Interview Experience

1.GE (Aviation)
Day 1, Slot 1.1
Number of Shortlisted Candidates : 8 (MTech + MSR)
Shortlisting criteria : Resume + Written Test
Written Test : Apti + Core [ Heat Transfer, Flight Mech, Compressible Flow, Aerodynamics, Structures,
Thermodynamics]

Platform: Cocubes

Number of recruits : 1 + 1 waitlist

Technical:
1. Detailed explanation of thesis
2. Details of project relevant to the company (FEM)
3. SOM questions on a cantilever beam, flat plate with a hole, failure modes of ductile materials
4. How does an airplane generate lift
5. Turboprop engine basic working cycle and advancement in technology.
6. Thesis application to the company's specific work.
7. Meshing techniques used in FEM and why are they used. What is adaptive meshing
8. Difference between FEM and FEA
9. Internship projects detailed info.
10. What are Bending and thermal loadings
11. Which part would you prefer experimental or computational and why
12. Why not further studies
13. Why not other companies
14. What makes you stand out from others
15. What is the one skill you are finding helpful from school
16. Any technology in the aircraft industry is going to revolutionize the industry.

HR:
1. Will you be able to cope with shifting to computational work
2. Why EEDP
3. Why GE perferrable in accordance to other companies
4. what is EEDP and what do you like about it
5. Strength and weakness technical and non technical
6. Situational questions
7. What qualities are necessary as an individual so that organization and you both grow
8. Long term and short term goals and what do you do to achieve them
 9. Are you flexible for working in any department
10. Any more questions before leaving

Experience: Go prepared and be confident. Don't get confused and read all details of every project, intern
and thesis. ANSWER clearly.If you answer well in technical you will most probably be selected unless
you make a blunder in HR.

2.Airbus India Pvt. Ltd.

Profile : Associate Engineer - Mass properties
Day 2, Slot 2.1

Number of Shortlisted Candidates : 8 (Mass properties) (MTech+Dual)

Shortlisting criteria : Resume + Written Test
Written Test : Apti [verbal, LR, Quant] + Core
[Mechanics, Strength of Materials, Fluid Mechanics, Aircraft structures basics]
Platform: Cocubes

Number of recruits : 1

Technical:
1. Introduce yourself briefly and explain the job profile you have been shortlisted for.
(All the following questions were for commercial aircraft)
2. Why do we need to optimise weight of an aircraft and how? What are the parameters you need to
consider for this?
3. How much weight reduction would occur if we replace all the metals with composite (CFRP)?
4. Is it suitable to replace the whole aircraft body with composites?
5. What are the advantages and disadvantages of composites over metals?
6. What are the locations in aircraft where mostly composites are preferred?
7. Design an aircraft wing for structural and aerodynamic loads.
8. Draw the variation of lift coefficient VS angle of attack for a 2D airfoil.
9. How will you determine the maximum velocity required for take off if you have been provided a
runway of infinite length.
10. Where should the CG and Aerodynamic centre be located for the aircraft while take-off and why?
11. Role of Aircraft tail, rudder, aileron, horizontal and vertical stabilizers.
12. MTech thesis and how relevant is your work for industrial application?
13. Course projects, if any.
14. Internships, role performed there, if any.
15. Any questions you want to have for us.

HR:
1. Where are you from, family details.
2. Briefly introduce yourself.
3. Why Airbus.
4. What are the products and services rendered by Airbus.
 5. Where do you see yourself 5 years from now, why at that position and how is it going to help you
in the company?
6. What makes you special from others.
7. If you could travel back in time and change your answer, which answer would you like to
change?
8. Did you interact outside while waiting with other candidates after they are done with their
interviews? How much do you think it helped you now?
9. Rate your technical interview you are going to give out of 100 as per the difficulty level you have
judged after discussing with other candidates.
10. What's the difference you observe between the academic and industrial environment and how
well are you prepared for this transition?
11. Define yourself as a person working in a team.
12. How good are you, being a team leader in tackling problems occurring during the last moment
while meeting deadlines.
13. Any challenging situation in your life and how you dealt with that.
14. Any questions you want to ask me.

Experience: Have the basics clear. Be through with your resume. Panel was very friendly and supportive.
More focused on your approach to solve the problems.

3. McKinsey & Company

Profile: Analyst
Day 1, Slot 1.2
Shortlisting criteria : Resume + Written Test
Written Test : Machine Learning, Statistics, Python and R language

Platform: NA

Number of recruits : 45 (from all depts.)

Technical:
1. Introduce yourself ? (adding ml projects in your answer would be beneficial)
2. Questions on z-test, t-test, chi-square test.
3. ML project explanation.
4. Basic explanation of ML algorithms.
5. P-value and its significance.
6. Null and Alternate hypothesis.
7. Assumptions of Linear Regression.
8. Is it possible to use Logistic Regression for multi-class classification?
Ans. Yes, using multiple logistic regression
9. Functions in SQL, R.
10. Puzzle Question: Using five zeros make 120
Ans: (0! + 0! + 0! + 0! + 0!)! = 120; “!” means factorial
4.o9 Solutions Pvt Ltd
Profile : Associate Software Engineer -
Day 8

Number of Shortlisted Candidates: 15

Shortlisting criteria: Resume + Coding Test (Aptitude, SQL, Coding)
Platform: Mettle

Number of recruits: 3

Technical:
1. Write a program to check number is prime or not
2. What is a stack overflow
1. What is the difference between c++ and Python
2. What is compiler and what is an interpreter
3. What is a graph
4. Draw an acyclic graph and write a program to find an element in the graph (BSF DSF, Iterative
recursive)
5. Level order tree traversal
6. Search an element in a sorted array using Binary search
7. Detect a loop in a linked list
8. Derive Floyds Algorithm
HR:
Why Software
What makes u happy
Ur regrets
How to u handle stress
How u handle defeat
Tell me something which is not in ur resume

5. HSBC
Profile: Analyst
Day 3

Number of Shortlisted Candidates: 13(M.Tech + Dual Degree + M.B.A)

Shortlisting criteria: Written test + G.D + Psychometric Test + 2 Technical test + H.R
Written test : Aptitude[verbal, L.R, Quant]
Platform: NA
GD: “Is cashless economy good for India”(Note: Please don’t look at the member who is conducting the
GD and try to conclude with the common conclusion that you all as the group reached & not with your
individual opinion)
Psychometric Test: It was completely related to how you are going to perform when an unexpected
task is presented in front of you. There were around 13 questions to attempt in ½ hour.
1st Technical:
1. Introduce yourself ? (Adding ML projects related to banking will be beneficial e.g credit card
fraud detection)
2. What was your topic of G.D? (It was to check the presence of mind or how good listener are
you?)
3. A database was provided to me and i was asked to summarise the dataset using any function
available. (In R we can do it with table function but in python we can perform it using .describe
method)
4. A puzzle was provided to me.
Puzzle is like:
There are 4 prisoners present. 3 Prisoners are standing on the stairs. 1st prisoner is standing at the
bottom stair, 2nd on the stair just below the first prisoners (2nd
prisoner can see the color of the 1st prisoner but he cannot see the color of his own hat and the
prisoner above it). Similarly the 3rd prisoner is standing just below the 2nd prisoner and can see
the color of the hat of both 1st and 2nd prisoner. There is a huge wall in front of 1st prisoner
below which the 4th prisoner is standing. The jailer asked that the prisoner who will tell correctly
the color of his hat will be provided freedom. The prisoner who will respond incorrectly will be
shot. The prisoner who will not respond will be sent back to jail. (Note- Only one prisoner can
respond. Assume 2 prisoners have red hat and 2 prisoners have green hat)
Ans : If prisoner 1 and 2 wore the red hat. Then the 3rd prisoner will respond quickly as green
hat. Similarly if 1st and 2nd prisoner wore the green hat. Then again the 3rd prisoner will respond
quickly as red hat. Now the tricky part suppose if prisoner 1 wore red hat and prisoner 2 wore
green hat. Then prisoner 3 will now get stuck. Since the prisoner 3 won’t able to respond the
prisoner 2 will quickly know that both him and prisoner 1 is wearing alternative color hat. Now
prisoner 2 will quickly respond as green hat. (Same will the case if again the color of the hats of
both prisoners 1 and 2 will be exchanged)

Note: Most of the data analyst profile prefer to ask puzzles or case study. For more puzzles you
can refer logically yours Youtube channel.and for case study you can refer victor chang lectures
Youtube

Technical 2 :
1. How can you as an Aerospace Engineer will be useful to a HSBC?
2. I see you have done project on credit card fraud. Can you please tell me which machine learning
model you have used and why?
3. Please explain your project on “minimizing churn rate through analysis of Financial Habits”?
4. Have you attempted any competition on Kaggle or and any other competitions conducted in
IIT?(We won 2nd prize in Grid classification challenge, conducted by Bharti Axa Insurance Pvt.
Ltd. at IIT)
5. Please explain the challenges you faced in Grid classification challenge?
HR:
1. Can you tell us what is our work in HSBC or what HSBC as an organisation do?(Please try to
respond in a way that you are impressed with their work and they are performing for larger
picture)
2. How will you fit to our profile?(Any projects that are related to their profile will be enough)
3. Where do you want your job location to be i.e Kolkata or Bangalore?
4. Any questions for us?(Note: Don’t ask the salary structure or what your company does or please
explain the profile. These are the negative questions. It will negative picture of you in front of
H.R. You can ask the questions like How is the work culture there at HSBC or What teams I will
be working with. This shows that you’re curious to work with HSBC etc)

6. Rolls Royce India

Profile: - Fresh Graduate Engineer
Day 7
Number of Shortlisted Candidates: 15 (MTech + MSR)
Shortlisting criteria: Projects Done and CPI
Written Test: Aptitude (True/False/Cannot Say in 6min about 20 Q’s-----see this more info.
(https://www.jobtestprep.co.uk/true-false-cannot-say#intro ) + Core [ For Thermal Domain: Gate
Propulsion, Heat Transfer(Conduction), Fluid Mechanics & 29 MCQs (with few multiple answer
questions) and 4 subjective types]
[For Stress domain: SOM, Fracture and Fatigue, Materials, FEM. 30 MCQ + 4 Descriptive questions]
*more inclined to approach than final answer and formulae application

Platform: Gate Syllabus (Very Basic one mark questions) And Heat transfer**

Number of recruits: Thermal 2 and Structures 4

There were 5 Rounds in a single sitting (approximately 45 minutes)

(1) Tell me about yourself in 1 minute. (Briefly introduce yourself)
(2) Tell me about your thesis work and based upon it they will ask a few questions.
A topic From your Resume (It’s Technical Round 1)
(3) Any Subject of your Choice. In case if you are from the thermal background then heat transfer is
must **. (Technical Round 2)
(4) Psychometric test (8 instant questions)[Behavioral questions]
(5) Any questions you want to ask me.
Thermal Domain Interview Experience:
Some questions asked during the interview
1. Tell me about yourself in 1 minute.
2. Explain your thesis work and answer a few questions related to it.
3. Pick any subject in which you are comfortable and answer some basic fundamental questions.
Such as -- Flow above an airfoil or a flat plate, What is the significance of the stagnation point ?,
Explain the nature of boundary layer over an airfoil ?, Heat Transfer over an isothermal airfoil
 and how can we calculate the temperature at any point in the wake, etc.(they will see you
approach)
4. Then technical questions related to the Brayton Cycle, such as heat addition at constant ____?,
what if I don’t want to use a compressor and directly want to go at point 3 (turbine inlet
temperature) and How should I attain a point 3 ??? They will see your approach… and if you
don’t know the answer, don’t be panic just say sir I have no idea about it and then they will give
you some hint.
5. Behavioral Questions.
*What are the challenges you faced during your life and how you overcome it????
Apart from your resume what things you like??
*You are in the team and you have to convince your idea to a team member who does not want to
listen, how would you convince to understand your idea ???? the subsequent question will be
asked accordingly your answers ….

*Questions related to your guide. There is disagreement between you and your guide on some
research topic in which you are working, what will you do to resolve the disagreement and
how??? and so on….

6. Most important, know about the company. Questions to be asked, interviewers…….

You can ask a recent project the company had face any challenges. Etc .. something related to it.

Stress Domain Interview Experience:

1. Brief introduction about yourself.
2. Explain your thesis.
3. Presentation on any of the project mentioned in your resume (15 min) + Discussion on it.
4. Technical Questions: Related to FEM, Buckling, Multi-body vibration, non-linearity (since it was
mentioned in my thesis, so they went into it), large deformation, plate theory.
5. Behavioural question: Describe any of the toughest situation you have faced and how you reacted
to it.
6. Any question for us?

Suggestions: Have clear basic fundamentals of the subjects and prepare well for aptitude and reasoning
test. Go through with the resume. If you don’t know the answer, don’t give a random answer. Just say I
have no idea about it. Maybe they will give you a hint. Hone up your presentation skills. Also, focus on
how you answer the questions (approach wise)