Mutual Industries Graduate Engineer Trainee (Get) Interview Questions and Answers

Round: Test
Experience: The first round was a pen and paper-based test. There were no specific problems that bothered me in the written test. I found the questions to be fairly decent and somewhat challenging. The questions in the 'quantitative ability' section were a bit on the tougher side, while the 'logical reasoning' and 'verbal ability' questions were quite easy. However, some questions were phrased slightly ambiguously and led to some confusion during the test.
Tips: For getting through the written aptitude tests, be sure to practice a lot of questions of different kinds and within a certain time limit. The earlier you start, the better it is. Calculation speeds matter a lot in this regard. Personally, I had just solved 15-20 questions in total, each question of a different kind, before the written test. You need to assess your specific strengths and strike the right balance between speed and accuracy.
Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 45

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: I didn't resort to any elaborate preparation to get through the GD round. To start off, I was a bit nervous about this particular round. So, I focused on speaking at least twice during the GD round and concentrated on accumulating the views of other people and then putting forth my opinion. I avoided getting into a direct conflict with any of my group members and tried putting my point across while maintaining the harmony of the group. In the end, a majority of my group got selected for the subsequent rounds.
Tips: For the GD rounds, try to be in touch with day-to-day matters and have a basic idea about how different topics are shaping up all around the world. Focus on making valid and reasonable points in the GD and don't just blabber for the sake of speaking. Try to be a part of the group and the solution making process. The groups that have better understanding and consistency in the GD rounds are more likely to experience less eliminations.
Duration: 20 minutes

Round: HR Interview
Experience: The third and fourth rounds were personal interviews (PI) and both were elimination rounds. These rounds consisted of both technical and HR questions. For the HR questions, I ploughed ITC's official website and gathered information related to the work that they do and determined how my interests and abilities best suited their purpose. I focused on giving clear answers and avoided inconsistencies and confusions. The HR questions were quite straightforward and the interviewers were very friendly. I was asked about my hobbies and the co-curricular and extra-curricular activities that I was involved in. They also sought to know if I had been involved in any leadership positions before and how I had managed my team. Lastly, they wanted to know my motivation behind applying for the company and asked me what role I wanted to take up if I was selected for the job.
Tips: For the HR interview, try to have a clear idea as to why you are applying for the given company and avoid inconsistencies in your statements. Make a rough sketch about the person you are, including your strengths and weaknesses and be presentable. In fewer words, stay simple and know yourself.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The third and fourth rounds were personal interviews (PI) and both were elimination rounds. These rounds consisted of both technical and HR questions. For countering the technical questions, I went through the major subjects and focused on the concepts that were most likely to be asked in an interview. I had done two summer research internships in my second year and third year (one in IIT Kharagpur and another in IIT-BHU). So, I went through the details of the work that I had done during those two internships and prepared myself for possible questions in that regard. I did a similar kind of preparation regarding the projects that I had been a part of within the institute. I was asked very detailed questions related to my internships and my other project works. They wanted to determine whether I was aware of the practical applications and the minute details of the projects that I had worked on. Apart from that, I was asked numerous technical questions related to 'Mass Transfer', 'Heat Transfer', 'Thermodynamics', 'Nanotechnology', etc. Overall, the technical interviews were quite extensive and rigorous.
Tips: Emphasize on conceptual clarity and applications rather than memorizing definitions or formulae. Go through the topics you have worked on during your internships and institute-level projects and have a thorough idea about the theory behind them and their importance and applicability on an industrial scale. Also, try to identify the core subjects that you are strong in and prepare accordingly, because they may ask you to select a subject of your choice and you would be asked the majority of questions from that part.

Round: Behavioural Interview
Experience: This was the fifth and the final round of the overall process and consisted of a 'Skype' interview with two Chief Technical Officers (CTOs) of ITC-PCPB. This was a 15-20 minutes long affair and was basically a 'fit interview'. However, this also turned out to be an elimination round and only two out of four candidates were eventually selected. I was asked a variety of questions related to my daily life and the points that I had mentioned in my CV. I was also asked what my expectations were if I was selected for the job and where I see myself 4-5 years down the line after I join the company. Their reactions didn't seem very assuring or pleasing and I was quite apprehensive; however, things eventually went my way!
Tips: Be confident and know how to defend yourself without being aggressive or rude. You will be put under stress during the interview and the interviewers would try to get under your skin and seem to disagree with you on many points. Therefore, try to stay calm and stick to your point regardless of their disagreements. However, take care not to be rude or go overboard with your body language. Basically, your stress-handling capacity and your response under such situations are evaluated.

General Tips: Assess yourself and determine which sector your abilities are best suited for and what kind of a job you would be interested in and satisfied with. Thereafter, try to gather as much information as possible about the sector that you would be opting for, including the job profiles and growth opportunities that are available. On the day of company visit, dress up crisply and look smart. Also, try to maintain a smiling face throughout and look energetic; no interviewer wants to see drooping shoulders and slacking expressions.
Skill Tips: Think clearly and present your views confidently and efficiently. Improve your communication skills and your technical knowledge, because the latter matters a lot. Lastly, try to convince the interviewers about your leadership skills and your ability to manage a team, while being under stress. In a nutshell, have a very clear idea about what you are getting into and try to show your best side and highlight your strengths.
Skills: Behavioural Skills, Clarity Of Concepts, Ability To Work In A Team, Leadership Skills, Knowledge Of Projects Undertaken, Internship Experience, Knowledge Gained Through Recent Research Project, Ability To Cope Up With Stress, Technical Understanding, Clarity In Arguments, Verbal Communication Skills, Group Discussion Skills, Verbal Ability, Logical Reasoning, Quantitative Aptitude
College Name: NIT Rourkela
Motivation: ITC is a pretty well-known brand and has been in existence for over a century now. Moreover, it's a core company and fits well with my interests. I am interested in doing research in an industrial environment and I am hopeful of getting a chance to work in the R&D division of the company in the future. To top it off, the compensation is pretty good too! Hence, ITC seemed to be the perfect option for me.

Round: Resume Shortlist
Tips: Make a good Core Resume if you are targetting this company

Round: Test
Experience: The paper was same for Mechanical and Metallurgy students.
Tips: A basic understanding of the mechanics and the various material properties like elasticity, stress-strain curve etc. will help you a lot in clearing the test.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: It was good. Basic HR questions were asked and a few questions relating to the current affairs as well were asked.
Tips: Decent HR prep required.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Reasonably well.
Tips: In depth knowledge of the projects and technical work(s) mentioned in the resume/spoken of in the interview is necessary.

General Tips: Be Yourself, Have confidence, Have a thorough understanding of your field (as a lot is asked of it in the interview) with a decent HR preparation and Crack the Job.
Skills: Articulation skills, Technical Background, Understanding Ability, Confidence
College Name: IIT Bombay

Round: Test
Experience: It was fine...
Tips: Be fast and accurate...practice ques from R S Agarwal,for technical just take easy u have not mug up the things ques is quite easy.
Total Questions: 60

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: It was an half hour interview...I explained all the things in a proper manner.
Tips: Be calm and comfortable,go through ur resume in a proper manner.

General Tips: Believe in urself....cpi should be greater than 7
College Name: NIT ALLAHABAD
Motivation: It is an oil industry so it has a vast scope in future.
Funny Moments: Have a little discussion about Lalu prasad yadav

Round: Test
Experience: Aptitude:
Time was short. 3O Qs in 30 minutes was a time-crunch.  As my aptitude is weak, I had put in prior efforts to put up a decent performance. I could solve around 14-15 Qs in that time. 

Technical:
50 Qs in 30 minutes. The Qs were fairly on easier side. Just that, Qs spanned all across chemical engineering, with almost equal weightage on all topics. Most Qs were from past years' GATE papers. I attempted around 40 Qs.
Tips: 1. For aptitude, prepare well in advance if you are weak.
2. Strengthen technical by solving MCQs from Indiabix.com 
3. Since there are no negatives, go for most Qs.
Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 80

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I had a good technical interview. Most of the Qs were logical. The interviewer made sure I was comfortable through out the interview, each Qs was followed by a light Q.
Tips: 1. Be cool as a cucumber. 2. Be thorough with all subjects.3.  If you think you don't know answer, think logically.4. Try to deviate the Qs to your strengths.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: It was the most relieving interview ever! It was very jovial and open-hearted interview.
Tips: 1. Again, be cool
2. Work on your speaking skills.
3. Know yourself well.

General Tips: Prepare for each, well in advance.
Skills: Technical skills., Speaking skills
College Name: NIT DURGAPUR
Motivation: It was one of the finest to be recruiting from Chemical.
Funny Moments: The HR interviewer asked me why does each member of my family have a different surname.
And he got very emotional when I told him I am from Odisha, because that reminded him of how his old Odia friend used to feed him Odia dishes.

Round: Test
Experience: Overall it is a balanced paperIn aptitude, No of questions is 30 in 30 min. most of the question were easy and mostly they are from topics like work, speed, time, distance, series. Some questions are from English like word meaning, antonym, synonym etc.In technical, no. of questions is 50 in 30 min. The questions were from whole of the chemical engg like from thermo, mass, heat, cre but not from process control or instrumentation or from chemical technology. Most of the questions were conceptual and are just theoretical.
Tips: For apti, try to solve questions from www.indiabix.comFor technical, brush up ur conceptual knowledge and try to learn more and more of mass, heat, themo and cre.
Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 80

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Overall my interview experience is good. I gave around 70 percent of the answers. My interview is purely technical but it was not so with my friend. His interview is 90% HR.So u never know what type of interview u r going to face when u walk in there.In my interview the questions were mostly asked from thermodynamics and its applications.
Tips: Be calm and confident.Try not to get nervous.Never try to attempt the questions of which u don't know the answers. Attempting those questions and thereafter not giving answers properly gives a bad impression.

General Tips: As I previously told try to remain calm and not get nervous.If u do so no one can take that job from u.And by chance u don't get selected, then do not get disheartened and just think about ur mistakes and try to improve them as U are the best judge of yourself.
Skill Tips: Do not get nervous in the interview.Do not try to solve the whole technical paper rather go through it and attempt the questions u think u can do.For improving communication skill, try to communicate with ur friends in English. Read newspaper and communicate with urself in mirror ( this method will particularly help u a lot in improving ur communication skills and will also free u from any kind of presentation fears).
Skills: Confidence, Time Management, Communication
College Name: MNIT
Motivation: yeah RIL is a very good company, very large and with a lot of scope.So just go for it as if u want to build ur repo then it is one of the best platform to do so.
Funny Moments: one of my friend got injured before the interview. So when he entered for the interview,HR saw his hand and asked what happened. So he hold HR that he got slipped on stairs. After that HR said to him "khudko ko sambhal nhi pa rhe company ko kya sambhaloge".. So try not to lose ur senses if u face such kind of things .They just purposely do that to check how u can perform under pressure.And that friend of mine was also selected for the job.

Round: Test
Experience: The test consists of two sections. First section is Aptitude and it has 30 questions (30 minutes). This section has questions on numerical ability, logical reasoning and verbal ability. Each question carries 2 marks and no negative marks. Second section is technical section and this section has 50 questions and each one carries 1 mark (30 minutes). For mechanical engineering stream, the questions were asked mainly from materials science, strength of materials. Remaining questions were asked from other core subjects. All the technical questions were theoretical questions and no problem solving.
Tips: Briefly touch up all the core mechanical subjects and you will be through the test.
Duration: 1 hour

Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: Firstly, a form was given before the interview. In the form, they asked us to fill all our bio data, projects we have done and some basic HR questions. There's only one interviewer. The first question was "Tell me about yourself". He asked based on what we have written in the form. He asked about my goals, role model and also about the company. He mostly checked whether I am interested in the company or not.
Feedback from others - Projects, Interns and technical questions on material science.

Skills: Managerial, Communication
College Name: IIT Madras

Round: Test
Experience: The test was for 1 hour . It consisted of aptitude and technical sections each for 30 mins. Technical was of gate level questions and aptitude was a basic math test with some verbal ability questions.
Duration: 1 hour

Round: HR Interview
Experience: It was a basic HR interview for about 30 minutes. And mostly the selection was based on the test scores so if you have done well in the test you are almost selected for the job

College Name: IIT Madras

Round: Test
Experience: 30 questions in 30 minutes for aptitude section and 50 questions in 30 minutes for technical section.sectional cutoff was there. questions were easy; especially in technical section no calculation was required. questions were mostly from machine design, heat and mass transfer, metallurgy and few questions from other subjects like SOM, KOM, thermodynamics, industrial(basic). Aptitude section was comprised of quantitative(time and distance, mixtures, etc), verbal reasoning(antonyms, synonyms, etc), logical reasoning(pattern identification, odd one out, etc.).
Tips: Practice from indiabix as many questions were directly from there. mechanical handbook for GATE will also be useful.
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 80

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: first question was tell me about yourself, this is the question where you have to give the direction to the interview. after my basic introduction(family, education) i described my projects. interviewer just want to check your interest in engineering and concepts. prepare well

College Name: NIT ALLAHABAD