Satyam Interview Experience

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SATYAM PAPER AT HYDERABAD

Hi friends,

We had off-campus by Satyam. This pool drive was really big that 21 colleges had participated and 3000-4000 students wrote the written exam. Only 300 of them cleared the written exam.116 of them had cleared the h.r and finally got the job. And I am the one of them. I would like to share my experiences with you, as I was very much benefited by the previous experiences of the candidates.

DAY 1: written paper:

friends there were 10 questions from reasoning and 5 from aptitude. The paper was not so tough. But it was really time consuming. So please try to scan the paper first and try to complete the aptitude questions in starting 5 minutes. Then rest of the time you complete the reasoning part.

15 questions,30 min and +1 for correct answer and -1/4 for wrong answer.

1) A question like this he gave a=0 and b=1 and asked us to find the value for the number 5

ans. convert 5 to binary...(101)

2) missing number series..damn tough....(don’t attempt, its simply waste of time)

3) from time and work....a and b can do a piece of work in 20 days. b and c can do it in 12 days. c and a can do it in 10 days. then how much time will a alone would take to do the work..(Direct from r.s.agarwal without changing the numbers)

4)from reasoning. a bit difficult

5)again reasoning. the question was very big

6)a rectangle problem from areas...

7)logical deduction

8)he gave ten statements and we have to deduce the 11 statement by using this 10 statements

9) a problem on Compound interest(direct from r.s.agarwal without even changing the numbers)

10)a passage was given a logical inference should be made.(very big. but easy one)

11)a problem on permutations....(damn easy)

12)a problem from data interpretation. It was on line graphs...very big. Not easy to deduct the solution

13) a problem from profit and loss (direct from r.s.agarwal...he didn’t even change the numbers)

even the other two were from reasoning...

Finally friends...it totally depends upon your time management. It does not depend how many questions you have answered, it depends how many questions you have answered correctly. So even if you know 5 out of 15 perfectly, then just answer 5 questions. As a matter of fact, I answered 8 of them and I was confident on 5 questions and the remaining 3 answers which I wrote were from reasoning. So I don how many were correct. But I luckily cleared written test

DAY 2: MORNING

They gave the resume form and asked us to fill the details correctly (mandatory) even a small approximation in your percentages or malpractice in writing your backlogs wasn’t allowed. Then they gave an essay and asked us to write on it in less than 300 words. And time limit was only 10 min.

AFTERNOON: H.R ROUND :( for me it was 40 min... He asked questions from all my 3 years of ece)

me: may i comin sir

H.R Interview: comin....pls take your seat

H.R Interview: TELL ME ABOUT URSELF?

ME: said (please prepare for this before itself properly because he will be testing your communication skills)

H.R Interview: interrupted me while I was saying my strengths. but I was able to bounce back

H.R Interview: read my essay completely and started asking questions on that

me: answered

H.R Interview: he was not satisfied by my answer

me: i convinced him with my answer by giving an example

H.R Interview: asked about family background

me: said

H.R Interview: started technical (for me this consumed around 25 min)

me: answered all the questions with practical examples

H.R Interview: he saw my extra-curricular activities and started questioning on them

me: answered very well.

H.R Interview: Do u have any questions?

Me: asked one question and he answered that and he was very impressed by my answer.

H.R Interview: anymore questions?

me: asked one more and he answered that

H.R Interview: gave a cool hand shake

me: said thank u and left the room

TCS Placement Experience

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Hi Friends

I am one of those 102 lucky people who got placement in TCS. Around 400 students appeared for the written out of which 169 could clear the online test. The online test wasn't a cakewalk this time. TCS has changed the Quantitative Section. So previous year papers(placement papers before jan,2010 ) won't work this time. But the pattern was same

The online test consisted of three parts

1.) Verbal Section: Synonyms, Antonyms, Comprehension, Fill ups. (40 question,20 min)

2.) Quantitive Aptitude (38 questions,40 min)

3) Critical Reasoning ( 3 question consisting 4 question each,30 min

Don't waste time on preparing Verbal Section. Still if you want, you can read High Frequency Words from GRE Barren's 12th edition. 

Quantitive section can be prepared from R.S.Aggarwal. The students preparing for CAT can easily crack this section. Time management during the test is very crucial in this section. I could attempt 36 out of 38 questions due to lack of time. Questions are okay but the time required to solve them is more as compared to questions in the previous year papers. So be careful

Critical Reasoning section consisted of 3 questions. Out of these 3 I got 2 from the Barren's 12th edition. So this can be prepared easily from GRE Barren's 12th edition. Go for the questions from 5 model test papers.

Result of written test was declared around 7:30 pm.  Luckily my name was in the list.  

On 10th Feb Recruitment team arrived around 1:00 pm. TCS officials gave presentation of 1 hr. Lots of information regarding TCS was provided during PPT. Note down the important points during the PPT.

Technical Round:
After waiting for more than 7 hrs my name was announced for technical interview. I was asked to move in the cabin where interviewer was sitting.

Me: May I come in sir.
TCS Technical Interviewer: Yeah Virender come in. (He got my name from the Resume in his hands. He was busy in reading that)

Me: Thank you sir

TCS Technical Interview Question: So, Virender are you from Computer Science or Information Technology.
Me: Sir, I am from Information Technology.

TCS Technical Interview Question: Ok, but you have written Computer Science in your Resume and here in form you have filled Information Technology.
(I was shocked to hear that. I lost the hope for the next round when he told me that. Because I knew this mistake wasn't tolerable at all. Actually I have prepared my Resume early in the morning and that too from my friend's Resume who was in Computer Science .Unfortunately I couldn't catch that mistake. )
Me: Oh Sir that’s a blunder.

CareerInfoline Word of Advice: Resume gives your first impression to the interviewer. It tells few things about the candidates upfront. Making mistakes like the above one should be avoided, but at the same time denying a mistake already done can be a bigger blunder.

TCS Technical Interviewer: It's Ok. I can understand. Have a seat.
Me: Thank you Sir.

TCS Technical Interview Question: Tell me about your favorite subjects.
Me: Sir Its Object Oriented Programming.

TCS Technical Interview Question: Fine, Do you know anything about Function Overloading?
Me: Sir, Function Overloading is basically used to have different functions with same names. The functions body may be different but name is same.

TCS Technical Interview Question: Then how they are distinguished?
Me: Sir, The overloaded functions have different signatures. There are 3 types of overloaded function. First one is by Types of Parameters, Second is depending upon No. of Parameters, Third is on order of parameters.

TCS Technical Interview Question: Can u explain the third one?
Me: Yes Sir (I gave him an example on paper lying on the table. He seemed to be impressed).

TCS Technical Interview Question: Ok, Can you tell me what Function Overriding is?
Me: It is the method of redefining a function in the child class.

TCS Technical Interview Question: Can you access the overridden parent class function?
(I was trying to recall. Just then he gave me a hint)

TCS Technical Interview Question: Have you ever heard about Virtual Functions?
Me: Yeah sir that is used in function overriding in order to access the base class functions. We make the base class function virtual and access it by the base class pointer.
(He was smiling. That was enough to boost up my confidence)

TCS Technical Interview Question: Ok , so you must have heard about virtual tables too.
Me: No sir.
(I knew the answer this time too. But I was not sure so I said NO. Don't try to show them that you know everything.)

CareerInfoline Word of Advice: Don’t try to answer something which you are not sure It’s better to tell truth rather than bluffing.

TCS Technical Interview Question: Can you write a program to reverse a string or concatenate a string with recursion?
Me: I can write both sir!

TCS Technical Interview Question: Ok , Then write whichever you like.
(I wrote the reversing a string program. Meanwhile he was busy with his mobile phone.)   

TCS Technical Interview Question: Good. What about Operating System?
Me: Yah sir you can ask questions.

TCS Technical Interview Question: Ok leave it. Tell me your second favorite subject.
Me: Sir you can continue with Operating System.
(Fortunately this was the second subject which i have prepared for technical interview. Luck was with me this time)

TCS Technical Interview Question: What are Deadlocks?
Me: I explained.

TCS Technical Interview Question: How can you stop them?
Me: These can be stopped in two ways. First is deadlock prevention and second is deadlock recovery.
(I explained both the methods. This was the longest answer from my side)

TCS Technical Interview Question: Your training project was in C++.
(He was reading the Resume. Also he was filling something on a form which he attached on my resume. My heart was beating like a generator at that time. I was worried about the mistake in resume)
Me: Yes sir, it was Banking System.

TCS Technical Interview Question: Ok Virender. You can leave now.
Me: How was it Sir?
(I asked this stupid question because I was worried due to mistake I have made in my resume.)

TCS Technical Interview Question: It was fine, wait outside for MR.
Me: Ok sir. Thank You Very Much.

MR Round

Me: May I come in sir.
TCS MR Interview Question: Yes come in. Have a seat.
Me: Thank You Sir.

TCS MR Interview Question: Tell me about yourself.
Me: I told everything.

TCS MR Interview Question: You have done projects in C# and C++ (Resume was in hands).
Me: Yes sir.

TCS MR Interview Question: Explain Job Portal project you have made in C#.
Me: (I explained each and every module that took some time. One of my teachers has told me to do so. He has told me to spend most of the time telling about my project so that they don't have much time to ask you questions from anywhere else. I think the idea worked.)
Then there were some more questions regarding my project. I explained him everything.

TCS MR Interview Question: Okay you have used SQL Server as back end in your project.
Me: Yes sir.

TCS MR Interview Question: What is SQL?
Me: I explained.

TCS MR Interview Question: What is difference between SQL and PL?
Me: I told.

TCS MR Interview Question: Have you studied DBMS?
Me: Yes sir. But it was in 4th semester. I haven't gone through it for a long time. (Actually don't remember in which semester it was but still i said 4th semester confidently.)

TCS MR Interview Question: Ok, leave it. Tell me about Object Oriented Programming.
(I think he asked about OOP after reading something in form attached with resume. Don't know what)
Me: I explained.

 TCS MR Interview Question: What are your goals?
Me: Sir my short term goal is to get this job right here right now.

TCS MR Interview Question: Bs (in HINDI)?
Me: Sir this is my short term goal. I prefer to do the job currently in my hands in the best way.

TCS MR Interview Question: And long term goals?
Me: I want to see myself on other side of table within 3 or 4 years. (I mean to say at his place. He smiled over this.)

TCS MR Interview Question: Tell me about your family.
Me: I told.

TCS MR Interview Question: Okay Virender, wait outside for HR.
Me: Thank You sir.
(In my case this round was a mix up of Technical and HR. No situational questions were asked in this round from me)

HR Round:

The head of Recruitment Team was there for my HR. So i was worried a bit.

Me: May i come in mam.
TCS HR Interview Question: Yes come in. Sorry Virender i made you to wait so long.
Me: Its ok mam.

TCS HR Interview Question: How was the day?
Me: It was fine. Most important day of my life.

TCS HR Interview Question: So Virender market yourself.
Me: I explained everything about me.

TCS HR Interview Question: Why TCS?
Me: Mam its the best company that visits our campus and moreover i have heard a lot about the working environment provided by the TCS and today i am able to feel that from TCS team. I haven't seen such friendly people so far.

TCS HR Interview Question: Describe yourself in one word.
Me: Hardworker.

TCS HR Interview Question: what are your Strengths?
Me: Mam I easily get mixed-up with people. Due to this habit I have a lot of friends.

TCS HR Interview Question: Weakness?
Me: Again I easily get mixed-up with people.

TCS HR Interview Question: Can u explain.
Me: Yes mam due to this habit I get fake friends sometimes. blah blah….

TCS HR Interview Question: If i offer job at Chennai?
Me: I'll go.

TCS HR Interview Question: Are you aware about package?
Me: Yes mam.

TCS HR Interview Question: and about 2 year bond?
Me: I know mam.

TCS HR Interview Question: Any questions Virender?
Me: Mam, Should I party tonight?

TCS HR Interview Question: Patience pays. Result will be announced tomorrow. You can leave for the day.
Me: Thank You mam.

Next day after long hours of waiting the result was announced at 4:00 pm. My name was the last name in the list (I hate these alphabetically ordered lists) . Finally I have made it. This is going to be my first step in the professional world. Thanks to god.

Have faith in yourself and Hit the doors of your luck even harder - Success will be yours.

 

New Era in Marketing

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"Have Breakfast… or…Be Breakfast!"

Who sells the largest number of cameras in India ?

Your guess is likely to be Sony, Canon or Nikon. Answer is none of the above.

The winner is Nokia whose main line of business in India is not cameras but cell phones.

Reason being cameras bundled with cellphones are outselling stand alone cameras.

Now, what prevents the cellphone from replacing the camera outright? Nothing at all. One can only hope the Sonys and Canons are taking note.

Try this. Who is the biggest in music business in India? You think it is HMV Sa-Re-Ga-Ma? Sorry.

The answer is Airtel. By selling caller tunes (that play for 30 seconds) Airtel makes more than what music companies make by selling music albums (that run for hours).

Incidentally Airtel is not in music business. It is the mobile service provider with the largest subscriber base in India . That sort of competitor is difficult to detect, even more difficult to beat (by the time you have identified him he has already gone past you). But if you imagine that Nokia and Bharti (Airtel's parent) are breathing easy you can't be farther from truth.

Nokia confessed that they all but missed the smartphone bus. They admit that Apple's Iphone and Google's Android can make life difficult in future. But you never thought Google was a mobile company, did you? If these illustrations mean anything, there is a bigger game unfolding. It is not so much about mobile or music or camera or emails?

The "Mahabharat" (the great Indian epic battle) is about "what is tomorrow's personal digital device"? Will it be a souped up mobile or a palmtop with a telephone? All these are little wars that add up to that big battle.

Hiding behind all these wars is a gem of a question – "who is my competitor?"

Once in a while, to intrigue my students I toss a question at them. It says "What Apple did to Sony, Sony did to Kodak, explain?" The smart ones get the answer almost immediately. Sony defined its market as audio (music from the walkman). They never expected an IT company like Apple to encroach into their audio domain. Come to think of it, is it really surprising? Apple as a computer maker has both audio and video capabilities. So what made Sony think he won't compete on pure audio? "Elementary Watson". So also Kodak defined its business as film cameras, Sony defines its businesses as "digital."

In digital camera the two markets perfectly meshed. Kodak was torn between going digital and sacrificing money on camera film or staying with films and getting left behind in digital technology. Left undecided it lost in both. It had to. It did not ask the question "who is my competitor for tomorrow?" The same was true for IBM whose mainframe revenue prevented it from seeing the PC. The same was true of Bill Gates who declared "internet is a fad!" and then turned around to bundle the browser with windows to bury Netscape. The point is not who is today's competitor. Today's competitor is obvious. Tomorrow's is not.

In 2008, who was the toughest competitor to British Airways in India ? Singapore airlines? Better still, Indian airlines? Maybe, but there are better answers. There are competitors that can hurt all these airlines and others not mentioned.

The answer is videoconferencing and telepresence services of HP and Cisco. Travel dropped due to recession. Senior IT executives in India and abroad were compelled by their head quarters to use videoconferencing to shrink travel budget. So much so, that the mad scramble for American visas from Indian techies was nowhere in sight in 2008. ( India has a quota of something like 65,000 visas to the U.S. They were going a-begging. Blame it on recession!). So far so good. But to think that the airlines will be back in business post recession is something I would not bet on. In short term yes. In long term a resounding no. Remember, if there is one place where Newton 's law of gravity is applicable besides physics it is in electronic hardware. Between 1977 and 1991 the prices of the now dead VCR (parent of Blue-Ray disc player) crashed to one-third of its original level in India . PC's price dropped from hundreds of thousands of rupees to tens of thousands. If this trend repeats then telepresence prices will also crash. Imagine the fate of airlines then. As it is not many are making money. Then it will surely be RIP!

India has two passions. Films and cricket. The two markets were distinctly different. So were the icons. The cricket gods were Sachin and Sehwag. The filmi gods were the Khans (Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and the other Khans who followed suit). That was, when cricket was fundamentally test cricket or at best 50 over cricket. Then came IPL and the two markets collapsed into one. IPL brought cricket down to 20 overs. Suddenly an IPL match was reduced to the length of a 3 hour movie. Cricket became film's competitor. On the eve of IPL matches movie halls ran empty. Desperate multiplex owners requisitioned the rights for screening IPL matches at movie halls to hang on to the audience. If IPL were to become the mainstay of cricket, as it is likely to be, films have to sequence their releases so as not clash with IPL matches. As far as the audience is concerned both are what in India are called 3 hour "tamasha" (entertainment). Cricket season might push films out of the market.

Look at the products that vanished from India in the last 20 years. When did you last see a black and white movie? When did you last use a fountain pen? When did you last type on a typewriter? The answer for all the above is "I don't remember!" For some time there was a mild substitute for the typewriter called electronic typewriter that had limited memory. Then came the computer and mowed them all. Today most technologically challenged guys like me use the computer as an upgraded typewriter. Typewriters per se are nowhere to be seen.

One last illustration.

20 years back what were Indians using to wake them up in the morning?

The answer is "alarm clock." The alarm clock was a monster made of mechanical springs. It had to be physically keyed every day to keep it running. It made so much noise by way of alarm, that it woke you up and the rest of the colony. Then came quartz clocks which were sleeker. They were much more gentle though still quaintly called "alarms." What do we use today for waking up in the morning? Cellphone! An entire industry of clocks disappeared without warning thanks to cell phones. Big watch companies like Titan were the losers. You never know in which bush your competitor is hiding!

On a lighter vein, who are the competitors for authors? Joke spewing machines? (Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, himself a Pole, tagged a Polish joke telling machine to a telephone much to the mirth of Silicon Valley). Or will the competition be story telling robots? Future is scary! The boss of an IT company once said something interesting about the animal called competition. He said "Have breakfast …or…. be breakfast"! That sums it up rather neatly.

Tech Mahindra campus placement experience

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Hello friends

Here I present my experience of getting in Tech Mahindra.

At around 1 pm they started with their PPT. I can say in my case that it’s only after going through their PPT I felt that I want to be in Tech Mahindra company. I was very impressed, so I maintained my confidence.

How to crack an Interview?

Career Infoline Word of Advice: Self confidence is important for cracking an interview. Answering interview questions with confidence gives an impression to an interview about your knowledge level.

About written test I can say preparation matters but the main thing is speed and the time management…below I write for you the pattern of the written test.

It consisted of 6 sections having 100 questions in all to be attempted in 1 hr with no negative marking.

1. Verbal section—it consisted of 35 simple clues but again the speed matters. 

2. Non verbal section-it was having 20 questions simple and the main portion was formed by analogy, pattern matching.

3. Quantitative aptitude—only 15 questions of aptitude were.

4-5. These two sections had 25 questions of English—like fill in the blanks with conjunctions, synonyms, antonyms (simple one not the alien words), it was all easy for me.

6. It consisted of 2 comprehensions very-very simple its just speed which is required as you get only 4-5 min to do it .

I waited for the result and was lucky to clear it.

After passing long waiting hrs then the next day my call for the interview came. YES I was bit nervous but was trying to feel better by singing songs….(that’s my best way ever)

Then as I entered the room they welcomed me with so much warm smile that I started feeling comfortable then my technical interview went for almost 45 min…they were impressed by me.

Here is how my interview went.

As I entered the room they I saw that there were 2 persons sitting to take my technical.

I greeted my interviewers with a smile and was asked to have a seat. My resume was asked and then began the questioning part.

Tech Mahindra Interview Question: Dipti introduce your self to us.

Answer. I told them about my schools, my family, my nature and in last about my hobbies.

Tech Mahindra Interview Question: Okay after reading my resume he said that you also took part in swimming competition at district level!! Good. So can you tell me the dimensions of the pool where you participated?

Answer. (luckily I remembered the dimensions written on the pool) so I answered correctly…

Tech Mahindra Interview Question: Tell us about any of your strong point in life?

Answer. I answered.

Career Infoline Word of Advice: Tell about your strong points by giving examples from practical life. It will help them understand your strength better and will also give confidence that you are not faking.

Tech Mahindra Interview Question: We would also like to know about your any negative point?

Answer. I answered ….and by reading their expressions I can say they were impressed by my strong point as I justified it by giving a real example from my life.

Tech Mahindra Interview Question: Now Dipti we want you to solve this puzzle for us.

So they gave me a temple and flowers puzzle that I solved, as I was solving they asked me the method I am using and appreciated my approach to solve it..

 Then they gave me a cake problem which I wasn’t able to solve.

Tech Mahindra Interview Question: Share any moment of life with us when you thought that you are trapped but with your hard work and will you were able to come out of it..

Answer. To this I gave them the example which was also clear in my resume..so he was very impressed to know that I was a medical student with no even optional maths in my 12^th and then I carried on with my b.tech in e&c and that’s with so much good percentage!!

Tech Mahindra Interview Question: If our company give the chance to you to carry with your studies further..would you like to go for it?

Answer. Yes sir sure.

Tech Mahindra Interview Question: So since when you are living far from your parents?

Answer. sir since 4 yrs

Tech Mahindra Interview Question: So do you feel comfortable living so far from them?

Answer. Its comfortable to some extent if I have telephonic contacts with them

Tech Mahindra Interview Question: Any more adjustment…out of house?

Answer. Yes sir with food.

Tech Mahindra Interview Question: Do you have any questions to ask?

Answer. First I asked their names then their experience in Tech Mahindra. The scope of electronics students in this sector and also whether they can efficiently take on the work load or not.

After this they said that I can go now and they wished me to have a great future with them.

Then my HR went as below

(it was of hardly 20 min)

Tech Mahindra Interview Question: So Dipti hello

Answer. Hello sir and very good afternoon

Tech Mahindra Interview Question: So have you taken your lunch?

Answer. No sir

Tech Mahindra Interview Question: So are you not feeling hungry?

Answer. sir yes but it happens sometimes when your work is very imp.

Reply—you are right dipti ..you know I more often miss my lunch coz of my work!!

But are you feeling comfortable?

A.Yes sir

Tech Mahindra Interview Question: So dipti I want you to speak on the topic modus pollus for atleast 3 min.

Answer. Sir actually the topic isn’t very clear to me

Reply—so he explained to me what modus pollus is all about the he asked me to now justify it that it’s right.

I spoke for about 2 min on it then he said its okay good…

Tech Mahindra Interview Question: Tell me about the company tech mahindra?

Answer. To this I told them everything that I knew about tech mahindra.

CareerInfoline Word of Advice:  This is important question in an interview. It shows your inquisitiveness for joining the company. Also it tells that you are well prepared for the interview and shows your attitude.

Tech Mahindra Interview Question: Why do you want to join tech mahindra?

Answer. Sir actually being in electronics trade I have the knowledge of the hardware that’s used in telecom industry but now you want to know about the software which makes this hardware work…and your company provides a good interface between the both so I want to join your company..

Tech Mahindra Interview Question: Dipti why dint you went for TCS?

Answer. Sir I dint clear it’s written test.

Tech Mahindra Interview Question: What they told you in their PPT?

Answer. Actually sir it was only for those students who were short listed for the interview.

Then he gave me a form to sign and my HR was over

After about 1 hr result was announced and I was very happy to hear my name in the list of 21 selected students and then it took me around 2-3 days to realize that yes m placed in tech m….it was just like m living in dreams before!!

So my friends the main thing that u should have in you to get in some good company is to have confidence in your capabilities…and yes time management during the written test!!

Thanks for reading my experience and whatever I have written here will be worth for me if it will help you in any way.

All the best!!