My Interview experience with Key Point Technologies (KPT)!!

On 27th of June I have attended the telephonic intervview for hyderabad location. Actually it was scheduled at 15:00, but because of some reasons it postponed to 19:00. I got a call around 7:10PM from Sudarshan, who interviewed me. It was a nice Interview. The Interview went like this ...

1. Tell me about your self.
2. A question on Data structure
3. A question on strings
4. A question in C++ regarding Singleton
5. given some code snippet and asked for the output.

The way of interview was very good, whenever I am telling the answer he is going in advance in that topic and if I am not answering, he is giving the clue or helping me. almost it went fourty minutes. Still I didn't cleared the Interview. I dont know the reason. But it was a good interview. Below are the questions.

Data struture: Find the merge point in two linked list.
Strings: How to find the string in an array of strings which are arranged in sorted order in the array.
Singleton:  How to create the singleton and how to delete the singleton object.
what is the output of the following?

void myfunc(int *a)
{
    a = new int;
    *a=10;
}
int main()
{
    int *p;
    myfunc(p);
    std::cout<<"p value is "<<*p<<endl;
    return 0;
}

My Interview experience with Ness technologies

It was a scheduled interview for Paypal client by Ness technologies on 19.02.2011. Only few cadidates are waiting for their as it was scheduled Interivew. After loong time A got a call and entered into the room for the first round. There was only one Interviewer.

This was very good interview I have ever faced. Interviewer Name is Narayanan for Paypal. He started asking from constructors in C++. From there he was asking questions basing on my answers. He was analysing my skills and knowledge. whenever I am doing something wrong or not proper, he was asking why it is like that, and why not it is like that etc. from his questions, I was realising something wrong I am doing like declaring constructor public etc ..Most of the time covered in Singleton only. It was like a conversation and not like question and answer kind. Almost 2 hrs it went. And I got the confidence of clearing the first round.

And as I expected, I cleared the first round, in second round they asked general aptitude questions along with some basic C++ questions. But I am not confidant of this round. Luckily HR called me and about to complete the HR form. HR again asked for the third round with manager. Third round was also like second round only.  Interviewer asked same questions whatever I faced in second round like polymorphism, inheritance basic questions.

After nearly one week I got the offer letter from Ness technologies. After two months I joined in Ness and working for PayPal cleint in chennai.

My Interview with CapGemini !!

Recently(On 31st Apr 2012) I have attended the interview for CapGemini. There are lot of candidates waiting in the hall. Most of the candidates are for PL/SQL, And I am for C/C++, there are only three candidates for C/C++ including me. One C++ candidate completed his interview and he left. His name is Vishnu.

HR called me , and showed me a way to the room. One lady was sitting there, she must be interviewer. I opened the door and asked her permission by saying  "excuse me", and she looked @me, and no answer from her, she just smiled. I went into the room and sat. She was looking at my profile, and asking me the questions in the following way

1. can you brief about your self??
Ans: I told :-)
2. What is a class?
Ans: explained
3. what is diff between functional n object oriented programming?
Ans: explained
4. what is the diff between malloc and new?
Ans: explained.
5. Can you tell me about the diff between stack and heap?

At this time, HR came into the room, and he has given some profiles to her and told about other candidate Vishnu, for whom she already took the interview. HR told her that , he is not available(he already left). HR told her that his attitude is not good, as he left the office. But she told he is very good. After HR left the room, she asked another question by looking @ my profile. She forgot what was asked previously.
6. what is Vtable?
Ans. explained
7. what is virtual constructor
Ans: explained
8. what is copy constructor?
Ans: explained
9. do you shell scripting?
Ans: I didn't write shell scripts, But we use shell commands
10: then she asked how to kill a process?
Ans: explained
11. what is pipe?
Ans: explained

And finally she told me that she was done and asked me to wait out side for few minutes. And this Interview went for nearly 20 minutes. Yes T-W-E-N-T-Y minutes.

After few minutes HR called me, and told me that "you can leave for the day". I smiled @HR (he too smiled) n left to my home.

Here the my concern is that look at the way questions she asked. She was looking @ my profile and whenever she got a question in her mind, she was asking that question and she was not considering my answer. look at 5th question, whenever  she asked me that question, HR entered the room and had some conversation and HR left, immediately She was asking another question. Is this right way to take the Interview?. I am very much disappointed with this. But I don't take it seriously.

Is this right way to take the Interview? She don't know, what she was asking. she just came without preparation and she was asking whatever comes in her mind.

I am requesting Capgemini recruiting team to select the good interviewers. Interviewer should find whether the candidate have the knowledge or not and Not like question and answer kind of(at least for 4+ yrs exp candidates).  Some times candidate may get wrong answer, but how approached for the problem is important rite?

I am seriously requesting CapGemini recruiting team to take care in selecting Interviewer. If rite interviewers are not available, wait for them and arrange the interviews whenever they are available. But don't play with the candidates and don't waste our time to kill your time.