Campus Placement Experience

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Question answer session in the Technical Round

TCS Interviewer: Which is your favorite language?

Myself: C++

TCS Interviewer: He asked me about basic concepts of C++ like this pointer, function overloading. He asked me to write a program to add two numbers in C++ using classes and also gave me a program to correct it.

Myself: I gave brief description of all that he asked....

TCS Interviewer: Any other language that you have done? 
Myself: JAVA

TCS Interviewer: Tell me something about abstract classes?

TCS Interviewer: Any other theoretical subject of interest?

Myself: Automata.

He had a smile on his face then I also smiled..... And he didn't ask anything from theory of automation.... and also didn't give me any further chance to tell him about my favorites......

TCS Interviewer: Have you studied Operating System?

Myself: Yes sir.

TCS Interviewer: Tell something about deadlock?

Answered

TCS Interviewer: How can we prevent deadlock?

Answered

TCS Interviewer: Have you read Data Structures?

Myself: Yes Sir.

TCS Interviewer: He asked me about Insertion sort, selection sort, bubble sort (basic differences among the functionality of the three sorts and not the exact algorithms)

Also asked me about doubly link list........

He was quiet satisfied and happy with all the answers so he didn't ask any questions about theoretical subjects............

Then he moved into my project that was based on JSP.....

He asked me about its backend and connectivity........ And was quiet satisfied with my response.

Career Infoline Word of Advice: Always prepare your projects well because your understanding of project will directly reflect your involvement in a team activity and your contribution towards its success.

He shook hand with me

After the technical round I got the call for MR after about an hour.....

Question Answer Session in Management Round

TCS Interviewer: Introduce Yourself

TCS Interviewer: He asked me about my strengths as per mentioned in my CV and also asked me to exemplify them..... So always see to it that you don't write even a single word in your CV purposelessly.........

Career Infoline Word of Advice: Be genuine in writing about yourself and your strengths and weakness. Also make sure you give an example from your life experience to support it. Listing your weakness should not actually reflect your negative part; you should conclude it in a way that soon it comes in your strengths list.

TCS Interviewer: What do you do to keep yourself ahead of your counterparts?

TCS Interviewer: He asked me about the latest scores of India Vs South Africa Match (as I said that I watch cricket and also because he was a die heart fan of Sachin Tendulkar)...

TCS Interviewer: He asked me few questions about computer networks.

TCS Interviewer: He gave me a situation as follows-

     " You have to deliver a product to the customer by 30 of this month and on 15 of the same month you come to know that product can not be delivered to the customer by any means at the promised time ( not even if staff works for 24*7 hours). What would you do?  What would you tell the customer and when? What would you say to your superiors? What actions would you take? "

Myself: Honesty towards customer is foremost for a company's reputation so never say that you will try to make fool of him.....

       Always answer such questions in a confident and positive manner.... Be true to the customer and tell him about the actual situation..... Also don't hide anything from your superiors and let them be informed about careless attitude of your project members........ Any further action will depend upon the response from the customer ...... if he is ready to postpone the date then it's ok and now you can get back to your work in a more accurate and timely manner............

He was quiet happy with the answers........ And told me to wait outside......

Career Infoline Word of Advice: This type of questions also tell about yourself, if you try to deceive the customer that means you are manipulative and might not be transparent in office work also. So be loyal and honest.

After about 25 minutes I got the call for my HR

Questions Answer Session in HR

TCS Interviewer: Why should I take you in TCS?

Myself: I mentioned certain qualities that are in me and are required to be in TCS....

TCS Interviewer: Who inspired you to become an Engineer?

TCS Interviewer: Introduce yourself in brief.

TCS Interviewer: There's a bond of 2 years ....... you're ok with it?

TCS Interviewer: You'll be sent to any part of the country for work...... will you be ok with that?

TCS Interviewer: Have you discussed about your job with your family?

Just say yes in response to all such questions......

Positive vibes were there all around and the result was also positive........ I got selected and joy all around.......

SO dear friends just be cool and confident........... They always look for a sense of confidence in you no matter whether you are answering them all the questions correctly or not........ but always make it sure that you know at least few technical subjects in depth so that you can easily get through the Technical round........ And also don't forget to take an overview of your project........

                                                         ALL THE BEST

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It was the summers of 2004, final year of college, when appearing for CAT crossed my mind for the first time. I remember attending a free session on CAT for newbies. The guy giving the lecture was trying to explain how difficult it is to make it to an IIM. There were 160 odd of us sitting in that conference room and he said "In a typical CAT scenario only one out of you will make it to an IIM". At that point of time i was like "Dude, are you nuts" (I said that to myself). I tried calculating the probability of me making in decimals and i fumbled after the first zero. While the guy at that point was saying "Typical IIMer finish long calculation in less than a minute, for which we mortal beings require calc. (For that calc effect blame it to my 2 years of dumb IT job).

We were doing our summer internship/design projects (read doing absolutely nothing) at that time so joined coaching classes along with a dozen of batch mates. We used to go to the class early morning after a typical engineering night out (ah, how badly i miss those night outs now).

My first impression about CAT

Quant: Now this is what is gonna be my forte. Being a 100/100 marker many times in school and being an engineer, quant is gonna be a cake walk for me.

DI/LR: My logical abilities are great. But these calculations in DI, gosh!!! i missed my calc so badly.

Verbal: Being a Bihar boarder, studying in hindi till 10th, this sure is gonna be a tough nut to crack.

CAT's first impression about me

Quant: Oh this guy thinks he is very smart. Let’s give him back. He will struggle to clear the cut offs, constantly.

DI/LR: This guy can not be more right.

Verbal: So what if you are a Bihar boarder, your grammar is all right, your reading speed is great, just finish off the Norman lewis soon.

Within a month, I had stopped attending the classes, I found them useless. I had suddenly found a new interest in "Movie Making". Was spending hours with camera and editing the movie clips.

After the summer was over, I had finished 3 chapters of Norman lewis, a few mock cats and 6 short movies. Come October, the big news arrived. Our (team of 3) movie had been nominated to Berlin short film festival in micromovie categories. And expectedly was followed by 15 days of fame (yeah, we were on newspapers, tv, internet). In November we were to go to Berlin to attend the festival. Did somebody ask what happened to the CAT 2004.

CAT 2004: 87 Percentile

Come 2005, Joined HP along with dozen of batch mates. Nothing much to say here. With little enthusiasm, joined a test series, mock scores were again like previous year, varying from 80 to 98 percentiles. Didn’t ever bothered to look back into the mock papers once I took them. How bad it cost me :( .

CAT 2005: 94 Percentile

Year 2006, Frustration grows. Still at HP. Joined a coaching classes this time but hardly ever attended it. Was there only for Mock CATs and also didn't miss any free opportunities by the biggies. We were group of 6 friends slogging it out together. We were also doing mock cats at home other than those on Sundays. I relied on the strategy of postmortem of mock cats. Will always miss cut offs in one of the sections with over all being pretty descent. As the C-Day was coming near, scores were increasing but so was the nervousness. How badly I wanted this year to count was evident.

Took a week long break from work just before the exam. Didn't have the stamina to study in last 2-3 days. The C day finally arrived. Could hardly sleep in the night, was nervous like hell. Tried not to pay any heed to "all the best" messages, but those messages and phone calls were making me believe that the occasion was much more larger than i had initially thought. I was burdened with all those best wishes and pressure to perform. Was trying all those "tips to cool myself".

• Taking deep breaths
• Drinking glasses of water.

Was kinda convincing myself, "Let it just start once, you'll forget everything else". And it indeed did. I started with Verbal (had followed the strategy of giving 40 minutes to it, and 55 minutes each to DI and Quant all through mocks). Since the going was tough, gave full 50 minutes and attempted almost all. DI seemed walk through and so looked Quant, untill disaster struck. (It all seems so funny now :P) Never ever in my life I had such an urge to go out and have a pee. I in fact checked out the possibility of it during the CAT paper but expectedly wasn't allowed. Last 15 minutes were unbearable, left the paper with my heads down, was trembling, almost tears in my eyes. 15 minutes in a CAT paper are too much to be wasted, was going to realize it later. After the paper I rushed out for the nearest loo only to find a long queue there.

 Fast Forward to January 2nd, 2007

CAT 2006: 99.46 (DI: 97.04, VA: 99.96, QA: 90.70)

The scores looked pretty descent, with doubts over the quant score.

IIMA comes out with the calls. Rejected.

IIMC Rejected, B Rejected, L Rejected.

Quant score had me in big time. Finally Indore gave me a call (I still remember the sigh of relief I had). K Rejected (Couldn't believe).

All just doesn’t end here. XAT scores: 99.67 (DI: 99+, VA:87+, QA:98+) but no call from XLRI either. To top it all when MDI declared its GD PI call list, my name didn't figure even there. Though after repeated phone calls and mail exchange they finally gave me a call, and in JMET at rank 429 calls from IIT B and D would have been a miracle only.

Time for final results

NITIE (PGDISEM) : WL 4
SPJAIN: WL 4 (finally converted)
Few days back i booked a railways ticket to my home town: WL4
IIFT: WL

And after painfully agonizing wait IIMs came out with their results.
I remember I was literally hitting F5 every second on the IIM result page the day it was out. And probably I was the first one to see the result as well.

Opened the result page, was trembling while keying in my registration number, hit the RESULT button, and here it was..

Name : VISHAL KUMAR JALAN Registration No. : 5150531

You have been selected for admission to PGP (2007-2009) of IIM Indore.

And there it was. A mix of shock, excitement and don’t know what. I just punched my fist in the air and everything after that was a blur. Was unable to think or speak anything. I had made it to the one of the most coveted institute of India.

My DrIIM had come true!!!!!!!

Vishal Jalan

IIM- Indore

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The recruitment process started with a written test. The test was 1 hour long. It comprised of two sections-30 mins for aptitude and 30 mins for technical.

Aptitude: Aptitude was easy. It was a mix of logical ability, analytical reasoning and basic questions of time-speed-distance. RS Aggarwal book would suffice for it. Otherwise even without doing this book a person with good IQ level can easily crack the written.

Technical: I found the technical section a bit tough. Actually if a person is thorough in most of the subjects of BTech then he or she would be able to ace it. But here thorough doesn’t mean you need to have the knowledge of subjects upto GATE level rater just the basics of all subjects are needed.

Questions were from various subjects such as:

o       Analog and Digital communication

o       Field & Waves

o       Antenna and Wave Propagation

o       Computer Networks

o       Linear Integrated Circuits

o       Basic semiconductor

You just need to know basic concepts, No expertise required!

After 4 hours they declared the results of written test. I was among the shortlisted candidates J Now, the next hurdle for me was the interview. They told us during their presentation that technical round and HR round would be combined.

Now came my turn for interview. I was a bit nervous because it was my first interview. As soon as I entered the room I saw two guys sitting in the room and they were scanning my resume.

Some of the Questions asked during the interview were:

o       Are you from Karnal or Sirsa? Your 10th and 12th is from Sirsa but your address shows Karnal as your residential place?

o       You did your training from BEL. What did you learn there?

o       Which is your favorite subject?

o       Some questions from Analog and Digital Communication as I mentioned it as my favorite subject.

o       Questions about GSM ARCHITECTURE?

o       Difference between GSM and CDMA?

o       Why hexagon geometry is used in defining cells in GSM ?

o       They asked me will you be comfortable in field job, night shift, working in rural areas?

I said doesn’t matter AND IF YOU ARE A GIRL DONT HESITATE TO SAY YES.

Finally results were announced. With the blessings of god, my parents and my friends I got selected.....!!!!!!!!