Placement Papers - Infosys
INFOSYS INTERVIEW - 23 MAY 2005 - HYDERABAD
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Hi Friends
I have attended my interview at Hyderabad Infosys. My experience is as follows:
interviewer: welcome Naveen
me: good morning sir
interviewer: take your seat
me: thank u sir
interviewer: tell me something about u which is not written in the application like hobbies and interests
me: my hobbies are playing cricket, reading computer magazines and surfing the net and my extra curricular interests are organizing events.
interviewer: what is ur role in cricket
me: I am wicket keeper and opener non-striker batsman
interviewer: whether the skills of wicket keeping r useful for a batsman or bowler (similar to this but in a different way)
me: ( I didn\'t get the meaning) there should be good conversation between the wicket keeper and bowler
interviewer: (repeated the above one what i have written exactly, then i understood)
me: all the three skills are different, one cannot be useful to improve the other
interviewer: if u r given to talk about one minute then what topic will u choose
me: I want to speak about me
interviewer: I am not interested about u, (gave me some topic regarding Indian market)
me: i don\'t have any idea
interviewer: "Does a student who has completed the B.Tech should do MBA"
me: (bla bla for 30 seconds)
interviewer: u have spoken not even 30 seconds
me: sorry sir
interviewer: u r given a choice of team member and team leader which one will u choose
me: i will choose team member
interviewer: why so, u said u organized events
me: but i did as a team member, there is nothing like that one is leader and others have to follow his commands, we a group of friends shared our views and implemented them to organize the events
interviewer: u r in a situation where ur team leader gives importance to ur friend in the same team, how would u handle the situation or how would u convince the team to ur ideas
me: i would convey my ideas and the advantages we get through it and if my ideas are really good then everybody will convince
interviewer: how good r u at puzzles?
me: fine
interviewer: do u know car driving
me: yes
interviewer: u r going on a ride for 150 km and after covering 20% then one tyre got punctured and u r changing the tyre, suddenly ur screws fell down into a pound from where u cannot retrieve, u don\'t cell phone and u won\'t get lift, then how will handle the situation
me: i will remove one screw from the remaining three wheels and keep for the new one
interviewer: will there be any problem then
me: i don\'t know
interviewer:( he handed over two nails which are bended and inserted into one another) can u separate them
me: (tried) no sir
interviewer: ok atleast they can be separated or not?
me: (tried again) no sir
interviewer: u r alone in a room which doesn\'t have anything, one bulb hangs down at the middle which touches ur head when u stand below it, then how can u measure the height or atleast tell ur approach to solve
me: i would to wall and mark my height and then do some thing from there
interviewer: u r given two identical iron bars, how would u identify which one is magnet
me: with the help of a thread
interviewer: no thread
me: first i would take one bar near to other then it gets attracted and then i will turn and try again
interviewer: in both the ways the other bar gets attracted, any questions
me: will there be any bond
interviewer: it is not like bond, u have to sign for a contract of one yr, any more
me: no sir
interviewer: thank u
I have attended my interview at Hyderabad Infosys. My experience is as follows:
interviewer: welcome Naveen
me: good morning sir
interviewer: take your seat
me: thank u sir
interviewer: tell me something about u which is not written in the application like hobbies and interests
me: my hobbies are playing cricket, reading computer magazines and surfing the net and my extra curricular interests are organizing events.
interviewer: what is ur role in cricket
me: I am wicket keeper and opener non-striker batsman
interviewer: whether the skills of wicket keeping r useful for a batsman or bowler (similar to this but in a different way)
me: ( I didn\'t get the meaning) there should be good conversation between the wicket keeper and bowler
interviewer: (repeated the above one what i have written exactly, then i understood)
me: all the three skills are different, one cannot be useful to improve the other
interviewer: if u r given to talk about one minute then what topic will u choose
me: I want to speak about me
interviewer: I am not interested about u, (gave me some topic regarding Indian market)
me: i don\'t have any idea
interviewer: "Does a student who has completed the B.Tech should do MBA"
me: (bla bla for 30 seconds)
interviewer: u have spoken not even 30 seconds
me: sorry sir
interviewer: u r given a choice of team member and team leader which one will u choose
me: i will choose team member
interviewer: why so, u said u organized events
me: but i did as a team member, there is nothing like that one is leader and others have to follow his commands, we a group of friends shared our views and implemented them to organize the events
interviewer: u r in a situation where ur team leader gives importance to ur friend in the same team, how would u handle the situation or how would u convince the team to ur ideas
me: i would convey my ideas and the advantages we get through it and if my ideas are really good then everybody will convince
interviewer: how good r u at puzzles?
me: fine
interviewer: do u know car driving
me: yes
interviewer: u r going on a ride for 150 km and after covering 20% then one tyre got punctured and u r changing the tyre, suddenly ur screws fell down into a pound from where u cannot retrieve, u don\'t cell phone and u won\'t get lift, then how will handle the situation
me: i will remove one screw from the remaining three wheels and keep for the new one
interviewer: will there be any problem then
me: i don\'t know
interviewer:( he handed over two nails which are bended and inserted into one another) can u separate them
me: (tried) no sir
interviewer: ok atleast they can be separated or not?
me: (tried again) no sir
interviewer: u r alone in a room which doesn\'t have anything, one bulb hangs down at the middle which touches ur head when u stand below it, then how can u measure the height or atleast tell ur approach to solve
me: i would to wall and mark my height and then do some thing from there
interviewer: u r given two identical iron bars, how would u identify which one is magnet
me: with the help of a thread
interviewer: no thread
me: first i would take one bar near to other then it gets attracted and then i will turn and try again
interviewer: in both the ways the other bar gets attracted, any questions
me: will there be any bond
interviewer: it is not like bond, u have to sign for a contract of one yr, any more
me: no sir
interviewer: thank u
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