Punj Lloyd Management Trainee Interview Questions and Answers for Experienced

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Need to explain basic concepts clearly

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: My resume was mostly civil core with 2 core internships (one on designing & analysis and other on construction processes) and 4 core projects (mostly related to concrete). I had also mentioned about the designing softwares I had learnt in my internship and as a course.
Tips: Write each point in your resume properly depicting your core skills. Write about the learning outcomes from the projects and internships using easily understandable terms.

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: I simply followed the tips mentioned below.
Tips: There were 7 candidates in my GD group. Just grab opportunities to speak in between. Its great if you start or summarize or both. Try to put forward some different perspective/point if possible, rather than just agreeing or disagreeing with others and stand up to it. Eye contact is one important thing and the other is to address (turn head towards them) most of the people in your group while speaking. When someone speaks, your job is to listen while looking at them.
Duration: 10 minutes

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I had both HR and technical interviews at the same time in parallel. HR and Tech guy asked questions almost alternatively. It was chill, went on for 35 mins. Just to give you an idea, some of the questions were like, Define yourself in one word; Why should we visit your home city; Is Bandra-Worly sealink serving its purpose etc. They asked me about my projects and internships as well.
Tips: Eye contact is very important, it makes you look confident at least, if you aren't.
Don't be in a hurry to speak. Listen patiently and then you may take few seconds to frame your answer and then deliver. Speak only what you know about, as questions may escalate on something new which you have mentioned. And RELAX, as they are pretty chilled out.

College Name: IIT BOMBAY
Motivation: My friends have provided great feedback of the company. The SP group in itself is also pretty big in India.

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: 6-7 students for group.
2 topics one after the other.
Looking for your knowledge on current affairs,
Duration: 15-20 minutes

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Core questions from resume and general questions like Density of concrete.
They tested  Core knowledge.
For other batch, general topics like Telangana and Andhra Pradesh issue was asked.

General Tips: Prepare well to answer Project and company updates’ related questions. Start preparation for non core companies from summer so that it will be useful for CAT also.

Core- CG is the most important. Choose electives and projects according to your preferred sector. Prepare puzzles. Guesstimate –Create situations and work with groups. Improve Speaking skills,
College Name: IIT MADRAS

Round: Test
Experience: Technical test constituted of technical questions, aptitude questions, english questions
Duration: 150 minutes

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: It was related to core mechanical engineering questions.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: It was an overall personality assessment. Case studies were provided and creativity in answers was seen.

General Tips: Prepare for technical, aptitude well
Practice mock interviews
College Name: IIT-ROORKEE

Round: Test
Experience: This test itself had 3-4 tests. 1st test was Aptitude+ English. One test purely had like unseen passages...Objective questions.
Duration: 150 minutes

Round: Interview
Experience: 2nd round : there were two panels, one asked only technical questions and the other technical +HR
(whatever you had written on the form [provided by L&T]). 

Mine was the second panel. From thermodynamics - laws of thermodynamics, fluid- turbines, latest news headlines, some solid mechanics questions, iron-phase diagrams, hobbies.... was asked about each and every word written on that form.

Round: Interview
Experience: 30-40 min. pure HR. He asked me various case studies. They totally analysed a persons behaviour.

General Tips: Only technical knowledge won't do any good, prepare for HR also.
College Name: IIT-ROORKEE

Round: Test
Experience: Fairly easy, those preparing for CAT would ace the first section pretty easily. For the second section, you'd require an ample experience of reading standard comprehension passages. Online reading resources such as the Op-Eds on TIME, The Hindu, NYT would help big time.
Tips: Be composed and conscious of the time. This test is all about pacing ahead of time and hence a hands on practice on all the relevant sections would really help. There are a good amount of resources for both the sections on the web. So be calm and prepare good.
Duration: 120 minutes minutes

Round: Interview
Experience: It was based on what I had mentioned on the pre-interview proforma, which, they usually ask every candidate to fill. A couple of bullets from my resume provided them enough material to frame their questions. Since L&T ECC heavily deals in concreting operations throughout its projects, having studied FRC greatly helped my case. The experience during my internship also helped me to elaborate my experience. They asked some basic questions pertinent to the grade of the concrete, cement employed and the ductility achieved and some general questions such as what are its advantages over normal concrete and how would it help me in contributing positively to their company.
Tips: Nothing much! Just prepare your resume bullet points in and out. Do not add anything new on the proforma. You never know that it might just go against what you say in the interview. People usually flounder in interview because they try to condense a lot of information in a short span of time. Instead just try to be concise and explicit in you writing so that you can elaborate your experience exactly the way you may want to elaborate in the interview. Strictly adhere to the lines mentioned in the proforma.

Round: Interview
Experience: Standard replies did good for me. Just try to mention all the positives in your resume. This is where you will be, more often than not, given opportunity to elaborate on your extracurricular activities and responsibilities. L&T especially with their MT profilers would always want a diversified group who can carry out both Management and Engineering with ease.
Tips: Nothing much. If you survived till here you are highly likely to get through this as well. All the best!

General Tips: Stay Calm. You may not get through companies which your counterparts in Computer Science or other branches would. But if you keep fretting over your past you'd probably ruin your present and it will drastically affect your future. Don't judge yourself by the package you get in the starting. Companies like L&T usually ground their freshies but the longer you stay the more you are of value to the Company. Ask anyone who's been around in the ECC for more than 10 years and they'd tell you the rest. Stay used to of being awake till the wee hours of the morning (for placements at least) as I was not. It did hamper my chances on the first night of the placement. (which is an entirely different experience to share) :P
Skill Tips: Just be prepared with all the tests that you performed in your Concrete/Materials Laboratory. Concrete Mixers, Bleeding prevention mechanisms etc.
Skills: Practical Expertise with your laboratories
College Name: IIT Guwahati
Motivation: L&T ECC is known as one of the most gritty companies and provides an avenue for being a party to challenging projects. The work, its type, and its impact is what drove me personally to apply to it.
Funny Moments: I don't know if it sounds funny, but after sitting in a big shot finance company on day zero at 1 am in the night, and finally succumbing in round 3, it was almost a draught of 7 days before this opportunity came. And interestingly I had not applied for any other company. So, in the hindsight, I actually find myself lucky enough to have got through. Had this gone then.... :D

Round: Test
Experience: 1. Easy level CAT preps. Questions on basic math, Prob. & Stats, Speed
2. Totally English based test, 15 paragraphs 8-10 liners, 3 ques on each, direct and easy ques, answers
available in the paragraphs itself, no deep thinking required, only good Speed required.
Tips: 1. Dist. Time questions, only Speed is imp. Shortlisted 40 of 120 (both BTech and MTech)
2. Shortlisted 15-18 of 40
Duration: 60+30 minutes
Total Questions: 100+45

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: No question on extra knowledge, have clear understanding of things related to your resume
Eg. What is your favorite subject and then questions on that subject.
Eg. Your BTP seems to be quite interesting, please elaborate on it

Round: Form filling
Experience: A form was filled in the interview which consisted of: Personal details, projects, interns, BTP, qualities,
extracurricular activities. Questions were based mostly on this form and some general questions like:
• About Yourself
• Knowledge on finance
• Tell about 3 topics of current affairs
No resume related questions.
Some basic questions were asked:
• What is welding (asked to all candidates)
• Questions on mechanical properties of materials like: What is hardness and tests to measure hardness

Round: HR Interview
Experience: 30 minutes duration.

General Tips: 1. Courses in particular are not required but, should have clear understanding of your project, interns and BTP and general concepts of each coursework.
2. For MME Dept.: You really need to prepare very hard as there are very few companies for our
Dept. Prepare well for your BTP and projects. In the HR interview try to justify each and every point you
speak from your day to day examples.
College Name: IIT KANPUR

Round: Test
Tips: Clearing 1st test, you will be considered for PGET and on clearing both tests, you will be considered for PGMT.
Duration: 55 minutes minutes
Total Questions: 60

General Tips: started preparaing a month before, brushing technical concepts,aptitude for speed.1st year(M tech)- if you prefer core companies, gofor some process related courses(it would help in interviews). Those with mechanical background, they have an upper hand, CG is important, 8+ is safe, 9+is very good.

2nd years- project is important
College Name: IIT MADRAS