Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI), Mumbai
Mumbai, Maharashtra
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Round: HR Interview Experience: Conversation with the InterviewersThe interviewer started with asking my name. Before I write down the conversation I want to introduce one more interviewer who came after few minutes of the first interviewer's arrival and he was a young gentleman. Hence I am referring the first interviewer as interviewer1 and later one as interviewer2. Before interviewer2 came interviewer1 started. Interviewer1: What is your name? Me: I am Biswajit Kayal. Interviewer1: So Biswajit, do you know which function is used for dynamic memory allocation in C? Me: malloc () is used for dynamic memory allocation. Interviewer1: What is the reverse of malloc () function? Me: Don't know sir.(After thinking few seconds, actually I didn't get his question, I guessed it should be free() but I didn't answer as I thought that it may creates a negative impression. ) Interviewer1: Explain link list. Me: Using a example, I did it on paper and explain the concept of link list. Interviewer1: Is link list linear or non linear data structure? Me: We can access the data in link list linearly but the way it stores data is non linear.At this point the second interviewer (e.i. Interviewer2) came and I stood up and wished him good afternoon. He told me to take my seat. Interviewer2 took my CV and go through it. Then Interviewer2 started. Interviewer2: Do you know binary search algorithms? Me: Yes sir. Interiewer2: Tell the advantage of binary search? Me: It is faster as in every iteration the number of input reduced to its half. Interviewer2: What is the complexity of binary search? Me: O(logn) sir. (After thinking few seconds) Interviewer2: What is insertion sort? Me: Explained with an example how insertion sort algorithm work. Interviewer2: How do you reverse a string? Me: I explained the logic, I said take the 1st character and last character of the string and swap each other and then take 2nd character and 2nd last character and swap them. Likewise do for all until the middle element reached. Interviewer2: What is function overloading? Me: Explained. Interviewer2: What is Operator Overloading? Me: Don't know sir. (As I didn't mention any object oriented programming language in my CV he didn't ask any further question from OOPS). Interviewer2: What is Database Management System? Me: Told. Interviewer2: What is primary key? Me: Primary key is an attribute or set of attribute together used to uniquely identify the tuple in a relation or table. Interviewer2: What is Framework? (As I did my summer training on C#.NET)
Me: Frame work allow the developer to concentrate on the business logic other functionality required like printing services etc that will be provided by framework. And here Interviewer2 finished Interviewer1: Do you have anything to ask us? Me: Yes sir, what will be my job role in IBM GBS? Interviewer1: Smiled and said that have your institute trained you all to ask this same question, everyone asking the same.Then he replied that they will give us joining around July and then we will be trained on any of their technology such as SAP, .NET, Mainframe etc for few months, then we will be posted at any location in India as per company requirement and basically our role will be developer. Tips: And here my interview finished. So far I have shared the question they asked and what was my reply. Now I will share my feeling about the Interview. The interviewer were very cool and friendly, I never feel nervous, though it was my second Job interview still I felt very free to talk with them.Finally the result announced and I was selected.
Wish you all the best for your interview, don't get nervous try to give your best and be honest.
Round: HR Interview Experience: If you manage to clear the technical round then its PDM round which is said to be most difficult to get the offer letter. The PDM round is usually taken by a senior delivery manager and he can ask you some technical as well hr questions. Please pay extra attention while replying to the
questions because they try to confuse you a lot.Some questions are like :-
a) Why you are leaving your current job?
b) Why you left your previous jobs?
c) Who else in the family? If you belong to business family, do you have plan to join the business later?
d) What are your expectations ?If you say good work, please note you are most probably going to get hired on bench and manager taking the interview is clueless about that. He might pretend that you will off course get the work of your choice but that totally your sheer luck.
e) Salary expectations? They generally offer a less hike but I have heard several stories like HR doesn't have proper communication of package offered by manager in PDM round. HR will get back to you with offer letter solely on their discretion (if you clear) and there you can negotiate as well. Don't emphasize much on package in PDM round because IBM Managers usually won't appreciate it because of policies and guidelines.
Induction
Once you accept the offer letter and join the IBM, they usually carry out the Induction program at Noida branch no matter what is your preferred location. If
you are moving from out of NCR they advice to take hotel or plan the stay. Induction is of about 5 days may not be continuous.
On Bench -Reporting Location
If you are on bench, you can go to any IBM office.
Round: Test Experience: Round 1: Online Aptitude Test
#Number Series: Following questions were there. We had 2.15 minutes for each question. There was no negative marking scheme. You cannot skip any question as otherwise you can't go back to the previous question.
#Aptitude Questions: Again there were 15 questions and we had about 2 min for each of the question. I don't remember the question but they were of average. I am not very good at aptitude but I found it good. So, it was surely an average test. You cannot skip any question as otherwise you can't go back to the previous question.
Round: Test Experience: We were given 22 questions based on voices, preposition, sentence using, and some question related to documentation. For example, where do you write introduction in formal mails and what do you write to address in the business letter. It is very simple and related to the usual language we use in the business letters and talking. No "ve marking and we were given 20 min. for the test. You cannot skip any question as otherwise you can't go back to the previous question.
After that, we were told to leave. We got the reply on our mails and I got selected for the next round.
Round: Group Discussion Experience: Round 3: (Group Discussion): Group of 10-11 was made and my topic was "Social n/w- Stay connected on the go-on mobile. Other topic for another group was "Women Empowerment. There were 2 judges and they were very friendly and made us feel comfortable. Initially, there was a chaos in GD but later on, they asked each one of them to speak individually. In my group, only one candidate couldn't make through the next round. My suggestion for this round is that don't take the topic in informal way. I didn't speak much but I told only relevant things
Finally my name was called and it was the easiest round for me. The interviewer was very friendly and asked simple question. Some questions were:
1. How was your day and how are you feeling?
2. Introduce yourself, Strengths, weaknesses, family background.
3. Technically, in which language are you comfortable with?
4. Any problem with relocation?
There was not a single question of technical or programming. Instead he asked 1 question to check my analysis quotient only. Question was "You want to know the number of bicycles in your city. What approach will you use for it? He didn't wanted any calculation or code, just the approach used to solve the problem. I gave 1 approaches:
#1 Check the Nationap population register and find no. of children and labours in the area s this is the class of population which uses most no. of cysles. But it will be a tedious approach.
#2 Divide the area in small regions and do the public survey.
And the interviewer was very happy with my 1st approach.
In the end, I asked him about the work culture of IBM. He explained it in detail.
Don't panic guys, if you don't know anything. If it is your day, you will definitely go through all the rounds.Finally, we were told to wait. They called the names of selected candidates and my name was there in the list. That was the happiest moment of my life as I was searching for the job since long time as I am a 2012 batch pass out. We filled the Employment Application Form on the same day.I must mention that team IBM is the most managed team I have seen in all the drives. They are very professional yet friendly people.