First there will be a Written test in which the aptitude skills will be tested. Then there will be a GD round after which there will be a technical round and after that there will be an last HR round.
MY TECHNICAL INTERVIEW (ARICENT)
Interviewer: - Hi, myself Javed.
Me:- Hello sir!!!
Interviewer: - So Himanshu tell me something about yourself that I can’t read from this form
(Form filled up by me after clearing the written exam).
Me:- (After thinking) everything is written in the form, Sir.
Interviewer: - There is always something, which we don’t mention everywhere.
Me:- Sir, I’m a hardworking and fully devoted to work kind of person.
Interviewer: - Good to hear that (with a smile on his face). Now tell me something about
yourself, which I can read from this form also.
Me:- I’m a computer science graduate from P.G.D.A.V College, and done my 12th
R.K. Puram in science stream with biology.
Interviewer: - oh!! Bio!! It was too tough for me..
Me: -Sir it’s same like computer science, you just need to remember some interrelated terms.
Interviewer: - hmmmm, Lets now comes on to the computer science.
Me: - Yes sir.
Interviewer: - So, what’s your favorite subject?
Me: - Actually, I don’t have any favorite subject, rather I have a favorite stream with OS and
Networks as the subjects..
Interviewer: - oh!! Good. What is an OS?
Me:- Interface b/w user and the hardware.
Interviewer: - dispatcher?
Me: - dispatches the program from ready queue to CPU.
Interviewer: -Process?
Me: - an active entity, whenever a program is in execution state, it is called a process.
Interviewer: -Thread?
Me; - it’s a lightweight process, contains only few…
Interviewer: - (interrupting me in middle) you look quite confident in your answers, but why
your written was so poor?
Me: - cause I was confident there also.
Interviewer: - hmmm over confidence???
Me: - No sir, confidence on your wrong answers is not called overconfidence; it’s another kind
of confidence.
Interviewer: - (smiling) Do you know that I’m the most lenient interviewer out of all who came
here.
Me: - don’t know sir, till now I’m feeling good
Interviewer: - (coming back to OS) what is kernel?
Me: - main part of OS, which directly interacts with the hardware.
Interviewer; - what does an OS do?
Me: - process management, memory management, file management, allocation of resources..
Interviewer: - (Interrupting again in b/w) ok, ab thodi programming kar le?? Chhote program se start karenge..
Me: - Programming?? Ok sir, But I must tell u that I’m not that good in programming, but I can
certainly make an algorithm of any program u want… I’m quite comfortable with my algorithms.
Interviewer: - You are comfortable with your algorithms?? Good!!! But I expect u to make
programs also…
Me: - I’m not saying that I won’t, I said I’m not that much good in it.
Interviewer; - par 1 to bnana padega yaar, chhota sa bna do, Kaunsa bnaoge?? (Answering
himself) string copy ka program bna do.. take your own time..
Me: - k sir.( He went outside and came back in five minutes by that time I completed my
program)..
Interviewer: - you are comfortable with your algorithms na???
Me: - (confidently) Yes sir
Interviewer: - quickly make a algo for BST
Me: - k sir!!! It took hardly 2 min to make it.
Interviewer: - After analyzing it, what is running time of an algo?
Me: - Of this particular algo or you are asking in general??
Interviewer: - In general.
Me; - its basically tells about the memory usage, time taken to run it independent of the system.
Interviewer: - runtime of bubble sort?
Me: - O(n2
Interviewer: - runtime of quicksort?
Me: - O(nlgn) for average and best case and O(n2
Interviewer: - what is the worst case in quicksort?
Me: - when after positioning u have all the elements on one side of the pivot element..
Interviewer: - I think this is the case when all the elements are sorted.
Me: - (smiling J) oh!! Yes sir.
Interviewer: - ab computer networks par aa jaye??
Me: - Yes sir!!!
Interviewer: - ok, tell me the protocols in each layer of TCP/IP
Me:- for application layer:- its HTTP, FTP
For transport layer: - TCP, UDP…
Interviewer: - (interrupting again) difference between circuit switching and packet switching?
Me: - in circuit switching we use to make connection b/w source and destination, and start
transferring the data, in packet switching, we send data in packets and connection is not
dedicated initially,
In circuit switching..
Interviewer: - (interrupting again) example of circuit switching?
Me: - (thinking) telephone.
Interviewer: - (interrupting again) example of packet switching?
Me - Internet
Interviewer: - ok Himanshu, Nice to meet you.
Me: - Same here Sir!!!