Round: Test Experience: Reasoning / Analytical : there were many questions on venn diagram.. relationships.. cube problem... etc etc... VERBAL: questions on correction of sentences... jumbled sentences.. series... etc etc.... Total Questions: 60
Round: Resume Shortlist Experience: The resume was as per the norms of our institute’s placement office. One should mention only relevant points in the resume because if they ask you something from the resume and you are unable to answer then they will reject you bluntly.
Round: Test Experience: In the written test the questions asked were mainly aptitude based. The company had sent us some sample question papers before the written test. The questions in the test appeared from those sample papers only. Most of the questions were tricky – questions were framed in a very lengthy manner and the answers or the data required to solve the question was hidden in the last few lines. Many students wasted their time analysing such questions completely. Out of the 80 odd students who appeared for the test only 11 qualified for the next round.
Round: Technical Interview Experience: In the technical interview he asked me whether I knew programming, I replied in the negative. He asked me to suggest an algorithm to a problem. The problem was based on swapping of numbers. At first I gave a very bland reply. The interviewer wasn’t convinced by my reply and gave me another opportunity to explain me the process. This time I managed to answer appropriately. The interviewer then enquired about my internship and my projects.
Round: HR Interview Experience: The HR interview was taken by some top company official. He asked me to narrate any challenging incident in my life that I had to struggle through to emerge out of it. One important thing to note here is that your CGPA would speak for you – if you have a good CGPA half the battle is won.
College Name: IIT ROORKEE Motivation: TCS recruits a large number of students from various colleges across the country. Knowing this fact beforehand I was not much interested in joining the company. I appeared for its process as a last resort. The company had organized a pre-placement talk. I attended the talk and before appearing for the first round I went through the brochure that was given out during the pre-placement talk.
You do not require any specific information regarding the company to ace the interviews or any questionnaire.
Q1. Basic HR questions, your understanding of your projects, biggest achievement so far??
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Round: Resume Shortlist Tips: Get to know your resume very well, have a story for each of your resume point
Round: Test Experience: Written test. Basic Quant and one short essay to test your English.
Round: Interview Experience: They were looking for people with good math skills and team player.
Round: Interview Experience: Prepare for all the basic HR questions beforehand, write them down. for core get your basic fundamentals perfect. Tips: I started preparing for placements from Nov starting but starting early will be better.
General Tips: Prepare for all the basic HR questions beforehand, write them down. For core, get your basic fundamentals perfect. Skills: Basic fundamentals College Name: IIT-Madras
General Tips: KGPians have to be a little more in the know-how of latest trends in IT and programming language landscape. KGPians don’t do group projects much, specially group programming/software project. Be affirmative about your abilities and be more clear in your intent, in interviews. Skill Tips: Must: minimum CGPA of 8. they reduced the gpa requirement to 7.9 but they maintain final gpa must be 8. Good to have: Some knowledge of programming languages,databases,Algorithms. Any extra-academic involvement helps ,but is not a requirement. Be in touch with discrete math(not requirement). C++,Java programming(may be a little bit of Python). Projects and internships with computer programming as major /critical part. Having lead a bunch of juniors or equals in a project. Decent communication skills is essential. College Name: IIT KHARAGPUR
Q1. They asked me how would you determine toll for the Jamuna Expressway
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Round: Interview Experience: 2 round of interview First round- technical (basic infra stuff)Second round- HR skills- just a brush up of civil infra courses like Infrastructure Planning and Management(IPM), ECM.HR preparation – slight basic First round- they took people with CG>=7.5 They asked me how would you determine toll for the Jamuna Expressway. Tips: I started in September. Obviously early bird catches the fish.
Round: Interview Experience: HR preparation – slight basic. My HR was very good. Moreover, my intern was in Mumbai Metro Rail, which helped me push in for infra. Also my PORs gave me an edge over others. Tips: CFA played a crucial role for my friends.
General Tips: Basically puzzles, as they are helpful in almost every company. It provides you a direction for thinking. www.brainden.com was a good site. 300,400 puzzles book was very good. (Available in DC++) Have your resume ready early in the semester.Have mock GDs in your group.Have basic fundamentals about what’s going in the country and world. Don’t RG and prepare in groups. College Name: IIT MADRAS
Round: Test Experience: My first Interview was for the post of Network Engineer in HCL Technologies held in April 21, 2009. In the morning in that day at 9.00 AM I am with dressed up with formal dress code, black shoes and a tie. I waited there for around 2 hours for the company officials to come. They came at around 11 AM. Then they started giving information about HCL Infosystems through a powerpoint presentation and what all procedure they are going to follow in their recruitment process. The recruitment process consisted of two sections: 1. Aptitude Test 2. Personal Interview. The Aptitude test consisted of 30 questions in Quantitative Aptitude and 30 questions in Non Verbal Reasoning and the time allotted to complete the test is 60 minutes. The questions were quite tough and challenging. It was evident that the HR were expecting more talents for their company. I could answer about 40 questions and there were no negative marks so I answered all the questions. I was quite confident that the cutoff would be less that 40. We waited for the results of Aptitude Test. The result came around 2.30 PM. About 45 candidates were selected for the personal interview and I am glad that I am one of them. From the results we could guess that the cutoff was 35. The Personal Interview was at 2 PM after lunch. At 2 PM we waited there for Personal interviewer. Four different panels were there for conducting the interview. My turn came at evening 5 PM.
Round: HR Interview Experience: HR: Are you Anbarasan? Me: Yes Sir. HR: Take your seat. Me: Thank You Sir. HR: Introduce Yourself Anbarasan. Me: (I gave a brief Introduction about myself) HR: What is your father? me: He is a Civil Engineer Sir. HR: Why didnt you join civil branch in engineering me: I am more interested in Computers than civil Sir. HR: What is your mother? me: She is a housewife Sir. HR: What is your career Objective! me: My career objective is to work in a challenging environment where I could constantly upgrade my knowledge thereby contributing for the organisation where I work and my professional growth as well. And my life ambition is to become a reputed Ethical Hacker. HR: Good. Who is your role model? me: Bill Gates Sir. Because he is the best programmer in the world. I like his thoughts more than his programming. He became the best businessman in the world because of his great thinking. He is a really innovative and inspiring personnel. (Then He asked questions from all topics in Networking . As I am good in Networking I could answer his questions. I could see that he is satisfied with my answers.) HR: How did you learn Ethical Hacking? me: I learned through lectures of Ankit Fadia Sir. But still I need to learn more in Ethical Hacking. HR: Will you join HCL if you were placed anywhere? me: Sure Sir. When it is HCL, I wont hesitate sir. HR: Your Personal Interview session ends here. You can leave and wait for the results me: Thank you, Sir. That interview session took 30 minutes to complete. And the result came at 6.30 PM. Out of 45 students, 30 got placed. I was also got selected in the interview. Almost all of friends got selected. I was glad that I got the Network Engineer Job. That was the most happiest moment I ever had.
Round: Test Experience: The online test was of an average difficulty level. There was sufficient time to complete all the questions on time. and there was a negative marking of 0.25. Tips: One should be thorough with the basics of english, and quantitative ability. Reasoning section needed a lot of practice so as to save time. Duration: 60 minutes Total Questions: 50
Round: Technical Interview Experience: I had a very good experience answering the aforementioned questions as i was confident in all my answers. i did not have a thorough knowledge of c language, So i told the interviewer that i am not adept with programming but i can still try. Hence the interviewer told me that even if i go wrong in programming, he won't be marking me on that basis. Tips: Always speak the truth whether you know a particular subject or not. This helps the interviewer form an overall idea about you.Put forward your views in a soft and gentle but assertive tone.
Round: HR Interview Experience: The HR round of interviews was a more general round concerned in knowing the candidate as a person, irrespective of his/ her merits and achievements. It focussed on forming an idea about our personality as an individual Tips: Be calm, composed and patient in front of the interviewer.
General Tips: One should not be scared or nervous about placements. Patience and confidence should be maintained throughout the recruitment process. Practice placement papers from various websites and also keep yourself updated with current affairs. Skill Tips: A lot of practice is required to gain speed in doing calculations. Skills: Speed, Knowledge , Communication Skills College Name: SRM UNIVERSITY Motivation: The main motivation for applying to iGATE was the company is a major IT service provider and had been listed in the 100 fastest growing companies by Fortune magazine. Since i had been rejected in companies like Wipro, CTS, Infosys, i applied to this company in the hope of getting selected. Other motivations were my college seniors and teachers. Funny Moments: When the technical interviewer asked me to explain any topic from my area of interest, I was shocked for a minute because i could not believe that i had been granted so much liberty of choosing any topic from my subject.To crosscheck what i had hear was true or not, i reassured myself by asking him whether he was sure or not. Then the interviewer smiled and told me to proceed.
Round: Test Experience: This was a simpler round, concentrating on basic questions like- 1. Deleting last 'n' nodes of a linked list 2. Check out the given tree is a BST or not. 3. If an array a[i] is a then a[i+1] would be either a+1, a-1 or a so in this array how do you search an element 4. write a ship quality code Total Questions: Online
Round: Test Experience: The questions were of this type-
1. Given a tree and all the leaf nodes form a double linked list ( complete tree is given ). How do you find the height of the tree? 2. an array of negative and positive numbers are given. find all contiguous subsets whose sum is equal to zero.
Round: Test Experience: The difficulty level went up, with questions like-
1. Find Longest Increasing sequence subject to some constraints. 2. An array is given of size n and the elements are in the range 1 to n. Some elements are missing and some are repeated. Find the missing elements and find frequency of all the repeated elements. 3. Three arrays A, B, C. find subset a in A, b in B, c in C such that a + b + c = 0
Round: Test Experience: Really tough test, with questions like-
1. A tree is given, make a linked list of leaves. 2. for amazon online store what data-structure is used. That is hierarchical structure 3. Asked about make file. How do you club into a single object file.
General Tips: Before making the shortlist, you'll have to sit for an Online written test. The test consists of two parts. One part will concentrate on aptitude and output of C programs. 1. aptitude, 2. C aptitude, 3. Operating Systems and Time complexities etc., Second part will be coding Questions 1. One Question on Trees - definitely 2. One more simple questions on string manipulation Skills: Algorithms, Puzzles, Data Structures College Name: IIT ROORKEE
Q11. What do you know about the company?
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Q12. What interesting projects are there on your CV? Explain one of them?
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Q13. Discussed in and out on valuation specific questions related to a project like what projections for Sales, growth Rate, S&A, how to calculate cost of capital?
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Q15. What lines of businesses did you value and how?
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Q16. What are other competitors doing and how are they growing?
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Q17. If you are the CEO of the same company what measures will you take to make the company grow to the next level?
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Q18. What is the difference between bank and private investor?
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General Tips: Company was very impressed and wanted to make an offer but with a different profile in the interview itself but I was consistent on what I wanted and through strong negotiation finally convinced them that I am fit for Investment banking or global markets and hence that worked Skills: Economics, Banking College Name: NA
Round: Test Experience: There was an apititude test basically in line with CAT pattern. It was conducted online for about 45 min duration. The questions were rather simple but each question was time bound (around 45 sec or so). Tips: As such I did not have any structured study plan. I did refresh some of my basics in mechanics and analysis. I was more inclined to get a job in aerospace division. Read as per your interest. Duration: 45 minutes
Round: Group Discussion Experience: Initially, we are seated randomly in a circular manner and each one was given two minutes to describe the topic. It was followed by an tense debate where participants converged and diverged on different sets of issue. They were particularly looking for interpersonal skills and out of the box thinking.
Round: Interview Experience: The interview was purely management type.More questions were thrown at team building, bio-data, why this company? , project, what you Can contribute for the firm?, where you see yourself in next 5 -10 years, ambitions, some amount of optimization tools and techniques, concluding remarks....Interpersonal skills and clarity in answering where mainly IBM was a more relaxed interview, which basically dealt with management and interpersonal skills. Questions like “if one of our team mate is very stubborn, lazy, adamant, how will you tackle the situation” were asked. Tips: College (B Tech) curricular activities, NTSC certificate, Math Olympiad certificate, all India quiz competition awards were noted and appreciated. That really was a booster. That helps in implanting an idea that you are not just blah blah blah.
Skill Tips: Be very sure about your mechanics, analysis and design. These three are the fundamentals. I haven prepared for placements exclusively. Here were combined discussions. However, it really helps if you can revise and make your fundamentals were clear. The basic understanding should be there. An hour every day for two months will do the trick. Be really choosy of the company you want to be in. Learn a lot more of the company and get an idea of what they are actually looking for. But still don’t freeze your mind to those realms alone.. Be open minded and cheerful. The first few questions will set the mood of the interview. If you are bale to crack that, then things will be really smooth. Really concentrate on your fundamentals, especially analysis and design. Skills: Mechanics, Analysis , Design College Name: IIT-Madras