HCL ISD - Allahabad, September 24, 2016
Hey everyone!!! Some questions before I start up with my experience.
-How are you?
-Are you nervous for the interview you are going to appear for?
-Are you prepared for it?
-Are you confident enough?
Okay!! here it goes....
I was expecting either TCS or INFOSYS to be the first company @ my campus
to start up with the recruitment but they landed up in getting a deal with
HCL ISD. I am pursuing my Bachelor's in Electronics & Communications
Engineering from United College of Engineering & Research, Allahabad and the
drive was for all the eligible students from 'UNITED GROUP OF
INSTITUTIONS'.
The rounds were a bit shocking for some students. Now why I said some
because I came to know about the rounds some days prior to the arrival of
HCL in our campus, by visiting naukriindia.in.com and so did some other
students. They were expecting a normal recruitment process consisting of an
aptitude and an interview round but on the day 1 itself everyone came to
know that its going to be a 5 round process and will go on for 2 more days.
It was a 3 day process full of fun actually.
ROUNDS:
1- GRAMMER TEST(20 questions in 15 minutes )
2- FACE to FACE Communication
3- Technical Interview
4- HR Interview
5- AMCAT based ONLINE TEST
ROUND 1 was easy to clear as it was not that difficult as we generally
expect it to be.The cut-off i guess was 12 to get through, and I got maximum
20 in that round. Literally speaking, after that round i was much more
confident about the whole process.
(approx 350 out of 550 cleared this round)
ROUND 2 was all about speaking anything but sensible. The whole idea about
this round was to know weather the student is able to speak or not. Yeah,
you can relate it to a kind of extempore. Students were called in a group of
16-18 and then the HR spoke to everyone one by one. Before my turn , i came
to know that the common question being asked to everyone was,
''How was the first year experience and how is the life in college
different from your school life?''
I started recollecting thoughts of my experience in first year but that
didn't help me out because as expected I was asked with a different
question. As my turn came I went in with a group of 18 students. It was
fortunate enough for me that i wasn't the first to start up with the
conversation. It was altogether a different set of questions being asked to
everyone in my group. Some topics which students were asked to speak on
were,
-Ragging
-Arrange marriage vs Love Marriage
-Advertisement
I was asked to share what i have gained in past 3 years of my college life.
I spoke about confidence with all the experience I had in coordinating and
organising events so spoke of everything related to that.
Next question was related to my resume about my trip to BANGKOK last month.
I was prepared for that and told everything I experienced out there.
The topics were easy but we had to speak on for (say 2-3 minutes). This
round went to next day till 4am. I was once again fortunate as i was done
with this round by 7 pm on the same day, went back home, had a tight sleep
as i was already prepared for the technical and HR rounds scheduled on next
day.
(80 cleared this round).
In ROUND 3, i had to wait for my turn till 4 pm. Both the rounds were
scheduled on the same day. I was asked everything related to computers. At
one point, I had to speak that for this interview I have prepared basics of
C, electronics & a bit of networking as the company is based on networking
but the HR told me she is not aware of electronics and again started asking
me about computers.
Some topics were,
-OSI
-LAN vs WAN
-RAM vs HDD
-Latest OS
-About Processors
and many more but everything related to computers. I felt unlucky but
replied everything politely and in full confidence, even at times i gave the
wrong answer and explained about it like whatever i am saying is right but
it was idiotic on my part.
The HR had a smile and said, Mr. Arjit, are you sure about your answer?
I felt a bit relaxed with her smile and said..yea, may be ma'am.
Meanwhile some idiot rang me up for 10 times. My phone was on silent mode
but still i had to pull up my leg a bit to reduce the vibration of phone
call, it was a weird situation for me. I was asked to leave then.
To my surprise, I was through to the next round.
By the way, there were 3 HR's in all and it was on luck which HR you gonna
get. Others asked about C language, DBMS, JAVA, NETWORKING,etc.
Was i lucky then??? I leave it to you.
ROUND 4, the HR Interview, I'll go directly with the questions,
-Tell me about yourself?
-About hobbies?
-Role model?
-Why HCL?
-Strengths & Weakenesses?
-Why dip in percentage?
and many more but related to resume.
(38 went on to clear both the rounds)
ROUND 5 was an AMCAT based online test consisting of 3 sections,
-Verbal Section
-Logical Reasoning
-Quantitative aptitude
There was no negative marking and we were not able to skip any question in
between, had to attempt all.
Verbal section was full of synonyms and antonyms, reading comprehension, etc
Logical Reasoning was all about puzzles, statements & conclusions &
Syllogism.
Quantitative section had simple questions .
R.S. Agarwal, both non-verbal and quantitative books are more than enough to
clear this round.
(36 out of 38 cleared this round).
Be Relaxed!
Be Confident!
Be Prepared!
All the very best!!
Hey everyone!!! Some questions before I start up with my experience.
-How are you?
-Are you nervous for the interview you are going to appear for?
-Are you prepared for it?
-Are you confident enough?
Okay!! here it goes....
I was expecting either TCS or INFOSYS to be the first company @ my campus
to start up with the recruitment but they landed up in getting a deal with
HCL ISD. I am pursuing my Bachelor's in Electronics & Communications
Engineering from United College of Engineering & Research, Allahabad and the
drive was for all the eligible students from 'UNITED GROUP OF
INSTITUTIONS'.
The rounds were a bit shocking for some students. Now why I said some
because I came to know about the rounds some days prior to the arrival of
HCL in our campus, by visiting naukriindia.in.com and so did some other
students. They were expecting a normal recruitment process consisting of an
aptitude and an interview round but on the day 1 itself everyone came to
know that its going to be a 5 round process and will go on for 2 more days.
It was a 3 day process full of fun actually.
ROUNDS:
1- GRAMMER TEST(20 questions in 15 minutes )
2- FACE to FACE Communication
3- Technical Interview
4- HR Interview
5- AMCAT based ONLINE TEST
ROUND 1 was easy to clear as it was not that difficult as we generally
expect it to be.The cut-off i guess was 12 to get through, and I got maximum
20 in that round. Literally speaking, after that round i was much more
confident about the whole process.
(approx 350 out of 550 cleared this round)
ROUND 2 was all about speaking anything but sensible. The whole idea about
this round was to know weather the student is able to speak or not. Yeah,
you can relate it to a kind of extempore. Students were called in a group of
16-18 and then the HR spoke to everyone one by one. Before my turn , i came
to know that the common question being asked to everyone was,
''How was the first year experience and how is the life in college
different from your school life?''
I started recollecting thoughts of my experience in first year but that
didn't help me out because as expected I was asked with a different
question. As my turn came I went in with a group of 18 students. It was
fortunate enough for me that i wasn't the first to start up with the
conversation. It was altogether a different set of questions being asked to
everyone in my group. Some topics which students were asked to speak on
were,
-Ragging
-Arrange marriage vs Love Marriage
-Advertisement
I was asked to share what i have gained in past 3 years of my college life.
I spoke about confidence with all the experience I had in coordinating and
organising events so spoke of everything related to that.
Next question was related to my resume about my trip to BANGKOK last month.
I was prepared for that and told everything I experienced out there.
The topics were easy but we had to speak on for (say 2-3 minutes). This
round went to next day till 4am. I was once again fortunate as i was done
with this round by 7 pm on the same day, went back home, had a tight sleep
as i was already prepared for the technical and HR rounds scheduled on next
day.
(80 cleared this round).
In ROUND 3, i had to wait for my turn till 4 pm. Both the rounds were
scheduled on the same day. I was asked everything related to computers. At
one point, I had to speak that for this interview I have prepared basics of
C, electronics & a bit of networking as the company is based on networking
but the HR told me she is not aware of electronics and again started asking
me about computers.
Some topics were,
-OSI
-LAN vs WAN
-RAM vs HDD
-Latest OS
-About Processors
and many more but everything related to computers. I felt unlucky but
replied everything politely and in full confidence, even at times i gave the
wrong answer and explained about it like whatever i am saying is right but
it was idiotic on my part.
The HR had a smile and said, Mr. Arjit, are you sure about your answer?
I felt a bit relaxed with her smile and said..yea, may be ma'am.
Meanwhile some idiot rang me up for 10 times. My phone was on silent mode
but still i had to pull up my leg a bit to reduce the vibration of phone
call, it was a weird situation for me. I was asked to leave then.
To my surprise, I was through to the next round.
By the way, there were 3 HR's in all and it was on luck which HR you gonna
get. Others asked about C language, DBMS, JAVA, NETWORKING,etc.
Was i lucky then??? I leave it to you.
ROUND 4, the HR Interview, I'll go directly with the questions,
-Tell me about yourself?
-About hobbies?
-Role model?
-Why HCL?
-Strengths & Weakenesses?
-Why dip in percentage?
and many more but related to resume.
(38 went on to clear both the rounds)
ROUND 5 was an AMCAT based online test consisting of 3 sections,
-Verbal Section
-Logical Reasoning
-Quantitative aptitude
There was no negative marking and we were not able to skip any question in
between, had to attempt all.
Verbal section was full of synonyms and antonyms, reading comprehension, etc
Logical Reasoning was all about puzzles, statements & conclusions &
Syllogism.
Quantitative section had simple questions .
R.S. Agarwal, both non-verbal and quantitative books are more than enough to
clear this round.
(36 out of 38 cleared this round).
Be Relaxed!
Be Confident!
Be Prepared!
All the very best!!
