ITC AUT - Assistant Under Training Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: The application procedure of ITC requires you to submit the resume and fill their form. The form contains various question on your projects, attitude, extra-curricular activities etc. Fill the form honestly because this form will be the base of your interview

Making resume is very important step for placement preparation and hence take it very seriously. In summers I started building my resume. I used all the resources available on the student placement office IITK website along with help from seniors and my wing mates, to prepare a one page resume to fit for ITC profile. It took almost one month for me to get the final version of resume through which I can apply for the company.Form : It includes few question related to your grades, projects/internship, Position of responsibilities(POR), extracurricular activities and 2 or 3 HR based questions, Details are as follow:
Few personal details specifically Semester wise SPI, GRE score etc.
Details of internship/projects, extracurricular activities, PORs etc.
Your short terms and long term objectives
Why do u want to work with ITC
What do you think is your most significant achievement
Give an instance where you put Mind Over Matter
Your social engagement
Tips: Be honest and creative while making resume

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: ITC GD is based on a given case where you have to prioritize the given set of things. One GD group consist of 8 students and approximately 25 min time duration. There are 3 person to judge a single GD and hence its almost a fare GD.
Tips: Please follow all the general rules of GD that is : Don’t shout, don’t be aggressive etc.

Round: Interview
Experience: Before the interview I was very nervous and It was a sleepless night. And it was my first professional interview and it went very smooth. During internship I was failed to clear GD rounds for ITC and HUL and then I decided not to apply in any other companies .Hence this interview was very first interview for me.ITC interview was scheduled on 1st December from 6 am to 11 am . My interview started with a question “Tell me something about yourself” I started with my school life and then gradually moved towards IITK life and here I described about My most significant achievement of IITK i.e. “TEAM ABUS-DCS” with the help of designs I carried in my file and there after the rest of the interview was based on TEAM ABUS-DCS projects. No extra technical question were asked to me. Some of my friends who were selected for ITC interview told me that they were grilled over Technical question based on pumps, Thermodynamics cycles etc.

Topics generally asked in the ITC interview: - Pumps, cooling towers, Thermodynamics(TD) cycles, TD laws, desert coolers, Refrigeration cycle, Valves, Mixers, Process control scheme, ,Distillation columns, VLE, Derivation of Navier stokes equation, Bernoulli equation etc.  I used my notes and Wikipedia to revise all these topics.
Tips: Do’s and Don’ts:

Do’s :

Make your priority very clear
Make a general time timeline for your placement preparation to keep track of your time
Prepare for the placement with a positive hope but at the same time you have to be realistic
Make a group in wing or outside wing, it will help you to make your placement preparation easy and interesting
Take healthy food and keep yourself healthy

Don’t’s :
Don’t underestimate your self
Don’t prepare alone otherwise soon you will be bored/tired of preparation

Round: Interview
Experience: My HR interview too was started with a question “Tell me something about yourself” and there were few questions about my family, school life, hobbies, and major portion of interview was focused on TEAM ABUS-DCS  
Here question were based on both types i.e. HR and technical. I answered few of the HR questions in Hindi and this is the point where I become friendly with the interviewer and then a general conversation started about my projects and family. I was lucky to have such a smooth experience , The day was not at all hectic for me.  The only time between my interview and declaration of final results was the most tensed time for me.
Tips: Be honest and cool

Skill Tips: These skills can not be developed in just a day, Be sincere throughout your academic duration and do your assignments regularly to improve technical skills. Try to get involved in some management activities as well.
Follow the books which your professor recommends you while doing a course work, For final revision follow your class notes. Along with my notes I also used wikipedia for the revision.
If any of your topic is too weak, Then follow the corresponding NPTEL lectures on youtube
Skills: Technical skills, Communications skills, Management skills, Frankness
College Name: IIT KANPUR
Motivation: ITC is one of the leading Indian company in FMCG sector which constantly endeavours to benchmark its products, services and processes to global standards and thus best suitable for the job
ITC's Core Values are aimed at developing a customer-focused, high-performance organization, which creates value for all its stakeholders.
Wide business insight. ITC being a conglomerate, gives an exposure of diverse functions like supply chain, marketing etc.

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: The GD was easy, based on a case study.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: The first round of interview started with general HR questions like tell me about yourself, why ITC, why not so good cpi in first year and so on. Somehow the mention of industrial tour came and from there on, all the questions were based on TATA steel and steel-making in general (we went to Jamshedpur for our industrial tour). In case of ITC it is very important to know about the company fully. Hence reading the company’s website before the interview helps. I was asked its motto and when I answered it correctly the entire panel was very impressed.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: The 2nd round was a one-on-one interview. What went wrong here was that I knew about my major projects (like btp, summer intern) very well but didn't remember the exact details of the TA project that I had done during my 3rd
semester. The interviewer somehow found that project quite interesting and kept on asking me questions about it and I couldn't answer many. Later, he jumped onto the term paper that I had written for one of the psychology courses and again I stumbled. Hence I feel I didn’t know my resume too well at that time (just focused on the main projects) and perhaps that went against me.

College Name: IIT KANPUR

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: In the first round, the questions asked included 'How to increase profits of pharmacy?', 'How to increase the profits of airline companies?' etc. Some HR questions were asked as well. The second round dealt with  a case study to evaluate the usefulness of strategic alliance and a few general questions.The third round case study was to increase rating of an insurance company in the Sri Lankan market from the 3rd to 1st position

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College Name: IIT Madras

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Selected in Resume Shortlist.
Tips: Make a balanced resume and tweak it a little bit according to what the company is looking for. So incase of ITC have more projects than Postion of Responsibilites.

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: The GD was a case discussion. A plane had crashed into a jungle and there were 7-8 survivors. we were given brief intro of each person and had to decide certain things
Tips: in a 25 minute GD one should be careful that the time available is neither too less nor too much. You need not jump directly into the discussion and give away all the points that you have thought. that way you wont have anything to speak in the later half. nor should you wait too long. your points should be placed well apart so that you remain in the picture throughout your GD. Also try to frame your points clearly and support them with examples or analogies. That too helps. You may start or conclude the GD if you are really confident about it.
Duration: 25 minutes

Round: Interview
Experience: it was like a pleasant chat. they asked me questions regarding my projects and internships.
Tips: Do not be too conscious. In a technical interview you should be calm and comfortable. Treat it like a chat bcoz major focus is on the answers or your technical knowledge and not your body language or attitude. THINK ALOUD. all the steps involved in the solution should be explained elaborately

Round: Interview
Tips: Prepare your CV well. Be confident about answers to questions like why this company. Research the company once thorougly.

College Name: IIM Bangalore
Motivation: Indian company. Huge diversity. Top package. high opportunities

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Initial shortlisting was based on resume. Everyone above 8 was shortlisted.

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Our GD was about an old man which died on a Christmas eve. Roles of various individuals/groups were given and they had to be arranged from the most responsible to the least responsible.Some of the roles were like:
1) The old man didn't save enough for old age and didn't had insurance. 
2) The doctor didn't attend a house call as he had a 70 h week. 
3) The hospital administration didn't admit the old man in the morning because of lack of facilities. 
4) The taxpayers didn't allow a bill on better health facilities because it would lead to an increase in taxes. Our GD turned out to be a cool one because almost everyone supported the same order. The total time for reading and discussion was 25 mins but we concluded by around 20 mins only. We spent most of the time discussing how the roles could have been to prevent the death.
Tips: Try to develop a good vocab and fluency for GD. 
The key to any GD is to put as many ideas and to discuss with the group. 
Don't try to make it a monologue or just sit there supporting everyone. 
Try to rationally think about the topic. 
Starting the GD is advantageous only when you have really understood the topic. 
Otherwise, try to listen to other speakers and understand the topic. 
Even if you speak 2-3 times for reasonable length of time and put impressive points, you should make it through.
Duration: 25 mins minutes

Round: Interview
Experience: It was a technical plus HR round. 
This was how it went:1) Which other companies have you appeared for ?
Rio Tinto.
2) What happened there ?
I screwed up in HR.
3) Tell us something about yourself.
Did so. Told a little about family and campus life. Try to talk about things which you wish to be interviewed upon.
4) Why not family business ?
Convinced them about my liking of corporate life :)
5) You have an intern and your IDD Dissertation on optimization. Did you have choices in these?
Said Yes and explained why i chose optimization and also explained the projects a little. One of the guys had worked on electrocoagulation and was impressed by my understanding :)
6) Explain any other project.
Told them about shale gas project.
7) What's the distribution of shale gas in the world and what's its composition?
Told them.
8) Why do we have flaring of gas when we take out crude?
It depends on the amount of gas in place. If the gas in place is low, building a pipeline to take gas would be costly, hence it is flared.
9) Why do we flare it in petrochemical complexes?
Greenhouse potential of methane is higher than that of carbon dioxide.
10) How high?
Err....90 times.?!! (actually it is 72 times)
11) How would you calculate the efficiency of a boiler?Told them. Try to use bookish language in your answers.
12) Laws of thermodynamics and their statements.
Simplest Question :)
13) How do you relate the Clausius Statement with the Kelvin Statement.
Explained with a diagram.
14) Tell me about your learnings while working as a team leader and as a team member.
Told them about Cogni. Tried to explain my role but was asked to be specific on learnings.
15) Why ITC ?
ITC being an Indian company has gone upto the standards of global giants like P&G and HUL in terms of quality. You have the best people working for you and its easier to learn from people rather than to learn from books.
16) You want to work for an indian company and just appeared for Rio Tinto ?!!
Umm....Sir, it has just started working in India !!

General Tips: I started preparing for placements by the start of November. For ITC, the first step is writing your
resume correctly. Don't write things just to make your resume attractive. Write about things in which you are really confident. For interns and projects, write in a manner to clearly indicate the aim of work, your personal contribution, your learnings and the final result. Read relevant coursework to your projects as it will help you in interview. Prepare 3-4 subjects really well as you might be asked an area of interest. You need to be good in your core courses as ITC pays attention to how well you can recall them. Try to go through as many subjects atleast once.
Think about 3-4 companies that you have a good chance in. Know their procedures and past year questions and prepare accordingly. It helps.
College Name: IIT-ROORKEE

Round: Form-BASED
Experience: Initially they sent a form which contained 4-6 HR questions like: Short term and long term goals, One instance where you put mind over matter?

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Second topic was: There is a group of ministers which are rating the solutions of power source like wind power etc. You have to give your rating and then discuss it. 8 people were present.
Tips: 1. No shouting.

2. Come up with a proper point.

3. They prefer quality of your solutions.

4. There is no right or wrong answer in GD.

5. Main point is that how you are supporting your points.

6. If you are able to put useful data or statistics to prove your point in GD then it is highly recommended.

7. During GD of ITC, we did not need to match our rating with group rating which was a misunderstanding. We need to defend our points.
Duration: 30 minutes

Round: Interview
Experience: It was of 30 minute duration and had a panel of 3 persons.
Tips: Some students were asked to design gates? For such gates design questions, books like MANOKIND of digital logic is useful.

Round: Interview
Experience: There were also tricky HR questions were which did not have any right or wrong answer. You just need to remain positive while defending your point . It lasted 45 minutes and had a panel of two people.

General Tips: 1. Write answers in their form very seriously because they grill more on your answers.
2. They remain concern about technical knowledge. So, prepare your core courses very well.
Skill Tips: Questions were generally asked about machines.
Skills: Knowledge of gates., ,
College Name: IIT- Kanpur