Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology (TIET)

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Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology (TIET) Placement Interview Questions

Updated 10 Dec 2024

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I was interviewed in Aug 2021.

5 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Hard

Timings: Early morning 7am (60 mins )
Subsection 1 (30 mins): MCQ round having 30 questions of 11th and 12th Math (complex numbers, trigonometry, calculas), Probability (Expectancy, bayes theorem, other probability question), Coding (Input/Output Question, Time complexity, Stack Push and Pop, Prefix, Postfix).
Subsection 2 (30 mins): 2 Coding Question 1 easy level (Find max in array), other was medium level (Find all the elements in tree which are at same level, where level is depth of smallest path from root to leaf)

Questions were different for each candidate

  • Q1. Given an array find the maximum element in array. You are given an array of N elements. This array represents the digits of a number. In an operation, you can s...read more
  • Q2. Finding Paths Kevin has written some integers on a paper. He then selects some integers and draws a line between them. Fortunately, his diagram represents a bin...read more
2

Video Call Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 30 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Interviewer greeted me and told this round is only on Probability.(This was scheduled same day at 3pm)
He asked Following Probability questions:
Q1: What is Random variable?
Q2: What is Sample space?
Q3: What is Conditional Probability? followed by a Numerical on it.
Q4: What is a Normal Distribution?
Q5: What is Bayes theorem? followed by a numerical on it.
Q6: probability of car accident in one hour is 1/4. What is the probability of accident in half hour?
Q7: Two die are thrown, what is the probability of getting multiple of 3. 
Q8: There is 10 Black socks in drawer, 10 white socks. What is the minimum number of socks we need to pick out such that we get a pair?

  • Q1. Aptitude Question

    probability of car accident in one hour is 1/4. What is the probability of accident in half hour?

  • Q2. Aptitude Question

    There is 10 Black socks in drawer, 10 white socks. What is the minimum number of socks we need to pick out such that we get a pair?

3

Video Call Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 30 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Interviewer greeted me and told this round is only on Basic DSA.(This was scheduled same day at 3:30pm)
He asked Following questions:
Q1: Introduction and Explain your resume?
Q2: What if we have one class (which has array functionality) and other class (stack) which we will inherit from array class what could possibly go wrong here?
Q3: What is Static data member in Classes?
Q4: What is Static member function in Classes? Can static member functions call normal data member of classes?
Q5: you are given a 2D grid, each index has some value associated with it. From Bottom right cornor you need to find a path till Top left cornor where you can get maximum sum of values from index occuring on the path, You can go in Up direction, Left direction or diagonal up-left direction? 

I was asked for approach (No coding was done on compiler)

  • Q1. Print All Possible Paths From Top Left Corner To Bottom Right Corner Of A 2-D Matrix You are given an ‘M*N’ Matrix, You need to print all possible paths from it...read more
4

Video Call Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 15 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

This round happened around 5pm in evening, i got the call from the interviewer to join Zoom call immediately. In this round (it was kind of rapid fire round on DSA,)
Following questions were asked:
Q1: Introduce yourself and explain your resume.
Q2: What is your favorite data structure and why? I said it is Deque, as it is can be helpful in many questions
Q3: Explain what are segment trees. Also give a question were we can use them.
Q4: What are tries, and give one application of tries.
Q5: Given one array you need to give approach to find out all the permutation of the elements in it. (I gave recursive approach)
Q6: Given the same array and value k, you need to tell if sum of subset can be equal to k. (This question is modification of 0/1 Knapsack. I explained the recursive approach)

Interviewer told me to wait for last HR round (I was on cloud 9 after listening to this as it was elimination round)

  • Q1. Find Permutation You are given an integer ‘N’. You need to find an array of size 2*N that satisfies the following two conditions. 1. All numbers from 1 to N sho...read more
  • Q2. Subset Sum Equal To K You are given an array/list ‘ARR’ of ‘N’ positive integers and an integer ‘K’. Your task is to check if there exists a subset in ‘ARR’ wit...read more
5

Video Call Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 20 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

This round happened around 6:30pm in evening, i got the call from the interviewer to join Zoom call immediately. It was HR+(Probability mix round).
He asked me following questions:
Q1: Introduce and explain your resume.
As i was unable to solve 2 probability question in Round 2. The interviewer immediately asked me 2 probability questions back to back.
Q2: What is bayes theorem and a numerical on it.
Q3: If there is a frog which can go one step forward with probability 3/4. and one step backward with 1/4. What is expectancy to reach 7 steps forward.

I was unable to solve the last probability ques. Was on right track almost in end of interview.
2/18 students were selected for intern JPMC(Quant Research @ 1.5Lakhs stipend)

  • Q1. Aptitude Question If there is a frog which can go one step forward with probability 3/4. and one step backward with 1/4. What is expectancy to reach 7 steps for...read more

Interview Preparation Tips

Professional and academic backgroundI completed Computer Science Engineering from TIET - Thapar Institute of Engineering And Technology. I applied for the job as Machine learning engineer in MumbaiEligibility criteriaAbove 7 CGPA, No criteria, Need two development projects on ResumeJP Morgan interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Probability and Statistics, Dynamic programming, Greedy Algorithm, Arrays, Strings, Trees, HeapTime required to prepare for the interview - 2 MonthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Do Solve Probability questions on Expectancy, Conditional Probability, Bayes theorem and basic 12th level.
Tip 2 : Prepare your Introduction and Be very concise as interviews are of maximum 30 mins each
Tip 3 : Be very communicative and keep trying each question given till end. Never give up!

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Do include Projects with Live link in resume
Tip 2 : Do Choose simple Format of Word, Don't include to much designing

Final outcome of the interviewRejected
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R&D Intern Interview Questions

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posted on 12 Dec 2021

I was interviewed before Dec 2020.

4 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 70 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

It had two parts. First part had MCQ questions and the second part had two coding questions.

  • Q1. Minimum Depth Of Binary Tree You have been given a Binary Tree of integers, find the minimum depth of this Binary Tree. The minimum depth of a Binary Tree is th...read more
2

Video Call Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Questions about data structures and Machine learning were asked.

  • Q1. Pascal's Triangle You are given an integer N. Your task is to return a 2-D ArrayList containing the pascal’s triangle till the row N. A Pascal's triangle is...read more
3

Video Call Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Hard

Questions related to data structures were asked

  • Q1. Sort Elements By Frequency You are given a list of a repeated set of integers. Your task for the problem is to return a list of the given elements in decreasing...read more
4

HR Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 40 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Questions about my projects and behavioural questions were asked

  • Q1. Basic HR Questions

    Who is your role model?

    Are you a team player?

Interview Preparation Tips

Professional and academic backgroundI completed Computer Science Engineering from TIET - Thapar Institute of Engineering And Technology. I applied for the job as R&D Intern in MumbaiEligibility criteria7.5 CgpaJPMorgan Chase & Co. interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structures and Algorithms, Operating Systems, Computer Networks, DBMS, OOPSTime required to prepare for the interview - 8 MonthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Data Structures is most important.
Tip 2 : Practice coding problems.

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Mention good projects 
Tip 2 : Have complete knowledge of whatever you are mentioning

Final outcome of the interviewSelected
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Quantitative Research Interview Questions

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posted on 15 Sep 2021

I was interviewed before Sep 2020.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

This was an MCQ + Coding round

18 questions of Logical Reasoning
5 questions of Mathematics
7 questions of Subjects
2 coding questions

  • Q1. Minimum travel Cost Ninjaland is a country having 'N' states numbered from 1 to 'N'. These 'N' states are connected by 'M' bidir...read more
  • Q2. Shortest path in an unweighted graph The city of Ninjaland is analogous to the unweighted graph. The city has ‘N’ houses numbered from 1 to ‘N’ respectively and...read more
2

Video Call Round (6 Questions)

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

The interviewer was kind, chill, and helping. The interview was on Zoom.

  • Q1. Probability-Mathematics Throw a dice, your score will the number that appears on the topmost face of the dice. Find the expected score. Then the question was ex...read more
  • Q2. Puzzle There are 25 horses among which you need to find out the fastest 3 horses. You can conduct race among at most 5 to find out their relative speed. At no p...read more
  • Q3. Find the number which when divided by 8, leaves remainder 7, when divided by 7, leaves remainder 6, when divided by 5, leaves remainder 4........ when divided ...read more
  • Q4. Optimal Strategy for a Game You and your friend Ninjax are playing a game of coins. Ninjax place the 'N' number of coins in a straight line. The rule of...read more
  • Q5. Chocolate Bar You are given a chocolate bar in the form of a grid consisting of N x M pieces of chocolate. Your task is to take out exactly ‘K’ pieces of chocol...read more
  • Q6. OOPS Five questions on OOPS were asked :- 1. What is Smart Pointer? 2. Some basic questions involving bit manipulation. 3. What is Virtual function? 4. What is ...read more
3

Video Call Round (4 Questions)

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

The interviewer was kind, chill, and helpful. The interview was on Zoom.

  • Q1. Project Discussion Discussion on Machine Learning Projects followed by a thorough discussion on Regression and other models. Discussion on deciding the model fo...read more
  • Q2. Puzzle

    Given two hourglass of 4 minutes and 7 minutes, the task is to measure 9 minutes.
     

  • Q3. Counting Pairs You are given a positive integer N and an equation 1/X + 1/Y = 1/N You need to determine the count of all possible positive integral solutions (X...read more
  • Q4. Mathematics There are 2 ants sitting on diagonally opposite vertices of the same face of a cube. They can move in any direction and reach another vertex in one ...read more

Interview Preparation Tips

Professional and academic backgroundI completed Computer Science Engineering from TIET - Thapar Institute of Engineering And Technology. I applied for the job as Quantitative Research in MumbaiEligibility criteriaAbove 7 CGPAJP Morgan interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structures, Algorithms, OOPS, DBMS, Probability, StatisticsTime required to prepare for the interview - 1 monthInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Having good mathematical skills and a good grasp of Probability will help you a lot.
Tip 2 : Have all your basics cleared of OOPS and data structures.
Tip 3 : Practice coding questions regularly to have good coding skills.
Tip 4 : Have at least one good project where you used Machine Learning or played with data.
Tip 5 : Solve a lot of puzzles either on geeks for geeks or from any newspaper or magazine but this is necessary.

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Have at least one good project where you used Machine Learning or played with data.
Tip 2 : You must know everything thoroughly that you've written on your resume.
Tip 3 : Keep it simple, clean, and readable.

Final outcome of the interviewSelected
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I was interviewed in Oct 2016.

5 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: We were first taught the basics of operations involved in working with an investment bank. Based on the workshop we were given a case study with a list of companies to select the one's which are potencial candidates for investments. We were all divided into groups of 5 students.

Round: Test
Experience: The test was basic. Economical aptitude requires prior knowledge of economics concepts. The review topicwas GST bill.
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 41

Round: Stress Interview
Tips: It is important to be aware about the current events and economies.

Skills: Economic Affairs, Financial Economics, Knowledge On Current Affairs
College Name: Thapar University, Patiala
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