Placement Papers - Hitachi

Hitachi Consulting is a company where they want a person who is all rounder, not just a coder or a speaker. They want a person to be very good in communication skills as well as in coding.

Placement rounds:

1. Online test:

It consists of 2 sections. First Section, English + Aptitude (40 questions, 50 minutes). In English, questions were very simple - Antonyms, Synonyms, fill in the blanks and comprehensions. In this, no practice is needed for fill in the blanks and passages just practice antonyms and synonyms because rest was easy.

In aptitude, it contained. Quantitative questions on boats and streams, speed and distance, area, volume, circles, pie chart, bar graph, HCF, LCM, profit loss, simple interest, clock and calendar. Logical question like sitting arrangement and predicting the next in the series. Second Section, objective paper on technical basis. It included questions on C, C++, DBMS, Java that's all. Out of around 1500 students, 90 students were selected.

2. Group discussion:

These 90 students were divided into 9 groups, And a test case was given for reading for 10 minutes. Then we had to discuss about that situation. The situation given to us was that we are in a desert and have to find a place where there is habitat. We can take 15 things with us and the list of those 15 were given, we had to prioritize them to survive in that situation. The discussion was done according to this situation. Out of these 10 students per group, only 3-4 per group are selected. But in most cases 3.

3. Technical interview:

In this, their is no limit, they can ask you questions from C, C++, SQL, basics, CG, CN, automata anything, Be prepared for this, as it is very tough to clear. Only 5 students cleared this round.

4. HR Interview:

Only 3 got selected out of these 5.