Motorola Market Executive Interview Questions and Answers

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Listen carefully and than give answers. Answers should be crisp and to the point.

Round: Introduction
Experience: Interviewer asks about personal introduction, work experience

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Discussion about product launch & celebration, focus areas
Tips: Answering something new
Duration: 20 minutes

Skills: Thinking Approach

Round: Test
Experience: Questions were normal like any other aptitude or coding tests.
Tips: Time given was enough for other sections but you need to hurry a little in aptitude part.
Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 60

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The questions were basic, some where well known like reversing a link list using recursion, designing of car parking lot using concept of oops, find tree height/diameter, etc.
Tips: 1. They ask you to write complete code on paper. This sometimes turn out to be a challenging task when you don't have compiler to correct you on basic things. Practice writing codes on paper.
2. They surely ask questions on oops, like polymorphism, inheritance, etc. besides their definition, also practice writing sudo codes to explain them

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Mainly i was asked questions on my internship experience and POR's.
Tips: They will try to grill you on some questions like 'Why we should hire you?', have a clear reason in your mind. Your other answers should not contradict with your reasons

General Tips: I don't know about other colleges but HP recruits small number of students from my university. Coding questions were average level and can easily be tackled. Many students were rejected after HR interview so don't take it lightly. They do grill you in a very good style if they are in doubt about your selection
Skills: willingness, Enthusiasm, Coding skills, Aptitude skills
College Name: IIT Guwahati

Round: Test
Duration: 1 hour

Skills: General Coding And Problem Solving, Puzzle Solving Capability
College Name: NIT Jamshedpur

Round: Test
Experience: There was a np complete problem given. Brute force solution worked
Duration: 3 hours
Total Questions: 1

College Name: IIT Madras

Round: Test
Experience: We had to code in the given duration. The question was a simple dynamic programming one. But the catch was that we could test our solution only a given number of times.
Tips: Make sure you're strong in your coding basics and have enough self confidence.
Duration: 3 hours
Total Questions: 1

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The tech round was basically on the resume. There were a few questions about the projects I had done.
Tips: Know about everything you've written in your resume. Don't write anything that you're not very sure of.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Questions were about my work and achievements in college and future plans.
Tips: Talk freely and don't be nervous. Don't reveal any future study plans to the HR!

College Name: Nitk surathkal

Round: Test
Experience: 20 English questions
Rest of the 40 were quant.
There was a severe shortage of time in this test. English was a piece of cake but the rest of the questions were pretty time consuming.
Tips: Its better to finish those questions first which aren't time consuming.
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 60

Round: Test
Experience: There was one three mark question and two five mark questions.
The three marker was either on linked list or array sorting.
The second question was based on dynamic programming.
The third question was on algorithms and number theory. Eg. My question was to find the units digit in a^b.
You could code in C,C++, Java or C#
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes
Total Questions: 3

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: It wasn't exactly a group discussion. It was more of extempore. We were given ten minutes to note down points on the topic and each of us had to speak for two minutes. And then at the end there was a brief discussion on the arguments.
Tips: Don't start making philosophical arguments. You are expected to give technical arguments and reasons.
Don't contradict yourself ever. Make your stand on the topic clear and stick to it.
Don't cut off people in the middle. Hear them out.
It's not about who is speaking the most. It's about who is most effective.
Duration: 1 hour

College Name: IIT Madras

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Initial criterion for shortlisting is of CPI(>7).

Round: Test
Experience: There were two written tests: Technical and Aptitude. This year technical test was not organized due to some reasons. In technical for Bangalore Center questions were based on C language and data structures.
Duration: 60+60 minutes
Total Questions: 50+50

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Panel of 1 person and lasted 10-15 minutes.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Panel of 1 person and lasted for 10 minutes.

General Tips: • Improve your aptitude skills
• Try to solve puzzles ( Shakuntala Devi maths puzzles )
Skills: Speech Signal Processing , Image Processing , Statistical Signal Processing , Mathematical methods in Signal Processing
College Name: IIT- Kanpur