National Institute of Technology,(NIT), Meghalaya Placement Interview Questions

Common GD topics on Knowledge versus technology

• Q1. Tactics to face the situation on marketing and sales
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• Q1. Demostrate how can i face a specific mentioned situation witha customer
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Knowledge vs confidence

• Q1. Why business and how will ot help ur long term goals
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• Q1. Tell about yourself and why this company
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Simple Aptitude and Civil Technical questions

• Q1. Technical + HR round was there for 10-12minutes. Simple questions based on your Project and internship. and then questions from 2 of your favorite subjects.
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Aptitude and coding test was there

• Q1. Return the maximum element of an array
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Aptitude questions, core questions and coding problems

• Q1. Write an algorithm to return the maximum element in an array
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They provide a topic and you have to discuss on pros & cons for 10 minutes after they said to start.

• Q1. They ask question related to Power electronics & electrical machines
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I was selected from campus drive, so have to attend all 4 stages.

Current issue of project acquisition in different areas in India.

• Q1. Related questions of my project and civil engineering.
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• Q2. About the mtech project.
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• Q1. Final round with HR.
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• Q2. About previous experience and salary.
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• Q3. Why there is gap between career.
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Round duration - 180 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Timing :- They conducted test in day time on weekends.
Problems :- Round consist of 3 coding problems.
Environment :- Test was web proctored.
Other :- Only 1 problem is needed to clear this round.

• Q1. Prime Time Again Problem Statement You are given two integers DAY_HOURS and PARTS . Consider a day with DAY_HOURS hours, which can be divided into PARTS equal ...read more
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Round duration - 180 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Timing :- 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. ( 3 hours )
Problems :- 3 coding problems were in this round ( Easy, Medium, Hard ) basis. You can not check the submission results in this round. So, can't be sure whether solution you submitted is correct or not. PPI oppurtunity for roles in infosys (SE, SES, Power Programmer) were based on this round.

• Q1. Rotting Oranges Problem Statement You are given a grid containing oranges where each cell of the grid can contain one of the three integer values: 0 - represen...read more
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Round duration - 50 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

After getting the PPI offer from Infosys and waiting for long 2 months. On 12th October my interview was scheduled, it was a 1 hour interview 12 noon - 1 p.m. Interview was conducted on Infosys Meridian ( Infosys Own Platform ). A meeting id was provided in mail, and we can not join before interviewer. HR contact number was provided in mail.

Interview begin :-

Interviewer :- Good afternoon, So tell me something about your family forget about your acdemics now. ( He was trying to make me comfortable ).
Me :- Told about my family, what they are doing and something about myself.

Interviewer :- You are from electrical, then why you preferred coding instead of going Navratna Electrical companies ( Bhel, NTPC)
Me :- I started coding from 2nd year and i found myself more interested in this. So, i just followed my passion.

Interviewer :- In which programming language are you comfortable ?
Me :- C++

Interviewer :- Why?
Me :- Because its faster than Java and Python and easy to implement. And i take part in competitive programming contest on Codechef, Codeforces so, C++ consists of Standard Template Library which is beneficial.

Interviewer:- What is this pointer?
Me:- This pointer represents to the current object in a class.

Then he asked few more question on C++ ( difference between call be value and call be reference, namespace, some C++ libraries)

Interviewer:- In which CSE topics are you comfortable?
Me:- DS and Algo, OOPS

Interviewer:- Can you write some queries?
Me:- I practised one day before few SQL queries but i was not confident. So, dont want to give a try I answered "No sir".

Interviewer:- What is flux?
Me:- Magnetic flux passing through a unit area.

Then he start asking few more question form electrical core. I was not able to answer. I said him I am not good in electrical core. I am more interested to solve any DS/Algo question.

Interviewer:- Make a doubly linked list of 5 elements and apply merge sort on it. He asked me to share the screen and open any of my favourite online editor.
Me:- I coded on Codechef-IDE. First dicuss the logic with him and then coded witn explaining him each line. Th code run successfully and Interviwer seems to satisfy.

Then, he pasted a piece of code in Python in a doc sheet and send me. He asked me to solve that problem. It was based on concepts of OOPS. Consisting of 3 classes and relation of Inheritance, Copy constructor, Parameterised Constructor was there in that problem. I step by step solve that problem and gave final output to interviewer. Interviewer was satisfied with output and said it was correct.

Interviewer:- I am done with interviewer. I check your coding knowledge. Do you have any questions for me?
Me:- Asked about training process in infosys.

Verdict:- Selected

• Q1. MergeSort Linked List Problem Statement Sort a given singly linked list of integers using the 'Merge Sort' algorithm. Input: The first and only line of input c...read more
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