Placement Papers - Sasken

Hi Friends This is Vamsi Krishna.

I attended the SASKEN placement drive held at Sree VidyaNikethan Engg College in Tirupathi on 12-08-08 and 13-08-08.

Four rounds-- 
Written 
Technical interview 
HR interview 
Final interview

The written test was conducted in three sections, all in a single question paper.

SECTION1: English--It consisted of 2 passages,technical related. Also some bits on finding the right meaning of the highlighted words.

SECTION2: Verbal ability--It consisted of coding-decoding problems(very easy), some answering questions based given set of clues(tables).

SECTION3: C language and programming abilities--
25 questions,40 minutes.Some direct questions related to C,accurate output,finding program for given output.

After the test was completed a ppt was given and about two hours later the results were declared. Out of about550,120 candidates wer selected for the next round. I was one of them.

INTERVIEW
My interview chance came late in the evening. The technical interviewer was very friendly. The questions he asked were
1. how do you rate yourself in C between 1-10
I answered 6-7
2. (situation) If you were a passenger on a ship nd you came to know that a massive storm was approaching your way what would you do.
I advice you to think about this in your own unique way.
3. (situation) If you were an employee of SASKEN and one of your colleagues complains to your senior officials that you are not up-to the mark and also have poos skill sets, what will you do?
4. He told me to write down a structure along with its contents in C for implementing a linked list.
5. He asked some more questions from my resume
6. Favourite subject, Why??

I was then told to wait outside. I got the news that I was qualified for the next round. I entered the HR room about 2 hours after my technical.
The interviewer was very friendly. First she asked me whether I was feeling OK, nervous, etc.
Then she asked me to tell her something about myself.
Most of the time I was made to answer this question in an indirect way. There were some questions from my resume, especially form my paper presentation. The important thing was that we had to talk. My HR round lasted about 25minutes.

I was asked to wait outside. The final HR round interviewer called me in nd asked me if I was ok with the company with the company policies etc. She then gave me my congratulations letter, a kind of a call letter but an informal one.