Times Internet Interview Questions, Process, and Tips for Freshers

Round: Peaks of your stay in campus:
Experience: Best moment in campus was nothing else but the moment when I got the news of my final selection in TIMES INTERNET. I got a very poor SPI in my first sem and I had to take semester drop in 2ndsem. I always used to feel insecure whether I could get a good job or not. I got F grade in fundamentals of computing course in 1stsem. After my 2ndsem I worked on my shortcomings, especially my English and programming. Securing a software developer job was my dream from my 2ndyear. I worked hard to improve my programming skills. Getting a coding job in a reputed firm was a dream for me which came true on(day2)2ndDecember, 2014.
Tips: Just enjoy your IITK life because the 4 or 5 years of life make you feel how to decide you path, where your interests are and how to handle any problem when there is no one with you and don’t forget to score a good CPI and if you don’t have any internship don’t worry do some project in the campus and if you are interested in coding try to solve the question. Finally I would like to suggest all the students those who come from Hindi medium background, try to improve your English. Just hang in thereAnd finally I would say thanks to SPO team who worked very hard  for u

Round: Stress Interview
Experience: I had no idea what were they doing. In the 1st round of interview, I was asked regarding PPT and resume. I did well and after this they asked me some puzzle or case(I can’t recall completely) which couldn’t answer satisfactorily. All in all, everything was good but duration of this interview was only 10 minutes and finally a SPO guy came to me and said “You can attend other companies interview that was a kind of lol” I think he could have told me directly that you are not shortlisted. Actually, my interview was scheduled very late in Accenture and by the time my interview began, they already had settled down with some candidates. Thus, in case of some companies, whether you’re among the initial candidates being interviewed or among the last ones do play a crucial role in your selection
Tips: Before going for interview make sure that your resume must be prepared; you need to know each and every project and try to make meaningful resume i.e. It should give a clear picture of your interests and objectives. Sometimes your course project has more impact than an entire summer internship .

Round: Other Interview
Experience: In my 1st round of interview which was my 1st interview at IITK, they only asked me to explain resume (only project). The experience was great and he interviewer was talking to me like a friend making some PJs on me and telling their own story. I waited for almost 4 hours for second round which was very informal. They were asking normal question on coding and after this when I was shortlisted for 3rdround on that time I was assured of getting this job. I had my 3rd interview at 1 AM. They asked me some questions of coding and puzzles. I was unable to give right answer of puzzle but everything went well. They were looking happy with me after my last round , But when the result came out at 2:00 AM  I got shocked to see my name not in the final list. I waited for the selection process of the company for around 11 hours(that was the 1st time I waited for this long )and everything had gone well .So one of the most important thing I got from them is that if the interviewers are happy with your interview please don’t be assured of the final selection

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: In TIMES INTERNET I was shortlisted for product manager profile. I did well in the interview and I made them laugh when they asked me to explain the resume and specific projects. They were very happy after my 1stround interview but when they asked me about product management, I was very honest at that time and I told them about product management whatever I read from the internet just 15 minutes ago. I convinced them that I can do my job at a capacity of product manager but was more interested in developer profile. I requested them to take interview for developer profile and fortunately for me, after seeing my interest they did give me a chance for the technical interview for developer profile. After my second technical interview which went well obviously they again sent me for another interview and last interview was like HR asking me technical question of data structure and algorithm. HR asked me 3 questions to write pseudo code which was based on linked list and array. After this HR asked me about my IIT K life and CPI how I managed  my acads from 3.9 to 6.1. She was impressed with the level of improvement I could achieve in my IITK journey.And finally they selected me for the developer profile

Round: Other Interview
Experience: My wing-mates  helped me a lot in pre placement preparation. My wingie Saurabh Dixit provided me with an idea how to make resume more presentable. Anurag Pandey helped me to prepare abstract of a project on big data analysis. I used to practice aptitude questions from Lofoya.com and CL books. Aptitude is one thing which will come by practicing and discussing with friends. Abhijit and Jora used to discuss aptitude questions with me which helped me to absorb concepts well. For most of the Software profiles, ample knowledge and good command over data structures and algorithms with some peripheral idea about concepts of Operating Systems and Databases are sufficient. I consulted lecture notes by Dr. Surender Baswana to refresh all the key concepts and practiced the algorithms and their implementation from exercises given at www.geeksforgeeks.org.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Having done all this, I realized that the most important thing for placement prep is the confidence. When I was shortlisted in housing I had 3 rounds of interview. First interview was my first interview at IITK. I had no idea what should be the approach. Usually we think like ”OMG if you are going for interview ,you should react like a nerd or a maggu.“Please forget all these things and don’t become nervous and dumbstruck. Just go and talk with them like you are talking to a man who had also suffered the same condition.Before my first interview of housing I called up Abhishek Dhandhariya (one of our senior Y9)and he boosted me up for interview. He told me that this job is not going to decide your future and don’t think that you are giving the interview to get the job; just take this as an opportunity to show your capabilities for this job and the attitude with which you’ll be doing it.

Skill Tips: I was very selective in profile selection. As programming fascinated me, I prepared only for coding profile. I was expecting compensation of about 8lpa. Brand Name was of course an important factor as I wanted to get a good exposure in the IT industry.
Skills: coding profile
College Name: IIT KANPUR

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: On the basis of CV they shortlisted approx 30 candidates for SDE position.
Tips: Must verify your CV from your seniors/batchmates.  
Include all the projects, intern work or hall activities or anything you have done on your own which is related to or interest of company. If you know any back-end/front-end (javascript, php, mysql etc) language do mention. I think the cv shortlist was completely based on previous work and technical skills related to Web Development/Design mentioned in the CV.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I had one interview for approx. an hour, it includes both Technical and HR round, well mostly technical. Interview starts with tell me something about yourself.  Asked in detailed about algorithms/web based projects mentioned in CV, make sure that whatever you have written you have complete knowledge about it. Asked to code few basic algorithms questions. Do mention about small project if you have done related to web development.
If interviewer says if you want to ask any question, its always better to ask one or two question.
Tips: Prepare tell me something about yourself way before your placement starts, a month or so. Write it down on a piece of paper, keep it to less than 120 sec, 90-100 sec is good. 
A basic format would be like, your introduction, schooling (doesn't matter but if you have something good to say about), give an overview of your project/work experience mentioned in your CV.  
You should cover all the necessary and important parts written in your cv in this question. If something interest the interviewer your interview can start from those topic you mentioned.
Just make sure whatever you have written in your CV, you have full knowledge of it. Interviewer is going to take you from summary of the project to how you have actually coded some particular function or stored data.
Interviewer will give you enough time to think and give answer, so don't just be in hurry and say anything randomly.
While writing code keep telling what you are doing, just don't sit and code silently, interviewer might say and give hints if you are doing it wrong.
Ask question if you have any doubt, or to frame the question properly. Cause most of the time questions are of one line and you're suppose to assume a lot of things so its better to ask questions and get it clarified, it may happens that interviewer wants to ask something else and you are solving something else.
If you don't know something its better to say no.

General Tips: Interviewer wanna see how you think and if you can code or not, so take your time, think properly, keep telling what you are thinking, interviewer will probably gives hints/help you to solve the problem.
Skills: SQL, Algorithms, Data Strucutre, C++, PHP
College Name: IIT Kharagpur
Motivation: Interested in coding, love web development stuffs.