Philips Research and Development Interview Questions and Answers

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

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

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

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.

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Thanks for letting my resume through even when I submitted it half an hour after the deadline :)

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Smoothly conducted; no complaints about the organization of the event. (Though Samsung could have done better than keep that "structured GD" which wasn't even a GD :D)

General Tips: Don't sweat it if your resume isn't very illustrious. Some basic projects and maybe experience at some startup would be enough for the resume shortlist (that was all I had, pretty much). The aptitude test has many questions but just try to attempt as many as you can in a relaxed manner. The coding test is peace - review basic algorithms (very basic, not even to graphs/linked lists level). And for the GD just stay calm and even if you can't form a well-rounded speech quickly, just mention your salient features. They will get back to you as they do another round through the people in the room. So just stay calm and think during the GD. You don't need to be a Hitler-level speaker to clear this (believe me, I'm far from it :) ). They take many people so don't worry too much about competition either. All the best :)
Skills: Communication, Aptitude, Basic C/C++
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: I was looking for a CS-based profile but in my heart I preferred one that didn't involve IT (I did apply for those too, for backup). So RnD profiles like Samsung and Adobe fit the bill nicely; I didn't get selected for Adobe though, and people do say that their RnD is better. No way to know, right? :D
Funny Moments: Technically I shouldn't say things about the applicants who took the GD with me (some of them did get through in fact), but I simply have to mention the types of problems and resolutions that were talked about in the "structured GD" - using satellite images to identify and combat poverty, seriously?
And the moderator totally dissed the last guy who talked (out of his turn actually, when everyone was about to leave) - she didn't care about his speech and cut him short saying "let's give you seed money, maybe you'll build a business" !

Round: Test
Experience: A question related to the movement of pieces on a chess board was given.Easy question.Naive implementation gave me full marks.
Tips: Always try the naive implementation and then try to optimize the solution.
Duration: 180 minutes
Total Questions: 1

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I only gave the definitions. Didnot know much about usage.
The Linked List questions were pretty standard and easy to answer.
Tips: Understand various datatypes in C syntax.
Make sure you are well versed with what you did in your projects.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Aced it.

Tips: Make sure you describe yourself confidently. DONOT STAMMER. Make sure you let them know that you know how great a company Samsung is.

General Tips: Data structures and Algorithms.......again!!
Very important.
Skill Tips: Data structures and algorithms is the most important topic tested.
Skills: Graph Theory, Algorithms And Data Structures, C Programming
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: To be honest....my only option.

Skills: Algorithms And Data Structures, Coding Skills
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras