Question Bank and GD Topics - 20-21
Question Bank and GD Topics - 20-21
EAS:
1. Explain about your entrepreneurship journey?
2. What were the major challenges you faced and how did you overcome them?
3. When did you achieved the break-even?
4. Share your experience at Infosys?
5. How did you handled your interaction with clients?
6. Describe about CRM?
CIS:
1. Explain your academic journey.
2. Your understanding on VMware.
3. Describe your understanding on the CIS job role.
4. On what server you worked and how were you remotely accessing them.
5. What incident management handling tool you used?
Candidate: R. Sabarish
Interview 1
HR round
1. Walkthrough your resume
2. Do you know about cognizant?
3. What is digital
4. What's your short and long-term goal?
Candidate: Rishika
Candidate: Debdooti
1. Introduce yourself
2. Why do you want to shift to an IT industry from a hospitality Industry?
3. What do you understand by CIS?
4. what is mark up?
5. Can you tell me what you know about the cost of an IT product?
Candidate: Homesh
Candidate: Priyanka
FOR BD ROLE-
Candidate: Anukriti
NEWGEN
STUDENT NAME : Sajjan Singh
1. Tell Me about yourself.
2. What is BCG matrix. Define it.
3. What are red ocean and blue ocean strategy.
4. What is Sampling
5. Name some Test’s in Data Mining.
6. Difference between Anova and Chi-square test.
7. Why do we perform Anova and Chi Square test.
8. How to collect market Data.
9. What is Product Life cycle
10. Question on Ansoff Matrix.
11. What type of financial ratios do you know.
12. What is BPM in general.(Business process Management)
13. Which management Book did you read apart from college course book. What was the
learning from that.
14. Which noted personality died today. Do you know him.
15. Have you met any Senior Management Person at Infosys.
16. What was your biggest roadblock and how did you overcome that.
17. Why do you want to join Newgen as BA.
18. What are the values of Infosys.
19. What are the subjects in 3rd sem.
Vikas Yadav
1. What is channel management?
2. Important aspects of channel management in IT industry?
3. What is GTM?
4. How will you use GTM for a prospect client?
5. What kind of market research is conducted before going to a prospect client?
6. Sales cycle used in IT industry?
7. What is Campaign Marketing?
8. What is RPI, RPA and RPQ?
9. Question from case studies we are doing in college
BHUVANESH GAIND
1. -introduce me to the place you belong to
2. learnings from internship
3. explain new product development process
4. what is inflexion point
5. how can you change branding strategy of the internship company
6. -what are the ways in which you compete with your competitors
7. -how can analytics used in sales
Sudharshan Vishal
1. Tell me about yourself.
2. Explain more about your responsibilities in your precious work
3. Have you given a presentation to an audience
4. Can you give a presentation right now
5. What is a balance sheet
6. What's a ledger
7. Explain latest technology trends
8. How marketing has changed post Covid-19
9. What do you think about our products
10. Explain about Software Development Life Cycle
11. What are the 5ps of marketing
12. Why do you want to work with us
13. Can you relocate to Delhi
14. Can you travel throughout the year to explain to our clients
15. Any travel constraints?
Anmol Singh
1. Challenges you faced during the COVID?
2. How do you cope with those issues?
3. Greatest strength and weakness.
4. Difference between Annual report and Balance sheet.
5. What recently you read about Newgen?
6. How will you explain AI and ML?
7. Explain your entrepreneurship work and work at Infosys.
8. Explain VM.
9. What are your learning from SOIL?
10. Will you be a team leader or a team member?
11. Positive effects of COVID.
Rahul Agarwal
1. What have you learned in SOIL?
2. Tell me about yourself which is not in resume?
3. Your major is ABC what have you learned ?
4. Internship experience?
5. Previous experience ?
6. What are your weakness?
7. What do you know about Newgen ?
8. How can we use Newgen products ?Give example?
VOLVO EICHER
Role- Management Trainee (Sales and Marketing)
GD Topics: Technology creates income disparity
As social media head of VECV your plans and strategy going forward
CALPRO FOODS
GD Topics:
Modi Govt.and policies positives and negatives
Share market is it business or gambling
ABC
STUDENT NAME : Anoushka
Q1. What was your topic in GD and what were your opinions on the same and why?
Q2. Tell me about your likes, dislikes, hobbies, family background. She was asked 4-5
follow-up questions on the same along with what were her learnings?
Q3. What did you learn from SOIL and why did you choose the HRLP course here (along
with why HR)? (Along with follow-up questions basis the answers)
Q4. How is your mobility?
Q5. Do you have any questions for me?
P.S.: She was asked questions on the lines of the values of ABC (in line with organization
culture fit)
Student Name : Shivani
Q1. Tell me about your personal, family background, academic performance, and
professional experience.
Q2. Why did you shift from IT to Manufacturing?
Q3. Why did you choose HR?
Q4. (Gave me a situation) If you were responsible for distributing the COVID-19 vaccine,
whom would you give the vaccine first and why? (Along with follow-up questions basis the
answers)
Q5. When does your course get over?
Q6. How is your mobility?
Q7. Do you have any questions for me? (Along with follow-up questions basis the answers)
EXIDE
Interview Panel: Mr Rao (HR) and Mr. Kaustav H from HR
Mr. Vishvanathan Tiwari and Mr. Sandeepan Bhattacharya from Sales
Sankchep Singhal
Subramaniam Sundaram:
1. Two major failures I faced, how I overcame that, what I learnt and how did I implement
those learning in future
2. About Hobbies
3. Why I decided to pursue for MBA
4. What are my expectations from Infozech
5. Where do you see yourself 5 years down the line in Infozech
6. What were my major responsibilities and challenges which I faced being Head girl of school
7. 2 best achievements
ToTheNew
1. What are the 3 mistakes in your life? If you get a chance again will you
change it?
2. You have to work on a project by collaborating with a co-worker and you too
can’t see each other’s eye to eye, how will you proceed further?
3. If you are asked to go to some peaceful place , which place you will choose
and what are the reasons. Please reflect your understanding.
INFOSYS
Questions
Round 1
Udit Bhalla:
Karishma:
1) K means clustering
2) Explain decision tree and random forest algo
3) How is ANN different from decision tree
4) Agile methodologies
5) Explain about your work experience
6) Sql syntax for update, fetching query, having clause, group by
7) Syntax for random forest
8) Data wrangling
Homesh:
Ajay:
1) Self intro
2) A brief about my previous company and work expirence
3) Details of how I conducted trainings and provided RCAs
4) How have I created a knowledge base?
5) How I used to handle escalations?
6) Any questions for him?
Sripriya:
Ashu:
Sajjan:
Anmol:
Ankita:
Arghagni:
Ayushi:
Subramaniyam:
Round-1:
1. Please take me through your career, your work exp, responsibilities, why MBA and why 1 yr
MBA?
2. Can you tell me why do you think you are best fit for this role of IOT consultant
3. Any questions from your side with regards to IOT or the role?
Round-2:
1. Please explain about your work experience and the different responsibilities you had
in the 44 months of your experience?
2. In shop floor as a supervisor what kind of things you looked after?
3. So as a supervisor how did you plan for inventory?
4. As a supervisor how do you plan on the quantity of raw material or WIP goods in
your shift to make sure there is no machine stoppage and operators aren’t idle?
5. You said you have witnessed the digital transformation of your moulding shop floor,
can you explain this journey what were the results of such a transformation
(transformation from manual running AutomationAutonomous(IOT smart
factory)
6. Can you highlight some positives and cons of IOT implementation?
7. What kind of computer software did you work on or what software’s are you
comfortable working on?
8. Are comfortable working on Microsoft office like Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project
and outlook?
9. You seem to have worked in engineering profile and now doing MBA majoring in
marketing, why do you want to get into consulting?
10. Do you have any questions for me? (I asked him 2 questions- apart from industrial
IOT what are the other use-cases or projects that infy is working on or expected to
work on? And I learnt that one of the major issue with IOT at present is the data
security part. You have so much experience in IOT sir, so how do you convince or
handle customers when they raise this concern?)
Round-3 HR:
1. Asked me to verify the details I had mentioned in my application form.
2. Are you having any limitation with language or location?
3. Explained about package and the role offering and signed off!!
HONO HR
1. Tell me about yourself?
2. 10th, 12th percentage; Grades in SOIL
3. What do u like about HR as a function?
4. Explain the Training process?
5. Explain PMS?
6. Any technical experience or education? If yes, share
7. Have worked on any HRMS Software before?
8. Why should we hire you?
9. What all subjects u studied?
10. What subject you have studied till now?
11. What are the different types of HR analytics?
12. What is employee engagement?
13. What are the factors affecting it?
14. Past work experience?
15. Then any prior experience in HR tech?
16. Interested to work on a live project for 3 months and then we can give PPO?
17. What do you mean by PMS?
18. Examples of how PMS is done?
19. How is Motivation related to PMS?
20. What is Employee Engagement and Cycle of Employee Engagement?
21. What is L&D and why is it important? What are the two methods for L&D?
22. How did you help the company to develop the HRIS? What all are cover under HRIS?
23. Tell me something about your project on Job Satisfaction.
24. What are the factors of Employee Engagement?
25. What is the Process of Training and Development?
26. How do you evaluate the Training Process?
27. Take me through your resume
28. What work you did in Internship the current one and previously done internships
29. Tools used in your project, What is the process of the project?
30. Which subject you like most?
31. Cycle of Performance management
32. What is TRM?
33. How will u measure if an employee of an org is how much satisfied or dissatisfied?
34. What are your favourite subjects?
35. Talk about analytics, how you can use tools to know about engagement with the
help of analytics, which function you will use
36. Please talk about correlation and regression
37. Tell me what you understand from optimization techniques
38. Tell me more about your family.
39. Why HR?
40. Take me through your profile and education
41. You didn’t talk about your 10th and 12th. From which board have you done it and
what were the marks.
42. Regarding Internship could you go through the same?
43. Tell me the details of the XYZ project and what was the motive behind it.
44. What was your approach in the projects
45. Why did you left engineering and moved to management?
46. Which is your favourite subject?
47. What do you understand about the subject?
48. How the subject is being used in HR?
49. Give me few examples of using the subject in HR field.
50. What new project are you doing? How did you go through its approach?
51. Location constraints.
52. Are you okay with the service agreement?
53. What is your family background?
54. If you are given a choice between speed and perfection, what will you choose?
55. Is there difference between your and my perfection?
56. If you are not judged by anyone, what would have you done right now?
57. When was the last time you considered yourself useless?
58. What would your greatest enemy say about you?
59. Talk in detail about all the internships
60. What all courses have you studied so far in 2-year PGDM?
61. List top 2 of your favourite subjects in HR.
62. What do you understand by PMS?
63. Steps in PMS
64. A flight travels from Delhi to Lucknow in 1hr 30 mins and covers a distance of 600km,
find out its speed.
65. Are you open to relocating to Delhi?
66. If we offer you an internship till the time PGDM ends and then a PPO, would you
accept?
67. what do your parents do?
68. what subjects did you choose in 12th and graduation? And what was your
percentage?
69. Tell me about your internship?
70. Will you opt for the 3-month training program if you get selected?
71. Take me through your internship, college etc.
72. What are competencies?
73. How performance management helps the organisation?
74. Are you ready to travel across India and abroad?
75. Are you aware of the JD and kind of role?
76. Are you aware of 2-year agreement?
77. In which area are you interested?
78. Where do you see yourself in 5 years from now
KPMG
Interview Question 1st Round
Candidate: Mohit
1. Tell me about your work experience in brief.
2. What kind of work you have done using Power BI?
3. Explain about mentioned SIP work?
4. Do you have any questions to ask?
Candidate: Prakash
Candidate: Arnab
PI round 2:
1) What is your favourite subject?
2) Explain Kirkpatrick’s model?
3) What are the three changes you will bring in training plan of TCS, if you were the
L & D head?
4) Is salary a hygiene factor or motivation factor?
5) If you are the head HR of BFSI vertical, what 3 new initiatives you will take to
enhance the process?
6) Can you explain bloom’s taxonomy?
7) What is Victor Vroom’s theory?
8) Can you relate the expectancy theory with a real time scenario in TCS?
9) Can you explain theory of needs and who proposed it? (macllead theory)
10) Which one will you give most preference: Group or individual incentive and why?
11) How will you implement the change of increasing the individual incentive based
on performance? What will be the restraining force, name 3?
12) Change management: Explain what are the barriers to change in the scenario I
described
13) Do you have any questions?
PI round 3:
1) Tell about yourself?
2) Are you aware of euthanasia? What is your perspective and will you allow it in India?
3) Explain climate change: Paris agreement
4) Share your perspective on farm bill?
5) Why from engineering to IT to HR?
6) Do you have any questions?
Candidate: Shantanu
First PI : Technical
Nishita: Round 1:
1. Tell me about yourself
2. Explain in brief about each of your roles in all the three companies you worked in
3. Specific questions with respect to each role like how, what and why
4. Why did you leave Tata Capital after 2 years, any specific reason?
5. What did you learn in BBA?
6. Why did you join SOIL?
7. What are you learning in SOIL?
8. How is MBA helping you to correspond with your knowledge from BBA?
9. Give example of a situation when your recommendations were rejected and what did you
learn from it?
10. What factors did you consider to analyze a company? Give examples.
11. After your BBA you joined Tata Capital, so now after your MBA if you are asked to work in
the same role how different would your approach to analysis be?
12. Describe NPV and IRR
13. How would you forecast cash flows?
14. What are your future aspirations?
15. Why are you doing CFA and how will it help you?
16. What you do know about Tech Mahindra?
17. Why do you want to join Tech Mahindra?
Saumya: Round 1:
1. Tell us about your Work Experience at Tata Power.
2. Which is your favourite subject in HR?
3. You are pursuing an internship currently. Tell us more about it.
4. What kind of an HR project did you undertake (referring to my HR Research project on
‘Understanding the Comp & Ben structure of Organizations during the pandemic’)? What
were your findings?
2nd Round:
1. Tell me something about yourself.
2. Why did you choose SOIL to pursue your Masters?
3. What made you pursue HR?
4. Which is your most favourite role in HR, which you would like to take up?
5. Out of all the other companies, why did you think of joining a company like Tech Mahindra?
6. If you were given a choice to not engage in a role in the HR domain and instead begin your
professional career with Sales for it is similar to HR in many ways, what would you do and
why?
7. How do you see yourself adapting to the Tech Mahindra work culture which is so dynamic?
Round two:
1) Tell me about yourself
2) Why do you want to join Tech Mahindra?
3) What kind of value will you bring to Tech Mahindra if we hire you?
4) Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
5) Any areas of improvement you focused on your one-year MBA
Shivani: Round 1
Round 2
Manisha:
Ajay:
1. Explain more about your previous job role?
2. How did you handle clients?
3. Why MBA?
4. Why Soil?
5. How would you market SOIL in IIT Bombay?
Rishika:
Hitesh:
1. Please tell me about yourself.
2. What were your role and responsibilities in the previous organization?
3. What subjects do you like most?
Himank:
1. Tell me about yourself?
2. Walk me through your resume?
3. Who is your best friend in life?
4. Do you have plans to continue CA after MBA?
5. Tell me about the prior work experience and findings in your audit field?
6. What do you know about Tech Mahindra?
7. If you were allotted other department (Sales), then would you like to do that work?
8. What do you know about stock market?
9. Where are you based at? Do you stay with your family? Who all are there in your family?
10. Do you have any question from me?
Homesh:
1. Why soil?
2. Market soil to me.
3. Which clubs are you a part of?
4. What leadership did you take in your life?
5. What is the difference between a leader and a manager?
6. Any questions you want to ask me?
Tanay:
1. You have around 5 years of experience, tell me your journey in brief.
2. Why there are frequent changes?
3. Why do you wish to come to Tech M for sales profile?
4. What is there in B2B sales that fascinates you?
5. Tell me a way you use to contact the head (CXO) level person of a company you want to do
business with?
SOBD:
Abhilasha Gautam
Harshit Gupta
Prakash Guna
1. What were you thinking when others interrupted you and you could not deliver your
thoughts during Group Discussion?
2. Tell me about yourself
3. You are from which part of Tamil Nadu?
4. You can even go back to your previous job and industry nut why are you shifting the industry
with a new job?
5. What are the 5 qualities needed to success in this job
6. Out of these 5, what qualities do you possess
7. Tell me your greatest weakness
8. Tell about your family background
9. How good are you in facing failures?
10. Do you have any question for us?
Ajay Kumar
Arun Gahlot
Pubali Dutta
Akshay Chouksey
Sudharshan Vishal
Tanay Tripathi
1) Tell us about your past experience
2) Why sales?
Raj Verma
Raj Verma
Sajjan Singh
Abhilasha Gautam
Akshay Chouksey
1. You have very diverse background and I don't see any technology touch in it?
2. Tell me about the technology you feel more comfortable with
3. I chose cyber security
4. What is the technology behind Cloud Computing ,how it works
5. How do I trust you as you are new client
Rishabh Prakash
Gowtham KN
Monith R
Swati Tiwari
2. As we are in growth phase, what will be your approach for strategic implementation?
3. How will you implement it (Both new product and new market expansion)
4. What kind of data you will be collecting for primary and secondary research? How will you
implement based on the data?
5. Based on my previous answer, you will consult with each function but what are the things
required for implementation?
7. On the finance aspect for the project what will help us to decide to go for the project?
9. You coming from 40000+crore Revenue Company and Maiva is 250 Cr. How will you fit into
this company?
11. Have you gone through Maiva website or details? If yes, kindly tell the details.
12. Imagine you are in marriage and you met your plant president. You have 60 seconds, talk?
13. Why you have done Leadership and emotional intelligence course? Why you picked only this
course apart from the bunch of other courses.
14. Looking at your resume its completely operational excellence role, how will you be able to fit
in executive assistant role?
15. If we give you choice between operational and executive assistant role which one will you
choose and why?
16. As you handled the team in your last organisation, tell me what are the three things you
learnt from people?
17. What kind of challenges you faced while working with your team?
18. Tell me about the cost reduction project you have done and what was your approach
towards it?
19. What are the things to be done to improve the productivity of the team?