BARSYL Interview Questions and Answers

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Qualifier - GD. Topic was general in nature. They expected good communication skills
along with the ability to steer the group to reach a conclusion.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The interview involved oneback-of-the-envelope analytical problem which was rather abstract.

General Tips: Prepare properly – Both for the written tests as well as the interviews.
Don’t get nervous when you don’t know something in the interview. Tell them you don’t and tell
them why you don’t know without sounding defensive. Pitch yourself. Tell them how your projects and courses have taught you about the area of work.
Talk a lot, clearly and confidently in your GD. Don’t repeat yourself. Don’t raise your voice.
Learn coding.
Prepare basic data structures, algorithms and operating systems properly for the written test.
Skill Tips: Non-core internship is particularly helpful. Do's and Don’ts - Don't beat around the bush. Use your thinking time. Don't get stressed or nervous if you can't answer. Didn't care much about BT projects/ intern/ courses. Overall, Biotech subject knowledge required for a non-core placement is minimal; an average
importance of 4 on 10.
College Name: IIT-Madras

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: 15 minutes. Everyone was given time to conclude. Strength was 10. No specific skills were tested, Common GD skills like communication skills, listening to others viewpoint etc.

Round: Interview
Experience: 1st interview was with the panelists who visited here and the other was a telephonic interview with the Head of the Division from Delhi.As office is in Gurgaon, Hindi speaking ability helps. HR related question were there mostly. Asked about General Secretary post(POR). Asked about family background. As a lot of travel is involved they see your attachment with family. Interview was mostly based on PORs and resume.
No specific fundas required.
Tips: Before going for the interview please be aware of the recent affairs in the sector. Please read the day’s newspaper as I was asked a question about Malaysian infrastructure which featured on that day’s newspaper. I couldn’t answer and that was the reason I wasn’t selected in Deloitt Infrastructure

General Tips: Please go through the current affairs of the particular sector you are applying for( finance, Infrastructure). Before coming to the interview read the day’s newspaper.
Skill Tips: Focus on your Study.. Revise the subject that you have studied at the time of Interview
Skills: Technical Skills
College Name: IIT MADRAS

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Tests your speaking skills, ability to form consensus, ability to work as a team and how you handle differences
Tips: Agree to disagree, be firm about your opinions but recognize if you are wrong.
Duration: 10 minutes

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: Tests your approach towards solving problems
Tips: Say your thought process aloud, make broad assumptions first, give realistic numbers to your assumed variables and perform sanity check on solution.

General Tips: IMPORTANT - discuss your salary during interview with Feedback Infra. Clearly ask what your take home component would be. It is wrong on their part but the company first quotes a competitive CTC orally and then after your placement is done, it gives 10-15% lesser CTC on its legal letterhead, but by then you would have declined other offers, so you would not have any choice but to accept this job. They dupe students from IIMs, IITs, SPA Delhi, LSE and also lateral hires on salary aspect. Be very careful, tell them you can only accept or decline their offer after they quote salary on letterhead.
Skill Tips: Be calm
Skills: Approach towards solving problems, Basic mathematics
College Name: School of Planning and Architecture
Motivation: Wanted a job