Written test was conducted by MeritTrac. 3 separate sets of questions were given one after another.
First one was the Verbal English Section - It was very easy. One simple passage, 5 questions and 15 fill in the blanks with noun, adjective, adverb etc.
Next one was Analytical Reasoning - This one was simple also. Missing Figure, Blood relation, Logic, Data Sufficiency etc.
Last one was Quantitative Aptitude - A little bit lengthy. Average, Set, Pipes, Time and Distance, Ratio, Interest etc.
I think there was a sectional cut-off (Not Sure) but no negative marks. I attempted 55 questions (I thought Hit ratio might work, so left 5 quantitative though I still had the time).
I was confident. I got 52 (Shown to me at the time of Interview).
Next round was a Business Mail Writing round. All selected candidates from written test were given a situation. You have to write within a single page in 10 minutes.
My question was - "If everything go wrong, I would ......"
It was just a formality test but please remember what you write.
Among 124 interviewees, 40 were scheduled for the next day. I was one of them.
3 panels, 3 different people.
Some of my technical questions were-
What is UNIX (My training was based on UNIX)
What is ACID?
Why Transactions are atomic?
Can you write an SQL code to select the name of the person who gets the second highest salary?
What is Linked List? How is it implemented?
How to delete a node?
What is memory leak?
How can we prevent that?
What are the functions of Dynamic memory allocation, explain.
Etc.
My Interviewer was cool, friendly personal.
Some of My HR questions were -
Give me a brief detail about your qualification, Family background, Achievements, Hobbies, Strengths, weaknesses etc.
What are the reasons for choosing My project on UNIX.
Who is a Software Engineer?
Why Information Technology?
What's the relation between Technology and software?
Why do you want to become a software engineer?
According to you, what is the criteria for becoming a software engineer?
Do you have any question?
done...
All they need is Good project work, confidence , technical skills, communication skills etc. Your marks do not matter at all.
Go through both R.S Agarwal books.
No. of Candidate applied And Points that Worked in Favour
280 were shortlisted for written test, 124 cleared. Finally 41 got selected. only 7 from Information Technology. I was not among them :( .
My interview was good but luck was not.
TION.....
