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user image Abishek Radhakrishnan

posted on 13 Oct 2023

Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in Sep 2023. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Case Study 

They just ask about some normal questions regarding architecture, like problems and how should we solve that.

Round 2 - Assignment 

They said to design a structure, From planning till basic sketchup 3d

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Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Referral and was interviewed before Jun 2023. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. How many years of software experience
  • Ans. 

    I have 5 years of software experience, including proficiency in AutoCAD, Revit, and SketchUp.

    • 5 years of software experience

    • Proficient in AutoCAD, Revit, and SketchUp

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. What kind of projects would you love to work on ?

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Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: The questions were very easy. So everyone might have done well but the accuracy with speed is what that makes difference.
Tips: Practice! Practice! Practice!
Even though you don't want to attempt CAT you must definitely practice with its material. Several practice tests all available online too.

Round: Guesstimate Interview
Experience: It started with normal conversation where I was asked about my interests then followed by guesstimate and a puzzle. I did the guesstimate well. I stumbled while solving puzzle. But then I went over it again from the beginning and finally solved it.
Tips: If you feel that you are going in the wrong direction then ask the interviewer and start it from scratch without getting tensed. Its approach that will be observed not the outcome.

Round: Stress Interview
Experience: It was completely HR based stress interview. I was questioned about my weaknesses and I had to convince the interviewer by quoting examples of things done by me. At the end there was general discussion about the company.
Tips: Just be sure of whatever you are saying. Don't ever think of how the interviewer is feeling about your answer.
Prepare well to talk about the company and it's profile. Refer economic times/ET retail time to time.

General Tips: Never lose confidence till the end.
Skill Tips: Go in those lines which you want to do.
College Name: IIT Madras

Interview Questionnaire 

2 Questions

  • Q1. How many airports leave Chennai airport every day?
  • Ans. 

    There are approximately 200 flights that leave Chennai airport every day.

    • Chennai airport has both domestic and international flights.

    • The number of flights leaving Chennai airport varies depending on the day of the week and time of day.

    • Some of the airlines that operate from Chennai airport include Air India, IndiGo, SpiceJet, and Emirates.

    • Chennai airport is one of the busiest airports in India, with over 22 million pass

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Tell me 3 strengths of yours & 3 weaknesses
  • Ans. 

    My strengths are analytical thinking, communication skills, and adaptability. My weaknesses are procrastination, perfectionism, and public speaking anxiety.

    • Strengths: analytical thinking (e.g. ability to break down complex problems), communication skills (e.g. active listening, clear articulation), adaptability (e.g. ability to adjust to changing circumstances)

    • Weaknesses: procrastination (e.g. tendency to delay tasks),...

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: The questions were very easy. So everyone might have done well but the accuracy with speed is what that makes difference.
Tips: Practice! Practice! Practice! Even though you don’t want to attempt CAT you must definitely practice with material. Several practice tests will be available online too.

Round: Guesstimate Interview
Experience: It started with normal conversation where I was asked about my interests then followed by guesstimate and a puzzle. I did the guesstimate well. I stumbled while solving puzzle, but then I went over it again from the beginning and finally solved it.
Tips: If you feel that you are going in the wrong direction then ask the interviewer and start it from scratch without getting tensed. Its approach that will be observed not the outcome.

Round: Stress Interview
Experience: It was completely HR based stress interview. I was questioned about my weaknesses and I had to convince the interviewer by quoting examples of thing done by me. At the end there was general discussion about the company.
Tips: They were impressed with my intern work. Intern was based on project management and business analyst which was very close to the job I got selected in.

General Tips: Making resume should be started during summer itself. Just make sure of whatever you are saying. Don’t ever think of how the interviewer is feeling about your answer.Prepare well to talk about the company and its profile. Refer economic times/ ET retail time to time.
College Name: IIT MADRAS

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: It was a basic CAT Aptitude

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: It was a general topic

Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: Puzzles, Guesstimates and Questions from Probability.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: This was the second round of interview, It was HR – fully resume based (Stress Interview)
Tips: Preparation : Projects related to Analytics from Insti. Look for Coursera courses and Internships/Projects related to Analytics. Analytics companies shortlist based on Resume. So, make sure you have a very good resume.

College Name: IIT MADRAS
Motivation: Urban Ladder is a curated online furniture seller in Bangalore, India. The company offers arange of products such as beds, sofas, wardrobes, and dining among other furniturecategories. Urban Ladder is present in 12 cities across India.

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: I had got short-listed in Credit-Suisse, ITC, Citi Bank, EXL, Housing.com and many more later day companies.
Tips: Tailor your resumes depending on the companies.

Round: Test
Experience: Most of the aptitude test are very simple but you would need to prepare seriously for the technical tests. Mostly only core companies will have the technical tests.
Tips: CAT prep will come in handy.

Round: Group Discussion
Tips: Form groups among your friends and practice. It's very important. Do not try to dominate and undermine the participants during the discussion.

Skill Tips: Practice. Have one example from your life where you have demonstrated each of the various qualities.
Skills: Communication, Logical deductions , Leadership skills, Stress handling, Taking initiatives, puzzles
College Name: IIT Madras

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: It was an easy exam(The UL one). Basic quant questions were asked. But easy exams are tricky ones. You cannot afford to make mistakes. So speed and accuracy were expected.
Tips: There are lot of companies that short list based on aptitude test. Most of them short lists around 40-50 people for the next round. So CAT preparation(or the likes of CAT,GRE etc) is a MUST even if you are not actually giving CAT. Speed and Accuracy is required. Practice infinite. Only then you can make it to the short list.
Duration: 30 minutes
Total Questions: 20

Round: HR ROUND
Experience: HR round was a happy round. I had to talk about me, which is easy if you are well aware of who you are and what you want. I was fortunate, I was asked an easy puzzle midway.
Tips: Self Introspection. Self Introspection. Self Introspection.















If you do that, you'll come up with a wonderful resume, super strong confidence and a cool interview.

Round: TECHNICAL ROUND
Experience: It was a 40 minute interview.This interview had a bit untidy start. It took time for me to handle the first question, where I had to increase the sales of sofas in a given time. But I took my time, jotted down my thoughts and never stopped again. So, stay cool throughout and it helps. I could do well in all 3 questions.







1. How do we increase Sales of Sofa over next 3 months?







2. Give me a strategy for a vab service to be launched in Chennai?







3. As a Consultant, Suggest revenue generation avenues for a Multiplex in loss.
Tips: Remember, case interviews doesn't have answers/solutions. The way you deal with the given problem(thought process) is looked at, rather than the final solution. One has to discuss his way with the interviewer, demand data from him and talk relevant stuff with confidence.

General Tips: Everything that you have ever done in your life matters. Grab something from whatever you do. Everything not only includes good CGPA, PORs, Extra Curriculars, but also the things that you always wanted to pursue.















Placements are like any other course, if you really want to thulp them, then target, plan and execute.
Skills: Aptitude, Problem Solving Skills
College Name: IIT Madras

Interview Questionnaire 

9 Questions

  • Q1. About myself
  • Q2. My strengths and weeknesses
  • Q3. About urban ladder and why urban ladder
  • Q4. Why not core ??
  • Ans. 

    Core may not align with business goals or may not be feasible.

    • Core may not align with current market trends or customer needs.

    • Core may require significant investment or resources that may not be available.

    • Core may not be feasible due to technical limitations or regulatory constraints.

    • Non-core areas may offer greater potential for growth or profitability.

    • Outsourcing non-core functions may be more cost-effective and effi

  • Answered by AI
  • Q5. A puzzle
  • Q6. Guesstimate
  • Q7. A case study on how to increase profit
  • Q8. Behavioural question
  • Q9. Another case study

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Very easy questions. Basic cat preparation helps
Duration: 30 minutes
Total Questions: 20

Round: HR Interview
Tips: be confident. Interviewers are very friendly. Groundwork about the company is very useful
Know about the profile your applying and get some questions ready to ask them. Go through their website

Round: Case Study Interview
Tips: Get as much as information as you can from them. Ask questions. Get involved. Dont give up

Skills: Analytical skills, Communication skills, Teamwork
College Name: IIT MADRAS

Interview Questionnaire 

8 Questions

  • Q1. Implement queue with the help of two stacks
  • Ans. 

    Queue can be implemented using two stacks by maintaining the order of elements in the stacks.

    • Create two stacks, let's call them stack1 and stack2

    • When an element is enqueued, push it to stack1

    • When an element is dequeued, pop all elements from stack1 and push them to stack2

    • Pop the top element from stack2 and return it as the dequeued element

    • If stack2 is empty, repeat step 3

    • To get the front element of the queue, peek the

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Iven a table “student” of with columns Name and Marks. You have to write a SQL query to get the 2nd highest marks from the table. Also write a query to find the nth highest marks, where n can be any number
  • Q3. What is left join. Give example. And Full outer join?
  • Ans. 

    Left join returns all records from left table and matching records from right table. Full outer join returns all records from both tables.

    • Left join is used to combine two tables based on a common column.

    • In left join, all records from the left table are returned along with matching records from the right table.

    • If there is no match in the right table, NULL values are returned.

    • Example: SELECT * FROM table1 LEFT JOIN table...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q4. What is magic functions and autoloading in PHP?
  • Ans. 

    Magic functions are special methods in PHP that start with __. Autoloading is a way to automatically load classes.

    • Magic functions are used to handle certain events in PHP, such as object creation or property access.

    • Autoloading allows PHP to automatically load classes when they are needed, without requiring manual includes.

    • Magic functions can be used in conjunction with autoloading to dynamically load classes or handle

  • Answered by AI
  • Q5. Given three arrays sorted in non-decreasing order, print all common elements in these arrays. Examples: ar1[] = {1, 5, 10, 20, 40, 80} ar2[] = {6, 7, 20, 80, 100} ar3[] = {3, 4, 15, 20, 30, 70, 80, 120} Ou...
  • Ans. 

    Given three sorted arrays, find common elements.

    • Create three pointers to traverse each array

    • Compare the elements at the pointers and move the pointer of the smallest element

    • If all pointers point to the same element, add it to the result and move all pointers

    • Repeat until any pointer reaches the end of its array

  • Answered by AI
  • Q6. A puzzle. You will be given with a 3 Litre container & a 7 Litre Container. Measure exactly 5 Litres of water
  • Q7. Asked about one of my projects I mentioned in my resume?
  • Q8. Find if a number is a power of 2 or not?
  • Ans. 

    Check if a number is a power of 2 or not.

    • A power of 2 has only one bit set in its binary representation.

    • Use bitwise AND operator to check if the number is a power of 2.

    • If n is a power of 2, then n & (n-1) will be 0.

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Skills: Data structures, PHP, Algortihm
College Name: na
Motivation: Overall it was a very good experience. They test you from every aspect. In the End I would like to say that Practo is one of the best companies to work for.

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: There was Pool Campus Placement of  4 Colleges together(NIT Jalandhar,NIT Hamirpur ,Candigarh University and CGC Landran ) at Chandigarh University.Written test was taken on Hacker Rank. There were 5 Coding Questions of Linklist , Dynamic Programming,Priority Queues etc . 
You didn't have to do All the questions (3 can get you to the next round).

One thing that need to be beware of is that on Hacker Rank Your Draft is Saved every second(or so). So don't copy from the internet and just paste there(they will get to know).
Tips: Make sure you practice lot of Algorithms.
Duration: 120 minutes
Total Questions: 5

Round: Problem Statement
Experience: Only 8 Students were selected for this round
20 mins were given for it
and afterwards each student had personal discussion(10 mins) with them to explain their schema .
3-4 Questions were also asked related to your schema and how to perform a particular query
Tips: You should Be Through with DBMS
Make sure there is no redundant table and Primary keys are marked

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: 2 were selected for the Interview
Firstly they make you very Comfortable and ask how were the previous Rounds.
Then they asked about the two questions of First Round and my approach 
Then couple of questions on The design that was made Earlier.
Then there were questions on How Internet Works ,gcc,Linux,git,sql.

Then the Interviewer asked if I have any question
I asked about (as the work on doctor's app) how they know the credibility of a doctor which is enlisted in their app.
Interviewer was really Impressed by the question and told me all about it with all details.


Both were selected
Tips: Be cool in the Interview
Think Loudly and Interact with them well.
If they want you to ask any question ,it should not be related to technical stuff ,it should be related to the company

College Name: NIT JALANDHAR
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How many rounds are there in Design Consortium interview?
Design Consortium interview process usually has 2 rounds. The most common rounds in the Design Consortium interview process are Resume Shortlist, Case Study and Assignment.
How to prepare for Design Consortium interview?
Go through your CV in detail and study all the technologies mentioned in your CV. Prepare at least two technologies or languages in depth if you are appearing for a technical interview at Design Consortium. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at Design Consortium expect are Site Engineering, Site Supervision, Billing, Flooring and Purchase Management.

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