Bharathidasan University PHD Scholar Interview Questions and Answers

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Questions from resume and walk-ins have more chance

Round: Test
Experience: Everything you can expect. (demo)
Duration: 2 hours
Total Questions: 100

Round: Behavioural Interview
Experience: Everything you can imagine (demo)

College Name: IIT Madras

Round: Guesstimate Interview
Experience: They asked me the question. I worked my way to the answer. The interviewers were helping me in the process. Cannot disclose the answer due to NDA.
Tips: Think simple. Start with basics and ask questions to the interviewer. More information is revealed only if you ask them right questions,

Skills: Knowledge Of MS Office, Proficiency In English

Round: Grammar Round
Experience: It was a written English grammar test to analyse how grammatically sound you are.
Tips: Just revise your basic English grammar like prepositions verbs nd essay/paragraph writing

Round: COMMUNICATION SKILLS Round
Experience: In this round they ask you to speak something on the given topic or sometimes group discussion . Basically they test your vocabulary, your thought process, pronunciation, accent and above all confidence.
Tips: Be confident in whatever you speak. Remember if you get nervous you will need with your words .

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: This was an online test and it had 50 questions all objective types.
Tips: Be technically sound. You cannot Google them as these search engines are blocked

College Name: Babu Banarasi Das National Institute Of Technology And Management (BBDNITM)

Round: Test
Experience: PART ONE: Verbal Ability, uses of articles (a, an, the) and a RC. PART TWO: logical reasoning, standard IQ type Questions, was simple. PART THREE: An essay, one out of two, one choice was nuclear deal and the other was education system in India.


Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Some regular puzzles, easy one .Discussion on internship work

College Name: IIT Kanpur

Skills: Communication and confidence
College Name: IIT Madras

Round: Test
Experience: It included quantitative ability questions and a few subjective coding type questions. Nothing known about cutoff as almost major chunk of people appearing for the test were called for the interview.The criteria for test is mainly on CGs and at timesdepartments too.There are rare companies like BCG, DB who actually refer your resumes for interviews without tests.
Duration: 1 hour minute

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: 2 rounds of interview were there – first the technical interview which included questions on your resume. Detailed questionson every point you have mentioned, cross checking whether you really know aboutit at times asking you for examples. No speed math was included. The interview was purely on all the stuff mentioned in the resume.
Tips: Study the resume thorough with every point mentioned. Questionswere asked about things externally related (not in the resume) to stuffmentioned as part of skills. So while exaggerating any point be aware of everyfact about it.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: The HR interview included personal level questions like tell me about yourself, where you hail from, positives, negatives, why cognizant, why non-core, how do you see yourself after 2-3 years etc.The second stage may depend upon GDs or interviews. In this case it was purely one –on-one interview in both rounds.

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: Mentioned about R a tool used in analytics and was talked about linear and logistic regression. Questions about Big Data Analysis and hadoop etc were asked.

General Tips: Its better to start from August solving CAT papers which helps a lot. Purefin certifications do help for companies like DB, Futures First, Nomura and all. Read only quantitative and a few previous years’ case studies (googled as per the company). Read one to two cases everyday and discussions related to them on the internet and write relevant points in some notebook at times searching for terms or phrases. Read the newspaper daily be it times or even the economic times – know whats happening in the world. They may ask you questions like – whats happening in the world. Be sure to answer them with what they would like to hear rather than what you would like to talk on.The situation is better for non core companies because majority of them don’t see the word department while recruiting from iit. Both for non-core or core: give your best for every round andeven if you don’t get selected for first round you can try to push your resumein on spot interview calls for companies you really want to be part of.Although it isn’t fair play but that’s what happens from Placemnt season day 2.And if the rest do it there's no point regretting than to be a part of it.
College Name: IIT MADRAS

Round: Test
Experience: The testincluded quantitative ability questionsand a few subjective coding type questions. Nothing known about cutoff as almost major chunk of people appearing for the test were called for the interview.
Duration: 60 minutes

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Technical interview included questions on your resume. Detailed questions on every point you have mentioned, cross checking whether you really know about it at times asking you for examples. No speed math was included. The interview was purely on all the stuff mentioned in the resume.
Tips: Suggestion: study the resume thorough with every point mentioned. Questions were asked about things externally related (not in the resume) to stuff mentioned as part of skills. So while exaggerating any point be aware of every fact about it.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: The HR interview included personal level questions like tell me about yourself, where you hail from, positives, negatives, why cognizant, why non-core, how do you see yourself after 2-3 years etc.

College Name: IIT MADRAS