S P Jagannath Marketing Interview Questions and Answers

Round: Test
Experience: Only a few students will get shortlisted who do all the questions correctly.

Round: Other Interview
Experience: First 4 rounds on day 1 and this are just to shortlist for more rounds on some other day.
Tips: They will focus on almost all the concepts of computer science.You need to practice a lot and start it right now. Should be easy if you have prepared well enough. Use your holidays to start preparing for placements.

General Tips: Sooner you start, better your placement will be as lack of practice & last day study works only for exams but never for interviews. You'll get enough time to prepare for interviews once you get shortlisted. Focus on it even if you are placed already.
Skill Tips: They will focus on almost all the concepts of computer science.
Skills: C , Aptitude
College Name: NIT SURATHKAL

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: On-site interview (5 hours).

4 back-to-back 45-minute coding interviews, followed by a design interview, with a lunch break with a Googler in the middle.

The first coding interview was a set of (surprisingly) trivial (no algorithms needed) incremental coding questions.

The two next coding interviews were problems straight from the "Cracking the coding interview" book. Even though I divulged that I'd solved pretty much exactly the same problem before, they didn't give me an alternative problem and I quickly coded up a general and optimal solution for the problems. Follow-up in-depth questions were minimal and not hard.

The last coding question was a pure algorithm question related to search trees/tries. No coding required, spent the whole time reasoning about the most effective algorithm. This was a bit of a brain twister.

The design question was related to high-level system design (not OO design) for storage and search in geographic data. Focus was effective search as well as scalability both in traffic and data volumes.

Tips: Read "Cracking the coding interview" or other similar literature. Solve all the problems and you should be good to go. If you solve a bunch of problems at HackerRank (or similar) as well, you'll have the added bonus of training on how to generalize the algorithms.

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Everyone with CGPA > 6.5 were shortlisted.

Round: Test
Experience: Questions were not too difficult. You just need practice to solve them within the time limit.
Tips: Solve level 1 of all the chapters of Arun Sharma's Quantitative Aptitude. Also, take part in the weekly tests organized by pariksha.co .
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 45

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Standard HR questions and resume based questions.

College Name: IIT Kanpur

Round: Test
Experience: Questions are not difficult, Time management is very important. It was very well designed test our overall abilities and communication skills. Test was online conducted by cocubes. Out of 220+ students who attempted test, only 27 were selected to next round. I expected them to select some 70-80 after 1st round.
Tips: Questions carry 1/3rd negative marks. Don't try to answer questions in order, find out easy questions and solve them first, as I said earlier, Time management is very important. I attempted arithmetic reasoning first, English (Verbal ability) next and then mathematical ability.
Duration: 45 minutes
Total Questions: 40

Round: Interview
Experience: I focused more on my approach to solve the puzzle and that paid off. I didn't prepare for puzzles either so I tried to solve it in my own way and that might have impressed the interviewer. Some other questions like how many benches are there in this campus ? and If I wanted to start a Food center in the campus, How many customers can I expect etc questions were asked. These questions don't have any perfect answer but they see the way in which you attempt and explain it convincingly.
Tips: Be confident. If they ask anything, answer properly so If they ask questions like How many customers can I expect a day after starting a food court in your college, don't just give any random number, try to do some math and give a number so that you can explain why you gave that number .

Round: Interview
Experience: This Interview is one of the best Interview Experiences I had. I was Interviewed by one of the senior vice presidents of the company. I enjoyed answering it. I know my strengths and weaknesses and I was frank to state my weaknesses and explained how I will over come them in my work place and all. I was asked a lot of questions and some times the interviewer twisted questions to see If I'm answering sincerely or just giving fake answers to the questions. This interview went so well that I was sure of my selection after this round.



And Interestingly, of the 27 members that were selected to 1st round of Interviews, I was 10th one as names were written alphabet wise. But I was the first one to be called out for 2nd round Interview.
Tips: Be clear and Confident with your answers. Answer after thinking for a while, they won't expect instant answers. Remember what you have answered as they might ask the same question again and you might get caught answering differently ( This happens when you fake your experiences and answers). Be frank, Sincere. You know your strengths and try to state your strengths to them (They might not ask you to say your strengths, you have to include them in some answers). Think different and answer in a way that most others won't.

Round: Interview
Experience: As I was confident of my selection after 2nd round of Interview, I stuck to my plans and answered well. I think this round was just to see If I would Join the company or not.
Tips: Stick to what you have answered earlier, they might compel you to change your answers just to see If you are confident with your answers. Remember that Raju's Interview in 3 Idiots ? He will be asked to be more diplomatic but he rejects that Idea .. My Interview was also similar.

Skill Tips: Answers which you read in internet are not your experiences, so they aren't to be copied. Assess yourself and your answers have to reflect your experiences. I didn't prepare anything for Campus placements as I was confident of my skills. I took time in analyzing myself and the way in which I have to project myself in Interviews. I didn't prepare for GD's and PI's .
Skills: Analytic abilities, Convincing skills, Communication skills, My approach to problems, My attitude
College Name: NIT SURAT

Round: Other Interview
Experience: Q1.Tell me about yourself.
Then I was asked about my past internship, PoRs
Then I was asked why I wanted to do a non core internship.
After that, I was asked a puzzle (Similar to a puzzle in the book "Heard on the Street".
Then I was asked a guesstimate question. It was: Estimate the amount of Surf (washing powder) used in India everyday.
It lasted for around half an hour. It was a telephonic round
Tips: Be thorough with your resume. They mainly asked resume based questions in this round.

Regarding puzzles and guesstimates, walk your interviewer through your answer.

General Tips: Be thorough with your resume.
Practice puzzles and guesstimates.
Practice a few cases.
Skills: Presentation Of Facts In Resume, Project And Internship, Guesstimate Skills, Case Solving Ability, Quantitative Aptitude
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras

Round: Test
Experience: Technical sections had questions from almost all the sections through AMCAT(C, C++, DBMS, DS, OS)(level :moderate)Quantitative aptitude’s questions were good.. All were almost of R. S. Aggarwal level though few exceptions were there tooLogical reasoning and verbal ability was good.. Some questions were tough.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Overall enjoyed. But not selected because of my less market knowledge.

College Name: NA

Round: Test
Experience: It would quite a simple test, covering basic questions from general mathematics and algebra
Tips: Practice "Aptitude" on daily basis

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Technical Interview in sapient will be quite related to understand of your basic concepts. The round also includes Puzzles. Try Practising some random puzzles from internet.
Tips: Be active and Interactive. Even, if you do not know the answer, try explaining your approach. That would get you marks.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: The HR carries larger wait-age in Sapient. Do not panic. He will give you enough time to settle down by asking background questions. He will only try to analyse the kind of person you are. Be true to yourself and your are sure to be successful

Skills: Basic Concepts of Launguages, Operating System, Networks
College Name: NIT JALANDHAR