Placement Papers - Emerson Electric

Hi friends, my name is Ajay (DCSA Panjab University, Chandigarh). First of all, I would like to thank IndiaBix which helped me to get placed in Emerson. I would like to share my experience. Emerson had a drive on 15th September 2014. All the selection processes were completed in the same day. Emerson's Selection process consists of three rounds:

1. Written test:

Total 40 questions: 20-Quantitative and Logical, 10- Programming MCQS (on C, C++, Java basic concepts), 10- MCQS (on Databases and SQL queries) with NO SECTIONAL CUT-OFF. You have to Score more than 30 (out of 40) to clear the written test.
2. Technical interviews (maybe one or two).
3. HR interview.

Well, there were about 180 students who appeared for the written test and only 35 had cleared aptitude including me and then we, who cleared aptitude were called for technical interviews. I had two technical interviews.

TECHNICAL INTERVIEW 1: There were two persons ready to ask questions. Questions were like:

1. Introduce yourself.
2. What is your favourite subject?
3. I was asked to make a program of Binary search which I made. (Guys please do all searching and Sorting algos).
4. Questions on pointers like null pointers, def of pointers.
5. Functions and inheritance implementation and their difference.
6. How to create Triggers and Indexes?
7. Difference between C and C++.

My first technical interview Lasted for 20 minutes. After some time, I was called for 2nd Technical interview.

TECHNICAL INTERVIEW 2:

There were 2 people taking my interview. Questions were like.
1. Introduce yourself.
2. Tell me about your Project. I explained my project. It was a long discussion on the project. They asked so many questions about the project. So Make Sure you know everything about the project.
4. They asked me questions on SQL Queries (Difficult ones), sub-queries, Joins and Normalization.
5. Output of C programs. Difference b/w structures and unions.
6. Difference b/w malloc and calloc, questions on inheritance, polymorphism, virtual functions, copy constructor, method overloading, the difference between final, finalize and finally keywords in Java.
7. One puzzle question.

I was able to answer most of the questions. After 1 hour they told me thank you very much. Nice to meet you. After some time. I was called for HR interview.

HR interview: Here also there were two people.

1. Tell us about yourself.
2. Tell about your strengths and weaknesses.
3. Why should we hire you?
4. Why Emerson?
5. What you will improve if we don't select you?

Then they told me we were selecting you. Go and enjoy. It was an unbelievable experience for me. Out of 35, only 5 got selected. And I am one of them.