Details of placement procedure: {4 rounds}
1. Aptitude test(one English essay mandatory)
100 marks paper with 35 questions 60 mints
part A [15*4=60] General aptitude, mathematical problems and so on {Refer R.S. Aggarwal qualitative, verbal, nonverbal and logical}
part B [10*1=10] English grammar: like fill up the blanks, odd men out and so on
part C [10 *3=30] Logical questions
[Totally 260 and odd took the test and 189 got through 1st round
2. Group discussion:
They made groups of 10 each. My topic was American war against Iraq It was around 20 to 25 mins and this round was elimination round, usually they select 6 out of 10 but in my group they rejected 6 and selected only 4 and I was one of them. Hint: Always start the GD, u need to score just 2 points and starters always get 1 point.
3. Technical Round:
They asked my on the following subjects:
COBOL: sections and divisions
Data structures: program for factorial of a number, explain recursion
C, C++: Difference and OOPS features
Operating system: Deadlocks, avoidance and solution of deadlock
Computer networks: Dijkstra’s algorithm, (shortest path)
1puzzle : There r 3 rooms in 1st floor with 1 bulb in each room and there r 3 switches in groundfloor,ur in ground floor, u can go to 1st floor only once and u need to find which bulb belongs to which switch.
The cap of pot holes has the shape of circle, why?
4. H.R round :
Questions are:
-how was your day
-tell me about yourself and family background
– why do u want to join caritor
– Did u attend any other company and why were u not selected
My technical round
It was around 25 to 30 mints
I – may I come in sir
T.hr-please come in, take your seat, so how was ur day?
I- great sir
T.hr- so your from MCA, do u know COBOL
I- yes sir.
T- so rank yourself for Cobol
i-7/10
t- that’s good, but why 7? can u write the sections and divisions?
I-wrote some of them and said I need to brush up as I studied that subject long back.
t- so u know c and c++ tell me the difference
I- answered
t-features of OOPS? I answered
t- explain about dead lock? done
t-explain Dijkstra’s algorithm? Done
t-ru interested in puzzles
I-absolutely no sir.
t-gave me the above mentioned puzzle
I-answered
t-very good ,thank you.
My H.R round
It was around 5 to 10 mints
Hint: prepare for the following questions before HR round
Hr- tell me about family background
I-Answered
Hr-tell me something which is unique about urself
I-answered
hr –why do u want to join r company
I-answered(hint-please concentrate on ppt)
hr- what are ur goals and objectives
i-i want to become s/w architect or project manager
hr- everybody will have d same goal and objective?
I-no sir, I’m basically from commerce and I was very much interested in IT field and so I switched from commerce to IT;
HR-if I give u finance dept ?
I- I’ll surely do it sir
hr-“so u will again switch to commerce”
I- I’m really interested in software but if u want me to do in finance than surely ill do.
Hr- ok thank you ,do u have any questions
I-could u tell me about the training prog
hr-explained
i-cos many company have 5 to 6 months of training
hr-have u attended any other company
I-yes sir this is my 5th company
hr-so why didn’t u get through
I- explained
hr-what is your domicile
I-Bangalore and I continued for another 2 to 4 mints
hr- ok thank you
I-thank you sir
so finally we got the results at 12.45am next day and 64 were selected and were given offer letters and I was one of them.
Thank you. All the best