Tech.
Mahindra Interview Experience
K.Mary
Meghana
EEE(2010-2014),
B.V.R.I.T.
Tech Mahindra recruitment for us was on
3rd March, 2014.The recruitment process consisted of:
·
Written test
·
Essay writing
·
Technical round
·
HR round
We were told that each round will be a filtering round.
Written
test can be divided broadly into two categories:
1) Numerical ability and logical reasoning
2) verbal ability
1) Numerical ability and logical reasoning
2) verbal ability
Before the actual day of recruitment, a
mock test was conducted in college on 28th Feb, 2014. But I did not
attend the mock test as I was having my GATE exam the day after. I, however,
did not do very well in my GATE exam and I was disappointed a lot by that
because I did not get placed in any company till then, so I’ve got a feeling that
I have nothing to do after I finished my B.Tech.
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The
day before recruitment (2nd March, 2014):
Being very disappointed, I did not have
any hope for tech Mahindra recruitment as well because I was rejected by TCS
(in the TR+HR round) recruitment that was conducted earlier in my 4-1 semester.
But I somehow made up my mind and decided to give this a shot and I then
downloaded the material that Ravi Prasad sir mailed to us: the mock test that
was conducted, its key and also model papers.
I first went through the mock test paper
and tried to do the verbal questions (considering English as my strength
compared to quant) and they were mostly on grammar and basic English rules
like:
Sentence completion with suitable words,
prepositions, articles, verbiage, synonyms, antonyms, confusable words, verbal
analogies, passage, tenses etc.
I felt very comfortable with the verbal
section and then I went on to complete the verbal part of the other model
papers too. After I was done with it, I moved on to the quant section of the
paper in which I wasn’t very strong. So I decided to revise some basic concepts
regarding quant topics. These following websites helped me in improving my
level in quant:
Indiabix is suggested for practice
problems while the rest two are for understanding the concepts. They provide a
very decent explanation and I hope you too would find them useful. Most of my
friends followed R.S.Agarwal book of aptitude for quant and reasoning. It has
ample no. of questions for practice but since I didn’t have that book, (and
even if I had, I would’ve panicked looking at the vast number of questions that
had to be covered in a single night) so I approached internet. Some of the most
frequently asked topics of quant in any written test are: time and distance,
time and work, simple interest, compound interest, partnership, averages,
proportions, clocks and angles, percentages, calendar, etc.
The
day of recruitment (3rd March, 2014):
We were given a pre-placement talk about
the company and about the recruitment process, by the Tech. Mahindra Team in
the auditorium at 9.15 am and then we were sent to the computer labs for taking
the written test.
The written test is for 80 min in which
we had to attempt 170 questions out of which 100 were from English and 70 were
from numerical and reasoning ability. And those two broad sections of verbal
and numerical were divided into 11 different sections on the whole. I initially
thought of attempting the English category first but then I changed my mind and
attempted the numerical and reasoning sections first because, I thought: English is my stronger side, so I can
complete that even in less amount of time at the end but if I try to do the
quant part in the ending, I would get tensed and I may end up not doing them
correctly.
It
took 35 minutes for me to solve quant and 20 more minutes for reasoning. So
most of my time was killed by those 70 questions, as I expected; then, I moved
onto verbal which was, a cake walk. By the time I was finished with verbal, I
was left with 10 minutes and then I went to the paragraph question which had me
quite confused. So that cost me 5 minutes and by the time I was done with all
the sections (170 questions), I had 5 min left. In that time, I looked back at
all my quant answers once again (English I was sure, I need not see them again)
and I was done with the written test.
This was my strategy for the written
test and you could follow yours based on your areas of strength.
And, do not forget one important thing: attend the mock test
conducted in the college, prior to the actual recruitment written test. Because,
if not the same questions, at least the same models of questions get repeated
in the written test; out of 170, I had 7-8 questions from the mock paper. Some
of my friends even had 70-80% of the questions repeated from the mock test.
10 min later the results of written test
were announced and 50 students including me were through. We were then sent to
the main block MCA lab to fill the Tech Mahindra registration forms and after
filling we had to get our mark sheets and resume stapled to the registration
form. Simultaneously, we were given a blank sheet of paper on which a topic was
given. We were asked to write an essay regarding the topic in our own words in
a max of 2 paragraphs. The topic that they gave was ‘discipline’. The question
was: ‘What is the importance of discipline? How does it help us in our life?’
Since discipline is a quality of all positives, I just wrote whatever that
seemed positive about discipline but I took care of the words I used. I made
sure that there were no grammar/punctuation mistakes.
We weren’t given any time limit for the
essay. Some of us just continued writing till everybody completed filling their
forms and got them stapled. The essay sheet also was to be stapled with the
form at the end.
Then TR round started. I was called in
after 30 min. In that 30 min, I kept my cool and tried not to get tensed. I
felt a tinge of worry regarding C language because since two months I was stuck
with my core subjects for GATE and I couldn’t recall much of C language except
for the basic fundamentals. We were advised to be confident about the way we
respond and answer to the interviewer.
When my turn came and I was called for
the interview (TR round), I went in with a big smile (the reason for that was,
just before I was called, my friend cracked a joke. I controlled my laughter
and presented it as a smile to my interviewer. May be that became my plus point,
I don’t know) and wished the interviewer
‘good afternoon sir’.
I was asked to tell me about myself,
then about my family and then about my academic project that I did in my 3-2
semester (that’s easy). So be thorough with your project details as this would
be the expected question in any interview. And then I was asked to explain the
‘difference between local variable and global variable in C’ (That’s easy too!)
I explained and then I was asked if I had any questions: I said “no, sir”. Then
I was asked to leave. That’s it. Fortunately/unfortunately, my interview did
not last for long. I was in for a max of 5 min. I came out at 4.00 pm.
For some students, TR round was yet to be
completed still. After some time, HR round started as well for some of the
students who had completed the TR. TR
and HR were going parallel by that time. I and some other students who
completed TR were waiting for HR but at 5.30 pm, there were two more students
for the TR and the rest of us were asked to assemble in MCA lab so that they
would announce the final result. I was tensed at that moment because I was not
called for HR and they were going to announce final list of students selected
and so I thought that I might’ve not been selected. After the TR of those two
students got completed, the Tech Mahindra people came in and announced the
final result (35 students selected out of 50) and to my surprise, I was in!
My advice to the EEE students would be,
do not panic if you are not good at programming. Just have basic knowledge on C
programming and if you are asked a question which you do not know the answer
for, don’t beat around the bush, be able to project yourself to the interviewer
in such a way that he thinks that you have the ability to learn if the
necessity arises. And be strong in your core as well because that’s where your
confidence comes out. Because if the interviewer senses that you are no good in
programming as well as the core (which you opted for and had studied 4 yrs),
you’d be definitely kicked out. And above all, carry a smile throughout and let
the interviewer see a confident you, not the tensed-panicked you.
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ALL THE BEST!
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