Published on 23/02/2007

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Company Name: IBM
Test/Interview Location : Techno India Campus, KOLKATTA
Date of Test/Interview: 14 OCT 2006
Category: FRESHERS
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IBM PATTERN & INTERVIEW - 14 OCT 2006 - KOLKATTA

Hi Chetanaites

No of student attended :1000(approx)
Written cleared : 162
Selected: 90 - 100

The off-campus was organized by meritrac .. The que s was not harder but the main factor was the time management. So plz solve the ques being infront of watch.

4 Sections
1> Verbal : fill in the blanks , aricle - prepositons, there was a paragraph by which 5 ques has to be answered. ( Total 10 ques )

2> Aptitude : there were 5 kind of qued like venn diagram, cube cuttingg, puzzle based like( taller --heavier )... Each type ques had 4-5 ques .. Here u have to concious about time bcoz the ques s was little bit time consuming.. Basically do as much u can do the ques like cube cutting.. These r really harder.. ( Total 25 ques)

3> Technical ques : ques from C, DBMS, data structure, UNIX command, OS ( 10 ques)
so u need the books like ->
1) mcq in computer sc by william j timothy ( every sub of cse in a book )
2) test ur unix skill by kanethkar http://www.ChetanaS.org
3) pointer in c by kanetkar
4) test ur c skill by kanetkar

4> Miscellaneous : the sec includes ques like data sufficiency ; * -> + , % -> * ,- ->/ ...;
3 no like 9.0907865 9.0908865 .... And 5 option s like 1 n 2 r same , 1n 3 r same etc .( total 10 ques)

no -ve marking is there .. No sec cut off ..so do as much u can.. Female candidates have xtra advantage .. But the boys should try more than their level best .. Dont b hope less .. I Have got the job after 30 campus inteviews.. At the starting it was too tough 4 me to clear the apti round .. I was rejected by many companies many times in tech or hr .. But I never give up hope .. I Tried n tried n atlast I got thru in company like IBM (thank god) ..

Ques of TECH + HR
(combine tech n hr )

2 persons r there in my panel it was 5 10 pm
sir: introduce ur self
I : ........................
Sir: what is ur objective in life ?
I: To fit myself in competitive world .. N to prove my selh best n do hard work to achieve the right goal .. Other wise any one can take my chair .. So b always concious ..( he was pleased )

sir : give n xample of ur moto or ur competition
I: u can take to days incident that I have cleared apti .. I Have downloaded ibm's previous ques papers n did solved those sitting infront of watch .. N did a lot of hard work ..n still I am doing my best to have the opportunity infront of me to b a part of ibm ..( again pleased )

sir : abt ur project
I: describe it drawing fig . N xplaind ..
Sir : my sub choice
I: netwoking, microprocessor 8085

sir : what is smtp n its func. N diff with pop3 b coz pop3 was my projet sub
I :...( pleased)
sir: layers of iso-osi model n their func
I: answered by drawing fig
sir: reg in 8085
I:..

Sir: accumulator reg or not ?
I: Answered yes n describe the reason ( pleased )

sir: tristate buffer ?
I: Answered but not satisfied

sir :some assembly code n meanings
I: answered all
sir :any other sub
I: s/w engg , data structure

sir : (another one asked ) why we use s/w engg
I: xplained 6 steps of s/w life cycle .xplained customer needs .. Models .. (Pleased)
sir: some ques on tree
I: .........

Sir: u have any ques abt ibm
I: what kind of embedded s/w product ibm produce
I: is ibm india different from ibm-gbs ?
Sir : ..............
Arijit Pal

(Paper Submitted By : Priya)