Bajaj Auto Graduate Engineer Trainee (Get) Interview Questions and Answers

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Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Basics should be clear. Maximum questions were asked based on the resume

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: The criterion for selection were:
-75% aggregate overall
-70% in each of the preceding 6 semestors
-No gap year after class 12 or otherwise
Tips: Focus on academics throughout college life irrespective of what your peers or seniors may tell you. Every company keeps a cut off.

Round: Test
Experience: The test had two sections:
-45 questions of technical aptitude
-45 questions of Quant/Verbal/LR

The technical questions covered: Strength of materials, thermodynamic, heat and mass transfer, refrigeration and Air conditions, IC engines, Fluid systems.
A lot of numericals were asked. Theory was given lesser weight.

Quant and Verbal were above average as compared to other companies however much below MBA entrances (as inferred from talks with several colleagues)

Tips: Since the company visits right at the beginning of the placement session right after summer internship, there is little time to brush up on your coursework if you didn't do it already. Instead you could steal a march on other students by ensuring you devote a larger part of your test to quantitative part as it is often the difference creator between students.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Questions: 90

Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: They were interested in the practical application of both my projects and their replicability in real life at minimal cost. They even discussed how I could install those systems at my home, what would be the efficiency and output. They were also interested in the designing aspect and operating parameters (and simulations work from MATLAB, CFD, ANSYS was not focussed at)

No coursework theory questions/derivations etc were asked.

I told them about my leadership positions at college level and asked them about different departments at the company and procedure of switching between them.

The interview was a pleasant and thought provoking experience.
Tips: It is advantageous to have research papers or being a part of a technical team (however even students without either of them were selected too).

Prepare common questions like strengths, weaknesses, about yourself.

Read the website of company thoroughly and mention testimonials from the site in your interview for a lasting impression.

And most importantly, your projects give you leverage in the interviews so be thorough with them.

Skills: Critical Thinking, Ability To Think Out Of The Box, Practical Application Of Concepts
College Name: Delhi Technological University, Delhi

Round: Test
Experience: Technical questions were based on IC engines, dome, strength of materials and few questions related to turbo-machines. Basically they covered almost every core topic. They are not based on bookish knowledge rather questions were related to practical applications.
Aptitude- this part is very important and is the deciding round. Try to score as high as possible in this section.
Tips: Practice aptitude, pariksha tests will serve the purpose.
Technical- apart from brushing all your core concepts, also go through sample mechanical engineering test questions on internet.
Duration: 45 minutes

Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: Interview was completely technical. They asked me what were my projects and internships and which was the favorite one. Make sure u know everything about your project/internship. If it is IC Engines related they will grill u on that. Mine were on heat transfer (jet impingement cooling) and turbomachines. They asked me to explain about them.

They asked me about the ic engines lab experiment which was on emissions and asked me to draw the emission characteristics (co, Hc, NOx).
Other questions were related to porous media (my Btech project), cruising and idling conditions and air/fuel ratios, emission norms in India etc
Tips: Make sure in every explanation u give u should highlight the R&D aspect of it. They were particularly looking for people interested in R&D.
Brush all the core topics, especially IC engines. If you did any work related to ic engines they will ask u on that, else they will test your subject knowledge.
Also learn something about the latest technologies in automobiles and how bajaj contributed to them.

Skills: Technical knowledge, Interest in R&D
College Name: IIT Madras

Round: Test
Experience: First 3 sections were regular.
Domain had questions from materials, thermodynamics, machining etc. however all areas were covered.
Tips: Practice aptitude to make first 3 sections smoother.
Some domain questions are general, guess by sense.

Round: HR + Technical Interview
Experience: Interviewers were cool, asked how's the day been.
1) You and your background.
2) Why BAJAJ auto?
3) Tell us something interesting in your Projects
4) How does a spark plug work?
5) What is the order of voltage in spark plug?
6) What do you know of automotive industry?

My peers were asked questions about bike weight, horsepower, weight of Boeing, design gear/spring, power consumption in India etc.
Tips: I believe they look for people interested in automobile.
Be thorough on your project and practical aspects of it (e.g. typical values of common features, like dimension of a part )
For some questions they just test logical thinking.
Having project on automobile engineering may help.

General Tips: Prepare a subject (favorite one may be) properly for placements, since you may not be able to do it all. Its asked everywhere.
Skills: Design Of Machine Elements, IC Engines, Automobile Engineering
College Name: IIT Kharagpur
Motivation: R&D profile

Round: Test
Experience: First round was a  Written test

Round: Other Interview
Experience: After that was 1 round of personal interview.

General Tips: It was rewarding. Projects like Bajaj which are very specific to the field of automobiles Helped in a big way. Also, one round of interview made the process easier and enjoyable.
Skill Tips: Brush up formulae from Gate books. Keep your resume ready and printed. Go through the project reports and industrial training reports. Shortlist which are your courses of interest and revise only those courses and Keep calm!
College Name: NIT SURATHKAL

Round: Test
Experience: There is a MCQ test of about 40 questions I think in which half the questions are Mechanical Engineering knowledge while the other half is general and math aptitude. The main problem in this test is that there are negatives if you get the question wrong due to which you should tread very carefully. Here, I would like to note that the Mechanical Engineering part can be quite hard if you are unprepared. But the general aptitude questions, while not very easy, are nothing out of the ordinary. So, my suggestion would be to seriously attempt the aptitude questions andspend lesser time on the Mechanical Engineering questions.
Total Questions: 40

Round: Other Interview
Experience: Around 20 people are selected for the interview round from around 120 who write the test. There is only 1 round of interviews for Bajaj from which they take around 5 people (thesenumbers have remained about the same for a few years). The interview itself will be based onwhat area of Mechanical Engineering, as chosen by you, is your strength. Alternatively theymight quiz you on your summer projects. In my case however, almost the entire interview wasbased on my work in NITKRacing. And from my experience as well as from what I heard fromothers, being a part of any wing of NITKRacing is a big positive especially for Bajaj.

General Tips: Nothing much to say except not underestimate your chances of getting into the company in question. This confidence of yours could reflect in the interview.
Skill Tips: Some aptitude question a day or two before the test day could help shed some of the rust that you might have accumulated. As far as Mechanical Engineering knowledge goes, there is nothing much you can do in the last few days. You should either have an excellent memory or have been preparing for placements for quite some time.
College Name: NIT SURATHKAL
Motivation: Bajaj was the first company to come for placements for Mechanical Engineering students just a week after vacations. Hence there was barely any time to settle down and prepare in any way. Also, it has one of the shortest recruiting procedures with just 1 round each of interview and test. So, it all got over quite quickly for me to realize. But the one overwhelming experience was of anxiety, especially when you clear the test that you did not expect yourself to. If you got from 120 to 20 students unexpectedly, you are EXTREMELY anxious to get to that lucky 5 so that you don't have to go through all that again, which fortunately, is what happened.

Round: Test
Experience: It was normal aptitude questions. technical questions were from a lot of fields and basicaally more concentrated on the thermal engineering and automobile section.
Tips: Prepare the aptitude well and finish them first. technical can take some time. Have a basic idea about the topics learned in the curriculum.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The questions were mosty abut my interests and my projects so far. Some Hr questions were also asked during the same time. Two interviewers were present and one of them was from the technical sde and the other from the hr. The interview lasted for around 20 minutes.
Tips: Be confident.Be true regarding your ineterests and paassions. Questions can be expected from how you present your replies.

College Name: NIT CALICUT

Round: Test
Experience: Basic questions from all the subjects were covered
Tips: Brush up with all basics of the subjects

Round: Interview
Tips: Projects in feild of automobiles

Skills: Technical skills , Projects
College Name: NIT Warangal
Motivation: Interest in Automobiles