Philips Electrical Design and Project Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Round: PRE PLACEMENT OFFER
Experience: Interns (both CS and IT) were selected in my third year. Pre-placement offers were rolled out to 16 of us which was roughly a conversion ratio of 1:3. A couple of ECE hires were added when SRI-B visited campus later.

General Tips: If you're in CS or IT, this is the only format your resume should be in: -----
Take your internship seriously. Have fun and all but also get your project done. It's not the end of the world if you don't get a PPO. Campus placements are tension-filled, no doubt, but a lot of people get equally good if not better jobs after missing out on PPOs.
Make sure you talk to your manager about the PPO process. She will be the one giving you your final review. So ensure that she knows you want the job. Prepare a fancy presentation for the HR. By fancy, I mean slick and professional. Think Apple, not flashy Microsofty graphics and stupid word art.
Skill Tips: Google GSAT (Global Samsung Aptitude Test) a week before the test and make sure you practice some similar CAT type questions. Questions are of medium difficulty and time management is a real issue (most of us were unable to finish properly). - I didn't have to use these but I've heard good things about codechef/topCoder and books such as Cracking the Coding Interview by Gayle Laakmann McDowell.
Skills:
College Name: NIT Surathkal

Round: Test
Experience: The first consisted of an online test which had an aptitude section which was pretty simply and then a programming section consisting of three different programs. The programs were logical required basic knowledge of array, sorting and a little bit of data structures.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Around 13 of us were shortlisted for the interview round, B.Tech and M.Tech included. The interview round was mostly interactive, where we had to mention about the various interns that we went through. A few programming questions were asked based on topics which we were comfortable with.
Tips: Just get used to coding, data structures and basic aptitude. GRE preparation as such helped me.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Finally there was a HR round in which I was asked as to why I would like to work in Samsung R&D and general things about interests and future plans. On the whole Samsung took 3 B.Tech students and 2 M.Tech students when they came for placements apart from PPOs.

General Tips: Personally I feel that one should apply in only those companies in which they are sure of having job satisfaction. So don't apply to companies which you are not interested in just for the sake of having a backup because once you are placed you do not have a second chance.
Do not get dejected if you do not get through in the first few tries. Keep your hopes up and be confident when ever you get to interview rounds. Try to be assertive when giving answers. It is some times exhausting to go through placements but the moment you get placed you will have the best feeling ever.
Skill Tips: Just chill and take the test. Once you clear the online test, irrespective of your pointer if you have a good profile you can convince the interviewers.
Skills:
College Name: NIT Surathkal

Round: Test
Experience: Written round: One programming question of 3 hours duration.All test cases were to passed.
Duration: 3 hours minutes
Total Questions: 1

Round: Technical Interview
Experience:
There were two rounds : tech PI and HR round.
A.Tech. PI: Firstly,interviewer went through my whole resume.He started asking questions from project done during summer internship.Questions were:
1.What is he project about?
2.Difference between 3G and 4G.
3.What is the aim of this research internship?
4.How much was i able to complete in two months?(I told that i am continuing as major project,since in two months time i could not get desired result).

Then, he went onto programming language i was comfortable. I answered C.
1.sizeof("shubham")
strlen("shubham")
I was asked to write output.Output would be 8 and 7. He asked why. Basic concepts should be clear.
2.Storage Classes in C-asked me concept and gave some questions to write output.
3.Constant pointers and pointers to constant. Asked to write output of snippets he gave.
4.malloc,caloc,realloc,free-syntax
5.Questions on pointers.

Basic concepts of let us C were asked mostly,that book is enough . Also see, GEEKSFORGEEKS, C section.

Operating System: Mutex and Semaphore,critical Section, Scheduling algorithms, Producer-Consumer Problem.
(Data Structures was not asked to me but others.)

Puzzles:
1. Maximum run a batsman can make in 50 overs.
2.There are 10 coins. 5 face head side and 5 as tail. You are blind folded.Make two piles of equal number of coins such that number of head in equal in both the piles.
Assumption:You can flip coin any number of times.

Question: Why do you want to join Samsung ,though placed in other company?

Questions: Any plans of future studies. I answered 'NO' only job.

Last question: Any question I would like to ask them. I asked what work would be doing in R&D. He explained me a lot of things.
Tips: 1.Be thorough with your project(done during internship or training) . You should be able to answer almost all the questions.
2.Study operating system very well if you plan to sit in samsung R&D.
3.Data structures and any one programming language.
4.Prepare puzzles as it can be asked by anyone. See programmerinterview.com etc.
5.Refer samsung archives of GEEKSFORGEEKS . Interview questions were mostly covering those.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: 1.Introduce yourself.
2.How would your friends describe you?
3.Tell the recent experiences of which makes you initiative.(i told that i am initiative,then he asked that question. So be ready with the examples,when u say any of your qualities.)
4.What is your weakness?
5.Puzzles.He asked me to fill the numbers from 1 to 8 in these 8 boxes, one number exactly once, such that no two consecutive elements are
adjacent(diagonally, horizontally or vertically) to each other.

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6.Which places in India have you been?


Skills: Solving Logic Puzzles, Basic C/C++, Data Structures, Operating Systems
College Name: NIT Raipur

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: While filling the essay form I did a lot of soul-searching. I understood myself better and appreciated my finer qualities.
Tips: First understand the profile the company wants. List all your interests and compare it with the profile. Pick the points from your interest list which you feel are relevant to the profile the company seeks. Pitch them in the appropriate manner.

General Tips: Just be yourself during interview. Be humble be calm and don't forget to smile. Don't lie in your resume and tell the truth like what you exactly feel. It is the interviewer who knows the parameters to judge you, so keep your points concise, do not exaggerate, and hope for the best.
Skills: Resume Writing, Interpersonal communication
Duration: 10 weeks
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: I had the prerequisite knowledge and experience about this profile that I learned from my team Raftar (FSAE Team, IIT Madras ). Mostly I got motivation from my friends and team leader Mohit.
Funny Moments: During the HR interview, in one question I started talking about Doraemon. After some time I started talking about women and girlfriends in general.

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: General resume shortlisting out of nearly 400 applicants. Shortlisted close to 150 students.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Mostly questions from the resume were asked. They just wanted to know the types of projects I had done.
Tips: Make sure you know everything about what you write in your resume.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Another round of technical interview. Questions were more focused on the kind of profile they were offering, mostly to judge whether you are right for the job or not.

Skills: Confidence, Core knowledge
College Name: IIT BOMBAY

Round: Test
Experience: An online aptitude test was taken.
Tips: Should have the knowledge regarding technical.
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 45

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Should explain the interviewer each and every detail regarding that algorithm.
Tips: Should have basic knowledge about the subject mentioned in the Area of interest column.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Just be confident. And always praise yourself.

Skills: Technical Skill, Inter Person Communication Skills
College Name: Mody University Of Science And Technology, Sikar

Round: Test
Experience: more of experience gaining and learning new tricks of codding a program.
Tips: must focus on bugging and debugging the program.
Duration: 60 mins minutes

Skills: Coding Skills,
College Name: Invertis university
Motivation: bosch is a multinational company stating its rank worldwide.so anyone would to work with outstanding company.

Round: Test
Experience: There was one question which was little tricky , but not that difficult
Total Questions: 1

Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: There was one question which was little tricky , but not that difficult

College Name: IIT Madras