TCS Labs

NOTE: Students were selected based on their resume.(they check your project and Area of Interest)

It was one telephonic round with Pune team and face to face round with Hyderabad team.

Hyderabad lab:

Explained about project.(can use board)

More discussion based on feature selection.

While discussing asked the mentioned algorithm's complexity.
For example. How to reduce knn complexity. What is k means clustering complexity etc

Questions connected to data structures and optimisations.

Normal interview preparation with programming questions will not work.

Good knowledge in algorithms,complexity reduction can help you out to solve the questions fired at you.

Pune team( telephonic ):

Tell me about yourself.
Explained project.
Discussion based on project went for a while.

All the details about project , how we will do, what you want to do, what kind of datasets etc

Asked about why you want to join RD?since I mentioned I am interested in PhD.

Then questions turned to discussion(chit chat) based on normal research, which publications/conferences you know, which faculities under which you prefer to do PhD, area of interest, about their organisation.etc

I asked about their projects, all the three members from the panel explained about their project in detail. Again for sometime discussions happened based on their project topic.
Their area was applied algorithms and recent work happening in data privacy.

Asked a small puzzle.

Again told me to explain Btech project.

I hope this is all about transparency during discussion. And our enthusiasm towards research field.

Panel was very friendly. And it was a very good discussion happened with me for more than one hour.

Source:

Rosni (M.Tech AI)

2015-2017

JPMC Placement Pattern and Interview Experience - 2016

The placement drive of JPMC consisted of 3 rounds. 1^st was written, 2^nd Technical, 3^rd HR.

Written  Test:

It comprised of 80 MCQ questions to be solved in 80 mins. There were 4 sections – English, Logical, Quants, and Programming. There was sectional cutoff for the test.

Technical Interview:

The questions were basically from the resume only.

1.       What is Recursion and how it is useful?

2.       What is Spark(I had mention Apache Spark in my Resume)?

3.       What is Hadoop, HDFS?

4.       Working of HDFS and Map Reduce.

5.       Basics of MySQL.

6.       Joins in DB.

7.       JDBC and ODBC related questions.

8.       Basics of Cloud Computing (like what is hybrid cloud, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS).

9.       Asked to explain my M.Tech project.

10.   Asked about my interest and hobbies.

11.   Asked a Puzzle. It was to find the direction in which bus is moving in a picture that he drew on a paper.

12.   Some other questions related to my hobbies.

The questions were easy and the guys in the panel were also very much helpful. If you are well prepared with your resume then most probably you will be selected.

HR Round

Just asked some personal details and asked whether you are happy with the package or not.

Source:

GAURAV  KUMAR(M.Tech  -  IT)

CDK Global Interview Experince

Written test: 

• 50questns - 60min - no negative marking 
• 30 Quantitative, Reasoning, English
• 20 Programming (C,Java) + subjects(major is DBMS)

Group Discussion: 

completely based on English

Technical:

Went for 50 min approximate.

1. Asked to explain my project. Asked 5-6 research questions in my project(why this happens, what if something happens, what of that fails etc)
2. Code related to my project( database connection and sockets connections)
3. Cohesion n coupling, spiral model vs waterfall model, different testings.
4. Duplicates in doubly linked list program.
5. Program of Doubly linked list insertion at a particular index.
6. Given a sentence write a program to reverse each word without an extra array. 
7. Given a sentence write a program to to reverse each alphabet upto a particular given index and the rest of the sentence should be normally printed. Asked to optimise the code for 3 times.
8. DFS and BFS and their applications.
9. Program on Febinoci series without recursion in two ways and with recursion. 
10. Why object oriented? Procedural lang Vs Object Oriented languae, Concepts of OOP and examples.
11. Different access specifiers and their working.
12. What is user defined data types, structure and a sample program. Difference between class and a struct.
13. Gave 3 puzzles(i did two and one partially).
14. Why have you chosen Java as your comfortable lang rather than c?

Senior Managerial:

For me its just for 10min. They are testing not only your communication but your attitude and your confidence at a particular situation.

1. Given a situation and asked what will you do if your are there.
2. Why have you chosen M.Tech? What was the most interesting question asked for you and y its interesting for you?
3. Why are you comfortable with Java?
4. Justify yourself that your acts and decisions are perfect all the time so far in your life (  he is impressed n ans was appreciated )

Note: for this round just don't go with the question try to answer differently and frankly what you think.

H.R:

1. Tell me about yourself.
2. Tell me about your family background.
3. How passionate you are in coding?
4. Have you given up on any program?
5. Will you help and also take help from others if required even if you don't like that person in personal ?
6. What are your hobbies in technical and non technical side ? discuss why?
7. Why M.Tech? Y didn't u go for a job after B.Tech?
8. What is difference that can you observe in yourself from B.Tech to M.Tech as a human not in technical(He appreciated my ans )
9. Any current offers ? Y are u leaving your current offer?
10. In which way u think CDK is apt work place for you?
11. Where do you want to look yourself in long term and short term how will you achieve them?
12. What are your motivations in technical and non technical ?

Source: Yeswanth M.Tech IT(2014 - 2016)