iGATE PAPER & INTERVIEW - 22 JUL 2009 - HYDERABAD

Hai Fpp'ers,

I am Dinesh Reddy Kasu and I appeared in a iGATE placement recruitment drive held in our college "Muffakham Jah College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, Banjarahills" from 22 to 23rd july 2008

I am very happy that I finally got placement after some (Infosys, Accenture, Oracle, Maq) rejections. So all of u who are feeling dishearted cheerup.. because it is all matter of luck... every one would get a chance.. this is my 5th company.. Finally selected 27 and I am in those selected students.. Thanks to God..

The selection procedure consists of 4 Rounds.

1) Written Test(English20+Reasoning15+Quant15)duration--1hour...

2) Technical Interview

3) Technical Interview

4) HR Interview

1) Written Exam

English (20q):

(1 to 5 Q)----Comprehension...Very Very easy...everybody will get 5 out 5.

1st read the question and then check for this in paragraphs..

(6 to 8Q)----Fill in the Blanks(prepositions**a,an,the)

I suggest these books friends to clear 6to 8q and 14 to 16q ....

Essential English Grammar by Cambridge University Press(Raymond Murphy)**Orange Color Book..and Lonman dictionary of Common Errors by pearson education.(ND turton, jb heaton)**Blue Color Book...if u have any cat book (ims or CareerForum (i studied)...)...read from that..ok.

(9 to 11Q)---Antonyms (difficult)

(12 to 13Q)---Synonyms (difficult)...

But already who ever practiced theGre and Cat books can get the correct answers for antonyms and synonyms..(me also)

(14 to 16Q)---sentence Correction(easy)..

(17 to 20Q)---Sequence Formation.(easy)

4 sentences will be given..u need to form sequence(ABCD,,,DCBA,,,CDBA..etc)

Reasoning (15q): Rs agarwal reasoning

(21 to 23q)---Syllogisms(easy)

(24 to 27q)--- puzzles

(28 to 30q)---classification of diagrams(odd)

(31 to 35q)---Concentration questions

Quant(15q)RS agarwal quant

36 to 37q---time and distance

38 to 39q---profit and loss

40 to 41q---time and work

42 t043q ---age problems

44 to 45q---mixture and allegations

46 to 47q---Simple interest and compund interest

48 to 49q---shares

50q--simple caculation

2) Technical Interview-1

Dinesh: May i come in Sir??

sir: pls come in

sir:pls be seated

dinesh: i kept my file on the floor(do not keep on the table till ask ur file)

sir:Tell me about ur self?

dinesh: said.

(Please fill the company application form properly..and u need to remember everything)

sir: What do u do apart from ur academics when u r free?

dinesh:said that i used to teach maths in tutions...and taught hindi, english for 10 th class students...

sir: ok,,good..what is the value of ln64??

dinesh: 6 sir....(he gave this problem beacuse of my above answer)

sir: How c program will be executed??

dinesh: explained using example..

sir: tell me some dbms packages??

dinesh: oracle 9i, oracle 10g

sir: what else??

dinesh:oracle 8i and recently oracle 11g also sir..

sir: apart from oracle??

dinesh: sorry sir, i do not ahave any idea

sir: firfox,dd...etc.

dinesh :ok sir

sir:difference between compiler and iterpreter?

dinesh:said

sir:what are the operations in stack and queue?

dinesh:said

sir:where we use double linked list concept?

dinesh:binary search tree..i explained it

sir:well..what is preprocessor?

dinesh:said

sir: tell me some header file?

dinesh: stdio.h, string.h, conio.h

sir:what else?

dinesh:maths.h(but i pronounced it as mass)

so,sir asked me to write it on paper....

dinesh:i wrote it as math.h

sir: ok..sir laughed at me..

dinesh: i too laughed..

sir:give difference between graphs and spanning tree?

dinesh:said

sir:what are the operations in stack and queue?

dinesh:said.

sir:explain the bredth first search tree using stacks?

dinesh:i explained

sir: what is rdbms?

dinesh:said

sir:what is sql?

dinesh:said

sir:what r the traversal techniques?

dinesh:said

sir:explain the pointer with an example?

dinesh:said

so..finally i got impressed by my answers..aand he as

sir: u answered most of my questions///well

dinesh:thank u sir

i do not know. ..suddenly he started to ask hr questions...

sir:how much is the freshers salary in iGATE?

dinesh:i said ppt was not given..

sir:he laughed and asked to tell general salary in all comanies?

dinesh: I said 2.7 to 3 per year

sir:tell me your strenghts?

dinesh:said

sir: when will u marry?

dinesh: i said that after 3 years//

sir:why after 3 years?? now u will get job?? u donot marry??

dinesh:no sir, I kept some goals for myself..then only...blaa.bla...

sir:ok..what is succes?

dinesh: i said related to (myself and family ,,, organization,,,,,society)

sir:how will u be helpful for organization and society?

dinesh:said

sir: how much salary will u expect after 2 years? (he did not forget about salary...still asking)

dinesh: above 4.8 sir

sir: I need range ...is that between 4.8 and 5 or above 4.8

dinesh: between 4.8 and 5

sir: which position u want after 4 years?

dinesh: said that team leader..

sir:ok.well...u r the only son..

dinesh:yes sir...(every interviewer asked this question ...because i mentioned in application form as I do not have any siblings)

sir:ok..dinesh..please wait outside...

dinesh:thank u sir..

one boy came near to me and said that I got selected for second Technical round (it was around 6pm)

***due to power problem in College,, next 2 rounds were conducted in IGATE Office-Hyderabad (jublihills) on next day***

3) 2nd Technical Round

sir: write algorithm by using single input and print numbers in the form of 198 or 561

dinesh : i explained it using i post increment procedure

sir: explain the forienkey using example?

dinesh:said

sir: do this profit and loss problem??(from written test paper)

dinesh:it was lenghty...so i did not solve it..and i said that i used formula

sir:ok..diffrence between fprintf and fscanf?

dinesh:said

sir:gave some query??and asked me to find some errors in that??

dinesh:i found only some errors..

sir:ok,, difference between C and C++?

dinesh:said

sir: he read my resume and application form and asked that u r the only son??

dinesh:yes sir

sir:ok, please wait outside..

dinesh:thank u sir..

4) HR Round

madam: good morning ..dinesh

dinesh:gd mrg madam

madam: tell me what have felt coming to company?

dinesh:said

madam:tell me about urself??

dinesh:said

madam:did u do any project??

dinesh:said that i will have it in 4thyear-2sem

madam:so on whichone will u do in your 4--2(i mean platform??)

dinesh: said java or dotnet

madam:ok.suppose i am client..i know dotnet..but i dont know java..how can u convince me to learn java ??

dinesh: said..but she said that she was not satisfied with my answer..

madam:what is ur eamcet rank??

dinesh:said..(she wrote it on my resume..because i did not mention it)

madam:do u have anyone working in igate??

dinesh: said (she already knows it.. because i mentioned it in resume)

madam:which relation do u with him?

dinesh:said

madam:how long will u work for igate??

dinesh:said

madam:how can u mark ur self on communication scale??

dinesh: i said 5.

madam: why have not u been selected in other companies before iGATE?

dinesh:in infosys(wt), accenture(wt, gd, tech, hr rejected...), maq (wt, gd round, tech rejected), oracle.(30%..cutoff was 35%) http://www.ChetanaS.org

madam:what is your aim??

dinesh:said

madam:what will u become after 5 years??

dinesh:said

madam:i will recruyit you for testing???will u do it ??

dinesh:said that ok..

madam:tell me about igate??

dinesh: said that mastech was renamed as iGATE...(50thtop black book)

madam:founded in 1980 or not??

dinesh:1980

madam:renamed in 2000??

dinesh:yes madam

madam: 50 th rank on book?? or board???

dinesh:book

madam:we did not give the ppt due to power porblem..from where did u know all these??

dinesh:website

madam:ok..suppose you been selected in google???which one will u prefer??

dinesh:igate..

madam:why??

dinesh:like hometown...if i got job in vijayawada and hyderabad?? i prefer vij only

madam:ok, well...if it is after 6 years????

dinesh:igate..only madam..

madam:why???

dinesh:iam very comfortable with this company///

madam:what you think that will you be selected for igate or not???

dinesh:i said just ok...

madam:what are your subjects

dinesh:dbms, c, c++

madam:you did not learn anything outside?

dinesh:no madam..

madam:you r the only son....

dinesh:she is very friendly..so asked her that why madam in every i got same question???

madam:dinesh...only one means (...to know about ur interpersonal skills)

dinesh: beacuse of my lonelyness at home, i am friendly with everybody... madam I said that when i was studying 1oth class in bhashyam.. I had most of the friends from my 7th class and 8th class...in inter also..and now in hderabad (neighbours) but i said that i know only some juniors in my engineering college due to different community...

madam:ok.dinesh..well..do you have any questions??

dinesh: do i need to do any work madam ..before getting into iGATE ?

madam: she gave some suggestions and said about training for 3 months///

dinesh:ok ..

madam:dinesh ..we will send ur results to ur placement cell (college) by today evening or tomorrow..

dinesh:thank u madam..

madam:ok..thank you..dinesh