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iGATE PAPER & INTERVIEW - 22 JUL 2008 - HYDERABAD
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Hai Friends



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%)
  
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
  

  
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