NTPC Senior Member of Technical Staff Interview Questions and Answers

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Try to stock to basics and be real.Revise all your technical knowledge and be confident

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare your resume properly. Study about general questions that are asked in HR round.

Round: Other Interview
Experience: There is one round combined interview(Technical+HR)
They have mentioned very clearly what they are looking for.
In HR they asked questions based on hobbies
Tips: Since they have mentioned very clearly what they are looking for so give more importance to that things

Skill Tips: Refresh all basics but particularly Thermal engineering not entire mechanical engineering
Skills: Thermal engineering, Mechanical engineering
College Name: IIT MADRAS

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Initial shortlisting was based on resume
Tips: A good resume ensure your selection for interview

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: There was one round Technical cum HR Interview
For technical
The questions were on basics of power systems(Undergraduate stuff) but more oriented towards PGCIL work that is related to Transformers,Generators,Transmission lines etc.
Apart from this basic knowledge of HVDC were tested.also questions were asked related to the indian powergrid like voltage levelsuse of phasor ,measurement units,Interconnection of grids, major HVDC links etc.
For HR
They asked about my hobbies,schooling etc.general HR questions ,nothing peculiar
Tips: 1.Focus on the Basics of power systems(mostly undergraduate level)
2.Also go through reports(Technical,about future plans,enquiry reports of grid collapse) which found on PGCIL website and other websites like ministry of power,CERC etc.

General Tips: One has to be very confident and relaxed
Skill Tips: They will see how your knowledge in power systems help PGCIL .so Focus on topic related to PGCIL like Generators,Transformers,Transmission lines etc.
Skills: Substation Automation, Power systems
College Name: IIT MADRAS

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: One round Technical cum HR interview
Typical PSU interview ,casual questions about my project and questions related to that only-Earthquake effect on structures and its design process. Richter scale and any other scale for earthquake.
Wind and Earthquake code provisions like return period in both cases, severemost Earthquake ever occured on ground.

Skill Tips: Generally Questions Asked from your project so clear the concept of project. Earthquake effect on a structure and its design process was asked.
Skills: Based on project
College Name: IIT MADRAS

Round: Interview
Experience: Will be like a typical PSU interview. Technical questions especially the ones related to your projects can be expected.
Tips: Preparation: Maintain a good CGPA
Scholastic achievements
Projects done

Skill Tips: ""
College Name: IIT Madras

Round: Test
Experience: Each part was having its own time. Aptitude and Technical part was having basic questions but Reasoning and English part might create a little problem.
Tips: Just be careful while solving reasoning part and attend sufficient questions of every part compulsorily.Take a little preparation of every part using internet or book.
Duration: 1 hour 30 min minute
Total Questions: 15+10+15+20

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Its was my first GD and went well. I started the GD. Observer gave us 1 min time to think about the topic and make points.
Tips: Be confident. Put your points at the starting itself otherwise you may lose your confident.Do not be seated simple, they observe your gestures too.If you don't have any idea regarding to the topic then first listen to other people and make some points and put according to your understanding
Duration: 15 minutes

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: It was a combined interview(Tech+ HR). there were 3 people in the interview jury. All the questions were from my summer internship in the starting. They  asked very basic questions regarding the internship.

And in the last they asked HR questions, basic HR questions. Since my interview was held at very last so they skipped 'tell us about yourself' part. 

Basically i can say it was a chill n cool interview although it was my first interview
Tips: As i said they asked questions from the summer training so just prepare basic questions from your summer training.

Don't take pressure of interview, just assume you are sitting in a class viva. Be confident and don't thing whether  you will be selected or not.

General Tips: In the interview, be honest no need to lie about anything. Answer the questions which you really know otherwise say directly that ' sorry sir i don't know', that's it. Be in touch with your colleagues who have already placed.
Skill Tips: You can easily pass the Test part and GD part. For GD take help from youtube. But you should have basic knowledge of your stream, that will be more than sufficient. At last very important, do your summer training very seriously, no matter from where you are doing it. Just do it honestly.
Skills: Summer training
College Name: MNIT Jaipur
Motivation: Let me join this company first then i'll share about it :P
Funny Moments: This is the first Campus Recruitment test which i cracked, it was first GD and interview too.

i cracked GD and interview in the first attempt which seem very funny to me cause i didn't expect that.