Hrithik Maheshwari
Computer Science
Placements
Quadeye
Interviewed by:
Utsav Deep
Internships
Placements
20th September 2020
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When to start preparing for the Placement season?
Comparison between your intern and placement interviews?
Learnings from this placement season?
How did you decide your field of interest? What about backups?
Major problems that you faced?
Online vs Offline placements?
If someone does not get an intern via OCS in their 3rd year, what should they do?
Necessities for targeting your field?
The best time to start for placements will be 1-1.5 months prior to the scheduled tests by OCS. Once the tests start, you won't have to do much preparation as giving 1-2 tests daily will help you in preparation.
For tech companies give priority to Competitive Programming > Aptitude > OOPS(C++) ~ OS > Networks > DBMS > OOPS (Java). Prior to tests you can focus on competitive programming and once tests start, start studying for CS core courses in the priority order (Priority given based on the number of questions they asked in each section).
There is a facebook page for Placements of IITs/NITs/BITs. Join that page. They float a google document which are updated by students as soon as some company takes paper in their institute. What really helps is that before any test of a particular company solve all the problems from this doc for that company. Many time company ask the exact same question and if not that they asks question based on similar concept.
Start your placement activities with your friends in a group. Share all the information you gets (It always helps when done in a group). Set targets and discuss after each paper !
For tech companies give priority to Competitive Programming > Aptitude > OOPS(C++) ~ OS > Networks > DBMS > OOPS (Java). Prior to tests you can focus on competitive programming and once tests start, start studying for CS core courses in the priority order (Priority given based on the number of questions they asked in each section).
There is a facebook page for Placements of IITs/NITs/BITs. Join that page. They float a google document which are updated by students as soon as some company takes paper in their institute. What really helps is that before any test of a particular company solve all the problems from this doc for that company. Many time company ask the exact same question and if not that they asks question based on similar concept.
Start your placement activities with your friends in a group. Share all the information you gets (It always helps when done in a group). Set targets and discuss after each paper !
Comparison between your intern and placement interviews?
The number of rounds were increased. The level of the question was also increased. The competition was also gets increased as during Internships people are not that much prepared but everyone is damn serious for placements.
The number of rounds were increased. The level of the question was also increased. The competition was also gets increased as during Internships people are not that much prepared but everyone is damn serious for placements.
My sleep timings were not set before the Interviews and the last day I was not able to change suddenly and was not able to get a proper sleep in the end due to anxiety. Just try to adjust your sleep timings one week before the Interviews and you will be good to go !
Yeah , I think there is no harm in having a backup. Even if you get the job in the backup profile, you can always apply off campus.
No, I did not have a particular field in which I wanted to enter. But I definitely had some fields in mind in which I didn't want to try.
No, I did not have a particular field in which I wanted to enter. But I definitely had some fields in mind in which I didn't want to try.
Discussion is really important after the paper. Questions get repeated again and again (even if questions are not repeated then at least the concept gets repeated). Due to everything going online it was very difficult to have a discussion after every paper. But as soon as my placement group realized this we have discussion even upto 1-2 hours after the test. It takes time to discuss the whole paper but it's worth it ! Apart from this finding the right material to study was one of the major issue. One thing that is different from interview experience is that people were not serious at that time and also the prep time also was very less but in placements everyone is so damn dedicated for it and so you can't slack off in preparation.
They should try off campus and via linkedin to get an Intern. But they should then practice really hard on their skills to get an edge over the others. Companies do care what is on your CV but only after you have cleared the short listing round and meet the CG criteria defined by the company.
That depends on the type of job. Courses and skills definitely help. But the company don't expect students to know too much about the profile they are hiring for. That’s why they judge students based on what they should have learned in college (CP, OS, OOPS, DBMS, Networks and Aptitude).
Offline as it would have advantage of Discussion, Group Study. But there is not that harm in Online also !
Everyone gets placed in the end so dont worry about not getting placed (even 5 pointers to those having backlogs). Just believe in yourself and don't underestimate yourself for a single second. You are in IIT Delhi, everyone around you is smart so you sometimes tend to underestimate yourself. But don't do that. You will realize this after your placements also. And also don't settle for anything less that what you think you deserve (else you will regret your decisions).
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