Placement Papers - Tavant Technologies

Hello everyone. Firstly I would like to thank IndiaBix for providing such good stuff of study material. I applied through campus interviews. I got selected.
Job Profile - QA Engineer.

Package Offered - 4.5 lakhs per annum.

The entire Interview Team was very Good. Very nice people from Tavant!

Round 1: Written test (Conducted by Aspiring Minds and named AMCAT). You need to be ready to face it. It's a computer adaptive test. You have to prepare well for the aptitude test. Give the full effort for preparation. The test includes reasoning, quantitative, English, and technical questions from C, CPP, Java).

Round 2: Technical interview (questions from C language, DBMS, projects during your degree, testing, puzzles).

Following are some of the questions asked in the interviews:
* WAP in c to find the reverse of a string and length of string should not more than 10 characters. Also check that string entered is palindrome or not).
*WAP a program to generate random no. S between 1 to 100.
* WAP to swap two no. S without using third variable.
* What do you understand by normalisation in DBMS? explain the 1NF, 2NF, 3NF, BCNF.
* Write a query to find the first highest salary from a record.
* What do you understand by Software Testing?
* What do you mean by white box testing and black box testing?
* What is the difference between verification and validation?
* Explain about your project. What was your role in the project?
* Puzzle- A bottle is in front of you. How will you test whether the bottle is "ok" or "not"?

Round 3: HR interview:

Following questions were asked,
* Tell me something about yourself.
* What do you know about Tavant? Tell any 3 points.
* Job location is Bangalore. So are you comfortable to shift there? will your family allow it?
* Tell me about a moment of your life that makes you feel proud of yourself?
* Tell me about a moment of your life when you were under great pressure.
* Tell me about your weaknesses and strengths.

Tips:

1) Give some time to practice series questions.
2) Before the interview, Collect all the information about the company.
3) Attend the ppt actively and keep your ears open: P During HR interview they may ask you anything from ppt.
4) Just take a brief overview about testing tools if the job profile is QA Engineer.

Competing with around 200 students, it wasn't an easy placement journey. I wasn't placed for 6 months from the date the first company arrived and all the top giants had been a dream now. Rejected in 1st round, 2nd or Interviews was a habit. How to win this situation?

Placement is a mixture of an equal percentage of Hard Work and Luck. But how to win Luck. It's your attitude which would help in achieving that luck. I think one should interact more and more with those who are placed and discuss one's shortcomings or loopholes, ask about their interview experience (not just questions but the thinking process) and most importantly preparation journey. Ask them to interview you. Evaluate yourself and analyze which areas need to be improved and focus upon.

Last but not least, "if you believe in God", do offer your prayers regularly not just during placement season but make it a habit. How I have seen it as Do Your Karma, something somewhere better is waiting for you. As there is an appropriate saying "In God's home there is delay but not darkness". So friends. Wish you good luck! Just work hard :).