Round: Test Experience: Verbal-correction of sentences, 2 passages,antonyms,synonyms logical reasoning - all models are in r.s agarwal Total Questions: 75
Round: Technical Interview Experience: Regular hr questions like tell about ur self,hobbies,strengths,any team activities, about paper presented and questions on that, questions on leadership qualities, asked to talk about 'conservation of energy' for few minutes, asked abouts functions or events organised.
Round: Interview Experience: Duration of interview - 40 minutesInterview panel: 6 scientist from DRDO and one professor from my departmentOnly technical questions were asked except my name (:P) Question types can be divided into following categories: 1. Process 2. Theory behind the process (mechanism) 3. Practical application4. Alteration in parameters and their effect on process Tips: if you are answering correctly then they will take you even deeper until you yield (cross questioning) :O but dont worry, speak only if you know the correct answer. be confident and honest (they will help you).
General Tips: Shortlisting on the basis of CGPA College Name: IIT Roorkee
Round: Test Experience: PART ONE: Verbal Ability, uses of articles (a, an, the) and a RC. PART TWO: logical reasoning, standard IQ type Questions, was simple. PART THREE: An essay, one out of two, one choice was nuclear deal and the other was education system in India.
Round: Technical Interview Experience: Some regular puzzles were given, which were easy. A discussion on internship work.
Round: HR Interview Experience: They are looking for people with good aptitude, very good communication skills and strong desire to learn. Also, someone with good academic record and clear career goals. Tips: Do not panic in the interview.
General Tips: For GD, improve the content by reading and/or discussing among wing mates. Don't be aggressive but be assertive and ENERGETIC. College Name: IIT KANPUR
General Tips: KGPians have to be a little more in the know-how of latest trends in IT and programming language landscape. KGPians don’t do group projects much, specially group programming/software project. Be affirmative about your abilities and be more clear in your intent, in interviews. Skill Tips: Must: minimum CGPA of 8. they reduced the gpa requirement to 7.9 but they maintain final gpa must be 8. Good to have: Some knowledge of programming languages,databases,Algorithms. Any extra-academic involvement helps ,but is not a requirement. Be in touch with discrete math(not requirement). C++,Java programming(may be a little bit of Python). Projects and internships with computer programming as major /critical part. Having lead a bunch of juniors or equals in a project. Decent communication skills is essential. College Name: IIT KHARAGPUR
Q1. They asked me how would you determine toll for the Jamuna Expressway
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Round: Interview Experience: 2 round of interview First round- technical (basic infra stuff)Second round- HR skills- just a brush up of civil infra courses like Infrastructure Planning and Management(IPM), ECM.HR preparation – slight basic First round- they took people with CG>=7.5 They asked me how would you determine toll for the Jamuna Expressway. Tips: I started in September. Obviously early bird catches the fish.
Round: Interview Experience: HR preparation – slight basic. My HR was very good. Moreover, my intern was in Mumbai Metro Rail, which helped me push in for infra. Also my PORs gave me an edge over others. Tips: CFA played a crucial role for my friends.
General Tips: Basically puzzles, as they are helpful in almost every company. It provides you a direction for thinking. www.brainden.com was a good site. 300,400 puzzles book was very good. (Available in DC++) Have your resume ready early in the semester.Have mock GDs in your group.Have basic fundamentals about what’s going in the country and world. Don’t RG and prepare in groups. College Name: IIT MADRAS
Round: Test Experience: One written test. It contains four sections. Each section is of 15 minutes duration. Tips: Prepare for general aptitude and learn the basics of C, C++ and Java. Duration: 60 minutes
Round: HR Interview Experience: General HR round questions were asked. Tips: You must show your confidence and maintain eye contact with the interviewer.
General Tips: Brush up all the basics of your core subjects. Skills: Good technical skills., Good communication skills. College Name: NA
Round: Test Experience: The online test was of an average difficulty level. There was sufficient time to complete all the questions on time. and there was a negative marking of 0.25. Tips: One should be thorough with the basics of english, and quantitative ability. Reasoning section needed a lot of practice so as to save time. Duration: 60 minutes Total Questions: 50
Round: Technical Interview Experience: I had a very good experience answering the aforementioned questions as i was confident in all my answers. i did not have a thorough knowledge of c language, So i told the interviewer that i am not adept with programming but i can still try. Hence the interviewer told me that even if i go wrong in programming, he won't be marking me on that basis. Tips: Always speak the truth whether you know a particular subject or not. This helps the interviewer form an overall idea about you.Put forward your views in a soft and gentle but assertive tone.
Round: HR Interview Experience: The HR round of interviews was a more general round concerned in knowing the candidate as a person, irrespective of his/ her merits and achievements. It focussed on forming an idea about our personality as an individual Tips: Be calm, composed and patient in front of the interviewer.
General Tips: One should not be scared or nervous about placements. Patience and confidence should be maintained throughout the recruitment process. Practice placement papers from various websites and also keep yourself updated with current affairs. Skill Tips: A lot of practice is required to gain speed in doing calculations. Skills: Speed, Knowledge , Communication Skills College Name: SRM UNIVERSITY Motivation: The main motivation for applying to iGATE was the company is a major IT service provider and had been listed in the 100 fastest growing companies by Fortune magazine. Since i had been rejected in companies like Wipro, CTS, Infosys, i applied to this company in the hope of getting selected. Other motivations were my college seniors and teachers. Funny Moments: When the technical interviewer asked me to explain any topic from my area of interest, I was shocked for a minute because i could not believe that i had been granted so much liberty of choosing any topic from my subject.To crosscheck what i had hear was true or not, i reassured myself by asking him whether he was sure or not. Then the interviewer smiled and told me to proceed.
Q6. Explain working of DNS, implement domain search in DNS
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Q7. What is hashing. Implement domain search using hashing
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Q8. Given a string of alphabet of at most 5 characters. Write a function which returns a unique number for each string with O(1) space
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Q9. Explain working of virtual function
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Q10. There is pointer of base class pointing to derived class. Explain the working with respect to the pointer, if this pointer calls the virtual function of base cl...read more
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Q11. How does write head take a value from process buffer and writes on a particular address (Explanation of address bus and register needed)
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Q12. Clone a linked list having an arbit pointer
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Q13. You are given deque(), enque(), isEmpty() function for queue, implement push(), pop(), min() functions of stack. O(1) time was required for min()
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Q14. Convert a binary tree to a DLL such that a next node for DLL is selected in a top down order in zig-zag manner. O(n) space was allowed, but not O(2n)
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Round: ONLINE ROUND Experience: 1. 20 MCQ 2. 2 coding questions • Find the diameter of a tree • Print all anagrams pair in separate line
Round: Technical Interview Experience: Find the next larger element in a BST, given key might not be in the BST. O(logn) time and O(1) space.Delete all nodes on a DLL whose data is a multiple of 5. O(n) time
Q1. Questions were all resume based. Gave importance to Posiions of responsibilities
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Round: Group Discussion Experience: I talked second and took a stance of defence with development. I tried to talk intermittently for a duration of approx 40 sec each time and for a total of 5 times. Tips: U should be the guy who had talked the most in GD but care should be taken not to dominate it. Try to tell maximum number of points and try to exhaust all the points when you get your first opportunity. Duration: 8 minutes
Round: Interview Experience: They were just checking whether you have the necessary communication and managerial skills and how well you handle the stresses of interview. Tips: Being thorough with the nooks and corner of your resume and keeping your head cool alone will ensure you get shortlisted.
General Tips: Stay coool throughout the process :) College Name: IIT Madras
Round: Resume Shortlist Experience: CGPA > 8 is necessary
Round: Test Experience: Online Test + Written Test Online Test - Duration 90 minutes + Written Test 30 minutes for Hardware profile Online Test -Quants, Number Series ; Calculators were not allowed Written Test - Semiconductor Basics
Round: Interview Experience: Interview is held in either 1 round for non-core profile or several rounds of technical interviews for Hardware. Technical round consisted of questions form topics like VLSI, Semiconductors (BJT, MOS), ASIC Design Flow, CMOS Process Flow.
Round: Group Discussion Experience: Group Discussion is held for non-core profilesDuration varies from 20-30 minutes with 11 members.
General Tips: Never ever mention GRE or MS or any higher studies, for that matter, in any placement interview if you want to get placed in that company Practicing quant, puzzle solving and GD from early in the semester would definitely help Core placement: be thorough with the core fundaes Practice general quant questions without a calculator Skills: Quants, Puzzle Solving College Name: IIT MADRAS