Placement Papers - Impetus

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A total 5 Rounds process:

1. Written.
2. Technical Interview.
3. Technical Interview 2.
4. Engineering interview(It was basic technical+HR).
5. HR Interview.

I applied through campus recruitment, impetus technologies visited our college and has demanded to select the ones who are very much interested in learning technologies and are highly dedicated to work for impetus.

Well it was a whole day process for the interviews, and previously we had a pre-placement talk and a written test.

I suggest everyone to attend the ppt because it was really very helpful and much of the things were cleared there.

The written test was very easy it had 30 aptitude questions and 30 technical questions, and the technical questions were bit easy that any computer science student can do if he have studied basics of computer programming and DS.

I cleared the written test and out of 50 students 10 were shortlisted.

The interview process was a whole day long and it started 9 am on wards, It has total 4 rounds of interview, 3 technical and one HR round. It was very exhausting.

First technical Interview: 1 hr.

I was asked to introduce myself, then he asked about my project, what was the role of me in the project and what problem you faced.

After that I was asked to write a code in any programming language:

Q1. to take a string and print the string and the reverse of that string.

I did the very obvious solution for that, and it was very easy to write. Then he asked me to optimize it, I optimized it and again I was asked to optimize further, so this code discussion was continued until I found the best possible solution.

After that he asked me:

Q. Would an array be able to operate many datas like if the data are in order of billions in number? what will be the problems to run a loop to operate for millions of operations sequentially? (the integer we use in loop will keep circulation within its range, so the will be one of the problem).

When this discussion was over he gave me a sequence that I had to print in the program, the sequence was --> 1, 89, 98, 37, 5 <-- I was unable to find the logic and I left the problem,

Thereafter he asked the concepts of OOPS, and this round took around 1 hour and then I was told that I am done.

Felt a bit relaxed after the interview,

Second technical round (coding) :1 hr 30 min.

I was asked to write a whole code that is compilable, I have to take infinite data input from user and after each input I have to sort the whole inputs I have taken.

Basic this situation is nothing but the insertion sort, but I didn\'t strike this thing first so I just used the bubble sort, I took linked list data structure, at each input I add a node and sort the data\'s using bubble sort.

I done the code and we had a discussion with that code, I had to optimize the code up to 3 levels and yes I did that with simple changes.

After this code discussion of about 1 hour he asked about my project, so much cross questions that I was very prepared with.

Finally I asked him to ask a questions, I asked about many things like the technologies of hadoop, big data and clouds that are used in impetus are for any engineer or its just for the research and development team. He answered me perfectly. I had asked 2-3 more questions.

Third technical round (engineering round) : 1 hr 30 min.

It was very unexpected round in which
"I was asked about my laptop\'s configurations" and I was unable tell him every detail of my laptop, like-
" what is the speed of my processor?"

I never thought of that. He then told me to at least have the idea about these things as I am going to be a software engineers.

He had more questions about my subjects that I mentioned, dbms, Data structure, c programming, he asked the normalizations forms, whats the business key, domain key, natural key, why polymorphism is important, real life examples of inheritance, use of the keyword virtual, abstract. These questions were asked and I answered them, I was confused in between also but they just helped me to explain.

He asked me about my hobbies and since I told that I like net surfing to be updated with technologies he was impressed and asked what websites I use, I told him I use the social sites like quora, linkedin, twitter, Facebook, forbes, pinterest, gozaik, glassdoor, and many more blogs that I use, so he asked me about quora, I explained everything about quora.

There were some more questions like why I had low marks in B-Tech, I made him very cleared that I only get the deep knowledge to the topics that are interesting and knowledgeable, and he was satisfied with me, there were more questions that were easy.

Finally was very exhausted and after each round there were elimination but I survived so I was bit confident for hr.

FINAL ROUND (HR ROUND):

I waited to be interviewed with HR, and I was called to have the hr interviewed. It was really very frank interview and I was asked basic questions like why impetus, whats the most impressive thing you found in ppt? (of-course the technologies they work on) , about my likes, and many many more questions.

I also asked many questions with him and with my questions he answered me very well and explained me everything I asked.

It was very friendly interview.

finally 3 were selected.

What I suggest to guys is to be updated with technology ideas that are on the it sector, that is all you need, and you must prepare for 2-3 subjects like C, data structure, OS, DBMS, networking etc, Don\'t worry they will ask questions only within your domain.