PropCheckup Quality Inspector Interview Questions and Answers

Round: Test
Experience: Screening by an online round containing programming and multiple choice questions. Selected candidates (25 approx.) had four technical interviews wherein approx. 5 candidates were eliminated in each round. 4 students were offered a job.
Tips: Online Programming Contests in spoj,Codechef,topcoder,Codeforces, Hackerrank,Hackerearth, Project Euler.

General Tips: Make sure the interviewer knows what you're thinking as you solve the problem. Don't just come up with the final answer. Prepare on algorithms and Data structures.
It was very exhausting as the interviews went up to 3 a.m in the morning. It was compensated by very interesting and new questions.
Skills:
College Name: NIT Surathkal

Round: Test
Experience: Average
Tips: None
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 20

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Average
Tips: None

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: First Phone Technical Interview for 1 hr - Programming

Tips: The interviewer seeks my confidence levels more than my technical skills. I suggest confidence is the key point to clear the 1st round

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Second In person interview with account manager - 35 mins, general resume related questions - went well
There was no call or update regarding application status
3 people cleared 1st and 2nd round from my graduate class
1 was called for third round and later offered
Tips: Be confident while you answer the questions and it seems they are very particular about the skills as well behavior

Round: HR Interview
Experience: This round was primarily a personal round revolving around the CV. The question broadly covered the various things done at ISB and the extra-
curricular. A lot of expected question were there on the Strengths, weaknesses, successes, Stay at ISB, Comparison with Undergrad education at IIT-B.
The interviewer was insistent that I answer both but I answered the first part and said that there was nothing I could think of for the second part because I just could not relate to such a separation in personal and professional personalities. Of course the answer was detailed and elaborate and ultimately convincing.

The conversation was a very easy one. I think I was able to break ice very early in the discussion and was always conscious for the crispness of my answers. As a result we were able to have a long discussion about a lot of different issues during the 30 minute+ long discussion. I was also trying to build a coherent storyline throughout by citing examples and connecting back to things I had earlier said in the interview.
Tips: Be sure to have a consistent story for all of the above and make sure that you keep corroborating your claims and assertion from time to time. For every aspect I was asked to site an example.
Be very thorough with you CV. Elaborate every point of your CV and prepare answers to the standard expected questions. Make sure you have rehearsed them well enough.

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: I started by looking at the international retailer (Company) and its Indian partner? Why the venture, what strengths, type of contract, etc. it seems the company had efficient back end operation and the front end expertise was with the Indian partner. They would need 6 months to get out of contractual obligations. The operation is merely breaking even right now. I also looked at the competition and customers buckets and there was not enough information available on this.
After this initial analysis the case question was flipped to find out the drivers of setting up a retail store. Some of the drivers discussed were :
- Geography (decided by regulation, logistics, operations, etc)
- Store format (Departmental, Hypermart, location in city or outside city)
- Product Mix ( What would be item stocked)
- Partnerships (potential allies)
- Competition
- Target Customers (to decide Footfalls X Conversion Rate X Ticket Size)
The next part of the case was that where will I gather information about all these, customers, geographies, etc. I said there could be two ways of collecting information: Primary Research and Secondary Research. Primary we can collected from other stores, scanner data, Pilot study, survey, etc Secondary could be done through industry and analyst reports like Crisil, Datamonitor, ISI Emerging markets, These reports normally give detailed outlook about cities, types of formats, conversion rates, catchment area and other parameters. Given that we had just one monthinformation, Secondary research would be more appropriate.
Tips: Keep your cool

Skills: HR Skills, Case Analysis
College Name: Indian School Of Business (ISB)

Round: Test
Experience: Questions were bacomprehensive
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 100

College Name: Ethiraj College For Women

Round: Test
Duration: 1 hour

College Name: Ethiraj College For Women