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(Paper) BIRLA-SOFT PLACEMENT PAPER - 13th MARCH 2007-CHITKARA INSTITUTE, RAJPURA (WRITTEN, GD, TECHNICAL)

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PAPER: BIRLA-SOFT PLACEMENT PAPER - 13th MARCH 2007-CHITKARA INSTITUTE, RAJPURA (WRITTEN, GD, TECHNICAL)

HI frnds,
This is Neha Narula, pre-final year (CSE) student. Finally I got thru BIRLASOFT

TYPE : JOINT CAMPUS
VENUE : Chitkara Instiute, Rajpura
DATE : 13March, 2007

Whole procedure consisted of 3 rounds

1) Written test
2) Group Discussion
3) Technical cum HR Interview

WRITTEN TEST:
Consisted of 50 questions to be completed in an hour. I took 50 mins really surprised….thought I wont clear the paper

note:-There was negative marking of.25

1) 20-technical
Mainly java and DBMS theoretical questions,two questions from Software engineering
2) 20-Quantitative aptitude 2-3 questions decimal to hexadecimal and octal ,Mixture and allegation,Percentage
Ques: gain 50%, loss 50%.find total loss percent ,Average
Very simple, basic level quest in this section RS Aggarwal is sufficient for this section

3) 10-English
3-4 Vocabulary, synonym for Amenities Ans: Facilities
Antonym to autonomous Ans: dependent
2-3 wrong Sentence questions
2-3 idioms and phrases

“if winters come, can spring be far behind”….what does it mean?
chicken hearted stands for kind hearted or weak hearted or…….

GROUP DISCUSSION
On the same day at about 8-8.30 p.m.Our topic of motion was ‘’If RAKHI SAVANT WOULD BE THE PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA ” Other topics were ”MALIKA SHERAWAT in kajrare song” “Should international Men’s day be celebrated?”
He was judging not only our communication skills but also Our body language . And if we were listening to other group members or not . Don’t speak only for speaking u must have logical point. In our panel there was cool guy, he asked every one to conclude the GD which showed whether we were listening or not
Our GD was not mass elimination round 7 out of 10 were selected he said that was the best GD he ever had.

INTERVIEW:
On the next day , Firstly we had a PPT must for HR , PPT at 9 a.m
Then I was called for interview at about 1 p.m
In My panel two guys one for HR and other for TECHNICAL

Me: May I come in sir.
Sir1: come in

Me: A very gud after noon sir.
Sir2: Gud after noon

Tips:-don’t dare to sit till ask to do so.

Sir2: Have a seat
Me: Thank u sir

Sir2: Can I have ur CV.
Me: I Was told earlier to paste a photo on CV and took it separately in hand, out of file. So just gave him.

Sir1: hmmm…NEHA NARULA .Are u some what related to nirula’s?
Me: G no Sir

Sir2: He asked me about my training at CONVERGYS.
Me: I explained him all And added this training was beyond my curriculum.

Sir2: beyond curriculum? But this training program was in ur curriculum
Me: Sir, this one month training was not in my curriculum i had undergone one more training at as mentioned in my CV

Sir2: So what u did there?
Me: Again explained him all

Sir1: ok, what languages u know?
Me: c/c++, core java.

Sir1: He asked me about java…its features?
Me: I said polymorphism, inheritance, encapsulation..he asked me to explain all. I explained polymorphism, inheritance.

Sir1: He interrupted me and asked what u said about encapsulation?
Me: I think he was checking my presence of my mind .coz I hadn’t explained encapsulation then. I said I havn’t…..

Sir1: oh! that polymorphism
Me: then I explain all again with function overloading and operator overloading…then I said oh sory….java doesn’t support operator overloading. he was really impressed

Sir2: ok, what is overriding?
Me: I forgot…..so I said,,,,,,,,,not being able to recollect

Sir2: It is related to inheritance.
Me: sorry sir

Sir1: Difference between DBMS and RDBMS,,,,Ms access is RDBMS and DBMS?
Me: Explained all…….though I was not sure about ms access, but I said Ms Access is DBMS.

Sir1: Have u done any language beyond your curriculum?
Me: Yes Sir, Core java and SQL

Sir1: SQL….ok what is SQL?
Me: sequential query language

Sir1: Sequential or structured?
Me: Sir I read 3-4 full forms of SQL…..i don’t know witch one is true yet. Again a smile
I was so confident that he was really really impreseed

Sir1: Which book u followed?
Me: Again I forgot……then I said Navathe….though I followed Korth.

Sir1:Explain,what is SQL?
Me: User fires a query in this language to interact with database.

Sir2: siblings?
Me: blabla

Sir1: Why Birlasoft?
Me: with a pause,,,,,I said there is an ample scope for an individual to grow coz the company provides extensive training in technical and soft skills,,,,,,,,,,SEI CMMI level 5 company,,,,,,,ISO certified ………..all from PPT

Tips: must prepare for
Questions like …why this company?
Why I hire u? (Don’t b arrogant here)

Sir1: ok! U have any problem if I send u to Chennai?
Me: NO SIR

Sir1: night Shift?
Me : NO SIR

Sir1: your parents will allow…blahblah?
Me: yes sir,,,,,my and my sis’s career is the primitive priority of my family

Sir1: In which sector u wan go development or maintainence?
Me: Software development sir

Sir2: but we will send u in maintainence
Me: ok Sir

Sir1: u don’t have a job then don’t say its ok…
Me: no sir it’s not like that

Sir2: I think she might not knowing about development or maintenance…..
Me:G not exactly sir

Sir1: ok G would u like to ask something?
Me: What are the ongoing projects?

Sir1: Lots of project……..
Me: what challenges I will be facing at birlasoft?