Prakash Industries Limited Champa Interview Questions and Answers

Round: Test
Experience: In quantitative aptitude i dont remember the questing exactly but alsomost all questings are similer to the questions in RS Agarwaal.. In reasoning and analytical section they will ask puzzles and if u read shakuntala devi and jimmers puzzle book it is more than sufficient.. In verbal section they have given around 2 passages and 5 questions for each passage dont waste more time in this section because it is time consuming.. they have given some fill in the blanks questions where we have to search for synonyms and antonyms No technical section was there
Total Questions: 75

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Basically i am from Mechanical back ground they dint asked any questions related to software.... They asked questions like how do you update your self regarding your technical knowledge... have you thought of any innovative ideas recent past..

Round: HR Interview
Experience: In HR they asked 2 situation reaction tests. 1)she asked my hobbies and replied playing cricket... she posed a question to me that if i was appointed as cricket team captain for M-Tech mech team how i select my team.... i answered purely by performance no partiality like that.. but she asked to think more then she answered for the questions as... I alone cannot select the team because in M-Tech there may be more that 500 students so i have to take help from some of my friends and this shows attitude towards team work.... 2) She asked one more question like if i am a boss and there are 5 peoples working under me.. my boss given me one work that has to be completed in with in a month... now it is the last day of month and still 25% of work is remaining how i handle that situation... I answered that I will answer to the boss that from next time i will finish 1 months work in 20 days itself so that we will not be facing this kind of problems next time.. then she told ok....

General Tips: Infosys recruitment wont concentrate too much on technical side... they concentrate on logical and analytical thinking and situation reactions etc... so go through puzzles from shankuntala devi and jimmers... and some analytical and logical sections from RS agarwaal
Dont concentrate on technical questions because they wont ask any technical questions... you must prepare well for the written test and Interview will depend on your logical and analytical thinking and situation reactions.. all the best.. hope i will see you in Infosys next year....
College Name: NIT WARANGAL

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: CPI based shortlisting. Around 6-7 people from MME with CPI > 7.9 were shortlisted.

Round: Interview (Telephonic)
Experience: Duration: 10-15 minutes
Questions :
1. Name 
2. Resume Based Questions 
3. Internships and projects 
4. Technical Questions 
5. Favorite Subject and questions on that 
6. BTP

General Tips: 1. Choose which subject you will say as your favorite and prepare that thoroughly. 
2. Read Proforma of company and prepare accordingly. 
3. It is most secure if you can direct the interviewer to ask questions about your internships and projects, because that is something you know better than him/her. 
4. Prepare puzzles etc. generally asked in interviews. 
5. Keep a Positive Attitude in general. Have an attitude of “I don’t need the company, the company needs me”.
Skill Tips: This company basically needed only 1 MME student was selected - who did both his interns and projects in ‘Modeling and Simulation’.
Skills: Thermodynamics of Materials, Characterization, Manufacturing Processes ,
College Name: IIT- Kanpur

Round: Resume Shortlist
Tips: Get to know your resume very well, have a story for each of your resume point

Round: Test
Experience: Written test. Basic Quant and one short essay to test your English.

Round: Interview
Experience: They were looking for people with good math skills and team player.

Round: Interview
Experience: Prepare for all the basic HR questions beforehand, write them down. for core get your basic fundamentals perfect.
Tips: I started preparing for placements from Nov starting but starting early will be better.

General Tips: Prepare for all the basic HR questions beforehand, write them down. 
For core, get your basic fundamentals perfect.
Skills: Basic fundamentals
College Name: IIT-Madras

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Candidates with CG equal to or higher than 8.0 were selected.

Round: Test
Experience: It was divided in 2 sets of 45 minutes each.
Coding: To write a function to find if a string is palindrome or not. 
Verbal+quant: These were CAT model questions.
Duration: 90 minutes

Round: Interview
Experience: There were 2 rounds of this interview. Both were HR and questions based on resume and some general questions were asked.
Tips: I think I was selected because of my CG, coding skills and communication skills.

General Tips: If you're preparing for core, make sure you start revising your subjects soon. Keep your notes and concentrate on structures.
Skill Tips: I started my preparations in November by going through case study material available in lan and solving CAT questions.
College Name: IIT MADRAS

Round: Test
Experience:  Written test was CAT based primarily with no negative marking.
Tips: Almost everyone felt the time crunch., but the key is to maintain focus and yes no negative marking so informed guesses are a must.Prepare well for the test especially Quant+ RCs+DI.
Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 60

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: GD was case study based. We were divided into groups of 8 and then we were allotted around 20 minutes to discuss the problem among ourselves and then finally come up with a solution which was to be demonstrated on a flip-chart and then was to be presented in about 8-10 min
Tips: Prepare for case studies from HBS Case Study and Wetfeet Case Study guides.
Duration: 30 minutes

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Only one round of interview was conduced. It was mostly HR based and the resume was discussed along with some common questions like the biggest failure and sucess in life, etc.Only one technical question was asked & the interviewers were very supportive and encouraging.
Tips: The key is to be yourself and take your time to properly frame the answers and then reply withconfidence.

Skill Tips: ""
Skills: Research Skills
College Name: IIT Roorkee

Round: Test
Experience: One written test. It contains three sections. Each section is of 20 minutes duration.
Tips: Prepare well with general aptitude and have some basic technical knowledge.
Duration: 60 minutes

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: The topic may be any technical topic or any general matter.
Tips: Maintain your voice pitch, be clear with what you are talking and listen to others also.
Duration: 20 minutes

Round: HR Interview
Experience: He also gave me a situation and asked me how I would react.
Tips: Be realistic with your hobbies and interests. Do not bluff anything.

Skills: Good technical skills., Good communication skills.
College Name: NA

Round: Test
Experience: This was a simpler round, concentrating on basic questions like-
1. Deleting last 'n' nodes of a linked list
2. Check out the given tree is a BST or not.
3. If an array a[i] is a then a[i+1] would be either a+1, a-1 or a so in this array how do you search an element
4. write a ship quality code
Total Questions: Online

Round: Test
Experience: The questions were of this type-


1. Given a tree and all the leaf nodes form a double linked list ( complete tree is given ). How do you find the height of the tree?
2. an array of negative and positive numbers are given. find all contiguous subsets whose sum is equal to zero.

Round: Test
Experience: The difficulty level went up, with questions like-


1. Find Longest Increasing sequence subject to some constraints.
2. An array is given of size n and the elements are in the range 1 to n. Some elements are missing and some are repeated. Find the missing elements and find frequency of all the repeated elements.
3. Three arrays A, B, C. find subset a in A, b in B, c in C such that a + b + c = 0

Round: Test
Experience: Really tough test, with questions like-


1. A tree is given, make a linked list of leaves.
2. for amazon online store what data-structure is used. That is hierarchical structure
3. Asked about make file. How do you club into a single object file.

General Tips: Before making the shortlist, you'll have to sit for an Online written test. The test consists of two parts.
One part will concentrate on aptitude and output of C programs.
1. aptitude, 2. C aptitude, 3. Operating Systems and Time complexities etc.,
Second part will be coding Questions
1. One Question on Trees - definitely
2. One more simple questions on string manipulation
Skills: Algorithms, Puzzles, Data Structures
College Name: IIT ROORKEE