at testing the DSA fundamentals of the students. The questions were not too difficult or complicated. The main catch in this round was whether the student could write a clean code covering all the test cases possible. The boundary cases were the most important test cases that they were looking for.
Round: PERSONAl interview
Experience: Around 18 students were shortlisted from the written round for the personal interviews. The PI started with a group round. Basically this round was to judge the thought process of students for a given problem statement. There was no elimination after this round.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The technical interviews were elimination based rounds. The technical rounds were DSA based mainly. A few questions based on OS, DBMS, Networks were also asked but these were just the basic questions. The first 15 mins of each interview was based on the resume- basically questions on your projects, challenges faced, how you overcame those challenges etc. So be sure you are well revised with your resume. The last 10 mins was meant for the candidates to ask questions to the interviewers. Make most of these 10 mins because the questions that you ask reflects greatly upon your inclination towards the company. Moreover a great last 10 mins can easily make up for some mistakes that you did during your technical interviews.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: The HR round was just a formality. For our batch everyone who reached the HR round got selected. So if you make it to the HR round that means the company is genuinely interested in taking you.
General Tips: No tips. No hints. No use repeating the same usual stuff again. All the interviews are different. Just be confident and enter the interview room. Rest all will fall in place automatically. Citing an instance from my interview, I started my first technical interview by mentioning my hobby as eating food. The next 10 mins was spent discussing the different places that I have tried in and around mangalore. The interview even went on to ask some nice place to eat ( and he actually went there that night . The point I am trying to emphasize is that interviewers like people who are quite confident and open during the interviews. If you try to fake things then they are smart enough to catch you.
The whole placement process was really exhausting and frustrating. Each rejection just added to the frustration. But finally making the cut was the most rewarding experience of my life and made all the frustration, rejection, exhaustion seem worth it.
Make sure you do a proper background research about the company- their products, their business market etc. Make sure you ask questions during their ppt and give answers to the questions that they throw at you. This will bring you to their notice.
Skill Tips: The Job profile offered is of Software Development Engineer. Ask questions regarding the growth of the company, the competition that they are currently facing in the market. Even ask about any paradigm shifts that the company is currently undergoing. Ask about you role in the company, your growth, the technology you will be working on etc.
Skills:
College Name: NIT Surathkal
Experience: Written round having coding 3 coding questions. All the questions were aimed at testing the DSA fundamentals of the students. The questions were not too difficult or complicated. The main catch in this round was whether the student could write a clean code covering all the test cases possible. The boundary cases were the most important test cases that they were looking for.
Round: PERSONAl interview
Experience: Around 18 students were shortlisted from the written round for the personal interviews. The PI started with a group round. Basically this round was to judge the thought process of students for a given problem statement. There was no elimination after this round.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The technical interviews were elimination based rounds. The technical rounds were DSA based mainly. A few questions based on OS, DBMS, Networks were also asked but these were just the basic questions. The first 15 mins of each interview was based on the resume- basically questions on your projects, challenges faced, how you overcame those challenges etc. So be sure you are well revised with your resume. The last 10 mins was meant for the candidates to ask questions to the interviewers. Make most of these 10 mins because the questions that you ask reflects greatly upon your inclination towards the company. Moreover a great last 10 mins can easily make up for some mistakes that you did during your technical interviews.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: The HR round was just a formality. For our batch everyone who reached the HR round got selected. So if you make it to the HR round that means the company is genuinely interested in taking you.
General Tips: No tips. No hints. No use repeating the same usual stuff again. All the interviews are different. Just be confident and enter the interview room. Rest all will fall in place automatically. Citing an instance from my interview, I started my first technical interview by mentioning my hobby as eating food. The next 10 mins was spent discussing the different places that I have tried in and around mangalore. The interview even went on to ask some nice place to eat ( and he actually went there that night . The point I am trying to emphasize is that interviewers like people who are quite confident and open during the interviews. If you try to fake things then they are smart enough to catch you.
The whole placement process was really exhausting and frustrating. Each rejection just added to the frustration. But finally making the cut was the most rewarding experience of my life and made all the frustration, rejection, exhaustion seem worth it.
Make sure you do a proper background research about the company- their products, their business market etc. Make sure you ask questions during their ppt and give answers to the questions that they throw at you. This will bring you to their notice.
Skill Tips: The Job profile offered is of Software Development Engineer. Ask questions regarding the growth of the company, the competition that they are currently facing in the market. Even ask about any paradigm shifts that the company is currently undergoing. Ask about you role in the company, your growth, the technology you will be working on etc.
Skills:
College Name: NIT Surathkal
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Aptitude Test: The company was open to students in CS, IT, Mtech(CS, IS), Mech, Meta and Mining with CGPA >= 6. It was an online aptitude test of roughly an hour. It contained general aptitude questions on logic and maths, with some emphasis on geometry. There were more questions than one could solve in the given time so speed was important.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Eleven people were shortlisted. In my case, the technical interview was longer than it was for others, possibly because my branch was CS. I was asked a few logical puzzles, given a program to write(very simple: to check whether a given number was an Armstrong number) and asked to explain my internships and projects, as well as my Major Project. I was also asked some basic questions on Data Structures, Operating Systems and Database Systems.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Two people were selected for this round, and both were placed in the company. Here I was asked: What do you hope to be doing some years from now? What is your idea of a good organisation? I was asked to talk about my hobbies and interests, and asked to give examples of when I had worked in a team and what role I played. They also asked for location preference.
General Tips: Some general math practice, no specific resource.
Sometimes it's all right even if you do not get the answer to a puzzle, as long as you are able to demonstrate your thinking process to the interviewer. Often when an interviewer is asking you questions about subjects you have studied, they are not testing your knowledge, but giving you a chance to explain something that you know about.
Some general math practice and recalling basic geometry concepts would help for the aptitude test.
For the technical interview, it helps to have a couple of concepts you can explain really well in subjects like OS, Database, and knowing the basics of Data Structures is essential.
The technical interview was exhausting, only because it went on for a while. In hindsight, it was not that difficult compared to some other companies I've heard about.
Skills:
College Name: NIT Surathkal
Experience: Aptitude Test: The company was open to students in CS, IT, Mtech(CS, IS), Mech, Meta and Mining with CGPA >= 6. It was an online aptitude test of roughly an hour. It contained general aptitude questions on logic and maths, with some emphasis on geometry. There were more questions than one could solve in the given time so speed was important.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Eleven people were shortlisted. In my case, the technical interview was longer than it was for others, possibly because my branch was CS. I was asked a few logical puzzles, given a program to write(very simple: to check whether a given number was an Armstrong number) and asked to explain my internships and projects, as well as my Major Project. I was also asked some basic questions on Data Structures, Operating Systems and Database Systems.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Two people were selected for this round, and both were placed in the company. Here I was asked: What do you hope to be doing some years from now? What is your idea of a good organisation? I was asked to talk about my hobbies and interests, and asked to give examples of when I had worked in a team and what role I played. They also asked for location preference.
General Tips: Some general math practice, no specific resource.
Sometimes it's all right even if you do not get the answer to a puzzle, as long as you are able to demonstrate your thinking process to the interviewer. Often when an interviewer is asking you questions about subjects you have studied, they are not testing your knowledge, but giving you a chance to explain something that you know about.
Some general math practice and recalling basic geometry concepts would help for the aptitude test.
For the technical interview, it helps to have a couple of concepts you can explain really well in subjects like OS, Database, and knowing the basics of Data Structures is essential.
The technical interview was exhausting, only because it went on for a while. In hindsight, it was not that difficult compared to some other companies I've heard about.
Skills:
College Name: NIT Surathkal
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: RESUME SHORTLISTING
Experience: Round 1 - Resume based shortlist(40 students were shortlisted)
General Tips: Technical round was very challenging as it tested my basics of computer science and general aptitude and managerial round was full of behavioral questions and HR round was the best as i ended up cracking jokes and making HR laugh .
Skill Tips: Prepared basics of computer science,solved aptitude questions from Indiabix.com and programs from geeksforgeeks.com.
Prepare basics well brush out the aptitude formulas and prepare about the company well before appearing for interviews .
prepare basics of C,C++,OOPS,SDLC ,Datastructures and general aptitude well.know about the company from www.credit-suisse.com
Skills:
College Name: NIT Surathkal
Experience: Round 1 - Resume based shortlist(40 students were shortlisted)
General Tips: Technical round was very challenging as it tested my basics of computer science and general aptitude and managerial round was full of behavioral questions and HR round was the best as i ended up cracking jokes and making HR laugh .
Skill Tips: Prepared basics of computer science,solved aptitude questions from Indiabix.com and programs from geeksforgeeks.com.
Prepare basics well brush out the aptitude formulas and prepare about the company well before appearing for interviews .
prepare basics of C,C++,OOPS,SDLC ,Datastructures and general aptitude well.know about the company from www.credit-suisse.com
Skills:
College Name: NIT Surathkal
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