BIRLA SOFT PAPER ON 13th MARCH

Paper Type : Whole Testpaper
Test Date : 13 March 2007
Test Location : Chitkara Instiute, Rajpura
Posted By : Neha Narula

BIRLA SOFT PAPER ON 13th MARCH



HI frnds,

This is Neha Narula, pre-final year (CSE) student.

Finally I got thru BIRLASOFT



TYPE : JOINT CAMPUS
VENUE : Chitkara Instiute,Rajpura

DATE : 13March, 2007

Whole procedure consisted of 3 rounds

1) Written test

2) Group Discussion

3) Technical cum HR Interview



WRITTEN TEST

Consisted of 50 questions to be completed in an hour……I took 50 mins really surprised….thought I wont clear the paper

There was negative marking of.25

1) 20-technical
Mainly java and DBMS theoretical questions

2 questions from Software engineering


2) 20-Quantitative aptitude

2-3 quests decimal to hexadecimal and octal

Mixture and allegation

Percentage

Q gain 50%, loss 50%.find total loss percent

Average

Very simple, basic level quest in this section RS Aggarwal is sufficient for this section


3) 10-English

3-4 Vocabulary

Q synonym for Amenities

Ans Facilities

Q antonym to autonomous

Ans dependent

2-3 wrong Sentence questions

2-3 idioms and phrases

Q “if winters come, can spring be far behind”….what does it mean?

Q chicken hearted stands for kind hearted or weak hearted or…….



GROUP DISCUSSION

On the same day at about 8-8.30 p.m

Our topic of motion was ‘’If RAKHI SAVANT WOULD BE THE PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA ”

Other topics were”MALIKA SHERAWAT in kajrare song”

“Should international Men’s day be celebrated?”

He was judging not only our communication skills but also Our body language . And if we were listening to other group members or not

Don’t speak only for speaking............u must have logical point



In our panel there was cool guy ………he asked every one to conclude the GD which showed whether we were listening or not

Our GD was not mass elimination round …..…7 out of 10 were selected……he said…..that was the best GD he ever had.

And Finally INTERVIEW

On the next day , Firstly we had a PPT……must for HR , PPT at 9 a.m

Then I was called for interview at about 1 p.m



In My panel ……two guys……one for HR and other for TECHNICAL

Me: May I come in sir.

Sir1: come in



Me: A very gud after noon sir.

Sir2: Gud after noon J



Tip:-don’t dare to sit till ask to do so.



Sir2: Have a seat

Me: Thank u sir



Sir2: Can I have ur CV.

Me: I Was told earlier to paste a photo on CV and took it separately in hand, out of file. So just gave him.



Sir1: hmmm…NEHA NARULA.Are u some what related to nirula’s? J

Me: J no Sir



Sir2: He asked me about my training at CONVERGYS.

Me: I explained him all……blahblah. And added this training was beyond my curriculum.



Sir2: beyond curriculum? But this training program was in ur curriculum

Me: Sir,this one month training was not in my curriculum…..i had undergone one more training at……..as mentioned in my CV



Sir2: So what u did there?

Me: Again explained him all….blahblah



Sir1: k, what languages u knw?

Me: c/c++,core java.



Sir1: He asked me about java…its features?

Me: I said polymorphism, inheritance,encapsulation..blahblah…..he asked me to explain all. I explained polymorphism, inheritance.



Sir1: He interrupted me and asked what u said about encapsulation?

Me: I think he was checking my presence of my mind .coz I hadn’t explained encapsulation then. I said I havn’t….blahblah.



Sir1: oh! Dat polymorphism

Me: then I explain all again with function overloading and operator overloading…then I said oh sory….java doesn’t support operator overloading. he was really impressed



Sir2: k,what is overriding?

Me: I forgot…..so I said,,,,,,,,,not being able to recollect



Sir2: It is related to inheritance.

Me: sorry sir



Sir1: Difference between DBMS and RDBMS,,,,Ms access is RDBMS and DBMS?

Me: Explained all…….though I was not sure about ms access, but I said Ms Access is DBMS.



Sir1: Have u done any language beyond ur curriculum?

Me: Yes Sir, Core java and SQL



Sir1: SQL….k what is SQL?

Me: sequential query language



Sir1: Sequential or structured?

Me: Sir I read 3-4 full forms of SQL…..i don’t knw wich one is true yet. Again a smile J

I was so confident that he was really really impreseed



Sir1: Which buk u followed?

Me: Again I forgot……then I said Navathe….though I followed Korth.



Sir1:Explain,what is SQL?

Me: User fires a query in this language to interact with database…blahblah.



Sir2: siblings?

Me:blabla



Sir1: Why Birlasoft?

Me: with a pause,,,,,I said there is an ample scope for an individual to grow coz the company provides extensive training in technical and soft skills,,,,,,,,,,SEI CMMI level 5 company,,,,,,,ISO certified ………..all from PPT



Tip: must prepare for

Questions like …why this company?

Why I hire u? (Don’t b arrogant here)

Sir1: ok! U have any prob if I send u to Chennai?

Me: NO SIR



Sir1: night Shift?

Me : NO SIR



Sir1: ur parents will allow…blahblah?

Me: yes sir,,,,,my and my sis’s career is the primitive priority of my family



Sir1: In which sec u wan go development or maintainence?

Me: Software development sir



Sir2: but we will send u in maintainence

Me: k Sir



Sir1: u don’t hav a job then don’t say its ok…

Me: no sir it’s not like that



Sir2: I think she might not knowing about development or maintenance…..

Me: J not exactly sir



Sir1: k J would u like to ask something?



Me: What are the ongoing projects?

Sir1: Lots of project……..



Me: what challenges I will be facing at birlasoft?

Sir1:…………………………………… don’t remember what he said.



Sir2: ok Neha u can go now

Me: Thank u SIR.



BEST OF LUCK

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