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Philips Research and Development Interview Questions and Answers
Updated
18 Mar 2016
Philips Research and Development Interview Experiences
2 interviews found
Bhagyesh Chaturvedi
I applied via Campus Placement
Interview Questionnaire
3 Questions
- Q1. Introduce yourself
- Ans.
I am a research and development professional with expertise in various fields.
I have a PhD in Chemistry and have worked in the pharmaceutical industry for 5 years.
I have experience in developing new products and improving existing ones.
I am skilled in project management and have led teams of up to 10 people.
I am passionate about innovation and finding solutions to complex problems.
- Q2. What are your interests?
- Ans.
I am interested in exploring new technologies and their applications in various fields.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Internet of Things
Blockchain Technology
Virtual and Augmented Reality
Robotics and Automation
- Q3. What do you know about Philips Healthcare?
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Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Decent experience, mainly talked about my projects. No technical questions were asked.
Tips: Read up a little bit about the company and the sort of projects they have. Try to show them how the projects you have done align well with the work they do at Philips HIC.
Skills:
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Decent experience, mainly talked about my projects. No technical questions were asked.
Tips: Read up a little bit about the company and the sort of projects they have. Try to show them how the projects you have done align well with the work they do at Philips HIC.
Skills:
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement
Interview Questionnaire
4 Questions
- Q1. The questions were simple and 'Get to know you types'
- Q2. As my minor was nano, he drilled me on the concepts concerning medical applications of the same
- Q3. If I had to propose a project, what would it be?
- Ans.
Develop a sustainable energy source for rural areas
Research and develop a low-cost renewable energy solution
Test and refine the solution in a rural area
Partner with local organizations to implement and maintain the solution
Provide training and education to the community on the use and maintenance of the solution
- Q4. What does Philips HIC do?
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Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: I believe that they were looking bio-products design. I had not worked in that field myself but had some courses and experiences in startups which revolved around the same. I made sure my resume emphasized these points.
Tips: Simply put, make sure you are what they are looking for for their profile. Don't write something false but make sure you know how to modify the truth to fit their interest
Round: HR Interview
Experience: I have sweat as much in my entire life as I did in that air-conditioned interview room. The interview was through Skype. I made sure that I never gave up on the point that I had made the base for my pitch - 'Openness and ability to form new innovative idea'. I made sure that in every question, I was able to bring out this point and also show him my other qualities complemented the same. At the end I think that it was my confidence that did the trick.
Tips: Make sure your body language and voice shows your confidence in what you are saying and make sure you pitch your strengths as often as possible revolving around what they might be requiring you to do at the internship.
Skill Tips: Just try and make sure you send out the signals which make them realize you have the ability to work across domains using the specialized knowledge you have in your area of expertise. You need to show them that you can use your knowledge base creatively to solve some issue they might be working on at that time.
Skills: Creative Thinking
Duration: -
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: The main reason I wanted this was that this had both the ingredients that I wanted for an internship, Research and Development as Profile and an industry exposure in a company like Philips.
Experience: I believe that they were looking bio-products design. I had not worked in that field myself but had some courses and experiences in startups which revolved around the same. I made sure my resume emphasized these points.
Tips: Simply put, make sure you are what they are looking for for their profile. Don't write something false but make sure you know how to modify the truth to fit their interest
Round: HR Interview
Experience: I have sweat as much in my entire life as I did in that air-conditioned interview room. The interview was through Skype. I made sure that I never gave up on the point that I had made the base for my pitch - 'Openness and ability to form new innovative idea'. I made sure that in every question, I was able to bring out this point and also show him my other qualities complemented the same. At the end I think that it was my confidence that did the trick.
Tips: Make sure your body language and voice shows your confidence in what you are saying and make sure you pitch your strengths as often as possible revolving around what they might be requiring you to do at the internship.
Skill Tips: Just try and make sure you send out the signals which make them realize you have the ability to work across domains using the specialized knowledge you have in your area of expertise. You need to show them that you can use your knowledge base creatively to solve some issue they might be working on at that time.
Skills: Creative Thinking
Duration: -
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: The main reason I wanted this was that this had both the ingredients that I wanted for an internship, Research and Development as Profile and an industry exposure in a company like Philips.
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Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Being from CS department even though CG is LESS i got through it.
Tips: Here Only CG matters..i don't say that it should be too good...but it should be atleast meeting the minimum requirements.
Round: Test
Experience: The questions were very good....I loved to spend time on some of these questions
Tips: Having experience in writing aptitude test will give an edge...but dont worry even if you doesn't have any experience its ok.The Trick is how you mange your Time.Accuracy counts.So Be in a search for the Next Easiest Question.
Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 60
Round: Test
Experience: The questions were not too tough algorithamically.I got the First question in less than 5 minutes but the next two i got compilation errors.
Tips: first check all the questions and find which is easy and try attempting it in the order of ease. Doing 2 of 3 Correctly will Guarantee you a pass to the next round.
Duration: 60 MINUTES minutes
Total Questions: 3
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Being My First GD it looked to me as a New Experience.I have Just said how it relates to me and added if it helped an Induvidual like me then I definitely believe that it had done a lot to the world.(said both YES and NO)Thats it!!!!!!!!!!!
Tips: Don't Focus on how many point you have to say but Saying the points which are sharp and have a relation to Yourself or a real world induvidual would help.DON'T PANIC.BE COOL.
Duration: 30 minutes minutes
General Tips: DON'T feel BAD if you have a low CG when compared to others.JUST BELIEVE in YOURSELF and GOD will definitely help you.THE key is whatever is you might do just go and GIVE YOUR BEST.
Skill Tips: Experience helps!!!!But MORE than that TIME "COUNTS"
Skills: Verbal Ability, Data Interpretation, General Aptitude
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: HIGH REPUTATION COMPANY,STUDENT FRIENDLY COMPANY,World Class company & Stipend.
Experience: Being from CS department even though CG is LESS i got through it.
Tips: Here Only CG matters..i don't say that it should be too good...but it should be atleast meeting the minimum requirements.
Round: Test
Experience: The questions were very good....I loved to spend time on some of these questions
Tips: Having experience in writing aptitude test will give an edge...but dont worry even if you doesn't have any experience its ok.The Trick is how you mange your Time.Accuracy counts.So Be in a search for the Next Easiest Question.
Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 60
Round: Test
Experience: The questions were not too tough algorithamically.I got the First question in less than 5 minutes but the next two i got compilation errors.
Tips: first check all the questions and find which is easy and try attempting it in the order of ease. Doing 2 of 3 Correctly will Guarantee you a pass to the next round.
Duration: 60 MINUTES minutes
Total Questions: 3
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Being My First GD it looked to me as a New Experience.I have Just said how it relates to me and added if it helped an Induvidual like me then I definitely believe that it had done a lot to the world.(said both YES and NO)Thats it!!!!!!!!!!!
Tips: Don't Focus on how many point you have to say but Saying the points which are sharp and have a relation to Yourself or a real world induvidual would help.DON'T PANIC.BE COOL.
Duration: 30 minutes minutes
General Tips: DON'T feel BAD if you have a low CG when compared to others.JUST BELIEVE in YOURSELF and GOD will definitely help you.THE key is whatever is you might do just go and GIVE YOUR BEST.
Skill Tips: Experience helps!!!!But MORE than that TIME "COUNTS"
Skills: Verbal Ability, Data Interpretation, General Aptitude
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: HIGH REPUTATION COMPANY,STUDENT FRIENDLY COMPANY,World Class company & Stipend.
I applied via Campus Placement
Interview Questionnaire
1 Question
- Q1. Difference between mongodb and relational model.
- Ans.
MongoDB is a NoSQL database while the relational model is based on tables and SQL.
MongoDB is schema-less, allowing flexible and dynamic data structures.
Relational databases use a fixed schema with predefined tables and columns.
MongoDB uses a document-based model, storing data in JSON-like documents.
Relational databases use a tabular model, storing data in rows and columns.
MongoDB supports horizontal scalability and dis...
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Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Were looking for people who had prior experience with hardware side and database systems.
Tips: Apply if previous intern or project done in architecture side
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Pretty easy.
Skills: Database Management, Algorithms And Data Structures
Duration: 3
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Were looking for people who had prior experience with hardware side and database systems.
Tips: Apply if previous intern or project done in architecture side
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Pretty easy.
Skills: Database Management, Algorithms And Data Structures
Duration: 3
College Name: IIT Madras
Skills evaluated in this interview
I applied via Campus Placement
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Tips: Be honest and have complete understanding of what you have written in your resume
Round: Group Discussion
Tips: Be patient and give answers , Do not jump to conclusions
General Tips: Be relaxed before the interview / test for every company. Do not prepare by studying all night etc , doesn't help , Go through the profile of the company before coming for the interview
Skills: Interest In The Job, Internet of things, General Aptitude, Coding Skills, Basic Coding
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: Interested to gain knowledge in this field
Tips: Be honest and have complete understanding of what you have written in your resume
Round: Group Discussion
Tips: Be patient and give answers , Do not jump to conclusions
General Tips: Be relaxed before the interview / test for every company. Do not prepare by studying all night etc , doesn't help , Go through the profile of the company before coming for the interview
Skills: Interest In The Job, Internet of things, General Aptitude, Coding Skills, Basic Coding
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: Interested to gain knowledge in this field
Devendra Vamsi
I applied via Campus Placement
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: 3 basic programming questions.
Difficulty level: Medium or easy
Tips: Good Knowledge of arrays and strings will be highly helpful for solving the questions.
Duration: 60min minutes
Total Questions: 3
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: They gave us 1 minute to write down our points on a sheet of paper. After that they called us randomly and we need to say our opinion.
Tips: I feel speaking more doesn't help you. Giving one or two significant or vital points is enough.
Duration: 15-20min minutes
Skills: Basic Coding
Duration: 2 months
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: 3 basic programming questions.
Difficulty level: Medium or easy
Tips: Good Knowledge of arrays and strings will be highly helpful for solving the questions.
Duration: 60min minutes
Total Questions: 3
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: They gave us 1 minute to write down our points on a sheet of paper. After that they called us randomly and we need to say our opinion.
Tips: I feel speaking more doesn't help you. Giving one or two significant or vital points is enough.
Duration: 15-20min minutes
Skills: Basic Coding
Duration: 2 months
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Aptitude section had 60 multiple choice questions.Duration was 1 hour.This section was easy.
Technical test also is for one hour.It contained 3 coding questions.This section has easy to average questions.
Tips: Maintain a good speed in aptitude test.
Duration: 120 minutes
Total Questions: 60+3
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Was a bit easy.
Tips: Easy if you stay calm
Skills: General Aptitude, Coding Skills
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Aptitude section had 60 multiple choice questions.Duration was 1 hour.This section was easy.
Technical test also is for one hour.It contained 3 coding questions.This section has easy to average questions.
Tips: Maintain a good speed in aptitude test.
Duration: 120 minutes
Total Questions: 60+3
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Was a bit easy.
Tips: Easy if you stay calm
Skills: General Aptitude, Coding Skills
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Research and Development Interview Questions & Answers
Samsung
G.Vipul Spartacus
posted on 29 Aug 2016
I applied via Campus Placement
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Basic verbal,reasoning,quant.
Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 60
Round: Test
Experience: Relatively easy,
Tips: basic strings,pointers
Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 3
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: One on One round .
Duration: 30 minutes
General Tips: Basic coding, quant
Skills: Verbal Ability, Quantitative Aptitude, Coding Skills
Duration: 3
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Basic verbal,reasoning,quant.
Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 60
Round: Test
Experience: Relatively easy,
Tips: basic strings,pointers
Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 3
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: One on One round .
Duration: 30 minutes
General Tips: Basic coding, quant
Skills: Verbal Ability, Quantitative Aptitude, Coding Skills
Duration: 3
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Dec 2015. There were 3 interview rounds.
Interview Questionnaire
2 Questions
- Q1. Questions Based on Resume related to my Technical Projects
- Q2. Questions like, Why Samsung ?, Why not higher studies
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Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I explained every details regarding each of my projects.
Tips: Be Honest And Be enthusiastic when explaining your projects. They look for your spark & excitement when explaining your technical knowledge
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Again Be honest, Go through the company's profile before the interview. Explain why you do not want to go for higherstudies .
Tips: If you get to HR round, then mostly you are selected
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: I explained every details regarding each of my projects.
Tips: Be Honest And Be enthusiastic when explaining your projects. They look for your spark & excitement when explaining your technical knowledge
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Again Be honest, Go through the company's profile before the interview. Explain why you do not want to go for higherstudies .
Tips: If you get to HR round, then mostly you are selected
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: There will be 60 aptitude questions consisting of English and Quant. Duration is 60 minutes. Questions are of basic level but may take time. It all comes down to time management.
There are three coding questions for 60 minutes based on DP, etc. Questions are not too tough. Doing atleast two should be easy for many.
Tips: Solve English questions first in Section-1.
Duration: 120 minutes
Total Questions: 63
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: You will be given a topic and five minutes to think about it. Then students are randomly asked to talk about their ideas for 3-4 minutes. Recruit crew will ask you questions as you go. There will be no debating, etc.
Tips: Try using some Comp Science terms to make them impress.
Duration: 30 minutes
Skills: Group Discussion Skills, Coding Skills And Knowledge On Data Structures, Aptitude
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: It's a reputed company on a global scale.
Experience: There will be 60 aptitude questions consisting of English and Quant. Duration is 60 minutes. Questions are of basic level but may take time. It all comes down to time management.
There are three coding questions for 60 minutes based on DP, etc. Questions are not too tough. Doing atleast two should be easy for many.
Tips: Solve English questions first in Section-1.
Duration: 120 minutes
Total Questions: 63
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: You will be given a topic and five minutes to think about it. Then students are randomly asked to talk about their ideas for 3-4 minutes. Recruit crew will ask you questions as you go. There will be no debating, etc.
Tips: Try using some Comp Science terms to make them impress.
Duration: 30 minutes
Skills: Group Discussion Skills, Coding Skills And Knowledge On Data Structures, Aptitude
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: It's a reputed company on a global scale.
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