Hi friends, This is an attempt to document placement experience and help juniors when they try to tackle the same.

Just brief your experience on how you got placed. Here are some suggestions on what you can write: 1.Company name 2.Total intake 3.CEG/MIT priority Significance of attending PPT 5. Number of rounds and types 6. Written test composition (like pure tech or along with quants) 7. General advice 8.questions that you remember (*****MOST IMPORTANT) Thanks in advance, Vidhoon Viswanathan 1.Company name Deloitte Touch Tomastu (simply Deloitte :P) 2.Total intake 25 ( majority from CS, IT and ECE including MIT, one from EEE). Was open only to circuit branches 3.CEG/MIT priority Maximum were CEGians. about two in MIT as far as I know. 4.Significance of attending PPT I basically slept through the PPT but seniors had said that initiatives taken during PPT by asking questions to them or by responding to their questions are valued greatly by the company 5. Number of rounds and types One written round of aptitude, one GD and one final interview 6. Written test composition (like pure tech or along with quants) Written was 60 quant and verbal questions with no negative marks. GD was in a group of 6 where we had to discuss the given case and then present for a period f 10 mins at the end of which questions were asked. 7. General advice For preparation, make sure you read the company website and take their case analysis tests available online. It will give you a feel of what could be asked in the case round. Give your best shot at the written round. It had a mix of quant and verbal questions and it was generally a very easy set. Know what is your comfort zone and answer those first. Then go for a judicious selection. Answer all questions since there is no negative score. Read their website carefully in terms of the work they do and services they provide. This will help you in the interview in case the interviewer asks you if you have any questions. 8.questions that you remember (*****MOST IMPORTANT) The interview started with Tell me about yourself for almost everyone. So, prepare and rehearse these well before you go in. Questions are basically asked out of your

resume but expect some technical questions. You should be in a position to explain the technical details of the projects you have done so far at least. Most of my questions were about the internships I had done. Remember to thank the interviewer when you come out. The whole process was done in a single day. So, remember to have your resume and documents ready when you sit for the written test itself. Good Luck, Swathi

===================================================================== Well, its been a long time after I got placed, but Im updating this document only now. Here are a few points I would like to give my juniors and whoever is interested in taking from me. Ill precisely put the necessary information and then start the detailed stories. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Firstly, Me - Sornakumar S Company I got placed in - Microsoft Total Intake - 4 All 4 were CEGians. (3 from my class in fact :P) No. of rounds - 1 written + 3 Technical Interviews + 1 (Technical + HR +kinda stress test) 6. Priority for CEG/MIT - No priorities were given as far as I can see. 7. Written Test - Pure Technical Here are my experiences. We had the Written Test on Sunday. Monday morning was the Presentation followed by the interviews. The written test was fairly simple. Easy questions. Time was also sufficient. Not the toughest you would have faced. Areas they concentrated on - C, Data Structures (Linked List), Debugging, Multi-threaded Programming, Matrix manipulations, Software Testing, Creative thinking with understanding of the needs. We had 7 questions. 1. Guess the output 2. Debug the given program 3. Write a program for a given situation 4. Matrix manipulation 5. A problem with Threads 6. Write test cases for a given situation

7. Design a solution for a problem - Not a program, a Software Engineering Question Ill add the questions as and when I recollect them. I dont remember the exact questions at this point :( Now coming to the interviews. After the PPT were the interviews. PPT had a very little crowd. Was disappointing. There are 3 big advantages in attending the PPT, 1. Giving the company an intention that people are really interested in his company - This improves his interest also. An almost empty Auditorium is discouraging for the company and might loose interest in recruitment even before it starts 2. Knowing valuable information about the company. For example, when we attended Amazon, we got a clue that he was looking for recruiting people for developing Kindle Application. This might help you project yourself in the right way in some interviews 3. Sometimes they might put some questions when the PPT is going on. If you answer these questions you might get lucky in the interviews. If the person to whom you answered in the PPT, comes as an interviewer for you, you have an advantage over the others :P - Rare but useful. Every bit counts to your career They announced the short listed candidates before the PPT. Now we went to CUIC for the interviews. 2 things I noticed. 1. Some people were highly confident that they will NOT make it to the interviews. But when they got short listed they had to run to get their resumes ready, formal clothing ready and also a shaving blade ready :P - My suggestion - never mind you get selected or not. Keep all your things ready for the interviews 2. Some are over-excited that they got short listed. Sometimes well not know what is to be done next. :D - For those people, keep the following stuff ready beforehand - Formal clothing, shoes, shave, A folder with your resume, Mark Sheet and certificates - (None of the interviewers so far saw my certificates, but its good to have a few. A FEW good ones would do. Ive seen people having birth certificates in this folder :P) - Im not telling you all this is COMPULSORY, but from my experience I feel this can project you in a descent way. I was waiting for the interview. I was standing outside the CUIC. When they called a few names, most of them were not present there. This can give another sad impression. But this usually happens, cos not everyone is ready on the day. Try avoiding this. My first Interview: Question - you are given a1b3c7d8...... an array like this. This is a compressed array. (Similar to Run Length) You are supposed to expand the given input IN-PLACE. That is, your array is large enough to hold the output. Example Input - a1b4 - Array Length - 5 Output - abbbb This is IN-PLACE expansion of the given compressed string.

Initially I gave a bad idea, I told him, When I 1st look at this problem, this is what comes to my mind. As and when I read a number, I keep repeating the characters and moving the other characters to the right! An intensely bad idea but feasible one. He was like, Can you think of an efficient solution? I took two more minutes. Dint speak anything. - Its okay to take your time here. You can ask for a pen and a paper to scribble. Its okay to let him stare at your scribbling. And finally its OKAY TO THINK when needed. In these interviews, we are not gonna answer anything from what we have learnt. So unless we feel comfortable and start thinking, its tough getting through. Every action of you is noted. The way you think, the time you take, the approach you follow and of course your honesty. Ill come back on this soon. After that I gave a solution. Ill first start filling the array from the back. if I read a1b2c3, Ill first find the length of the array and then fill 3 Cs from the back and then Bs etc. He was okay with it. He asked me to write a code for this in C. - Again your coding style matters. Use functions wherever possible to avoid code repetition. - The code for this was fairly simple. I wrote. He gave a test case, Instead of an input like, a1b4, since there is only one a, I can directly give the input as ab4 to save more space. I modified my code to suit it. He told, if I give an input like a2345b13213 what will happen. I modified my code to suit that also. Well. Use the most efficient methods you know. He was satisfied. Most times during the interview, when I gave a solution, he gives a blank stare at me asking me Are you sure? I give a pause. I think before I say yes. If Im sure, Ill say yes. He doesn't go to the next vela. He waits. Stares. His motive I think was to break my confidence. :P Well, I give him a raw smile and we carry on. Be ready for all this fun :D Once that was done, I came out. I was waiting for the next round. 2nd round was again not that tough. Question was simple. You have an array. In that array you you have the following data, b4a0c(NULL) This represents a linked list, a->b->c where 0 and 4 are indices of b and c respectively. You are asked to convert the given array to a linked list. Soln: You can find the head node and move from there to the last node thus constructing the linked list. Now this should be done efficiently. This can be done by adding the given numbers (0 and 4) and subtracting them from their indices. I leave it to you to figure out the rest. I dint hit upon the above efficient solution. But I was able to convince him using a Bit Vector

which can do some score-boarding. Next question was, Im a node in a network. Im getting packets in random. Each packet has a Timestamp attached to it. Your mission is to deliver the packets to your node in the order of its timestamp. And it should not allow duplicate packets. (Duplication in terms of data) Each packet can live only for a particular period of time. After expiration of a packet it should be cleared and duplicates can be accepted. Soln: I used a heap - (cos insertion and deletion is log n) and a garbage collector which runs at a time period as that of the packet lifetime. He was impressed. It was no coding. Only explanation to convince that the method was good :) 3rd Interview The Nightmarish interview. I was interviewed on OOP, OOAD and Software Engineering. I had many questions. Understood a very few. Ill put some of them here. One question was, Write a CLASS for rubix cube?! Where do I go?? I told her, I havent used a Rubix cube before :P. She explained what it was. I wrote a class. class Rubix { properties: Rows; Cols; Phases; Colors; functions: rotateRowLeft(); rotateRowRight(); rotateColumnUp(); rotateColumnDown(); rotatePhaseLeft(); rotatePhaseRight(); rotatePhaseUp(); rotatePhaseDown(); } :P Funny solution I thought. But she told me twas right. Next question, Draw a Class Diagram for the same!!!. I gave a blank look. I started drawing something like a flow chart. Then she took a paper and drew a sample class diagram (with symbols which I have used some 6 months back but have no idea for what purpose it was used!). I replicated the same diagram with the

same symbols changing the names inside the boxes to suit my needs :P She was partially okay. I admitted I use only C. She then asked if I did any course of Software Engineering!! OMG :-o Im in my 7th semester :( After all this how did I get through this interview? The next thing she did was seeing my Resume - This saved me. From then on, I was questioned on my Projects and Distributed Systems for some 30 mins :) - I answered all the questions. She was impressed. :) When the interview was going on, she had a cough. She was struggling to open the HALLS she had. I helped her out in that. :P - You might do that as well. If you dont spoil the opening part of this scene, then it can show you are cool and confident. Then I was waiting outside. Final Interview It was total fun. I went inside. He asked me to choose the topic from which I wanted him to ask the question. I said linked lists. He asked me to choose the question I wanted him to ask me. I said Ask me how to reverse a linked list :P I was in Microsoft Final Round. This was the question I suggested him :P He gave a confused look and told me, No that is simple sir, something else. Here the sir was sarcastic from him. He was kalachifying me :P I dint plan to give up. My next suggestion was, Ask me how to find the middle node in a linked list :P He again said twas simple. Next. I had no plans to give up Ask me how to find the n-th node from the end of the linked list :P He was like, this is just a modification of the previous question :P Haha :P we had a laugh. And he was like something else. Ask me how to convert a linked list to a tree. Why do you have to do it he asked. I said twas just a question and had no specific purpose :P He was okay with it. He said, wait. Well call your friend Sundhar Ram also. Well ask him to write as well.. Sundhar Ram entered into the interview room. He told Sundhar, if you were the interviewer and Sornakumar has come for a job, what question will you ask him. Sundhar was like, Convert a dubly linked list to a tree using only pointer manipulations!. Me: WTF? :P The interviewer then said, that was a sad question and finally settled with the question I suggested. (Yes it was indeed a sad question.) After that we both wrote code for that. He then asked us to balance the tree. We did the AVL Tree code. He was okay with it. When we came out, he asked if we had any questions. Sundhar asked When ll you put the results. He sarcastically replied You have taken 30 mins to write this question what are you gonna do coming to Microsoft? :P We burst out in laughter. Both of us are not-so-serious guys. We couldnt do anything more than laughing. We walked out after that. We termed this as the Stress test cos none of the questions seemed to have any technical importance.

Finally, the results came out next day - Sundhar Ram , Sornakumar, Saravana Vel and Manjusha were selected. 4 on 25 short listed after written test. A pretty long note. But Ive tried to give the maximum input I can for you. Hope it would help. Whatever happens dont panic. Interview is not the end of your life :) All the best and Best of Luck too ;) Sornakumar S =====================================================================

VIDHOON VISWANATHAN B TECH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CHRONUS CORPORATION (CHENNAI) 1.Company name - Chronus 2.Total intake - 4 (All from CEG!!) 3.CEG/MIT priority - I did not find any particular bias towards CEG 4.Significance of attending PPT - no significance at all; they absolutely had nothing to show and create interest; PPT for chronus was indeed one of the worst and least attended ones; people can happily bunk it; 5. Number of rounds and types - there is no dedicated HR and that is a great advantage for students; the CEOs directly interviewed; nothing to panic.. they werent able to call our bluffs like HR team; Round1: CEO1 and CEO2 did a direct interview. I got 2 simple direct data structure questions: i) connect all sibling nodes of a binary search tree ii) Find the nth node as it appears in the in order traversal of the given tree if each node contains the number of nodes in its subtree as value of node. Next day I had telephonic HR kind of interview... For most part of it, the CEO3 was interested in my bungee jumping experience, video and other posts in my blog :) Then he asked simple HR questions including

i) why chronus? ii) what is your strength & weakness? iii) what is your career ambition? iv) will you do higher studies? 6. Written test composition (like pure tech or along with quants) Written test for Chronus had all ingredients including alog, data structures, coding, database, web and aptitude. No of candidates shortlisted after written: 16 7. General advice Given the pay, getting placed in Chronus is a cake walk. Look for the company and give it your best shot. Best wishes :)

PRASHANTH.M.G B-TECH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HEWLETT PACKARD(BEST SHORE APPLICATION SERVICES) 1.Company name - Hewlett Packard( Best Shore Application Services) 2.Total intake 33

3.CEG/MIT priority No priority for CEG guys...All are the same..People who think CEG are given preference should change their mind..Your performance there matters. Nothing else. 4.Significance of attending PPT- Actually PPT was kinda too long..Lot of concentration on the history of hewlett packard and what they do there and stuff. And 4 videos which the HP guys thought were very interesting which tested our patience a lot. And one guy really tortured to the core and we were all waiting for the moment which he announced the written results (Ya..the written test was conducted the before day and the PPT was conducted the next day.One of the worst ways to start off a recruitment process..but thats how it happened). 5. Number of rounds and types 1 WRITTEN + TECH INTERVIEW + HR

6. Written test composition (like pure tech or along with quants) The written round was kinda easy. The written round was fairly easy. Totally there were 55 questions( all choose from options).25 Questions of easy aptitude. And then one programming section (10 questions) and then 4 sections each of 5 questions. The 4 sections being Operating systems Networking and communication Data Structures and Algorithms Database Management Systems. 7. General advice Always go in thinking that U have a fair chance to get selected. Dont go in thinking that the company is beyond your range and you wont get it anyway. And dont leave a negative word in the interview. That will surely affect your selection. Companies like deloitte see your approach and mannerisms clearly. And if they see you being a little laid back or lazy they ll feel that u lack the attitude to work in their company. I had a very gr8 interview at deloitte and thought that I was in whatever hapenned later that day. But I got rejected at the end of the day. I think I spoke a line or two negatively. And HR guys are really cunning. They ll act as if they are being too friendly. You should act as if you are friendly but learn to tell them only important information. Neengalumum avangala over ah friends nu feel panni ethachum frank ah solliteengana they will catch that. That is the main reason why they try to be very friendly with you. So do it properly. And try to be polite in your interviews. If you dont know an answer acknowledge it. Dont tell something which you dont know. Because hell think that you are trying to act smart. And very very important : In written rounds, there wont be negative marks for most of the companies. But do them carefully. Some companies see the randomness in your answers. Imagine if there are 60 questions, for 45 minutes, the company very well knows that You cant answer all. If you know 40 questions and randomly tick the next 20. Then he ll think that the 40 questions that youve got rite also are random guesses. So its better to leave the questions which youve no idea about ( Which i NEVER did.. I always attempted all) 8.questions that you remember (*****MOST IMPORTANT) And the people shortlisted from the written round were called in for the technical interview. The technical interview entirely depends upon the panel which you get. There were around 4 panels. I got into a panel in which an old guy( he was kind of really experienced and is there in HP for more than 10 years). Immediately as i went in he

asked me to code binary search. After doing that, the old guy kinda got satisfied with my programming. Then he said programming if i ask u can even write the programs u have learnt from the book, so Ill ask you application oriented questions, And some real time application questions based on S/W development he asked. He asked about lifecycle models and all-Spiral waterfall and when to use each of them. He also gave me a situation where I had to construct a data center for the company and tell all the steps required to do that. I told what all I got in my mind at that time depicting them in a picture form. He was quite convinced and said to me straightly that he has selected me for the HR round and wished me. In the HR round the same guy who had put all the mokkai in the PPT came. And he started putting the same blade. After I finished that he asked me a question. Which of the ministries in the Indian government will you digitize. Why will you do that. What is the use. How Will you do it ( technical) and how will you generate revenue for that. I cited the health ministry and blabbered for 10 minutes. He said ok and left me. The results were announced later. I was satisfied that I got into a company with a good brand name ( Hewlett Packard).
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There was no specific priority for CEG/MIT. PPT Significance: Generally, it is advisable to attend preplacement talks. You get to know more about the company and atleast can have a concrete reply tailor-made to suit the company when you are asked Why do you want to work with us? apart from the usual blah blah sort of an answer which ppl normally give. Number of rounds and Types: The written test was purely technical and had questions from Programming (30 qns), Quant (10 qns), Computer Funda (20 qns). We were given the choice on the programming language. (C/C++/Java). Quants tested on basic math like (time-distance, time-work,logical reasoning etc)

Computer Funda ranged from OS,Networks, to comp arch to databases. This was followed by the preliminary shortlist of candidates who were taken in for a technical interview. The first Technical interview focussed on a multitude of areas of computer science from OOP to design patterns to OS to networks and some coding questions. The second round was a test of communication and marketing skills and was named group activity The situation was: we were given some packets of straws. and some bell-pins. Within a time of 45 mins, one had to design a product which was tall, strong and aesthetic :P.. using only the straws and the needles. The next was to prepare a poster on the unique features of your product done in the previous round and market the same in front of all interviewers. Doing some creativ work was fun :P. Then followed technical interviews. I had questions like 1.Normalization - and various normal forms 2.Given a Binary Tree (not a BST), find the lowest common ancestor of 2 given nodes 3.Given an nxn screen, Each pixel is represented by intensity values. Given a specific pixel as an input, find the no. of pixels of the same colour which can reached from this pixel. Assume any suitable data structure for a screen. 4.Print a matrix in spiral order ; in zigzag order. 5.2 numbers are represented as a linked list of digits- find their difference. 6.AVL Tree Balancing. Then was a HR interview with the usual questions like - why morgan stanley?, strengths? weaknesses? one great achievement? and usual stuff. Some basic puzzles were also a part of the HR process.

Some advice: Always think aloud -- let people know your thought process and how to proceed. When asked about a weakness, say a genuine answer instead of sounding fancy like, I am such a perfectionist who always is frank Ask meaningful questions to the interviewer which show your passion for their technology . Try coding on paper rather than on a system. A must know list of funda--DataStructures- Lists, Trees, Tries, Stacks,Vectors, HashTables Algorithms: BFS,DFS,Searching and sorting Concepts: Bit manipulations, Design patterns, Recursion, Big-O The above is merely a MUST KNOW list. Some steps for technical questions. 1. RESOLVE AMBIGUITY IN QUESTIONS: Most questions are deliberately ambiguous / unclear. so clarify with interviewers. 2.DESIGN AN ALGO: Think aloud and communicate your thought-process to the interviewer. 3.Before rushing the paper at the interviewer check if the solution works. 4.In case, you get a question u know, do not directly start to code head-on so that it seems like you memorize the answer. Exhibit your skills in dramatising for a while (dont over-act :D ) and solve :P General Information on CS interviews:

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1. Get your CS funda right (Stress on OS and Algorithms). It will be very

difficult to look back again into the text books. 2. Wiki is the best place for general overviews of the topics with neat examples. 3. Your preparation should be based on the company thats visiting. You can browse the net for patterns/type of questions they usually ask. Topics

Operating Systems Memory management Paging Virtual Memory [F] Dynamic Memory Allocation Watermarking Threading & Concurrency Control Semaphores [T] Deadlocks / mutex Dining Philosophers Scheduling algorithms [T] Inter process communication Data structures Trees - Problems & Solution (Very Important) Stacks, Queues (This would be fairly easy) Linked list - lots of puzzles where the catch is to use recursion and only O(1) space. Pointer Train/Chain [ask around] Set of problems with solution Tree - DLL interconversion Algorithms Analysis of Algorithms Sorting Algorithms [F] [T] Heaps [T] Difference between best, worst and average case analysis [F] Greedy and Dynamic Programming ( Browse the net for questions or look into CLRS book ) Programming C Puzzles - all over the internet Pointer basics - start here Malloc implementation Legend [F] - Know full funda. What is ___ and why is ______. Expect probing questions. [T] - Work out an example manually, and see how it works

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Crash prep - http://courses.csail.mit.edu/iap/interview/materials.php Gradual long term puzzle prep - http://inder-gnu.blogspot.com/ [Questions only] For Aptitude questions -this may help http://www.indiabix.com/aptitude/ questions-and-answers/

ALL THE BEST GUYS!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ JAGADISH~~~~~~~~~~~

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PRAVEEN KUMAR U ATHENNA HEALTH Rather than discussing what every round has to do with ,let me share my experience on interviews here.I am just putting before you the mistakes I made during my campus process.I prepared two important subjects(DS and algo) during my sixth sem holidays and I made sure I did every possible question on it. And I had oly these two subjects from my preparation point of view before campus process began .I shall discuss with you the mistakes I made which turned out to be too costly during my campus process..

1) PREPARE APTITUDE : I guess many of you now will be thinking the same way I thought before placements began .Aah aptitude dhaane... adhuku ennathuku prepare pannanum.. adhu basic talent of human beings . If you are thinking so then you are right logically but COMPLETELY WRONG from placements point of view.Many companies have a limited cut off for APTITUDE SECTION which is mandatory no wonder how you perform the other sections.You will definitely be able to solve somehow by process of elimination but the time you take to solve and your accuracy highly depends on PRACTICE. So practice hell lot of aptitude questions. Most of the companies keep asking some common questions like x can work in m days , y can work in n days.They do together...... etc..CANT HELP IT ! ! ! So prepare several models of questions in aptitude.During one of my placement written tests I took around 3 mins to solve an interesting aptitude problem and when i came out my frnd told .dei simple da.. adhu nCr (n-r) !/(x-a)!+(n-1)Cr (some thing like that) :( :( . So you get the difference ?? he saved 2.5 mins and no wonder he is a CAT PULI ! Most of the initial campus companies there will be a set of CAT preparing students who will be getting shortlisted every time. SO ?? give good competition to them :) PREPARE APTITUDE QUESTIONS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE ! ! ! 2) PREPARE FOR HR TOO : I was so careless that I never prepared for HR QUESTIONS. Again I thought adhu ku enna prepare panrathuku iruku .. its about telling what you feel ... Again if u people are thinking the same way , you are right logically but wrong from placements point of view. During my chronus HR round, they asked me wat is your negative point ? i replied honestly I should have interacted and gained more knowledge from my seniors (its

true because , had I done that much before,Ii would have practiced more for ICPC or I would have prepared APTITUDE before placements began :( ). But that HR person replied BUT Mr PRAVEEN, OURS IS A KNOWLEDGE SHARING COMPANY ! (with an evil smile ).. Thats it ! I knew that moment vada pochey ! :P .So prepare SMARTLY (put ur positive as negative like my friends did )For example In a team I always expect my other colleagues to finish work on time (though honestly we never expect our frnds to finish on time :P .. CANT HELPT IT :P ! ) .So be smart in HR . Some companies respect HONESTY.But such nice companies are very rare.So simply BE SMART. 3) PREPARE FOR TECH ROUND : Never leave some important sections. My other friends have already given you very valuable information regarding what sections you need to work upon. Don't miss them out. And my advice would be PRACTICE DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING. It will give a new dimension to your domain of thoughts. You will be able to approach many tough tech questions(dream jobs) and moreover you have an added advantage over other candidates cause you simply know this section.Many dream Companies look for your ability in this and if you do solve them , DIRECT JOB ..:).. DIRECTI (pay near 15 lpa) asked a dynamic programming in their techincal round interview and I couldnt answer it :(.Though I solved the other two I lost that job :(.. And even sorna(microsoft guy ) lost amazon job because of DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING. Costly slips...:-/ Iisnt it ?....So prepare them :) 4) HAVE A GOOD SLEEP : Never BURN LATE NIGHT OIL. Have a good sleep the day before your interview. Your mind needs to be fresh to be able to solve problems flexibly. The day before my microsoft interview I prepared DP till 2 in the night and woke up early morning next day and no wonder during my tech round everything was a collapse.I wasnt able to solve a 2D search problem :( . It was a complete mess-up. SO naalu varushathula padikaathathaiya anda oru raathri la padika poreenga ?? nala thoongunga ! . 5) NEVER GO HALF MINDED : If you are sure you are gonna take that job , then walk into PPT. Its either 0 or 1. Never get advices from various sources about those companies and leave urself in a state of confusion.Surf the web and if u are interested with the kind of job they are going to offer you then go ahead !.I love this attitude of one of my class friends named sudarsanan ( smart ass ).He is so very selective about the companies he has to attend cause he always replies me enda company la velai kedacha MS viduveno anda companies mattum thaan da attend panuvaen .So be selective , cause you might waste a job belonging to some other friend of yours :) 6) SPOJ A FEW PROBLEMS : There are some companies which have live coding rounds (mostly in that worshttu RCC terminal ). Two such companies are DIRECTI and ATHENNA .Both these companies I was able to finish the coding round simply because of my practice in SPOJ. Programming is all about practice.And mark these words , the more you program , more fast and accurate is your logical ability to solve real life problems . 7) SHOULD WE WAIT FOR DREAM JOBS ? : I don't have an answer for this question.More than your ability i_.Experience with more interviews do help you a lot :).Think about it. Every

single placement questionnaire you have attended you have been exposed to a set of new problems.Take Sundhar Ram and SARAVANA VEL (microsoft guys ). They attended every company from day one and they became very strong candidates for microsoft. Saravana vel even told me anda companies la kedacha experience oru main reason da .But on the other hand take sorna kumar (microsoft guy ), he didn't attend any company after CISCO. In my case I didn't attend deloitte , caterpillar etc waiting for fb,msoft jobs.... etc.. SO ?? I am discussing it here because during the campus process as the days pass by you will be facing questions like are you not placed yet ?, how many of your friends got placed ?, what happened to you ?? Didn't you prepare well ? etc from your relatives , parents and lecturers cause you are into CEG.!Many of my friends did worry a lot about this. So if job is the only option for you , then select your companies SMARTLY thinking about all the input I have given here.

I have shared some of my experiences here.I ll add some to this if i get stuck upon few more thoughts. We never got such things from our seniors.But kindly pass on to every batch from now on.ALL THE MORE SUCCESS OF EDUCATION MAINLY DEPENDS ON IT BEING A KM SYSTEM !