(Paper) Aricent Latest Job Interview Placement Paper Pattern : September 2010

Company Name: Aricent
Type: Fresher Job Interview

PROCEDURE:-

Step 1 (PPT):
They begin with a PPT of about +/- 45 minutes. In that PPT they highlighted about their company, Test procedure, Criteria etc. Please listen it carefully because they may ask you about their company profile at later stage (HR).

Step 2 (WRITTEN TEST):

• Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes.
• Conducted by: Merit Trac

1. Analytical Ability (30 Questions/20 min): Very Simple question's . Don't need any Mathematics' Champ. When I, who is mathematics Phobic (Because last time I had studied Maths was in My 10th class) can do then Why not you?

2. Reasoning (20 Questions/15 min): This section was also not so difficult because most of the question's can be solved using common logic . Just refer to some book to polish your self so as to improve your solving speed (Time constraint is there).

3. Data Structure (20 Questions/30 min): Very basic questions on Linked lists, Trees, Heap etc. Also go through the efficiencies of all sorting algorithms because you can expect more than 5 questions from that.

4. C or C++ or Java (30 Questions/40 min): Its the candidates choice to select any one from above three sections. I selected C part, Here I felt questions some what difficult. Most of the Question's were from Exploring C by Yeswant kanetkar.  After some time (+/- 2 hours) they short listed 96 students from 600 students and luckily my name was also there.
Remember written is the only Elimination round, then you have to stay with them up to last round and of course they may also Eliminate you after all procedure is over because in each step you will be awarded points. According to their Requirements and policies they Select the number and if your aggregate fall into that, definitely you will be in.

Step 3:
You will be given two forms. In one form you have to fill your personal details where as the second one is a CI(Critical Incidence) form. some questions about(+/- 6) and you are supposed to answer them. Questions like:
Q.1. Describe a incidence where you have worked in group.
Q.2. Tell about any event where you didn't have prior knowledge about it and then you learned and solved it.
Q.3. Any incidence where your original idea was forced to be rejected or changed.
Remember what is your inside should be outside otherwise writing some movie script is not going to work all the time.

Step 4 (GI):

It is almost similar to GD except that they will provide you document about the topic and also they divide your group into two sub groups. One has to speak in favor of the topic where as another has to speak against. The topic Given to my Sub group was: Common Wealth Games Should not be held in Delhi. Remember it does not matter what or How much you speak, what it matters because how you speak.
One day over, Next day ( 7/9/10).

Step 5 (TECHNICAL CUM HR).
This round starts at morning 9am and my turn came at 6.30 PM.  The process went like this:
I: Good evening sir.
He: GE ... please have a seat.
I: Thank you sir.
He: Introduce yourself..
I: Did
He: you might have studied OS, DS, Networks.
I: Yes sir.
He: Which is your favorite subject?
I: C programming language.
He: Lets start with OS.
Q. Tell me what is an operating system.?
Q. Different functions of an OS?
Q. What is the process management? and draw the figure of process life cycle?
Q. What is IPC?
Q. What is critical section and its various solutions?
Q. What is semaphore?
Also he asks many more basic questions.
Then he switch to Networks.
Q. Draw figure of OSI model?
Q.Which model is used in Internet? (Ans. TCP/IP).
Q. Draw figure of it?
Also he asks various Protocols that are used in various layers of OSI model....like (IP,UDP,HTTP,IGP,TCP etc).
Then he switched to Data structures...
Q. What is an DS?
Q. What are different types of DS?
Q. What is a Heap, Queue?
Q. Write a program to implement Queue?
Also questions like that (pseudo code or program):
Reverse of doubly, singly linked list.
Deletion of node (some where in middle with your pointer pointing to it) from singly linked list with constraint, do not know the starting address of list. Then he switches to CI(critical section) part, which I already had wrote down..... I gave him explanations and answers to his Queries related to CI?
At last he started asking questions like that:
What is the most difficult situation you ever faced?
Q. Do you want to know about our company? (I asked him some questions)

Then after waiting for some hours finally results were announced and by God's Grace , I got selected, out of 96 finally they selected 61 students.

Exam/Interview Date: 06-Sep-2010
No of Rounds: Technical Round-1
Location: Bangalore
Contributor Name: Waseem Bhat

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