Rakuten Researcher Interview Questions and Answers

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• Environment
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Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - There is nothing to worry, if you have the desire to work and have passion, then you can work anywhere.

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Nicely organized GD, civilized and intellectual GD group, discussion rich topic
Tips: Allow others to speak when they have something to say. Do try to push your way in if someone is talking too long or talking gibberish. Do not push your point too much, however, present logical arguments in favor. Try to draw similarities from what others say. Try to include all.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Friendly HR interviewer. Non-direct questions but not too difficult.
Tips: Answer all questions honestly but be polite. Don't present too strong views, you are too young for that. Don't repeat content with different words, but be elaborate enough to let the interviewer know you.

Round: Guesstimate Interview
Tips: Read up some guesstimates and case studies before placements, discuss some with friends too. Open up your mind while guesstimating. Speak all that comes to your head, and vocally sift through them to get the logical and pursue-able approaches. The interviewer should get a complete idea of your analytical approach.

College Name: IIT Kharagpur
Motivation: First foray into corporate structure. Lots of opportunities. Diversified experiences.

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Extempore was conducted which is almost same as GD. In Extempore round each individual should select his own topic and talk for 2 minutes. Eye donation was the topic selected by me. The main concept of this round is to check the fluency over language
Tips: Be confident in what you speak. Dont get nervoused in this round

Round: Problem Statement
Experience: Extempore was conducted which is almost same as GD. In Extempore round each individual should select his own topic and talk for 2 minutes. Eye donation was the topic selected by me. The main concept of this round is to check the fluency over language
Tips: Be confident in what you speak. Dont get nervoused in this round

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Extempore was the name of the round. It is almost same as GD but instead each candidate should select his own topic and talk for 2 minutes.
Tips: Fluency over language is the main element focused in this round
Duration: 2 hours

Round: Problem Statement
Experience: In this round the candidate should attend online aptitude test for 1 hour. It consists of three parts : Logical part, Reasoning part, Language part. This round is easier one.
Tips: Concentrate more on English grammar

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Shortlisted candidates were called for HR round. For non IT students the main question asked was being a non IT student why do you choose corporate field.
Tips: The answer for this question cannot be provided by myself. Each of you candidates should build a genuine answer for this one

Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: This is the final round of the whole interview process. In this round the candidates were focused asking only on puzzle questions. 3 to 5 questions were asked in this round depending upon the mentality of HR. 75 % score is required to clear this round
Tips: Just Google puzzle questions for interview, then work on those questions. You will get an idea on how to clear this round

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: We were asked to introduce ourselves and also speak about the environment of the room. Then asked to speak about Amazon and why do we want to work with Amazon
Tips: Be confident

Round: Test
Experience: Pronounciaton skills were examined
Tips: Flexible in talking in English
Duration: 20 minutes
Total Questions: 25

Round: HR Interview
Experience: HR was really cooperative he asked to relax and then started asking questions in a gentle manner. He made me feel comfortable. And reduced the nervous environment.
Tips: Be confident and don't be nervous

Skills: Language, Time Management
College Name: VHD central institute of home science

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Interviews were driven to know the candidate better and their capabilities. They also didn’t waste much time asking students who they were sure not to recruit and conducting reasonably long interviews.

General Tips: Do’s :
1. Start preparing with the start of the summers.
2. Concentrate on your own preparation and not on what others are doing.
3. Keep the preparation time of HR to maximum 20 hours because HR accounts for just 20% weightage in your selection procedure.
4. Have patience.
5. Prepare every point written in the resume such that you are able to speak for at least 3 min on the subject. You might gain bonus points if you are aware of some latest developments or strategic changes in the field.

Don’ts :
1. Never bog down when you are either not shortlisted in the company who have been aiming for or when even after practice you are not getting the correct way.
2. Do not form very large groups for the preparation. Try making the preparation time that you spend with the group as efficient as possible with the least of bulla sessions.

College Name: IIT Kanpur

Round: Test
Experience: Aptitude Test - 50 simple questions - 12 minutes.
Tips: Shortlisted candidates were given coding questions (C/C++/Java) - few MCQ's and 3 coding questions.
Duration: 12 minutes
Total Questions: 50

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Two interviews -Technical and HR.

Technical interview had basic questions about Algos and their implementation as well as a few puzzles thrown in here and there.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: In the HR interview, they scrutinized the resume thoroughly.
Tips: Preparation : Read about a lot of Startups. Learn about the company and business mode. Expected to have a good understanding of the components of Analytics-quant and data interpretation. Coursera courses about Analytics are useful

College Name: IIT MADRAS
Motivation: Snapdeal is an online marketplace, New Delhi, India. The company was started by Kunal
Bahl, a Wharton graduate and Rohit Bansal, an alumnus of IIT Delhi in February 2010 , as
part of the dual degree M&T Engineering and Business program at Penn.