
Aayush, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BS student in MTH will do
his summer internship in Quant profile at APT Portfolio Pvt Limited. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Goldman Sachs

## Insights on the Selection Process
The focus was on topics like expectations, Probability, Dynamic Programming. Some standard puzzles, Standard Data Structure and algorithm questions were asked as well. 

##  Preparation Resources
Brainstellar, 50 Challenging Problems in Probability, A Guide to Quantitative Finance Interviews, InterviewBit

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Just try to be well-versed with all the standard questions from the important resources instead of trying to solve all the resources.




Aditya Vats, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in ME will do
his summer internship in Techno-Managerial profile at ITC Limited. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
HUL

## Insights on the Selection Process
1. The first round is filling a very detailed form. This constitutes everyThing from your achievements to your life goals etc. I believe it’s to understand how actively you are engaged in progressing your career and yourself.

2. Second round is basically the short listing for GD. The short listing is done on the basis of your form, your CPI, and your resume. I believe a CPI > 8.5 will suffice.

3. My GD was online and it was a very quick case study. A situation was provided and 3-4 people were asked to come to a consensus for a solution. The selection over this was pretty much how any GD selection goes. You speak up, speak logically, don’t criticise, be courteous but put your point across. 

4. After getting selected, you have another 2 rounds of interviews. You must be very thorough with your resume. Technical questions were asked of me but not related to my coursework. Some general stuff like what motors do we use in our bot (related to a project of mine). So have at least 10 minutes of speaking content on each of your project points (yup, 10 minutes for each bullet point). Be very thorough here.

5. Almost all the questions were about your resume points. So if you had written for eg something about Random Forest Classifiers, they are going to go to the depth of it. So ensure that you are able to justify all your points.They may ask very unrelated questions, that they know you don’t have the technical expertise to know. These are just to ensure you don’t get baffled by stuff. Stay calm and answer to the best of your abilities.

##  Preparation Resources
I was not really preparing much for internship. I had done some GD practice with my friends, at least 3-4 mock GDs. Was doing some coding on interviewbit and some quant practice (50 challenging problems etc). I was not very rigorous in my prep. What helped me I guess, was that I had done lot of work in my semester time, Projects, Teams, Internship. All that actually helped me in the ITC shortlisting.

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
I would suggest to stay calm and relaxed in interviews. A relaxed and positive vibe actually creates a big difference in such interviews. Nobody wants a nervous wreck in their company. So smile, make light conversation with the interviewers while answering their questions seriously. That shows that you are confident in dealing with new situations.




Akshat Sharma, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in CSE will do
his summer internship in Software Engineering profile at Graviton Research Capital LLP. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Quadeye (Software engineering intern), Optiver (Software engineering intern)

## Insights on the Selection Process
The Graviton interview involved 2 coding questions. The first used trees and recursion, the second was quite unique and based on discrete mathematics. No questions from dynamic programming/graphs were asked. 

The second round of the graviton interview involved a lot of questions from computer organisation (CS220). They asked questions based on memory management(about heap,stack, global pointer memory allocation), how the memory stack is maintained in programs(they gave an example program and asked me how the stack would be arranged), pipelining, hazards related to pipelining.

The last question was a practical one based on how cache misses and branch prediction influence performance and how to write code that keeps these points in mind. Most of the above points are covered in CS220 (other than the pratical aspects of writing code)

##  Preparation Resources
1.) For Coding practice : Interviewbit(website), Geeks for geeks(website). 

2.) For Algorithms theory : Introduction to algorithms by Cormen. 

3.) For Probability : CS203 course slides, Brainstellar(website).

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Start preparing at the start of your summers. Try to identify which profiles are of your interest. Get your resume checked with atleast 5 seniors. If applying for high frequency trading profiles then knowledge of the market is a must. Try and be consistent. Be confident and formal during the interview.




Ananya Gupta, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in CSE will do
her summer internship in Quant profile at Quadeye. Here are some brief
insights of hers.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Goldman Sachs - Summer Analyst, Uber - Software, Graviton - software, Sprinklr - Software, Microsoft -Both software and data science 

## Insights on the Selection Process
I gave interviews for 3 companies out of the ones I was shortlisted for. 

1.) Goldman Sachs:- 
I had 2 rounds, some people had to appear for 3. Both were technical rounds. In my first round, I was asked 3 questions. One was based on basic probability, one was based on DFS in a matrix (just the algorithm, not coding) and last one was an analytical puzzle. In the second round, it started with a discussion on my second year summer intern, then I was asked differences between arrays and linked lists, where can doubly linked lists be used in real life, etc. Then, there was a question on indexing in a DBMS, 2-3 direct questions from 50CP/brainstellar. The second round was much longer than the first one. 

2.) Quadeye:-
Here, I had continuous 4-5 rounds without break, some were even 10 minute rounds. The questions were mostly based on probability and puzzles (not from brainstellar/50 CP, you need to think fast on the spot), 1-2 questions on describing the algorithm for a particular problem and even some on mental math (like 105 square, 39*41, etc).

3.) Uber:-
I gave one round only, since Quadeye made an on the spot offer. I had to code two questions, they were pretty straightforward. One was based on prefix sum and hashmaps and other was based on DFS on a binary tree.

##  Preparation Resources
1.) For coding practice - Interview Bit and LeetCode

2.) For probability and puzzles - 50 CP, Brainstellar and IB puzzles

3.) For statistics - YouTube videos on hypothesis testing, regression 

4.) For OOPS theory - Tutorialspoint, Gfg

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
For tests:- The hard part is getting shortlisted for interviews. Try to do regular coding practice over the summers if you're aiming for SDE profiles. I didn't do codeforces, codechef, etc, I focused on IB/LC only. For quant companies, few of them don't take tests and CPI plays an important role there. Like for GS, a high CPI will give you a better shortlisting chance even if you mess up your test. APT portfolio, alphagrep, GS, etc will have a section of questions on probability and statistics, JEE type math. Having practiced timed tests will definitely help you out here. For data science roles, brush up your ML knowledge. MS data science test had 2 questions in which we had to code models (regression using sklearn, etc) and also a section on theoretical MCQs. 

Revise all concepts of DSA, have a good theoretical grasp. Do not skip over graphs part while practicing coding. Be thorough with OOPS concepts too. Do not forget to do brainstellar and 50 CP if you're aiming for quant profiles (can be done in 2-3 days). In your summers, trying doing one project/intern in the area you're interested in along with intern prep. 
For interviews, try doing 1-2 mock interviews before you give the real ones, it'll help you adjust to interview setting. 

Lastly, keep in touch with seniors, ask them about the companies you're aiming for and their procedure. Take tips from them. It'll help you guide your preparation in the right direction.




Anchal Gupta, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in CSE will do
her summer internship in Product Engineer profile at Sprinklr. Here are some brief
insights of hers.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Google India - Software Engineer, Goldman Sachs - Summer Analyst, Optiver - Software Engineer Internship, Uber - Software Engineer, Sprinklr - Product Engineer

## Insights on the Selection Process
In Goldman Sachs, there were questions related to probability and stats, puzzles 
In Google, Uber, Sprinklr only coding questions were asked in all the rounds
In Optiver, questions related to CS fundamentals are also asked apart from quant and coding questions.

Other insights on the interview process - 
1. Think out loud. Interviewer wants to see your approach so you should keep explaining your thought process.
2. Communicate well (very important to ace an interview).
3. Try to catch the hints that the interviewers give. Usually when you are going in the wrong direction or taking a long time to reach to the solution, interviewers give you hints.
4. If you think you are taking a lot of time, then ask the interviewer to guide you.
5. Try to think of corner cases and build upon any cases that the interviewers tell.
6. Practice the standard questions that can be asked related to any topic well.
7. Lastly, do not panic. Keep calm and keep smiling :)

##  Preparation Resources
[Leetcode](https://leetcode.com/), 
[Brainstellar](https://brainstellar.com/), 
[Interviewbit](https://www.interviewbit.com/), 
[50 challenging Problems in Prob and Stats](https://drive.google.com/file/d/14JZmX7DsGnwLLdlOVYqLL0u5re60SJWl/view?usp=sharing)

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
1. Start your preparation as early as you can. 
2. If possible, do group studies and discuss your approach to a question.
3. Talk to a lot of seniors about the internship preparation and keep in contact with them.
4. Do not wait for the deadline of resume submission. Prepare and get review from a lot of seniors beforehand.




Ankit Yadav, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in ME will do
his summer internship in Software Developer profile at D.E Shaw India Pvt Ltd. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
NA

## Insights on the Selection Process
Questions Related to Dynamic Programming, Graphs and Binary search and very basic questions regarding OOPS were asked.

##  Preparation Resources
1. Interview Bit ( Programming and Puzzles)
2. Codeforces( for pclub contests only)
3. CSES Problem Set (to consolidate a topic if enough time is there)
4. Competitive Programming - 3  (BOOK by Steven Halim and Felix Halim)
5. Brainsteller
6. GeeksforGeeks

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Most important thing is to have good peer group for discussing questions, find people with common interest, keep giving contests organized by pclub and you must keep learning things which you don't know and due to which you were not able to solve a particular question in company tests and contests. My personal advice would be to First do each and every question from Interview Bit and keep learning things you don't know from geeks for geeks, for graphs and Binary search read theory (no need to do questions if you don't have much time) from the book I mentioned(CP-3 by Halim). For DP do every question from Interview Bit and also do some questions from CSES problem set for building confidence, for quant profile do Brainsteller and interview bit Puzzles, if you get stuck refer to GeeksforGeeks for that question and YouTube if still not clear.




Antreev Singh Brar, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in CSE will do
his summer internship in Quant Researcher profile at Tower Research Capital. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
N/A

## Insights on the Selection Process
1. Resume Shortlist: Based on CPI
2. Test: Technical test was taken - OS / Network and CP based questions
3. Interview Process: 2 Rounds of Technical and One small HR round. Both technical rounds revolved around probability , statistics , data structures and puzzles. The HR round was more of like a brainstorming session on dealing with a open ended finance problem. Just like an informal discussion.

The Resume selection criteria for all HFTs is just CPI along with your branch. Its simple as that. So if you are in CSE with 9.5+ , you should get in most HFTs interviews. Tower had a technical test, so you had to perform well in it be shortlisted. Interview rounds were hard, the data structure questions asked could be weighted at about 1900-2000 on codeforces. The probability ones were straight out of CS203 course and 50 interesting problems in statistics book. The informal HR round was fun.

Interview Questions: You have 2 sticks with an error of ‘a%’ and ‘b%’ (while measuring length). What is the minimum percentage in error you can get while measuring the length of the stick formed after joining the two sticks.

##  Preparation Resources
Data structures : Codeforces , Interviewbit

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
1) Code and improve CPI
2) Don't lose your cool




Arpit Maheshwari, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in EE will do
his summer internship in Associate profile at SAMSUNG Electronics South Korea. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Graviton (Quant), Microsoft (SDE), DE Shaw (SDE)

## Insights on the Selection Process
People from CSE and EE branches were allowed to give the coding test

Coding test-
1. There was 1 coding test of 3 hours duration. The test consisted of 1 question.
2. The test was not too difficult. The time complexity bounds were also not too tight for the given constraints of the question which essentially meant that brute force solution also worked. Still, it was lengthy and one had to be careful with the edge cases. Apart from the number of test cases passed, the time taken to solve the problem was also a factor which was considered.

Interview-
1. It consisted of 2 rounds - HR and Technical
2. A coding question was asked in the technical round. It was based DP. The problem asked in the interview was based on Knapsack
3. The HR round had general questions like "Why do you want to work for Samsung?"," Do you know anything about Korean culture?", and things based on similar lines.

CGPA plays a crucial role in getting shortlisted. 14 people were shortlisted for the interview, out of which 6 were finally selected. Among those 6 people, 5 were from CSE and 1 from EE. These numbers generally remain similar every year.

##  Preparation Resources
1. For Coding- Interviewbit, leetcode, contests on Codeforces for time-bound practice. 
2. For Quant- Brainstellar, 50 challenging problems

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
1. I would say that first chalk out a plan for yourself because every person is in a
different scenario with varied strengths/ weaknesses, so try and figure out what
works best for you.
2. Start early so that you have enough time to figure out things and prepare accordingly
3. Talk to seniors. This is very important since they are the people who have gone
through similar situations and can easily guide you throughout the process.
4. Finally, don't get bogged down by any hiccups that you may face. Stay focused
and don't let your self-confidence go down. It is easier said than done but then it is
the reality and it matters a lot.




Atur Gupta, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in CSE will do
his summer internship in Quant profile at Quadeye. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Optiver - Quant, Tower Research - Quant, Alphagrep - Quant, Alphagrep - Software, DE Shaw - Software, Sprinklr - Software, Goldman Sachs - Analyst, Microsoft - Software

## Insights on the Selection Process
In all of the quant interviews (Alphagrep, Quadeye, Goldman Sachs) except Tower and Optiver, I was asked questions straight from the website Brainstellar and 50 challenging Problems book. In Tower, I was asked questions on standard deviation and variance on random variables, which was something I neither expected nor had prepared for. For optiver, you have to be really good at mental math and the concept of expectation in probability. 

##  Preparation Resources
1.) For Quant -  Brainstellar and 50 Challenging Problems 

2.) For Software -  Interviewbit mostly. Preferred solutions given in discussion section of leetcode for the same questions. 

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
1.) If you're a student reading this before the summers, my first and most important advice would be for you to focus on increasing your cpi as much as you can. It is extremely important to get shortlisted in good companies. Definitely keep it above 9 if you're targeting Day 1 companies.
 
2.) As for software profiles, Competitive programming is a must for companies Google and Rubrik, and maybe Uber too. For other companies like sprinklr, microsoft, etc just interviewbit would be fine.  

3.) Now for Quant profiles, both brainstellar and 50 challenging problems, are necessary and sufficient. Do both of 'em twice at least. I was also asked mental math problems in some companies' interviews (Quadeye, Optiver). 

4.)Some general tips -  The projects and internships on your resume don't help much (at all?) in getting shortlisted for interviews. It's just CPI and tests. As for interviews, what's required is that you should be able to explain why you'd be a good fit for the company and the relevant role. For this, the relevant projects/internships can help.




Ayush Ranjan , studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in ME will do
his summer internship in Supply Chain Management  profile at Proctor and Gamble (P&G). Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
NA

## Insights on the Selection Process
1. Open for all
2. Psychometric Test and Situational Judgement Test
3. Aptitude Test: Mathematical and mental ability, memory  games etc. 
4. Group Interview: A set of HR questions were asked to the  entire group
5. HR Interview


##  Preparation Resources
Just do a bit of GD

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Don't fake around in the psychometric test. Just choose whatever seems logical to you. Prepare resume properly with action verbs. Try to emphasize management skills you gained from past experience in the interview.




Chaitanya Sahni, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in ME will do
his summer internship in Techno-Managerial profile at ITC Limited. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Hindustan Unilever (Techno Managerial)

## Insights on the Selection Process
1. Resume Shortlist and personal questionnaire form : High CPI is important
2. GD: Directed GD amd GD usually presents a moral dilemma as topic where you choose what to give priority to.
3. Interview Process: There were 2 interviews in total post GD. The first interview was more on the technical side whereas the second was a general interview seeking to know more about your personality.

The personal questions form should be filled with care. The answers should show clarity in the direction you are headed. For the GD the best steps to follow are to be aware of others peoples points and not repeat. Also you should try to bring a different angle from others. Stick to your decisions and make arguments in a formal manner.

The GD question for me was related to a company which gave workers houses within the company plant. The house allocation was usually done on seniority basis however we were presented with a dilemma in this case were there were some special cases in addition to the senior most worker. We were to decide based on this who we would allocate the house to. The technical interview was focused primarily on my resume. They asked in depth about projects I was pursuing and some course related questions as well.

##  Preparation Resources
My preparation for the GD was done by interacting with some seniors and taking part in mock GD’s arranged by the ANC. After the GD I did some basic research into standard interview questions and prepared myself for those. Apart from this I also did some background research on the company I was interviewing for. We must be prepared for what we have written in our resume as they will surely pick up on those points and ask to explain them.

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Be thorough while preparing resume. Do not panic or feel dejected when you do not see your name in the list. Intern season is stressful, prepare well beforehand and dedicate time daily for your betterment. Apart from this focus on your soft skills as they also play an important role to get you intern.




Dawood Bin Mansoor, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BS student in MTH will do
his summer internship in Software Development profile at Rubrik. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Microsoft, Google, Quadeye , Graviton

## Insights on the Selection Process
Disjoint Set Union(Medium), DFS (Cycle Detection+ DP(Easy))

##  Preparation Resources
Leet Code Medium and Hard, Brainstellar(Medium and Hard)

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Besides standard prep of Competitive Programming Questions, do a Project wherein you apply some level of advanced programming like Asynchronous Programming, Web Servers, Multithreaded Programming, Tech Stacks. Also, do Competitive Programming. Start preparation early on so that you don't face tremendous pressure during the last days.




Dipanshu Garg, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in CSE will do
his summer internship in Systems profile at Quadeye. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Graviton, Alphagrep, DE Shaw, Rubrik, Google, Sprinkler, GS

## Insights on the Selection Process
Topics - Data Structures and Algorithms, OOP, Probability

Company specific shortlisting:

1.) HFTs software - (Highly) biased towards high CPI. Some don't even conduct tests. Tests are of moderate difficulty.

2.) Rubrik - Shortlisting purely based on coding test. Quality of questions is really good. You should be comfortable with solving A/B/C/D problems in a CF Div 2 round.

3.) Google - Resume shortlisting + test. Do participate in Kickstart/Codejam. If you secure good ranks in them, mention them on your resume as it is a big plus.

Interviews:

1.) HFTs software - Besides DSA, they might expect some knowlege of OOP preferably in C++.

2.) Rubrik - Similar to test just in a different format.

3.) Google - Tricky DSA problems. Also you need to code in a google doc.

##  Preparation Resources
Codeforces, InterviewBit, Leetcode, Fifty challenging problems in Probability

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Try to maintain a good CPI. Also start preparation early.




Gaurav Manwani, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BS student in Mathematics will do
his summer internship in Quant Trader profile at Optiver. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Optiver (Quant Trader), Jane Street(Quant), Optiver(Software), Sprinklr(Software) and APT Portfolio

## Insights on the Selection Process
Knowledge of various puzzles came in handy. Software interviews had questions on advanced DS (heaps and trees), computer fundamentals and cryptography applications (since it was mentioned in my resume). Some parts also connected to networking and systems design, although these topics weren't mandatory to cover.Quant interviews involved a lot of probability puzzles and games based on expected value (with added time constraints from the interviewers just to check how you react under pressure)

##  Preparation Resources
InterviewBit for DSA practice, 50 challenging problems for quant prep

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
The first and foremost advice would be to be patient, and wait for the right opportunities rather than jumping blindly into everything. Build a strong academic background related to the profiles you're targeting. Try to be technically adept in DSA (and/or quant topics) by the time of tests.
However, confidence is key for the interviews. Express your ideas freely and try to catch hints from the interviewer (trust me, they give a lot of subtle hints). Appropriate technical preparation always gives you a boost, but practice handling situations where you don't have any technical knowledge to answer the question. Reacting well to a pressure situation even when you're clueless about the question/subject is the most important interview skill in my opinion.
Be patient, prepare well, and let your heart out! Best of luck!




Gurbaaz Singh Nandra, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in CSE will do
his summer internship in Systems profile at Quadeye. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Jane Street, Optiver, Quadeye, Sprinklr, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs

## Insights on the Selection Process
1. Resume Shortlist: Branch CSE and CPI > 9 was the criteria

2. Interview Process

a. Interview rounds = 1

b. Duration = 1 hour

c. Type of question asked during interviews: There were a
total of 4 interviewers, roughly interviewing for 15-20 min
each:-

        i. Basic introduction, general questions related to C/C++, STL implementations e.g. set vs unordered set, pass by value vs pass by reference etc.

        ii. DSA questions on linked list.

        iii. DSA questions covering DP, Stack, and Sorting.

        iv. Puzzle round.

d. No quant related question was asked as such since they
already asked the preference at the start of the interview.

e. In general, the questions were basic to medium and one
could answer confidently given he/she has done a
decent prep.

##  Preparation Resources
Interview Bit, LeetCode, GFG, Fifty Challenging Problems in Probability, Gurmeet Puzzles and Brainstellar

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Do:

● Sitting for non-core/software roles, coding preparation, without any doubt, is a must.
Utilize the summers well and be consistent in solving questions on coding platforms.

● Put a bit of work daily on improving your communication skills. There is no fun if you
know the solution to an XYZ technical/HR question but fail to communicate it
effortlessly to the interviewer.

● Start working on building your resume and reviewing it from seniors early. Else it
unnecessary creates last-minute panic.

Don’t:

● Waste time in comparing yourself to others and looking down upon yourself. Rather
focus on your own growth and efforts.

● Pull other legs down or demotivate others. Intern/placement times could be
overwhelming to one’s physical and mental health, and you should rather be
supporting and motivating others than making fun of their misery.




Gyanendra Kumar, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in ME will do
his summer internship in SWE profile at Microsoft. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
N/A

## Insights on the Selection Process
I have only 1 round of interviews with Microsoft as I was a part of Engage Mentorship program. The round is named AA round (As Appropriate). There is only one interviewer, and he has an experience of more than 20 years with Microsoft. Since I was a part of the mentorship program, the initial 15 mins discussion was on my project. He asked me to give a quick demo of my project, open the source code, and explain what I have done and why I did it. Then he asked about my previous internship experience, which was very brief (2-5 min only). After all this, they came to DSA ( Data Structure and Algorithm). He put one sample test case of the linked list in the comment box and asked me to predict the possible question. I predicted around 4-5 possible questions. Then he gave me a second test case, and I was successfully able to predict the questions. The question is straightforward once you predict the question. The question is as follows: Given a linked list, split it into two halves, reverse both halves, and connect the end of the first linked list. In the end, they ask me to code the same problem.

##  Preparation Resources
Theory

1. [GFG](https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/)

Video Lectures

1. [DP Lecture - Aditya Verma (YouTube)](https://www.youtube.com/c/AdityaVermaTheProgrammingLord/playlists)
2. [Basic Fundamental of Coding - MyCodeSchool (YouTube)](https://www.youtube.com/user/mycodeschool)

Practice

1. [Interviewbit](https://www.interviewbit.com/)
2. [Leetcode](https://leetcode.com/)
3. [Striver SDE Problems](https://takeuforward.org/interviews/strivers-sde-sheet-top-coding-interview-problems/)


## Adivce for students (dos and don’ts)? 
1. Prepare well for the coding round. 
2. Mostly, DP questions are asked in the coding round.  
3. Make sure to have good practice beforehand.  
4. It may be possible that during the initial days of the internship season, you will not be able to grab an internship offer, but if you prepare well, then you will get the offer in the latter part of the drive. Internship season is spread throughout the year. Focus more on your preparation.
5. Do not lose calm. Stay motivated and try and learn as much as you can.
6. Talk to seniors if you need guidance or help in your internship preparation.
Feel free to reach out to me in case of any doubts.




Himanshu Sood, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in CSE will do
his summer internship in Quantitative Trading profile at Jane Street. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Jane Street - Quant Trading, Quadeye - Quant, Microsoft - SDE

## Insights on the Selection Process
1. Resume Shortlist
2. Test - There was a subjective test with questions on probability
3. Interview Process - There were a total of five interviews, one of which was a preliminary round, and the other four happened consecutively on the final day.

They mostly tested for knowledge and ability to apply fundamental probability concepts such as linearity of expectation, understanding of probability distributions, etc.

##  Preparation Resources
A Collection of Dice Problems by Matthew M. Conroy, 50 Challenging Problems in Probability, Brainstellar, LeetCode, CSES Problemset

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
For Quant profiles, it’s important to be well versed with Probability concepts (such as
expected value and linearity of expectation). They also expect you to be able to do simple
computations quickly and accurately.




Jadhav Dnyandeep Chandrakant, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BS student in MTH will do
his summer internship in SWE profile at Microsoft. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Sprinkler SWE

## Insights on the Selection Process
Mainly Coding interiview. Interviewers were friendly and supportive. 

##  Preparation Resources
Interview Bit, Geeks for Geeks, Youtube. 

## Adivce for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Maintain good CPI and do coding, use vacations effectively either coding or doing some project. 




Maryam Raza Khan, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in ME will do
her summer internship in Techno-Managerial profile at Hindustan Unilever Limited. Here are some brief
insights of hers.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Proctor and Gamble (Techno-Managerial), ITC (Techno-Managerial), Goldman Sachs ( Software )

## Insights on the Selection Process
1. Resume Shortlist
    - Based on a form we had to fill about us, general HR
questions etc

2. GD
    - Case questions given like what can we do for delivery truck drivers etc
    - Had to record a 15 min video live on their platform for 3 - 4 questions

3. Interview Process
    - 2 interview rounds
    - First round: Few HR questions, and resume based questions
    - Second round: Extensively course based (Thermo, Mechanics) and project based questions – more detailed than first round

Test questions: 
1. What can you do to ensure safety of truck drivers? 
2. How would you convince workers to work on low wage and alternating days during COVID times?

Interview questions: 
1. Which POR do you like and why? 
2. How does a boomerang work? 
3. How does a refrigerator work? 
4. How is a gyroscope used in phones?

##  Preparation Resources
1. Previous case study question given by seniors.
2. Participated in practice GD organized by AnC.
3. Internet Surfing on key words like six-sigma, supply chain ( less useful during interviews though).
4. Visited the company website, read latest initiatives.

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
1. Cracking the process doesn’t require extensive one-time preparation, we build the profile round the year, try to relate answers to HR questions with what you learned during your POR experiences.
2. Focus on applications of stuff we read in courses.
3. Be confident with what you say in the interview, if you don’t know the answer do not fool around, and politely refuse.
4. Practice a lot of GDs, try to open, interact and also let others speak.
5. Do not go theoretical with your answers, specially in HR questions, try to relate to experiences.




Mohd Muzzammil, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in CSE will do
his summer internship in Associate profile at SAMSUNG Electronics South Korea. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Graviton, Systems, Quadeye, Systems

## Insights on the Selection Process
__Coding Round__
- All CSE and EE people were eligible
- Given a single problem and 3hrs to solve it.
- Largely a brute force question, with some little dp.

__CPI Shortlist__
- 14 people were shortlist after coding round based on CPI

__Interview__
- Coding Interview:  Easy question based on a variant of maximum subset problem.
- HR Interview: They basically try to assess how well may you fit the Korean Culture.

##  Preparation Resources
Interviewbit and Codeforces

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Do Coding and reach out to seniors in case of any help




Rishabh Dugaye, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in CSE will do
his summer internship in Product Engineer profile at Sprinklr. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Uber-SDE, Microsoft-ML

## Insights on the Selection Process
For Sprinklr:

1st round had Questions on Binary search, Median of stream of numbers,Implementation of heap and basic questions about sorting algorithms.

2nd round had questions on base conversion,Least recently used cache using DLL and SLL,Implementation of Trie and one puzzle which was from brainstellar hard.
In both rounds I was also asked about my projects and internships.

3rd round was HR.

For Uber:

1st round had a easy question on BST where given a BST root and a target T we need to split the tree into two trees where 1st tree has all nodes with values less than V and 2nd tree had value greater than V.This can be solved easily using recursion.

2nd round was HR and discussion on project.

3rd round was coding and had a problem implementation problem in which I was only supposed to write pseudocode of a brute force solution.

##  Preparation Resources
Coding-Interview Bit and PClub Archives.

Quant-50 challenging problems and brainstellar.

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
I would suggest to start coding from May. In my opinion interview bit is sufficient for most of the companies. If you are preparing for companies like google, rubrik, TRC then you should really focus on doing competitive programming on codeforces. Apart from that P Club archives are really helpful and gives you a really good about about the difficulty of tests.




Saksham Mehra, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BTech student in EE will do his summer internship in Hardware Engineer profile at Google. Here are some brief insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
NA

## Insights on the Selection Process
Google shortlists students directly on the basis of resume, without any tests. Having core EE projects on resume is the key.  There were 2 rounds of interview. First was based entirely on verilog . Second round was more focused upon the digital part of ESC201 and there was one coding question .If you are thorough with your concepts from EE courses, you can crack the interview . Some questions are tricky , but the interviewer keeps on giving hints at points where you get stuck. The questions are focused upon the real life application of your EE concepts.

##  Preparation Resources
1) Most important is 2nd year core EE courses like EE210, EE200, EE250 and ESC201. Going through the lecture material , giving to you in these courses should be sufficient. 

2) You can also go through the CMOS inverters part of the EE370 lectures as a plus, if you are thorough with ESC201 and EE210. The EE370 lectures are available on YouTube.

3) Having a decent knowledge of HDL, such as verilog/VHDL(any one) is also important for the interview process. I prepared for it from CS220 lectures (available on course website). However any online tutorial may suffice. The above resources are general for all core EE profiles.

4) For software roles, I mainly focused upon solving questions from Interviewbit regularly and also revised ESO207 concepts.

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
1) Luck factor plays a major role in the internship process. So do not worry if you are not able to get shortlisted or crack the interviews. Keep patience and believe in your skills , whatever profile you are preparing for. 

2) Also refrain from applying for every profile. Make sure, you decide by the start of the summers , which roles you are preparing for, and focus your time and energy on them. 

In case of any other doubt , feel free to contact :)




Shayan Ul Haq, studying in IIT Kanpur as a Double Major student in CHE will do his summer internship in Software Developer profile at Google. Here are some brief insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
DE Shaw (Software Developer Intern) and  Optiver (Software Engineer)

## Insights on the Selection Process
Google : 
1) 2 technical rounds of interview were held ( 45 min each), which consisted of 1-2 coding questions based on Data Structures and Algorithms.
2) Candidates were required to share their approach and write the code in their preferred language on google docs 
3) Nothing related to resume/projects was asked

DE Shaw:
1) 2 Technical rounds of interview  
2) Coding Questions based on Data Structure and Algorithms  and questions on Object Oriented Programming were asked 

Optiver:

1) 1 HR (Standard HR Questions)+ 1 Technical Round(Around 45 min discussion on "How are decimals represented in binary format ?", no coding /CS question !) 

##  Preparation Resources
Leetcode,"Test from Archives" Contests by Programming Club and contests on Codeforces

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
(Only relevant to SWE profiles )
1) Start Early !
2) Focus more  on Data Structures and Algorithms
3) Questions on Leetcode will give you the flavour , that you can expect during Tests and Interviews
4) Do participate in contests conducted by Programming Club
5) A decent rank in Google Kick-start might help you in getting shortlisted for the interviews (Only Relevant to Google )
6) Some companies look for students with Competitive programming Profile. 
7) Practice writing code on Google Docs

Feel free to contact me, in case of any doubt !




Shorya Kumar, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in EE will do
his summer internship in Product Engineer profile at Sprinklr. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Optiver, DE Shaw, Graviton (SDE and Quant)

## Insights on the Selection Process
Quant 
1. Puzzles on probability and expected values 
2. Strategy and game theory puzzles 

SDE 
1. Data structures and algorithms 
2. OOPs and Resume 
3. System design interview (for Optiver, which was a complete surprise for me but you better be prepared)


##  Preparation Resources
Codeforces, Atcoder, GFG, Leetcode, Brainstellar, 50 challenging problems, A guide to Quantitative finance 

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
1. Try to be patient and sit tight, you will see people getting shortlisted and your name not in the list even when you expect it to be, don't loose hope.
2. Don't write SQL in your resume if you don't know it inside out. What I mean is if you are mentioning use of any technology in your resume then expect questions on it.
3. Look at what the company does before the interview and make sure to ask questions to the interviewer after the interview about his experiences, work life, what you will be working on, etc.




Shubh Agrawal, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in CSE will do
his summer internship in Software Development profile at Rubrik. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Google, Rubrik, Uber, Graviton, Tower Research, Quadeye, Microsoft, Sprinklr

## Insights on the Selection Process
In SDE role, most of the interviews are based upon algorithms and Data Structures only. You will be given questions and you will have to solve them and write code/pseudo code and then even explain it. Explaining is the most important step. Also try to give good names to variables, in one of the interview I was asked to change all the variable names so that the code looks good. Also in some cases you might be asked questions from some of the courses, but that chance of asking that is less.

In quant roles, generally  puzzles and probability questions are asked. 

##  Preparation Resources
Interviewbit, CodeForces

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Try to wrap up all the things you do in summers by June end. From July the things get a bit time consuming, you will first have to give time to make resume and then the coding rounds are soon lined up and then preparing for interview. All this require much time.
Also do practice from the test series from archives, they are really good set of question.



Shubham Sanjay Korde, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in EE will do
his summer internship in Techno-Managerial profile at ITC Limited. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Hindustan Unilever (Techno Managerial)

## Insights on the Selection Process
Shortlist
- Shortlisting done on the basis of Resume + Application form
- A good CGPA helps
- Having a project and a POR beneficial 

GD 
- Group Discussion with a batch of 6 people
- Common problem statement is given. You have to choose an option and try to convince others why that options should be choosen.
- Sample Question: There are 5 people who want to get an apartment in the residential complex. The traits and characteristics of all the 5 were given. Like one of them was the senior most, one did crucial time sensitive jobs, one was handicapped and so on. We had to decide and explain whom to give the room and convince everyone else why that was the correct choice.

Interviews
- 2 rounds of interviews: 1 Technical and 1 HR
- Explain one of the projects on your resume.
- What are the two important internationally important topics you deeply feel about? (HR)
- Which will be your ideal company to join apart from ITC? (HR)
- All other questions were resume specific (most of it was  conversations)


General Insights
- Having a good CGPA makes selection way easier.
- Clear speech, logical structure in arguments and persuasiveness in manner beneficial in clearing the GD. Exposure to public speaking and GD practices will surely help. 
- Basic questions on core courses like EE330, ESO203, ESC201 can be asked. Although I was asked none. Same for Mechanical and Chemical core courses.
- Have basic info for HR round like CEO name, products of the company, primary business market etc.

##  Preparation Resources
- I did not specifically prepare for techno managerial profiles. I had been debating for a couple of years by then so it was relatively easier for me to crack the GD.
- I watched a couple of youtube videos on basic tips to perform well GD before the GD.
- Do not forget to ask your friends who have already been in one of the previous batches what the question was. I knew the question well in advance before the GD. Although the question was not super difficult, it could make a difference if you get more time to think about your answer.
- I watched youtube videos on HR interview questions and correct answers to them. None of them helped as HR interviews are basically conversations. 


## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
- Have backup options ready if your target is techno-managerial profile because the number of good companies in this profile are very few. It is also possible because preparing for this profile does not require much hardwork.
- If you have never done any kind of public speaking or any such activity, practicing GD with your friends can be really helpful.
- Be as frank as you could during the interview. No need to fake. Most times the people interviewing you are extremely pleasant and make you feel comfortable. Take the interview just like a conversation. You wont even know when did the interview end.
- Don’t worry if you don’t get it. A significant part of the process is luck.




Soham Ghosal, studying in IIT Kanpur as a Double Major student in ME will do his summer internship in Software Developer profile at Google. Here are some brief insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Rubrik (Software), Sprinklr, Goldman Sachs, Quadeye(Systems), DE Shaw

## Insights on the Selection Process
Google: Google interview had some pretty original looking CP problems. So if someone is well versed with cp, it's a positive. I was asked a question on binary search in the first round (and certain interesting followups, which eventually led to a recursive solution). Just ensure that you know the behind-the-scenes implementation of whatever data structure you are using. In the second interview, I was asked a segment tree question. The second round was considerably harder than the first one.

DE Shaw: DE shaw focuses a lot on the cs fundamental concepts. Be well versed with oops, os(if possible).

Rubrik: Rubrik tries to ask interesting questions in the interview. The questions were drawn from concepts in operating systems. It was an interesting interview for me personally.

Goldman Sachs: GS asked basic DSA questions.Leetcode should be enough for this. 

##  Preparation Resources
Codeforces, Leetcode, Atcoder, 50 Challenging Problems in Probabiltiy, Brainstellar

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Do competitive programming. It might not seem relevant initially, but trust me once the tests start, it will work wonders. Also, CP enables your mind to always have a systematic approach, which is very much required in the interview. The interviewer is not there to just watch you code something up. While practicing, make it a habit to speak out your thought process. In the interview, make sure that you are able to convey everything you have in your mind to the interviewer. Finally, just be calm and remember that the interviewer is more of your colleague during the interview, and he/she will always be there to help you, in case you get stuck. All the best!"




Somya Lohani, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in CSE will do
her summer internship in Software Engineer  profile at Uber. Here are some brief
insights of hers.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Microsoft Machine Learning Intern, Google Software Engineer, Microsoft Software Engineer, Sprinklr Software Engineer 

## Insights on the Selection Process
For Microsoft ML, I was extensively quizzed about my past projects which were mostly reinforcement learning based. I was also asked questions on the probability concepts relevant to machine learning and different classification and regression models and where and why those models were relevant. All the software roles that I interviewed for, required me to have a good command on competitive programming and DSA concepts. I had to code the  solutions to the problems in real time. Questions based on OOPS were also frequently asked. For most parts, the companies (Software roles) I interviewed for did not discuss my resume at length. 

##  Preparation Resources
Interviewbit, Leetcode Medium level problems, CSES problem set, GFG for topic wise revision of DSA concepts and Machine learning Course by Andrew Ng.  

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
The process can be very stressful since luck plays a decent amount of role while getting you through interview shortlists and interviews. The key is to have faith in yourself and surround yourself with a good set of friends who are just as motivated and have your best interests in mind. There is no one model that works for everyone, so spend time figuring out what works for you and follow it religiously. 




Suhas S, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BTech student in Computer Science and Engineering will do
his summer internship in Quant Trader profile at Optiver. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Optiver, Samsung Korea, Google, Rubrik, Goldman Sachs, Quadeye, Graviton

## Insights on the Selection Process
Samsung Korea: Unbounded knapsack. SK's technical interview usually contains a well-known problem. Make sure you explain it slowly. SK's shortlisting criteria changes each year so don't read between the lines too much. SK's HR round is the most important. Try and watch a KDrama before. 

Optiver: You can't really prepare for Optiver's interviews. Best thing I can suggest is to understand market making well and to play estimation and market making games before with your friends.

Google : Number of overlapping intervals, Dyanamic Programming

Rubrik: Subtree DP, Greedy that required a non-intuitive observation

Quadeye: Estimation, PNC Expected value, and some useful limits and approximations in probability, Zero sum problem 


##  Preparation Resources
50 Challenging problems, Brainstellar, Interview Bit, Cracking the coding interview, Codeforces

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
1) Best advice for coding would be to familiarise yourself with all the standard problems in different paradigms. Interview Bit does a good job at this. Then you can try LC medium or hard (depending on your comfort level). Also give archives seriously. It'll give you a rough idea of where you stand and also improve your temperament for giving timed tests. (refrain from using google during the contest). And it's also extremely important to be able to solve questions really quickly. On average you might get 20-30 mins per question, and you need to be able to write error free code within that time frame.

2) For quant, just try and solve puzzles from the above mentioned sources and try and remember it (maybe note down interesting problems and the trick to solve it). There have been instances where I wasn't able to solve a question I had seen before in the pressure of an interview setting.

3) Apart from all these technical things, the most important thing is to stay motivated and try and learn as much as you can during your preparation. I'm sure all of you are extremely smart and talented and can achieve anything you put your mind to. So believe in yourself! 




Vaishnavi gupta, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BS student in MTH will do
her summer internship in SWE profile at Microsoft. Here are some brief
insights of hers.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Goldman Sachs , Optiver ,APT Portfolio

## Insights on the Selection Process
DFS, DP, String, Matrices, Arrays

##  Preparation Resources
Interview bit, Geeks for Geeks, Leetcode, Brainstellar, Gurmeet puzzles, Fifty Challenging Problems 

## Adivce for students (dos and don’ts)? 
1. Try to maintain or increase your CPI as it matters a lot in shortlisting 
2. Try doing the questions in a timed manner as it really help in doing the tests 




Varun Gupta, studying in IIT Kanpur as a DoubleMajor student in CHE will do
his summer internship in Quantitative Researcher profile at AlphaGrep Securities. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
AlphaGrep - Software, DE Shaw, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, Uber, Google, Optiver

## Insights on the Selection Process
Resume Shortlist: 8.5+ CPI

Test
- Both programming and aptitude questions

Interview Process
- 3 (In my case), can vary
- Logical Questions where one had to brainstorm the
entire process.

Perform well in the test is one of the key factors in order to get
selected.

##  Preparation Resources
To prepare for internship season, there are two major areas which one needs to practice, CP and Quant.

For CP -
1. Basic - if you are new to coding then first pick up a coding language (preferably C++, read about STL), understand different Data Structures and learn basic algorithms for graphs since
it is one of the favorite topics and build upon it.
2. Advanced – There are different websites where you can practice questions from. I recommend solving Interview Bit since it has many relevant questions. Apart from this I personally used Leetcode during the initial part of preparation and CodeForces towards the end. CP algorithms is a nice resource to widen your coding toolbox.

For Quant –
1. Revision Mso/hso
2. 50 challenging Questions
3. Brain stellar
4. Xinfeng Chau

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
If you fear giving interviews, then make sure you attend the mock interviews organized by both SPO and AnC Council. It is better to form a peer group while solving CP questions daily since there will be someone with whom you can discuss different approaches to solve the same problem. Always remember that interview is not just how much you know, but how much you can reproduce in a pressure situation. Maintain your nerves during the interview. While discussing the problem statement make sure you understand it perfectly, you need to ask the interviewer about the end cases. Think aloud during the interview so that interviewer can get to know the approach you are using. Start making resume at least a month before the submission and get it reviewed by some seniors.




Vishwaraj Singh, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in CHE will do
his summer internship in Global Emerging Leader Program - Summer Intern profile at Piramal Pharma Solutions. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
HUL

## Insights on the Selection Process
1) Questions were based on general understanding of basics concepts of chemical engineering.
2) Little knowledge of practical application of Thermodynamics will be helpful. 
3) Thorough understanding of projects and internships written on resume is must. Questions on the core projects and their applications are asked.

##  Preparation Resources
Thermodynamics lecture slides, Fluid mechanic lecture slides 

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
1) Generally have a specific profile in your mind you are targeting and you can prepare for the specific companies coming for that profile. 
2) Be confident with your preparation and your basic concepts in whichever profile you are sitting and the process will be very relaxing.
3) Don't take tension as internships are the not the end goal for you.
4) Be confident in the interview, that will help you a lot. 




Aarsh Mishra, studying in IIT Kanpur as a B.Tech. student in ME will be joining SAP Labs India Pvt. Ltd. as Developer Associate. Here are some brief insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Oracle - Applications Engineer

## Insights on the Selection Process
1. Resume Shortlist
2. Test
3. Interview

Coding questions fairly easy and can be found on gfg or leetcode
Few puzzles, logical reasoning
Slight knowledge of OOPS, DBMS, OS was required.

Sample Interview Questions:

1. Write a code to find it a binary tree is mirror of itself or not,
2. Word ladder (common bfs question)
3. Inorder successor when a node(not necessaily root) is given,
4. What is third normal form (dbms)
5. Features of OOPS


##  Preparation Resources
LEETCODE,
INTERVIEWBIT,
GEEKSFORGEEKS,
Online notes for os, dbms, oops

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
1. Please try to develop some proficiency in algorithms and their implementation in a language of choice, Cpp is preferred.
2. Mock interviews help a lot, and it is important to know how to explain and debug solutions in
the interview round.




Abhishek Agrawal, studying in IIT Kanpur as a Dual Degree student in CHE will be joining Grofers (now Blinkit) as Assocate Product Manager. Here are some brief insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Day 1.1:
Company: Finmechanics -&gt; Role: Associate Consultant

Day 1.2:
Company: Groww -&gt; Role: Associate Product Manager
Company: Grofers -&gt; Role: Associate Product Manager

Day 2.1:
Company: Praxis Global Alliance -&gt; Role: Associate Consultant

Day 2.2
Company: Sprinklr -&gt; Role: Product Analyst

Day 3:
Company: Dr. Reddy -&gt; Role: Technical Trainee
Company: Tata 1mg -&gt; Role: SDE
Company: Tata Projects -&gt; Role: Field Engineer Trainee

## Insights on the Selection Process
1. Deck round: You are the Product Manager of a new startup that wishes to revolutionize the movie-ticketing space. Your objective is to conceptualize and design a comprehensive mobile movie-ticketing product end-to-end. [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lyu78EYEyBQ2l74ncH6P0xF0EAs8Y1NQ/view?usp=sharing](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lyu78EYEyBQ2l74ncH6P0xF0EAs8Y1NQ/view?usp=sharing)

2. One Round Interview which went for 45 minutes covering technical, product and HR Questions
Details are here: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M6aDyUtsu3EBDSyBqiKH6998OVZpyc0BM2Awy2sNC3g/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M6aDyUtsu3EBDSyBqiKH6998OVZpyc0BM2Awy2sNC3g/edit?usp=sharing)


Three insights:
1. The whole process before the interview as well as the interviews are exhausting, physically as well as mentally. Have a support system with you (I had my family) and avoid distractions which might come in the form of any emotional or informational distress, during the process. Keep yourself healthy.

2. Be yourself, with dress or coiffure, with knowledge, with language. Make your own plan, your goals and execute. Prepare for the placements keeping in mind that these are almost once in a lifetime opportunity. But also relax yourself as the placements are not the only opportunity in life.

3. Enter the interview process with confidence and a little smile. Greet the interviewers, that usually breaks the ice. If you can know the background of your interviewer, you might be able to make little tweaks in your conversation (But do this only when you have your fundamental knowledge solid. Otherwise, instead of being smart, you will look sciolist).

Sample Interview Questions:

Interview details can be found here:
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M6aDyUtsu3EBDSyBqiKH6998OVZpyc0BM2Awy2sNC3g/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M6aDyUtsu3EBDSyBqiKH6998OVZpyc0BM2Awy2sNC3g/edit?usp=sharing)

##  Preparation Resources
Sources:

Books:
1. Cracking the PM Interview (Relevant Parts: Ch 2, Ch 9 , Ch 10-15)
2. Decode and Conquer(Ch 2, Ch 8-12, Ch 16)
3. Preparing For Product Interviews (All Chapters, Don’t read, but practice)
4. Futuristic Outlook to Product Management (The Prodman Club, IIMA) (Overview and company specific, Good Read)
5. The Design of Everyday Things (Don Norman) (Used it for design thinking and picking out direct sentences to speak in the interview)
* Order to read: (3) -> (2) -> (1) -> (4) -> (5) (You may decide on your own too)
* Books Drive Link: [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rlg70fm6rxK3ze461qTMdJkxa4DrWK98?usp=sharing](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rlg70fm6rxK3ze461qTMdJkxa4DrWK98?usp=sharing)

Websites:
1. Product Management Exercises: Master Your Product Manager Interview Skills
2. PMSchool
3. StellarPeers – Preparing for Greatness, Together
4. Product manager interview prep (relax, start here) – IGotAnOffer
5. Product Manager Interview Questions | The PM Interview
6. Product School: Product Management Certificates &amp; Training - Product School
7. Product Development – Flipkart Tech Blog
* Website (1) is enough, but you can always explore more! There are many articles on Medium.

Youtube channels/series:
1. PM School (Explainer series by Prashanth (Most Important Resource), Khanjan Desai)
2. Exponent (Channel) 
3. Rocketblocks
4. HR Questions: Deniz Sasal (Stick to only this for HR: the more you search the more time you will lose)

Deck Round:
1. Preparing For Product Interviews (Deck vala Chapter)
2. Go to LinkedIn -> Search APM Deck -> Take ideas
3. Use Google Scholar to find technical Information
4. My Decks: [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-1HH-PurcL-Zuyp7A1qc5mpSYTMADD1A?usp=sharing](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-1HH-PurcL-Zuyp7A1qc5mpSYTMADD1A?usp=sharing)

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
# Specific Profiles:

1. For SDE: Start as early as possible. If you are novice, one year preparation will make you at par with what is required for the roles. Ample resources are there, so a plan is needed to optimize them.

2. For Chemical Engineering Core: Refresh your fundamentals. The Heat Transfer, Mass Transfer, Fluids, Chemical Process Industries are the core subjects you need to be strong at.

3. For PM: Follow the doc: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M6aDyUtsu3EBDSyBqiKH6998OVZpyc0BM2Awy2sNC3g/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M6aDyUtsu3EBDSyBqiKH6998OVZpyc0BM2Awy2sNC3g/edit?usp=sharing)

4. For Consultancy: Prepare all type of cases, read the books by IITB, IITM, IIM etc. Here also, ample resources are already available. You just need to make a plan and practice.

# General:
1. Collect resources -> Plan -> Prepare -> Practice -> Practice -> Perform
2. Give as many mocks as possible before the interviews.
3. Your resume is the pitch for you. Make it yours and make it strong. Attach stories to it for the interviews. Prepare it in and out.
4. Prepare personalized HR questions beforehand. Impromptu attempt for HR question is only safe if you have prepared the standard HR questions well.
5. एकै साधे सब सधै, सब साधै सब जाय : Don’t run for all the profiles, choose few and master them.

Conclusion: Madness is everywhere. Find Methods in that Madness.




Aditya Jain, studying in IIT Kanpur as a MT student will be joining Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in Software Engineering. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
1.1 Qualcomm 

1.2 Oracle, SAP, Urban Company 

2.1 VMware, Samsung Bangalore, Amazon, Myntra, Ola 

2.2 Visa, Jio-Saavn, Cisco 

3.2 Fareye

## Insights on the Selection Process
1. Resume Shortlist
2. GD
3. Written Test - The test comprises of - Aptitude - Logical Reasoning - Quant - Computer Science Fundamentals (OS, CSO, etc). All questions were MCQ.

There are two compulsory rounds of 45 minutes. One round was more on theoretical concepts of computer architecture and the other was on practical implementations (coding) of some hardware modules and some questions to judge the analysis skills.
 
Interview 1 (Theoretical): Only discussed the projects related to computer architecture and created new scenarios in the hardware (like if cache hierarchy is exclusive instead of inclusive what would happen, etc.). To answer the questions, one requires good knowledge of the subject Computer Organization and Architecture (CS622 ACA covers everything). 

Some questions were -
 
• What is prefetcher, how would one identify the optimum lookahead value of prefetcher. 

• Questions on various cache hierarchies. Disadvantages and advantages of inclusive 
cache hierarchy. Design a new cache replacement policy that removes the problem of inclusive victims of inclusion cache hierarchy (There is no solution to the problem without compromising the bandwidth, the interviewer just wants to check your analysis skills. So come up with various approaches and have a discussion on pros and cons.). Cache replacement policies - LRU, Belady. 

• Cache coherence protocols, sparse directory, bus snooping. (Questions related to the project in the resume) 

Interview 2 (Practical): Discussed project. Then asked to share screen and code to implement a cache with LRU cache replacement policy. After the successful implementation using hashmap, the interview asked on the aspects of performance on using link-list, vectors to implement the cache and LRU instead of hashmap. Performance in terms of time and space complexity, temporal and spatial locality of the application in your own laptop's cache, i.e. which will give better performance when the application is executed on your laptop. Answer - Vector will give better performance as it will enjoy spatial locality as all elements of the array are stored contiguous in the memory whereas link list is not necessarily stored contiguous (once some of the nodes are deleted). Link list also consumes more space, so it will also require more memory accesses as compared to vector.
 
Sample Interview Questions:
 
Questions on working of DRAMS - channels, row hit, row miss, banks, case where two subsequent dram requests will take the most time to service. 
I was asked to code for the implementation of the LRU (Least Recently Used) Policy of the cache replacement policy. 


##  Preparation Resources


## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
If you are shortlisted for the interview for this profile and you are not interested, say that in the interview that you want to go for pure SE role and don't want to go in computer architecture. Many students did that and interviewers didn't mind at all and wished them luck for other companies. 




Ajay Prajapati, studying in IIT Kanpur as a Dual Degree student in MTH will be joining Rakuten Mobile as Software Engineer. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
I was shortlisted and interviewed by Graviton for the Quantative Researcher profile and by
Google for the Software Developer profile. I was shortlisted in other day 2 companies as well
but I was placed before interview.

## Insights on the Selection Process
1. Resume Shortlist
2. Test
3. Interview

Sample Interview Questions:

1) Introduce Yourself.
2) Why should Rakuten hire you?
3) What technologies are you interested in?
4) Are you comfortable moving to Japan?


##  Preparation Resources
I used Interviewbit for coding practice. I learned and practiced Machine Learning commands
in Panda by watching YouTube videos (codebasics channel). I revised the courses MSO201,
ESC101, and ESO207.

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
1. Start your placement preparation as early as you can.
2. Keep your academics load as minimum as possible because placement season is very hectic with lots of tests to write and lots of forms to fill.
3. Also make time to improve your communication skills. Prepare the basic HR questions well.




Ajayraj Singh Jhaj, studying in IIT Kanpur as a nan student in nan will be joining Groww India as Assocate Product Manager. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
1. Alvarez & Marsel
2. Urban Company
3. Amex
4. PwC
5. Auctus Advisors
6. Mastercard APM
7. Meesho PA
8. Swiggy PA
9. Groww APM

## Insights on the Selection Process
Step 1: A problem statement was given and we had to submit a google doc as our soln
Step 2: Candidates were shortlisted on the basis of the aforementioned submission and resume both
Step 3: Interviews (2 or 3 rounds depending upon candidate)

Round 1, 20 Minutes

After a brief welcome greeting, we got down to the case immediately. No intro of the interviewer or me.

Question - RCA (Root Cause Analysis) case

Round 2 involved a case on Product sense for most of the candidates. I directly had the CEO round (Round 3) after my Round 1 interview so I didn’t have round 2.

Round 3, 20 Minutes - CEO round

Sample Interview Questions:

Round 1: RCA — users sign-up but don’t invest on Groww
Round 3:
Ques 1: Tell me something you have built - also asked me counter questions in between
Ques 2: How would you disrupt the cycle industry - again asked me counter questions in between

##  Preparation Resources
Sources:

Asim Katakwar (Y15-dual, Flipkart APM) resources - I followed this as a guide
Link - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1361vh1zuKTrCXR_DH0WVzJ1cBWjMWJHnpSqtg6jwTOs/edit#](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1361vh1zuKTrCXR_DH0WVzJ1cBWjMWJHnpSqtg6jwTOs/edit#)

Books: (in order of priority)
1. Preparing For Product Interviews - Advaith Sridhar (Practice Cases as Mock interview when you feel fairly confident in that category of cases)
2. Decode and Conquer - Lewis C. Lin (Ch 1-10)
3. Swipe to Unlock (Read this like a novel, helps you to be confident about the tech used in apps - this also helps in both RCA cases and Design cases to varying extent)
4. Cracking the PM Interview - Gayle Laakmann - (Relevant Parts: Ch 10-15)
5. The Product Manager Interview - Lewis C. Lin with Teng Lu (Ch 6, 11-18)

Websites:
1. [https://medium.com/stellarpeers](https://medium.com/stellarpeers)
2. Product Management Exercises: Master Your Product Manager Interview Skills

You can practice product cases (even individually) from above two resources and then compare your response to that given in the answer. Reading through the answers without giving them a genuine shot beforehand will NOT help you extract the value out of these resources.

Youtube channels:
1. Exponent
2. PM School

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
1. When practising cases, try to keep your paperwork neat and structured

2. In the interviews, communication is very important. The interviewer should know at every step what you are trying to figure out/solve for. Be structured in your communication.

3. Start preparing early and practice a lot of product cases of each category (RCA/Guesstimate, Product Design/Improvement, Metrics). Practice is super important.

4. Carefully observe the products that you interact with frequently

Digital products: Amazon-Flipkart-Myntra, Zomato-Swiggy, Phonepe-Gpay-Paytm, Spotify-YTMusic, Ola-Uber, Whatsapp-Messenger-Telegram, FB-Insta, Youtube-Netflix-Hotstar, Airbnb, Chrome-Firefox Brave, Duolingo, Headspace, LinkedIn, Gdocs etc. — whichever of these you personally use. 

You should be aware of their user journeys, and the different features, scope for improvement, business model. Be a bit more conscious and observant when you use some of these products. Also observe the physical products that you use - headphones, cycle, electric kettle, school bag etc. and how can each of these be further improved.




Aman Aryan, studying in IIT Kanpur as a M.Tech student in CSE will be joining Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. as ML SW. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
1) Qualcomm (selected)
2) Intel
3) Media.net
4) Amagi Media Labs
5) BrowserStack
6) Flipkart
7) Oracle
8) VMWare

## Insights on the Selection Process
1. Test – MCQs mostly related to Aptitude, Basic Programming and Core Subjects
related to CSE.
2. Interview

Interview Process can be a bit hectic if you are shortlisted in multiple companies. Careful selection of priority for shortlisted companies is very essential. Also, scheduling the interviews for different companies is also very important. Since a slot is of 8 hours. And most of the companies takes at least 2 rounds. At max, one may be able to sit in interview for 2 or 3 companies.

Sample Interview Questions:

All question needed to be coded. Design and Puzzle on scratchpad.
Round 1
1. Kth Node from the end
2. Designing stack using linked list from scratch
3. MOD operator without / and %
Round 2
1. Design Tic-tac-toe for optimal move
2. Puzzle: 4 people, identify based on constraints in minimum trials
3. Longest Palindromic Subsequence

##  Preparation Resources
1. InterviewBit – Solve all problems from June-August
2. LeetCode – Practicing using leetcode test for speed.
3. GATE Notes – For core subjects
4. Google Search on need-to-know basis. (GFG, Youtube, etc).

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Stay Calm.
Code Hard.
Maintain notes of every problem you solve systematically to retrieve it as fast as you can.
Keep referring notes once a week to revise the algorithms.




Ayush Agrawal, studying in IIT Kanpur as a B.Tech. student in AE will be joining Finmechanics as Associate Consultant. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
1. Alvarez and Marsal - Analyst
2. Jaguar - GMET
3. Groww - Business Associate
4. NVIDIA - FVE
5. Airbus - Flight Operations Analysis and Incident Analysis Engineer
6. Bajaj - GTE
7. Uni Cards - Risk Associate
8. Indus - Senior Associate
9. Praxis - Associate Consultant
10. Wells Fargo - Program Associate A
11. Capgemini - Associate Consultant
12. Trinity - Associate
13. ICICI Bank - Management Trainee

## Insights on the Selection Process
1. Resume Shortlist
2. Online Test
3. 2 Rounds of Interview

Interview Process: 

A&M interview had basic HR questions and a case study. I knew I had messed up the case study
and was not selected for Round 2.
JLR asked questions related to Aerospace and Thermodynamics. My interview went well for JLR
but unfortunately, I was not selected for Round 2.
FinMechanics had 2 rounds of interviews. The 1st round had 2 maths questions and some
questions on my resume. The 2nd round had 2 more maths questions and a few HR questions.
The interviews might be stress interviews but you should try to remain calm. I was not able to
completely solve the maths questions in both my rounds of FinMechanics but the interviewers
helped me solve the answers and I got selected in the end. Convey whatever your thought
process is to the interviewer. Only then he can help you reach the final solution.

Sample Interview Questions:

How many solutions exist for x*y = x+y
Prove (p^2)-1 is divisible by 24 if p is a prime number greater than 3.
Resume based questions (What did you do in this project)
HR questions (Why should we hire you; You have a software intern, why the change of field)



##  Preparation Resources
I was studying for CAT and only practised Quant, LRDI and Verbal Ability from the CAT study
material. The placement tests are also comprised of these sections only.

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
1. Target a specific profile and prepare for it.
2. Try to start preparing at the earliest possible since you will always feel that the time remaining
is very small during the last few weeks.
3. Practice giving mock interviews or at least speaking fluently in English. This will help you
improve your communication skills and perform better during the interviews and you would be
a bit less stressed on your interview day.
4. Don’t get disheartened if you don’t get a job during the initial days or you miss your target
company. Keep giving your best in the next interviews, otherwise, you might lose that
opportunity as well.




Bhavesh Jain, studying in IIT Kanpur as a B.Tech. student in EE will be joining Microsoft India as Data Scientist. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
1. Milliniuem management - Quant
2. Microsoft - Software Engineer
3. Goldman Sachs - Quant Analyst
4. Microsoft - Data Scientist

## Insights on the Selection Process
1. The online test was completely based on your knowledge of ML and Statistics (both theory and implementation)
2. Interviewer discussed the projects that I had mentioned in my resume. Also intensive discussion went on as to why I had used the approach that I used and what different kind of approach could be used.
3. In the 2nd round - I was given a problem statement (an actual problem that Microsoft solved few years back) and we had to discuss on the approach that I would take to solve it.
4. It was a HR round where we basically discussed as to why I choose Data science instead of my Major (EE) and some other standard HR questions.

##  Preparation Resources
1. Brainstellar
2. 50 challenging problems
3. Leetcode
4. Notes of courses taken in ML

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
1. Ask multiple people to interview based on your resume
2. Think about the interview more of as a discussion rather than question - answer kind of thing




Deeksha Arora, studying in IIT Kanpur as a M.Tech. student in CSE will be joining Google India as SDE. Here are some brief
insights of hers.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
1. MS SDE & DS
2. Texas SDE
3. Uber SDE

## Insights on the Selection Process
1. Resume shortlist
2. 3 rounds of technical interview

Interview Questions:
Data structure and graph-based questions, Behavioral questions

##  Preparation Resources
1. Love Babbar coding sheet
2. GFG placement course

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
1. Don’t take aptitude and MCQ (subject based) lightly. Prepare well for them as well.
2. Be very well knowledgable about everything mentioned in the resume (even the
subjects you mention).




Devanshu Gupta, studying in IIT Kanpur as a B.Tech. student in ME will be joining American Express as Engineer Trainee. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Vmock - SDE

## Insights on the Selection Process
Company had a CPI criteria. Minimum 8 cpi was required for the same. They also saw the technical knowledge and experience in shortlisting resume. After that, test was major criteria for shortlisting students further.

Interview consisted of 3 rounds. First two rounds were technical rounds and last round was a typical HR round. In technical round they asked basic coding questions and judged technical skills. In the HR round, we discussed about the project of cryptosystems and asked about how interview process in general was.

Sample Interview Questions:

These questions were asked-
1. [https://www.interviewbit.com/problems/minimum-lights-to-activate/](https://www.interviewbit.com/problems/minimum-lights-to-activate/)
2. [https://www.interviewbit.com/problems/max-sum-contiguous-subarray/](https://www.interviewbit.com/problems/max-sum-contiguous-subarray/)
3. [https://www.interviewbit.com/problems/cycle-in-directed-graph/](https://www.interviewbit.com/problems/cycle-in-directed-graph/)


##  Preparation Resources
I prepared majorly by solving the questions of Interviewbit and geeksforgeeks. Other than
that, I also used Prepleaf for Aptitude ,Probability and Statistics.

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
DOs:
Keep practicing coding questions. Must go through that 200-250 set of questions on Interviewbit. Other than that, participate in contests. Should prepare your resume well and should have thorough knowledge of each and every point present in your resume.

DON’Ts:
Do not stress out a lot and don’t compromise your health and sleep in any way.




Divij Jain, studying in IIT Kanpur as a B.Tech. student in EE will be joining Flipkart Internet Pvt Ltd as Software Development Engineer - 1. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
1.FinMechanics
2.Flipkart
3.Jumio
4.PwC

## Insights on the Selection Process
1. Coding Test (3 questions, solved all three completely)
2. Two interview rounds

Be confidence. Process involvement should be there and rather answering the questions
directly, interact with interviewer, discuss, understand the problem and then take up that
question. SQL, DBMS and OOPS all these concepts are important and should be practiced thoroughly.

Sample Interview Questions:

The round 1 was on the coding, mainly DP, graph(BFS) and backtracking
The round 2 was based on resume and DBMS, OOPS, SQL concepts

##  Preparation Resources
Started coding start after internship. Tried to make a of minimum 5 questions everyday and
continued doing this for 3-3.5 months.
For quant did Gurmeet puzzles, 50 challenging problems, brainsteller and practiced puzzles from
them. Used binarysearch.com and leetcode.com extensively for coding practice.

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Good group studies matter a lot. Practicing with you friends would help you know different
approaches to a particular question as well.




Gavish Saraf, studying in IIT Kanpur as a B.Tech. student in ME will be joining  Arthur D. Little as Management Consulting (Business Analyst). Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
1. McKinsey & Company
2. Bain & Company
3. Alvarez and Marsel
4. Auctus Advisors
5. PWC (Management consulting)
6. ITC (Techno-Managerial)
7. Sprinkler (Product Analyst)
8. Praxis (Management Consulting)
9. Accenture (Management Consulting) 
10. Indus Insights (Financial Consulting)


## Insights on the Selection Process
Selection Process for Arthur D Little:
1. Resume shortlisting: Typical consulting resume shortlisting. They look for peaks like
high CPI, Day-1 Internship, Research publications, etc.
2. Buddy Case practice: After the shortlist, a buddy is assigned to help in your case
preparation. Timing is such that you can practice maximum 3-4 cases with your buddy
so one should not rely only on these.
3. Final Interviews (Day1, Slot1):
Round 1 - (Manager Round)
A guesstimate or case interview. Experience varies individually.
Round 2 - (Partner Round)
Can be a case interview or a general HR discussion. Experience varies individually.

Pro tip- Know your resume inside out. You can be grilled on every single word you
mention on the resume.

Insights on Interview Process:

Some special Notes about the Arthur D. Little interview process-
1) The major bottle neck is the Resume shortlisting. Only 15-20 people get shortlisted
from all the people that apply.
2) The Buddy sessions are non-evaluative, so make proper use of them to get a good
flavor of what can be expected in the interviews. Try to talk to the buddies about the
company and what they expect from you. This is the part of the process where you
can understand if the company is really a right fit for you.
3) The final interviews can be radically different from person to person. Some might find
them extremely easy and some might struggle. It depends highly on the interviewer.
Do not assume anything about what they might ask or how you might perform. Just
focus on giving your best.

Sample Interview Questions:

Round-1(Manager round)-
1) Basic HR questions and questions on resume(I can't remember exactly what
questions)

2) Guesstimate-
Estimate the quantity of denim cloth used in Mumbai in one year. (Interviewer was only

interested in the approach. Once I cleared up my approach, the interviewer did not
allow me to put numbers and perform calculations. He simply acknowledged the
approach and closed the interview)

Round-2 (Partner round)-
There were no questions in the interview. It was just a conversation with both of us
sharing our opinion on topics of interest and discussing how they might be relevant to
anyone in their regular lives. In my opinion, the partner wanted to check how well I
would fit in the company and how well can I communicate with clients on project.


##  Preparation Resources
Drive link to the consulting preparation material:
[https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B2qQx5DAQoeINUF4cmgwbEk5RXM?resourcekey=0-IcVEnTmMJnLGd7VcWxFydw](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B2qQx5DAQoeINUF4cmgwbEk5RXM?resourcekey=0-IcVEnTmMJnLGd7VcWxFydw)

A very helpful Youtube channel for case interview prep-
[https://www.youtube.com/c/CraftingCases](https://www.youtube.com/c/CraftingCases)

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
1) Start making your master resume from the summers before 7th semester itself. You
can add anything new you do later on. Get the resume looked at by as many seniors
and friends as possible. Do not write anything on the resume that cannot be
confidently defended.
2) Form groups for practicing cases and begin practicing as soon as you can after the 6th
semester. Practicing cases individually is not useful. To get an idea about case
solving, you can practice a few cases with seniors. Utilize the buddy round cases for
understanding the general flavor of cases expected in the interviews.
3) Be confident during the interviews. Since this is a client facing role, you need to have
good communication skills. Keep smiling and do not get frustrated by your
interviewer’s conduct, they might be stress-testing you.
4) Read as much as you can about the company. It helps in asking good questions
during the interviews and assures the company of your interest in the firm.




Mahima Tarunkumar Bhavsar, studying in IIT Kanpur as a M.Tech student in AE will be joining Airbus as Associate Flight Physics Engineer. Here are some brief
insights of hers.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
1. GE - Edison Engineering Development Program
2. Airbus – Associate Engineer Flight Physics

## Insights on the Selection Process
1) Resume Shortlisting
2) Aptitude Test – 60 questions (no negative marking), duration – 1 hr
Followed by Technical Test – 20-25 questions depending on the profile (+2 for coorect
answer, -1 for incorrect answer), duration – 30 minutes
3) Technical Interview
4) HR Interview

Sample Interview Questions:

For Technical Interview:
1) I was asked to explain my Btech projects and most questions were asked based on
that
2) Conceptual questions from flight mechanics

For HR:
1) Tell me about yourself
2) Which role I would prefer - research based or managerial
3) For research-based role, how will I keep my myself motivated throughout the years
4) Any event or moment from the past that may have led to self-revelation
5) What changes I would want to see in myself after 15 years?

##  Preparation Resources
For aptitude preparation – youtube channels
For technical test and interview, I had mostly followed GATE syllabus.

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Prepare for HR interview but do not mug up the answers. Your response should sound natural.




Mudit Mamodia, studying in IIT Kanpur as a B.Tech. student in MSE will be joining Sprinklr as Product Analyst. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
1. Consulting at Praxis
2. Product Analyst at Zomato

## Insights on the Selection Process
1. Resume Shortlist
2. 4 interview rounds-
First-simple root cause analysis
Second-product design
Third-RCA based
Forth-Resume questionnaire, innovation and future ideas based

Sample Interview Questions:

Simple Root cause analysis had quick calculation questions and product design had business cases.

##  Preparation Resources
1. Casebooks-IIM Ahemdabad
2. VictorChang(YouTube) for consulting
3. More focus on group preparation as one has to discuss and share ideas to grow in this field

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
1. Sort out your profile, get clarity first.
2. Practice In groups, brainstorm thoughts, go out of box, stay updated with general knowledge.
3. Your way of talking and experience matters a lot.
4. If you have interest in creating something on your own from scratch, you might find Product
Analyst profile very interesting.




Nandini Ojha, studying in IIT Kanpur as a B.Tech. student in EE will be joining Discovery Inc. as Software Development Engineer-I. Here are some brief
insights of hers.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Microsoft, AmEx, Oracle, Nomura, Discovery
(Software/Data Analyst roles)

## Insights on the Selection Process
1. Resume Shortlist
2. Test
3. Interview

Sample Interview Questions:

LC medium+hard, basics of data structures and DBMS

##  Preparation Resources
Leetcode, InterviewBit, gfg (coding)
50 challenging puzzles, brainstellar (puzzles)


## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
1. Start prep as early, possibly before PPO announcements
2. Have a prep buddy + support system (would be nice during interviews :))
3. Expect chaos. Strive. Good results will follow.




Perikala Sandeep, studying in IIT Kanpur as a B.Tech. student in EE will be joining Intel Technologies Pvt. Ltd. as Hardware Engineer. Here are some brief
insights of hers.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Electronics :
1. Google Hardware – Silicon Engineer
2. Intel
3. TI – Digital Engineer
4. TI – Analog Engineer
5. Ceremorphic Technologies – SoC Engineer

Electrical :

1. JLE
7. Ola Mobility
8. AirBus
9. TATA steel

Others:

10. Rakuten
11. Accenture Solutions

## Insights on the Selection Process
1. Resume Shortlist - It has a CPI criterion of 7(for UG) and open for EE – BT, MT, Dual, Double Major.
2. Test - The test has 2 sections
- Aptitude (15 ques – 20 min)
- Technical (45 ques – 70 min)

The interview process for INTEL is very random compared to the other VLSI companies I have attended. They didn’t frame any continuous questions. They have started the interview by asking about my projects and asked related digital topics which were used in the project. Then, the 2 members of the panel asked questions on different VLSI concepts like Verilog, Digital Design etc.

I have also given interviews for Google Hardware, TI – analog and digital. In Google Hardware, they expect coding skills along with core knowledge. In TI – Digital, I was asked to draw different voltage and current graphs by hand for different circuits. In TI – Analog, They asked me questions from the test paper by changing the circuits like diodes and some RC RL related questions.

Sample Interview Questions:

1. Draw a transistor level Inverter and add a capacitor, What will the voltage and currentwaveforms?
2. Verilog Code of D Flip Flop, Gray Counter etc and explaining each line of the code
3. Some Array based questions in Google Hardware
4. Different VLSI concepts like STA analysis, Digital Design etc

##  Preparation Resources
I have received most of the material from my senior who is placed in VLSI role. He told me the kind of questions that will be asked in test and interviews and shared the NPTEL playlists for Verilog and Digital Design. ESC201, EE210, EE370, EE619 course material. EE619 is very useful for interview process. Apart from these, I used to see blogs and some famous youtube channels like all about electronics, neso academy etc.

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
The general advice would be to take the tests seriously, prepare well by going over past years’ repositories, and working on areas where one might me relatively weak. Start preparation early and shape the resume fit for the role. For interviews, try to polish communication skills and temperament. You don’t need to answer every question correctly. Try to do as best as you can.




Pragyan Pandey, studying in IIT Kanpur as a B.Tech. student in EE will be joining Alphagrep Securities as Quant Trader. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
1. Tower Research
2. Quadeye (Quant and SDE)
3. Microsoft SDE
4. JPMC Quant
5. Goldman Sachs
6. American Express(Analytics)
7. Plutus Research (Infra and Quant)
8. Flipkart SDE
9. Rakuten Mobile
10. MTX
11. Jumio
12. SAP Labs
13. Amazon
14. Cisco
15. JLR SDE
16. Dynamic Technologies
17. Harness
18. Tracable.ai
19. Nvidia

## Insights on the Selection Process
1. Resume Shortlist based on CPI
2. Online Assessment – 6 Quant question and 5 coding question in 2hrs.
3. Only one interview of 2 hours.

Insights on Interview Process :

Note that Interviews are more of a discussion rather than a question-answering
session. So, try to involve the interviewer while solving a question.
Do not stress on HR prep much if you are focusing on quant or software. I was not asked a
single HR question in any of my interviews.
The interviews will indeed be stressful try to take small breaks if you want and most
interviewers are chill about it.
Prioritize your companies accordingly – Don’t just sort the companies in decreasing order of
the pay. Try to have an idea how difficult these interviews will be and if possible have one or
two backup company interviews in between the dream companies.

Interview Questions :
These are some of the questions that were asked :

Quant 
1. How would you estimate the value of pi using n sided die
2. Use a 1-5 random number generator to create 1-7 random number generator and code it
3. There are 2 random variables in unit of cm let’s say x and y having autocorrelation as some
rho. Now X and Y are the same random variables but in units of m or km what is the new
autocorrelation?

Software 
1. Snake Ladder Question(interviewbit)
2. A simple binary tree question
3. Binary Search in matrix(can’t remember the exact question)

##  Preparation Resources
I prepared mostly for quant and software.

For Quant you can use standard resources that are there - 50 CP, Brainstellar and Xinfeng
zhou. Understand the concept behind each of the problems.

For coding – Leetcode and Interviewbit
Sometimes for quick revision or for learning a new algorithm I often referred to this website -
[https://cp-algorithms.com/](https://cp-algorithms.com/)
I’m sharing some of the docs I made of the question that I thought were important

1. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/152Qr0FCtz0scjIQzmtUbKQs-43hlDEfOBWz9OxOFghM/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/152Qr0FCtz0scjIQzmtUbKQs-43hlDEfOBWz9OxOFghM/edit?usp=sharing)

2. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JzkcM4fDWJTUMEXxyo3TQIMlof2wolDRYlzQjXsKfZ0/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JzkcM4fDWJTUMEXxyo3TQIMlof2wolDRYlzQjXsKfZ0/edit?usp=sharing)

3. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V54usLjlCttm7OJ-W397RqmQJK3j0RN5V1bQHksvUyQ/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V54usLjlCttm7OJ-W397RqmQJK3j0RN5V1bQHksvUyQ/edit?usp=sharing)

4. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-R6BQqQcdD6MKjjvsbpH4yqeC0WTk1NX9w-UHHBN4gA/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-R6BQqQcdD6MKjjvsbpH4yqeC0WTk1NX9w-UHHBN4gA/edit?usp=sharing)

5. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HzinrwdCU9H_FOsU4fgDjL9Xl1icFC9qVqTmXJV0BxY/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HzinrwdCU9H_FOsU4fgDjL9Xl1icFC9qVqTmXJV0BxY/edit?usp=sharing)

6. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mzD7Wx_IjNHNczAGnLhhAo_TdhB3-VuCeZ5UU-XNTRo/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mzD7Wx_IjNHNczAGnLhhAo_TdhB3-VuCeZ5UU-XNTRo/edit?usp=sharing)

7. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gSq__YuPKEyTZktBhcK2gH-BFHg_lO2J-efaCBjlLEo/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gSq__YuPKEyTZktBhcK2gH-BFHg_lO2J-efaCBjlLEo/edit?usp=sharing)

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Do’s : 
1. Know each and every word for your resume. Go through the codes of the projects that
you did to have a more clear understanding. Don’t just skip it ki upar upar se dekh lete
hain.
2. Start early – I started around May (Side by side with my research work). Try to do
some coding side by side with your internship work this will help in your ppo interviews
as well.
3. Try before giving up on any skill – I know many people just giving up on coding
because they had a bad esc101 grade. I would suggest try it, give it a month or so and
even then, if it’s not working for you and then you can move onto any other skillset.
4. CPI – try maintain a decent CPI. CPI helps you in getting shortlisted for the companies
a lot more than you think.

Don’ts :
1. Do not stress if you did not get a 3rd year internship. Try to get one from LinkedIn or
else try to self-projects and build your resume.




Prashant Kumar, studying in IIT Kanpur as a B.Tech. student in CSE will be joining Glean as Software Engineer. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Glean - Software, Quadeye - systems, Graviton - systems, Tower Research - systems

## Insights on the Selection Process
There was a resume shortlist directly followed by interviews. Shortlisting was primarily done on the basis of CPI and department (CSE, EE, MTH) which I find a very unfair way of doing things based on my experience of the skills of people. There were 3 rounds of interviews, all technical.

First round was technical, the question was not that tough and there was more emphasis on implementation. In the next round, they asked questions about my resume and about my future plans and told me details about the company as they are a fairly new startup. The last round had a medium level coding question on parenthesis.

##  Preparation Resources
* Leetcode
* Geeks for geek articles
* [CP Algorithms](https://cp-algorithms.com/)
* Codeforces
* [Brainstellar](https://brainstellar.com/)

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
* Start early and try to solve some questions every day
* Keep a list of questions or concepts you struggled with and revise it after 2-3 weeks
* Don’t waste your time on high-level topics a lot and focus more on the basics
* Thinking about the solution is important so don’t jump straight to the answers if you can’t solve something
* Eat healthily and take 6-8 hrs of sleep during the placement season. You won’t want to get sick at that time.
* Do some physical exercise, jogging, etc. This will help with stress.
* Feel free to contact any senior and ask for advice. They will be happy to help!




Rishabh Katiyar, studying in IIT Kanpur as a Dual Degree student in CHE will be joining Barclays India as Graduate Analyst . Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
1. Barclays India, Graduate Analyst 
2. PWC, Management Consulting
3. Praxis, Consulting
4. Indus Insights, Consulting
5. American Express, Analyst

## Insights on the Selection Process
1. Resume Shortlist (Basically CPI)
2. Quant Test
3. Interview

Resume-Based Questions/ Prob & Stats/ Python/ HR Questions
1-2 rounds

Sample Interview Questions:

1. Why do you want to work at Barclays?
2. Why do you like the work culture at Barclays?
3. Which type of working environment do you prefer?
4. General Python/ML related Questions
5. General Prob & stats Questions from 50CP or Xinfeng zhou

##  Preparation Resources
For Stats & ML - StatQuest with Josh Starmer, Krish Naik youtube
For Probability - Xin feng zhou + 50cp
For Coding - Leetcode Explore cards+Aditya Verma Playlist for dp+Interview Bit+InterIIT doc

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
1. Start your preparations from summers, and even if you are not going for coding, Learn at least one coding language(along with C), Learn some basic SQL
2. Solve InterIIT doc questions of all companies
3. Do not put too many projects/interns in your resume, just put the impactful projects/internships, and go through every single term in your resume.




Sana Anwer, studying in IIT Kanpur as a MT student in EE will be joining Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. as Modern FW Engineer. Here are some brief
insights of hers.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Qualcomm - Modem FW Engineer
Intel - SDE

## Insights on the Selection Process
1. Resume shortlist 
2. Written test – aptitude, programming and technical 
3. Three rounds of interview 

I only gave 3 rounds of interviews for Qualcomm. It was my first ever experience of placement interviews as I never sat for placements in B.Tech. I was nervous but the interviewers were quite helpful and friendly. They were giving hints and guiding me if I was stuck in some question. So, such friendly interaction lessened my nervousness. I tried to give intuitions for the questions | didn't know the exact answers. 

##  Preparation Resources
1. Communication Systems book by Simon Haykin 
2. Digital Signal Processing book by Oppenheim - Chapter 4 and 5 only 
3. Geeks for Geeks for C language based questions 
4. Gate level aptitude questions 
5. Previous written test and interview questions given by seniors 


## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Prepare your basics very well. Instead of tough questions first solve easier ones in written test since there will be time constraints. Don't spend much time on a single question. There may be negative markings so avoid guess work. Prepare all three sections well, don't take the aptitude section lightly. It can be the most scoring section. Keep practicing at least 10 questions daily for aptitude and C output questions. Force yourself to do so even if you feel like skipping. Consistency is better than perfection. For the interviews don't sit silently even if you don't know the exact solution. Try your best guess. If it's correct the interviewers will guide you further. If it's not, they may give you some hints to start off and build upon further. 




Sathvik Bhagavan, studying in IIT Kanpur as a Double Major (ME + CSE) student in ME will be joining Intel Technologies Pvt. Ltd. as Software Engineer. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Intel, Discovery, TSMC, Visa, Amazon etc.

## Insights on the Selection Process
Resume Shortlist -> Test -> Interview

Interview with intel revolved around my resume and projects. No DSA was asked.

Sample Interview Questions:

1. Project related questions
2. Fundamentals of ML Algorithms like I was asked into Semantic Segmentation (which was used in my project), Clustering etc.

##  Preparation Resources
1. Leetcode
2. Interviewbit
3. GFG
4. Stats Quest youtube channel

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Dos
1. Practice as much as you can
2. Revise your resume and projects thoroughly
3. Prepare popular DSA problems
4. Prepare for HR questions as well

Don’ts
1. Don’t Panic and keep calm
2. Don’t try to apply to all companies, this will only burden you in terms of time for giving tests and preparing for interview and also managing academics




Shivangi Singh, studying in IIT Kanpur as a B.Tech. student in EE will be joining Rakuten Mobile as Software Engineer. Here are some brief
insights of hers.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
1. Google Software
2. Goldman Sachs Risk
3. Qualcomm Software
4. VMWare MTS
5. Oracle MTS
6. Amazon SDE

## Insights on the Selection Process
Resume shortlisting (based on relevant coursework+projects) and a coding test

Interview for Rakuten was mostly resume based. For me, they checked my knowledge in
communication and networks (since I had the relevant coursework and a UGP).

##  Preparation Resources
GFG,Leetcode, ESO207 and MSO201 course content, Brainstellar

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Start leetcoding at least a month in advance. Even if you know DS-Algo, coding up your
algorithms requires practice. For interviews, practice coding on paper, since the platform used
does not usually have autocorrect. Go throught HR questions and your resume well in
advance. Look at GFG archives for company-specific interview questions. Having a peer
group during placement preparation always helps.




Tanu Modi, studying in IIT Kanpur as a B.Tech. student in CHE will be joining Flipkart Internet Pvt Ltd as Associate Product Manager. Here are some brief
insights of hers.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Goldman Sachs

## Insights on the Selection Process
Initially, a Deck shortlist, post that, 3 rounds of interviews:
1.  RCA round
2.  Product analysis
3.  HR round/ director round

Interview Process:

For product and HR both, practice a lot, but don’t mug up or try to fit in previous cases or
answers prepared, think fresh.
For HR part(There is no separate HR Round, the director round includes the HR and is quite
inclusive ),
* Take time, but think out loud after every question
* Build a conversation and instead of a QnA
* Be realistic in your answers
* Try to relate the question you are answering to a previous question you answered
* Write down what the interviewer is saying about themselves or company, they’ll
appreciate that, plus you’ll have something to build your question on, at the end of the
interview
* Ask the interviewer some check-in questions, keep giving mini summaries in long
answers and cases in order to keep the interview interactive.

Sample Interview Questions:

Product Case: Contact separately

Behavioural:
* Tell me about yourself
* Strengths, Weakness
* Why should I hire you
* Why APM
* Why Flipkart
* Money vs. Learning
* What’s the most important thing for you in a job
* What would be a dealbreaker for you to work in a company
* How would you raise the bar of a team when you join
* Where do you see yourself after 3 years
* MBA plans?


##  Preparation Resources
YT Links:

Puzzle: [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJicmE8fK0EiFRt1Hm5a_7SJFaikIFW30](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJicmE8fK0EiFRt1Hm5a_7SJFaikIFW30)

Product:
[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrtCHHeadkHr8ro-vTg1CAdDuwrVmXS4y](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrtCHHeadkHr8ro-vTg1CAdDuwrVmXS4y)
[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqtwvdE26B_RqemTzPe1NwfufeNV5USEI](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqtwvdE26B_RqemTzPe1NwfufeNV5USEI)

Case: [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIO8daZRc7DecpoYI5T8ChbtWItgTW6m8](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIO8daZRc7DecpoYI5T8ChbtWItgTW6m8)

Product Cases:
* Preparing for Product Interviews (Advaith Sridhar)
* Decode and Conquer (Lewis C. Lin)
* Cracking the PM Interviews (Gayle Laakmann McDowell)
* Tech- Swipe to Unlock(Read only)

Question Bank: [www.productmanagementexercises.com](www.productmanagementexercises.com)

Consult, guesstimates: Case Interviews Cracked, IIMA Case Book

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Practice a lot, prepare, but don’t mug up the concepts of cases and HR answers.




Ujjwal Pratap Singh, studying in IIT Kanpur as a Dual Degree student in MSE will be joining Accenture Strategy and Consulting  as Analyst. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
1. Micron (Modeling Engineer)
2. Meesho (SDE)
3. Hilabs (Data Science)
4. Indus Insights (Associate)
5. ShareChat (Decision Scientist)
6. Myntra (Data Analytics)
7. Tata 1mg (SDE)

## Insights on the Selection Process
The Profile was open for Dual Degree and M.Tech students.
There was a test (Coding+SQL+Aptitude) and the selected students were directly called for the interview process.

There were three rounds:
1. Coding round: Asked four easy coding questions. Knowledge of Python and
SQL will be a plus.
2. Case Study round: Interviewer asked a very basic case study. No formal
knowledge of case solving required.
3. HR: Interviewer asked standard HR questions, nothing tricky.

Sample Interview Questions:
1.Coding: Some easy coding questions.
2. Case Study round:
What are the parameters you would keep in mind while deciding the location for
your lemonade stand?
How would you increase your sales?
3. HR:
Why not going for higher studies?
Things you missed out on in your college life.
Mention some strengths and occasions where you showcased your strengths.

##  Preparation Resources
I was targeting Software and Data Analytics companies, so I used following resources:
Coding: GfG (DSA self paced course) and Interviewbit (problem solving)
Aptitude and Prob-Stats: Prepleaf (lectures and tests)
Puzzle: Brainstellar and GfG

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
1. If you are able to decide which profile you want to apply, then it would save a lot of efforts during your prepration.
2. Students eyeing SDE profiles should pick one coding platform and stick to it during their entire preparation.




Yash Vardhan Raizada, studying in IIT Kanpur as a B.Tech. student in CE will be joining Microsoft India as Software Engineer. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
1. Microsoft - SDE
2. JPMC - Analyst

## Insights on the Selection Process
1. Resume Shortlisting
2. Test
3. Interviews (2-3 rounds)

The placement process was a unique experience full of excitement, stress and a lot of learning. Before sitting for the placement season, I had already decided to target SDE roles specifically and
keep ML and Analytics roles as a backup.

The standard resume shortlisting and placement tests were quite same for both. J P Morgan Chase also asks Aptitude and Mathematics besides programming in their tests.

Interview Experiences:

Our campus interviews were scheduled on December 1, and both of my interviews were scheduled during the first slot of 8 hours (Day 1, Slot 1).

Microsoft:
Great Experience. It was one of the interviews where I felt like I was actually working with them and not interviewing. Apart from the standard coding rounds, they let you ask questions to them and then they give answers and follow up with you on how you think of the problem etc. Just be very well prepared with the fundamentals and practice communicating technical ideas and processes verbally, it helps a lot.

J P Morgan Chase:
Wonderful experience with very collaborative interviewers. They ask you a combination of programming and mathematics questions. The mathematics round was a bit challenging, but the interviewer helped me think through the problems very clearly until I solved them successfully.

Sample Interview Questions:

Microsoft Interview:
Round 1 (Technical):
Introduction
Q1. Based on a partial reversal of the Linked List.
Q2. BFS Traversal on a Matrix of 0s and 1s.
Resume Project based questions.
Questions on differences between C++ and Python. Why C++ used in Game Development ?
Be very neat in writing code. Keep it modular, use functions, give proper names to the
variables. Also don’t forget to ask questions and clarify the problem and input before solving it.
Round 2 (Technical + Behavioral + HR based):

This interview round was with a senior manager at Microsoft.
The interviewer asked me to ask questions about Microsoft or anything I wanted to know
about Microsoft or its products. It was pretty behavioral and challenging.
I asked her about the team structure and workflow, new products they were working on and
about the Underwater Data Centers they are building (The interviewer was very impressed by
this question. I had earlier watched a video regarding the same !).
Then she asked me a question on Semaphores Design, which after some help I was able to
explain satisfactorily. I had told her during the conversation that I am not from a CS
Background, so she gave me hints whenever I got stuck.
Rest of the interview was about deep-diving on technologies and further questions that
emerged due to our conversation. There was a good amount of verbal technical
communication that happened. Be good at it !
Both the rounds were about 1 hour each.

Result: Offer !

JPMC Interview:
Round 1 (Programming + Technical):
Around 45 minutes interview.
Interviewer asked me to reverse the Linked List and write a code for it.
Detailed questions and explanations of OOPS Concepts with examples.
Differences between C++ and Python.
Probability questions on Expectation and Integral Evaluations.
Asked me to write the code for Dijkstra. Follow up questions on priority queue and heaps were
also asked.

Round 2 (Mathematics):
Hard Probability problems on Expectation and Variance.
Integral Evaluation - Medium
Joint Probability Distribution
Question on Leibnitz Theorem.
Some basic math puzzles.
I solved about 3.5 questions out of 5. But the interviewer was very helpful.
Discussion on life as a quantitative analyst.
For preparation, one can look up at brainstellar.com problems and solve questions from 50
Challenging Problems in Probability.
Round 3 (HR):
Basic HR stuff, discussion of the offer, opportunities, activities etc.

Result: Offer !

##  Preparation Resources
My preparation was mainly through LeetCode, InterviewBit and Brainstellar. I had made up
my mind to target SDE/ML and Quant/Analytics roles.

InterviewBit is a great resource. I went through the tutorials on DS/Algo, articles on ML and
other CS Fundamental topics: OOP, CN, DBMS and OS. Try to practice 2-3 questions from
each basket.

I also learnt SQL and practiced writing queries here. Also one can go through some of the
system design questions as well to get to know more about real world software engineering. It
may help you in some of the advanced technical rounds of some startups.

Besides these, I regularly attempted Weekly and Bi-Weekly contests on LeetCode, apart from
solving mock assessments on LC and practicing mock interviews on IB. Be consistent in your
practice, it will help you a lot !

For puzzles, I practiced questions from the 50 Challenging Problems in Probability,
Brainstellar and InterviewBit puzzles sections. For aptitude, I practiced solving past CAT
papers and enrolled in a placement preparation test series by PrepLeaf.

But 80% of my time was spent practicing more and more DSA questions and studying ML, CS
Fundamental articles on GFG, IB, Medium etc.

Regarding resume, I would suggest everyone to go through the SPO Preparation Folder. Just
keep it precise and crisp, not exceeding 1 page. Make sure you are prepared to defend each
and every point written on it, even from the extracurricular section. Also, do get it reviewed
multiple times by at least 5 seniors, till you get satisfied.

* [InterviewBit](https://www.interviewbit.com/practice/)
* [LeetCode](https://leetcode.com/)
* [Brainstellar](https://brainstellar.com/)
* [SPO Preparation Portal](http://spo.iitk.ac.in/preparation/)
* [GeeksForGeeks](https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/must-do-coding-questions-for-companies-like-amazon-microsoft-adobe/)
* [GeeksForGeeks](https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/machine-learning/)
* [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/most-asked-interview-questions-os-dbms-cn-harsh-agarwal/)
* [SOCE](https://soce-iitk.herokuapp.com/Samyak_Jain)

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Some very important tips:

Take care of yourself and your health. Keep it a top priority. Indulge in some form of physical
activity or workout which you can do regularly without losing out a lot of energy and disturbing
your schedule and commitments. It will help you to stay motivated, healthy and happy.

Take care of your mental health. Switch off the notification of Social Media apps, if it takes
away your peace of mind. Find a close friend, with whom you can ease out your post
assessment stress and share your experiences. It will help you out a lot !

Take ample rest, but do follow a schedule. Be in touch with your seniors, you can’t imagine
how motivating and helpful their advice can be ! Trust them, they have also gone through
similar experiences.

Regarding resume, I would suggest everyone to go through the SPO Preparation Folder. Just
keep it precise and crisp, not exceeding 1 page. Make sure you are prepared to defend each
and every point written on it, even from the extracurricular section. Also, do get it reviewed
multiple times by at least 5 seniors, till you get satisfied.




Abhishek Pardhi, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BTech student in CSE will do
his summer internship in Product Engineer  profile at Sprinklr . Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
nan

## Insights on the Selection Process
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FYX4hSlDnXimEpr1rSUm481s8gKnvFOf/view?usp=drivesdk

##  Preparation Resources
Interviewbit, Codeforces, GFG

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
First start learning algorithms and practice questions on them time to time. Spend no more than 30 mins in a question.
Do not talk much before your interview with others. This might create pressure and your mind will be full of unnecessary thoughts. Sleep well before interview day.
Follow my codeforces handle to find blogs related to preparation for intern for SDE profile: Eren-Jaeger




Adarsh kumar, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in EE will do
his summer internship in EV Powertrain Intern profile at Jaguar Land rover India Limited. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
KLA Tencor, Qualcomm, Eversana(consulting)

## Insights on the Selection Process
Most questions were from EE250. They asked very fundamental questions which were not taught in course but were related to practical implementation. They also asked questions from the ML project that I had done earlier along with some fundamental concepts from
EE210.
They expect clarity in the fundamental concepts.

##  Preparation Resources
I had revised important concepts from previous courses like ESC201, EE250, EE210.

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Prepare core electrical courses well. It will be helpful to do a quick revision of EE250 before interview. Have clarity and confidence about the reason behind every concept taught during course. Be ready to defend every point related to project work mentioned in the resume.




Aditya Anand, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in ME will do
his summer internship in Quant Researcher profile at Edelweiss. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
JPMC-Quant

## Insights on the Selection Process
Projects focused mainly, puzzles (pigeonhole, no of occurrences for n heads, prob of forming a triangle by breaking stick in 3 pieces). Family background, future plans, why quant, why you type HR questions.

##  Preparation Resources
Stats- ZedStatistics YT, InterviewBit data analysis stats; Puzzle- Brainstellar (must do), InterviewBit, 50 Challenging Problem, Coding- InterviewBit, Leetcode

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Most importantly, know every word of your resume (probably the reason, why I wasn't selected for jpmc.) Try forming the answer of HR question beforehand, and prepare a script for introduction.




Aditya Tanwar , studying in IIT Kanpur as a BTech student in CSE will do
his summer internship in Quantitative Trading Intern profile at Tower Research Capital. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Optiver- SDE and Quant, Jane Street, Glean US and India, Alphagrep- Software, Graviton- Quant, Quadeye- Quant and System, DE Shaw, Goldman Sachs

## Insights on the Selection Process
Tower Research Capital: A mix of CS fundamentals, algorithmic questions and puzzles were asked in the interview which lasted for about 1.5 hours.

Optiver: You cannot really prepare fully for the interviews, but the interviews for quant role are based on market making (you'll be introduced to the topic at a suitable time by the company itself) and probability (expectation to be precise). You should become fluent in the terminology used in market making for quant interviews/ group discussions and also be prepared to make approximations under time pressure. For the SDE interviews, system design is helpful.

Jane Street: The initial rounds are based on expectation, you don't have to find the exact value. Most of the time, a qualitative analysis will do. The final round is a bunch of interactive games on market making and probability. In the final interview, there are 3 rounds which take around 4 hours in total.

Alphagrep: The topics of questions asked ranged from C++ syntax (because I was more comfortable in C++ than Java) to OOPs to algorithmic questions (some of them required theoretical arguments, others were about implementation) similar to those asked on codeforces/interviewbit. A lot of questions were asked in an interview that lasted for 1.5-2 hours.

Quadeye: In the systems role, some puzzles were asked in the first round. The second round was mostly OOPs and syntax of C++.

##  Preparation Resources
I focused on CP (InterviewBit), puzzles (Brainstellar and GfG), and probability (50 challenging problems, CS203, some common problems like coupon collector, ballot problem, etc.) because I wanted to prepare for Quant and SDE roles. I used to switch between InterviewBit and Brainstellar to prevent the process from being monotonic.
The test series by SPO and PClub were helpful in CP, and the DSA timeline provided by SPO especially helped prepare in a structured way.

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
1. Have a plan for your preparation. Don't waste your time preparing for roles that you're not interested in.
2. Doing interviewbit is strongly recommended because it helps both in the coding tests as well as the interviews. Often, questions are asked directly from interviewbit.
3. Finish your preparation/revision strictly before the tests begin, you will not be getting time to prepare afterwards because of the hectic schedules of the tests.
4. Keep your health the first priority.
5. For software roles (and even some quant roles) being familiar with OOPs along with keywords/syntax is very beneficial (at least in one language, C++ recommended) because questions are often asked about them.
6. If there is a clash between two interviews, make sure to give the one whose role you prefer more. Do NOT postpone a more preferred role/company for later.




Akanksha Singh , studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in CSE will do
her summer internship in Associate consultant intern profile at Bain & Company. Here are some brief
insights of hers.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Boston Consulting Group, Microsoft PM/TPM, Quantbox Systems, Alphagrep Software, Alphagrep Quant(offer), Quadeye, Sprinklr

## Insights on the Selection Process
Market sizing(shaving razor market in Indonesia) and unconventional cases(additional revenue streams for Google apart from ads, improving user experience for food delivery apps) were asked in my consulting interviews.

C++ and stl implementation details and basic graph, dp and two pointer questions were asked in the quant interviews.

##  Preparation Resources
SDE:
I followed the SPO 8 week plan and completed all topics(did atleast a few questions from each) on interviewbit. (Would recommend codeforces for timed practice).

Consulting:
Resources: 1. Victor cheng's case interviews playlist
2. IITB Casebook

Practice: I practiced 2-3 cases with batchmates and 10 Cases with alums/seniors. I wrote down and analysed the feedback and worked on not making the same mistakes in the subsequent mocks. 

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
1. Be consistent in your preparation, doing even three hours of prep per day all summer can drastically improve your chances.
2. For consulting, do a lot of mocks with seniors, and take their feedback seriously. Preferably also get seniors to review your cv.
3. Be confident in your interviews. No interviewer expects you to be perfect. Making mistakes or not knowing something in the interview is absolutely okay, you just need to keep your calm through the rest of it. 
4. For both coding tests and case interviews, focus on improving your aptitude/thought process rather than mugging up frameworks/algorithms.




Akhil Jain, studying in IIT Kanpur as a B.Tech student in CSE will do
his summer internship in Technical Developer profile at DE Shaw India. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
● DE Shaw (Technology
Developer)
● Optiver (Software/Quant)
● Graviton(Quant)

## Insights on the Selection Process
DE Shaw looks for the individuals who have good problem solving
skills. Even if you are not good at CP, they look more towards your
approach to a problem, your creativity in the solution. As the projects on
your resume and courses such as DSA are the only signs of your
coding experience, they question you heavily on the resume. They also
test your sincerity towards your work based on your answers to these
questions.
They want efficient solutions and that’s why much focus is on the
optimization problems w.r.t both memory and time.

##  Preparation Resources
1. LeetCode Explore Cards for studying DSA concepts
2. Interviewbit Programming Questions along with LeetCode Easy/Medium Questions
3. Aditya Verma 50 DP problems playlist
4. After completing Interviewbit, LeetCode Hard questions for Graph and DP practice

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Do’s
1.) Even if you haven’t studied DSA, it is quite possible that through regular practice in
these 2.5 months, you can crack the coding questions of most companies. So, do
utilise it tu the fullest.
2.) At first build your base in C++ STL. Get comfortable with vectors, pairs at first , solve
the questions on Interviewbit and LeetCode. Then move further as per the SPO
schedule.
3.) Maintain a notebook to note the questions which you found tricky and difficult. Note the
question and its approach after coding the solution. It is going to be highly useful in
July end when you will need to revise all the 400-500 questions you have solved.
4.) Make interview 2-way communication. Don’t hesitate to tell your approach(even if
wrong) to the interviewers. They will try to correct you with hints.
5.) Any firm will look for your interest in the firm. Most of the interviewers are firm
employees, so try to build a bond with them by taking their introduction, what work
they do in the firm and what they expect from you as a candidate. Don’t forget to ask
about the interview feedback at the end. These things will leave a positive impact on
them after the interview.
6.) In last few days, solve random questions using a timer and note the time taken.

Don’ts

1.) Don’t take a long leave from coding in the summer if you are a beginner.
2.) Never boast in front of an interviewer about your skills and abilities. Don’t
exaggerate them. It makes a negative impact about your attitude and honesty.




Akshay K Muraleedharan, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in EE will do
his summer internship in ASIC Intern / System Software Intern profile at NVIDIA. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
nan

## Insights on the Selection Process
Divide by two realisation in digital circuits, some algorithm ques

##  Preparation Resources
Studied coursework thoroughly, plus learnt verilog

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Do not compare yourself to others. Your time will come.




Alok Kumar Thakur , studying in IIT Kanpur as a Double major student in AE will do
his summer internship in SDE Intern profile at Amazon. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Microsoft, American Express, Kivi Capital, Oracle

## Insights on the Selection Process
There was only one interview round (technical) for Amazon. I was asked for my introduction, then 2 coding problems and 2 short answer questions. First Coding Problem - 'You are given two sticks of some given length. You can break each of these sticks into as many pieces as you want. Finally you have to choose 4 sticks of equal length out of all those sticks and form a square. You have to report the side length of the maximum area square which you can from.' Second Coding Problem - 'Find the maximum path sum between any two leaf nodes in a binary tree'. Then I was asked about the definitions of postorder and inorder traversal of a binary tree.

##  Preparation Resources
I did coding on Competitive coding websites like 'Codeforces' and 'Codechef', but mainly on Codeforces. I also practiced from Interviewbit. 'Puzzles' as well as 'Programming' section of Interviewbit helped a lot.

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
My advice to students sitting for internship next year would be to thoroughly complete each and every problem from Interviewbit (Programming and Puzzles sections). And also learn about Object Oriented Programming. It would be good if you have knowledge of the following 3 languages - C++, Java and Python. For Quant profiles, you should do Interviewbit puzzles and Brainstellar compulsorily. Additionally, you could also solve the book named '50 Challenging Problems'.




Amit Jain, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in CHE will do
his summer internship in SDE profile at Amazon. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Amazon, Piramal

## Insights on the Selection Process
The First question is based on Sliding Window. The question is to find the subarray with given Sum
The Second question is based on BFS Traversal in graph. 

##  Preparation Resources
LeetCode, InterviewBit, GeekForGeeks, Love Babbar DSA playlist, Aditya Verma Playlist For DP

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
First choose the profile according to your interest (atleast two) then thoroughly work on it everyday.
For SDE role do at least 2-3 problems a day and participate in contests regularly.
Leetcode is a good platform for practicing DSA problems.





Anmol Pabla, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in ME will do
his summer internship in Strats and Quant profile at Morgan Stanley. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Quadeye (Systems), Quantbox (Software), Sprinklr, Goldman Sachs

## Insights on the Selection Process
The interview with Morgan Stanley involved questions on probability concepts like the Bayes theorem. I was also asked a couple of programming questions in the first round, I didn't have to code them but had to explain the approach to be taken. The second round invloved puzzles and questions on statistics and probability. The two rounds were then followed by a short HR round. You might not be able to solve the question in the first go, try to explain your approach and take the hints that the interviewer gives you.

Questions:- 
Finding Median of two sorted arrays after combining them.
No. of Rectangles and squares in a chess board.
Effect of skewness on measures of central tendency of a standard normal distribution.

##  Preparation Resources
I prepared for Software roles by practicing on websites like LeetCode and InterviewBit. Having good knowledge of Data Structures and Algorithms is always a plus. One should always try to solve questions in a timed manner.
For quant profiles, Brainstellar and 50 challenging problems in probability are a must, questions in interviews are often extracted from concepts present in the questions on these websites.  

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Start your preparation early and spend time on making a resume. Before the interviews prepare your resume well enough to answer any questions about it. 

And the most important thing in times like these is to always keeping your morale up.




Ansh Saxena, studying in IIT Kanpur as a Double major,  student in CE and MTH will do
his summer internship in Quantitative Research Intern profile at Alphagrep Securities. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
● Alphagrep, quant
● Graviton, sde
● DE Shaw, sde
● Sprinklr, sde

## Insights on the Selection Process
They were seeing if one could logically go about solving the problem, It
was fine if one could not arrive at the final answer, they were focusing
more on the approach.

##  Preparation Resources
Interviewbit
Test series from archive by Pclub
Brainsteller
50 challenging problems

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Start doing coding even if the aim is HFTs. Getting good in coding is important. Interviewbit
has some good questions, and the archive test series is great. For the probability part,
brainsteller and 50 cp is sufficient.




Anshul Jain, studying in IIT Kanpur as a B.tech student in ME will do
his summer internship in Strategy consulting profile at Accenture. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
● Accenture – strategy
consulting
● Eversana – consulting

## Insights on the Selection Process
Checked how genuine the candidate is in terms of resume.
confidence, patience will help you get smoothly even if you make
mistakes ( I did in the guesstimate question)

##  Preparation Resources
Victor Cheng’s video series and case interview cracked( book) are the commonly used
resources for consulting prep, although no case was asked in the interview and only a
guesstimate. The rest was to read about Accenture (core values, etc.) before the interview for
HR questions.

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Practice your intro; read about companies before their interviews,after you are shortlisted.
Practice speaking in front of the mirror to gain confidence. Basic consulting prep will get
you through this interview no other prep is required.




Anshuman, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BTech student in MSE will do
his summer internship in SDE profile at Walmart. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
● American Express-
Analytics
● JLR-SDE
● Mastercard-Analytics
● LimeChat-ML

## Insights on the Selection Process
In the American Express and MasterCard shortlist was done on the
basis OA, there were 2 rounds of interviews, questions based on
prob and stats, guesstimates, resume projects , basic ML
questions, what does the company , were asked .
LimeChat shortlist was based on resume and OA, having
experience ML and DL helps in shortlisting.
Walmart recruitment was totally based on the 3 OA rounds.
Other insights on the interview process -
Think out loud, the interviewer wants to know your approach.
Communicate well, try to catch the hints that the interviewer gave,
Think of the corner cases while solving problems.
Trying minimizing the use of Complex words.
In the end ask questions from the interviewer to show your
inquisitiveness.

##  Preparation Resources
1. DP Lecture - Aditya Verma (YouTube)
2. Graph Lecture - Striver
3. ML Resources
Practice
1. Interviewbit
2. Leetcode
3. Striver SDE Problems
4. Brainstellar
5. 50 challenging Problems in Prob and Stats

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Start Your Preparation as early as possible.
Practice enough questions to gain confidence in topics.
Prepare your resume thoroughly well before in advance.
Don’t neglect the HR interview preparation, look at the “About the Company “section before
the interviews.
It may be possible that you might get rejected in interviews, don’t get demotivated Have Faith
in God, and continue your preparation, in the end you would grab an offer.
Talk to seniors in case of advice during the preparation and before the interviews. Feel free to

get in touch with me in case of any doubts.




Anushka Panda, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in CSE will do
her summer internship in ML Intern profile at Microsoft India. Here are some brief
insights of hers.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
BCG, GS, JPMC, Google

## Insights on the Selection Process
Google and Microsoft coding on the tougher side, JPMC questions tougher in second round, and yeah, case interviews ARE hard

##  Preparation Resources
Leetcode for coding, Github repos for studying ML, books on Quant, Casebooks from other colleges

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Practice...and trust yourself...be yourself




Armeet Singh Luthra , studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in CHE will do
his summer internship in Global Emerging Leader Program profile at Piramal Pharma Solutions . Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
HUL for R&D

## Insights on the Selection Process
JEE level theory questions were asked from Solutions, Thermodynamics and their real life applications.

Technical Questions: 

1) What is Entropy? 
2) What happens to entropy if there is a chemical reaction?
3) What happens to a non- spontaneous chemical reaction if a catalyst is used?
4) What is the effect of addition of impurities to a substance,on boiling point and freezing point?
5)What is distillation? Is it a separation process or purification process? Give reasons.
6) What are the type of reactors ? Which type of reactor is used in Pharma?Name an industry where continuous reactor is used?
7)What are the applications of heat transfer? 
8)What are the working fluids used in refrigerator starting from latest one to the first?
9)What is FDA?

HR questions
1) Why did you chose Chemical engineering?
2) Talk about a tough situation where you faced an enormous amount of stress?
3) What are your goals in life?
4) How do you ensure that you are continuously learning in life? Give examples.
5) How will you be able to contribute to the organization if we select you as a summer intern?


##  Preparation Resources
ESO201 slides(Pankaj Apte),
CHE211(Notes)
CHE221 slides(Vishal Agarwal)

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
1) Try to work on your communication skills ASAP by devoting atleast 15min daily, thinking and speaking about any topic in front of mirror.

2) Prepare yourself mentally for the situation where you won't even get shortlisted in majority of companies.

3) Luck matters a lot, so even if you don't know anything just keep your confidence and attention level high during your interviews.

4) Plan your time wisely, you will have to give a lot of time in making your resume,  attending PPTs and revising courses during the last few weeks before the intern season.




Arnav Gupta, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BTech student in CSE will do
his summer internship in Quantitative Research and Development Intern profile at Tower Research. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Jane Street, Quantbox, Quadeye, Sprinklr

## Insights on the Selection Process
The interview process at Tower consisted of 2 rounds. In the first round, I was asked about a project in my resume, basics of pipelining, a couple of problems on linked lists, and 2 puzzles. 
The second round was relatively small where I was again asked about my resume and a probability problem.

##  Preparation Resources
Interviewbit and CSES problemset for programming, and 50 challenging problems, Brainstellar for probability/puzzles.

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Try to maintain a CPI above 9 for quant/software roles, and start the preparation early on. In the interviews, keep calm and think out loud.




Arpit Kumar Rai , studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in CSE will do
his summer internship in Software profile at Glean . Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Jane Street, Tower Research, Quadeye, Quantbox, Graviton, Alphagrep, Sprinklr, De Shaw

## Insights on the Selection Process
Interviews focussed mainly on line of thought rather than the correctness of it in the first attempt. Try to take the hints given by interviewer and update your thought process accordingly. CP questions are basically on the easy side. Puzzles and probability may require exposure to a lot of questions

##  Preparation Resources
For coding - Codeforces helps but for interview questions go for leetcode
Probability and Puzzles - Brainstellar and 50 Challenging Problems in Probability 

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Interviewe focussed mainly on line of thought rather than the correctness of it in the first attempt. Try to take the hints given by interviewer and update your thought pricess accordingly. Cp questions are basically on the easy side. Puzzles and probability may require exposure to a lot of questions




Aryaman Singhal, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BS student in MTH will do
his summer internship in Sales and Trading profile at Morgan Stanley. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
N.A.

## Insights on the Selection Process
Apart from the technical questions, they asked me about every detail about my resume. So you must be prepared. You need to know about everything you have mentioned in the resume, like club projects, undergraduate project, what all you learned in them. 

##  Preparation Resources
My preparation included mostly Mathematics and the basics of Finance. Sites such as brainstellar, and other websites helped me get better at strategy puzzles, probability based questions. Mostly brainteasers were asked. For finance, it was mostly basic questions, that you would be aware of if you just have curiosity, and be willing to understand financial terms, that you sometimes hear, such as IPO, angel investor, Debt, Bonds, Stocks. Not very high level knowledge is required ot expected for Finance.

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Be calm, I did get a little nervous, and if you mention anything on your resume, make sure you really understand it.




Aryan Sharma , studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in CSE will do
his summer internship in Quant profile at Quantbox. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Quadeye - Quant

## Insights on the Selection Process
Puzzles/Games, Probability, CP

##  Preparation Resources
Brainstellar, interviewbit, geeksforgeeks

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Practice coding




Aryan Vora , studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in CSE will do
his summer internship in Consulting profile at Bain & Company. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Quadeye Quant, Graviton Quant, Microsoft ML

## Insights on the Selection Process
For Consulting, prepare for typical HR questions well, know why you are choosing that particular company, and even why you are attracted to consulting in the first place.
Be very strong in cases and guesstimates, and expect unconventional cases from Partners. Have very strong communication skills, and ask all questions no matter how stupid you think they are. Stand strong for the recommendations you make and provide justifications if the interviewer attacks your recommendations. Think out loud and make sure the interviewer knows what you are thinking.

For Quant, practice a lot of probability and puzzles. Interviews are usually short and ask somewhere between 3 to 5 questions.

For ML, revise the common ML algorithms, and how when you can use them. Be well versed with the projects on your resume. Also go through various data manipulation techniques that are used in ML applications.

##  Preparation Resources
For Quant, use Brainstellar and 50 Problems in Probability.
For Consult follow Case Interview Cracked, Case in Point and IIMA Handbook. Also, form a great friend circle for Case-prep with like minded people.
For ML, know the ins and outs of the projects you have worked on and know basic algorithms, their drawbacks and their pros. Basic DSA always helps.

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Always have a backup in a different profile if your primary profile doesn't work out for you. 
Also, be calm throughout the preparation process and even during the interviews. 




Aryash Pateriya, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BTech student in CE   will do
his summer internship in Summer Associate profile at Boston Consulting Group. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
● Bain and Company,
Associate
● Google SDE
● Morgan Stanley- Stats and
Quant
● DE Shaw- SDE
● Sprinklr- SDE

## Insights on the Selection Process
1. Resume ShortList=:
-They Look for Peaks in the Resume things like:
-por
-cpi
-academic achievement
- research paper
- intern
-ExtraCurricular
-InterIIT Medals
They look for 2 or 3 Peaks in General.
2. Buddy Tround
-They Assign you an Alum(RecenT Graduate), who will be in
touch with you throughout the process.
-There is a time window of about 15 days, to prepare for the
case interviews.
- Make sure that you contact the buddy, for case prep which is a
plus.
3. Office Tour / Dinner
- Not a major part of evaluation, but sometimes evaluated.
4. Case Interviews
- There are 3 Rounds of Interviews, consisting of Cases.
Generally, these cases are given by the Project Leaders and
Partners of BCG.
-

Insights on the
Selection Process

Make sure you have decent contact with the Buddy. Also, contact
your Seniors in the domain, friends who are preparing for the
same and Practice the cases with them with consistency. If you
can get a chance to have a dummy interview with partner, make
sure you are well prepared for this.

Sample Interview
/Test Questions

My Interview consisted of three rounds and all rounds were based
on case interviews and guesstimates.
Rouund1 –

You are hired as a consultant and hotel owner has given you a
task that you are going to buy a hotel in shimla on the outskirts so
you have to guestimate the profit of the hotel and also decide
yoiur future plans and estimation of profits.
Round 2 – case realted to banks and bank laws
Round 3 - Merger and Acquisiton
A chain of hospitals in china wants to merge with a hospital in
India and expand its domain.

##  Preparation Resources
Victor cheng video series
CIC IIT BOMBAY book
IIM A case book and a good resource for guesstimates as well
Start prep at least a month before the companies are coming for recruiting.
Mock interviews amongst friends.

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Constant touch with buddy
Do consider backup options prepare for other profiles as well




Avi Kumar, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BTech student in CSE will do
his summer internship in Quant profile at QUADEYE. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
● Quant in Quantbox,
Alphagrep, and Quadeye
● Systems in Quadeye,
Alphagrep, Quantbox,
Graviton, and Optiver
● Software in Microsoft and
more

## Insights on the Selection Process
Selection process focussed on branch and CPI(above 9), and all
India rank in JEE advances a lot.
Probability and puzzles were asked in the interview

##  Preparation Resources
Codeforces, interview bit, brainsteller, 50 probs in probability.

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Don’t wait for the end time; start in summer at least. Need to solve puzzles and probability
questions if want a quant profile
Explain all ideas in an interview; only correct answer is not necessary. Your thought process
is also essential.




Avinash Prasad, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in CSE will do
his summer internship in Summer Intern profile at Goldman Sachs. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
NIL

## Insights on the Selection Process
Well they mostly asked questions from data structures and algorithms. There was a bit of mathematics involved but that's to be expected. Some questions were also from the projects on my Resume.

##  Preparation Resources
I regularly practiced competitive coding on Codeforces and Codechef. Also, I had done data structures and algorithms course from my department, so I had knowledge of data structures quite well. Also, InterviewBit played a very important role. I practiced a lot from there which actually helped me in my interviews. Other resources like GeeksforGeeks and cp-algorithms were also a great help.

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
If you want to get a Software role, sincerely study data structures and algorithms. While practicing coding will help you get past technical tests, having a broad knowledge about them will help you in your interviews.




Ayush Gupta , studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in ME will do
his summer internship in SDE Intern  profile at Amazon. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Oracle, Jaguar Land Rover, Piramal

## Insights on the Selection Process
Just 2 coding questions were asked in Amazon, one on binary search tree and another was a tricky one on arrays.
No resume based questions, and no HR questions.

##  Preparation Resources
Studied DSA concepts and did questions from InterviewBit, Leetcode, GfG and SPO resources for SDE preparation.
For data science, did projects on ML, DL, computer vision and thoroughly learnt about the concepts in those projects.
For mechanical core preparation, revised courses like Thermodynamics, Mechanics of Solids, Intro to electrical engineering, Fluid mechanics, 

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Start early and slow and stay consistent




Ayush Kumar, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BTech student in EE will do
his summer internship in Embedded Software Internship profile at Texas Instruments. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Texas Instruments, Quantbox, Adobe

## Insights on the Selection Process
Open only for CSE & EE. No CPI criteria.
First we had a 30 mins aptitude test followed by embedded software test of 45mins.
You have to score atleast 80-90% combined to get shortlisted for interviews.
The interviewer asked me about the EE courses I have taken and question related to cybersecurity (as i mentioned it in my resume). 
Since, I was not much interested in core, he asked me questions related to cybersecurity, cryptography, hashing algorithms, backprocess of how a C program is executed and some very basic questions related to circuits.
The interview round went around 30-40 mins. I only had one interview round.

##  Preparation Resources
Mostly solved coding problems from interviewbit & cses problem set.
Throughout the summer I solved around 400+ DSA problems and have been doing competitive programming from 3rd semester. 
My CPI was low so I was having a hard time getting shortlisted for many companies. 
I didn't prepared anything specific to core as my main aim was for SDE roles.

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Focus on your CPI. No matter which role you want to get it be it software, quant, consulting etc. a good CPI will always give you edge over others in getting shortlisted for technical test/interviews. Once you reach the interview stage it won't be that much of a trobule. 
As for someone who is aming for SDE roles I would suggest to start early and be consistent at it. Start with interviewbit, solve cses problems and give contest regularly. It would be more than sufficient.




Deepanshi Maheshwari, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BTech student in MSE will do
her summer internship in Techno Managerial profile at JSW. Here are some brief
insights of hers.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
GIVA- Operations
● VEDANTA- Operations
● SIEMENS

## Insights on the Selection Process
1. Aptitude Test
Prepare puzzles and all through interview but and give
some additional aptitude tests on google or practice CAT
Questions (6-7 papers) \{keeping in mind the time\}-
Mathematical Problems, Data Interpretation, Basic English
aptitude questions
2. ESO202A- Medium Level for the Test, Thermodynamics
(Medium Level Questions), ESO205A Topics. General
question related to Materials and metallurgy
3. GD- Have a Practice through Mocks with friends or
organised by AnC and SPO. My Topic was “Should
Moonlighting be legal in India?” . I would recommend you
to be polite, not over power others, don’t convert it to a
debate. Go through topics of GD \{during prep time, fir 5-10
mins something\} on Google and read points under them .
Work on your communication skills.
4. HR Round- Started with 1 minute of brief Introduction of
me and my resume, Questions on POR and Projects.
Strengths and Weakness. General HR questions
5. Prepare through questions available on google.
I recommend you to know about the company- what do they

do , what they provide etc you can read about past
interviews on quora or ask some seniors recruited in same
company last year before Interview and GD.

##  Preparation Resources
- InterviewBit’s - coding and puzzles
- Aptitude Test - Previous Year CAT Papers
- Course Slides- ESO202A, ESO205A, MSE201A, ESO201
- GD Topics on Internet

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
-Don’t Just Prepare for one profile and be ready for Multiple Profiles
-Be Honest with the Resume, start preparing it beforehand.
-Consult with as many seniors as much as you can under the same profile , don&#39;t be shy
asking your doubts.




Devansh Agarwal, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BTech student in EE will do
his summer internship in SWE profile at Uber. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
● GS
● Uber

## Insights on the Selection Process
1. Test Score
2. Resume - In interview - projects and experience
3. First priority in resume - Past exp, then projects.

Insights on the
Selection Process

3 rounds - 2 technical 1 HR
One question each round - DSA (stack, math)
One paper, after had to run code
3rd round: Basic HR questions, Past experience, Technical
questions related to system design and data structures

Sample Interview
/Test Questions

1. Solving mathematical expressions (eg. 3+5*7 solving
through stack)
2. Designing/ managing airport/ runways (scheduling flights)
3. GFG available questions
4. Meeting Scheduler

##  Preparation Resources
1. Leetcode and interviewbit
2. GFG SDE sheet
3. Youtube playlist of DP- Aditya Verma
4. P-Club Archives/ SPO test series

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
1. Don’t spend too much time on a single question (approx. 30 mins for a question, the
interview round is 40-50 mins max.)
2. Practice solving questions, writing pseudocodes on paper
3. Thorough knowledge of DS and time complexity
4. Look at the side topics (Architecture, system design, DBMS, SQL) at the end.
5. Generally, questions from codeforces, CodeChef, etc. are not asked in screening tests
or interviews. Can avoid those in the coming months.




Devansh Kumar Jha, studying in IIT Kanpur as a B-Tech student in EE will do
his summer internship in AI/ML Intern profile at KLA Tencor. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
● KLA Tencor ML + Software
● Quant box Quant + Systems
● Graviton Quant
● NK Securities Quant
● Samsung Korea
● Morgan Stanley
● Sprinklr

## Insights on the Selection Process
Specifically for this company you need to have a broad domain of
knowledge including proficiency in solving logical puzzles,
knowledge of some popular programming language (pointers,
structures and there working etc. in that language) and DSA. Apart
from that you will be tested for your profile specific skills (ML in
my case) rigorously.
As there are no tests the interview process is quite extensive.

##  Preparation Resources
1) Interview Bit (as much as you can).
2) Brain stellar or Xin Feng Zhou book (more important for quant).
3) OOPs, C++ STL and read about programming languages.
4) Geeks for geeks (For any doubts you have).
5) MSO201 or CS203 for probability statistics (important for puzzles).
6) Can go through MTH102 and Machine Learning basics (from Gfg’s) if preparing for ML
roles.

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Do’s
1) Make a list of resources for the preparation of your profile and then start with the most
relevant/popular or recommended material.
2) Finish what you start before starting something new.
3) Read the work description carefully, it will tell you the type of questions you can
expect.
Don’ts
1) Compare with others.
2) Get overburdened with your preparation.
3) Not enjoying your summers.




Dibyajyoti Haloi, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BTech student in EE will do
his summer internship in Embedded Software Internship profile at Texas Instruments. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
nan

## Insights on the Selection Process
1)Asked me about myself and my strength which helps to the company
2)Asked about embedded system and some of it's application
3)Asked pointer related questions and a question from bit manipulation(in C language)
4)Asked how data structure helps in programming
5)Asked course(analog,digital) related questions like on op amp,processor etc
6)Asked about projects and how it helps me apart from academics
7)Asked about any projects that related to control system if I have done
8)Finally asked me if I have any questions

##  Preparation Resources
For SDE  profile I have practiced questions from gfg and interview bit from the last 3 months. And for core profile my previous knowledge about core courses related to the profile helps. The aptitude questions I have prepared from brainstellar and also revised mso201 course notes.

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Just utilize the summer properly and don't get demotivated by your friend's selection and focus on your weakness and try to improve it over time.




Divyansh Gupta, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in CE will do
his summer internship in SDE profile at Amazon. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
JPMC, Qube Research, Amazon

## Insights on the Selection Process
First question was Tell me all the Sorting algorithms you know and their time complexities.
Then two live coding questions
First was on two pointer technique
Second question was on Zigzag traversal of a Binary tree

##  Preparation Resources
Leetcode, InterviewBit, GeeksforGeeks, Love Babbar DSA questions, Aditya Verma DP playslist

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
First choose the profile you are interested in(at least 2) then thoroughly work on it everyday.
For SDE role coding is essential. Regular coding(at least 3 problems a day) is a must and regular contests for time constraint. Leetcode is a good platform for practicing DSA concepts.




Faheem Nizar, studying in IIT Kanpur as a B.Tech student in Electrical Engineering will do
his summer internship in Data Analytics (Credit and Fraud Risk) profile at American Express. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
nan

## Insights on the Selection Process
The analytics test for Amex was among the more easier tests that we
had to give. This gives an opportunity for all students to get shortlisted,
as most students can easily score quite well in the tests. Amex comes
after a main cohort of companies come together in the so-called “Day
1”, so most of the students will have a good idea of how to appear for
the tests properly.
For the interview selection, there were most likely more factors than just
the test scores. So resume will definitely play a role here. Try to do one
project/internship for keeping your chances towards the safe side. It is
not necessary to be an expert in ML/AI, as I myself didn’t have any

projects in that domain.
During the interview, make sure you are calm and confident. The
interviewers are very friendly and try to make you comfortable. Make
sure you answer all the questions without self-doubt. Also make sure
you have thoroughly gone through each and every point of your
resume. They will enquire deeply to a particular point if its relevant to
the role.

##  Preparation Resources
 50 challenging problems in probability
 Andrew Ng course on Basics of Machine learning
 Try a few case study problems (completely optional)
Nothing much else in terms of resources.

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
The interview is mostly HR related, so having a good speaking skill will be very helpful for the
process. Speaking with confidence, and owning your words is also important to them, so be
mindful of what you reply.
Going through your resume is very important. Make sure you know all the points in there, and
try not to fumble on any of the points.

The internship season is undeniably a very stressful period. But make sure you don’t stress
out before of during the interview. Clear your mind for at least 2 hours prior. Speak with
delight and stay calm. Enjoy the process, as many opportunities will come in your way.




Garvit Arora, studying in IIT Kanpur as a B.Tech student in Electrical Engineering will do
his summer internship in Software profile at Samsung Electronics, South Korea. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
nan

## Insights on the Selection Process
The selection process was based basically on three criteria:
a. CPI
b. Coding skills
c. HR (unlike most of the other companies, not just for the
sake of it purpose)

##  Preparation Resources
Software:
- Interview bit
- CP-algorithms
- GFG
- Test series from archives by PClub
- Some YT videos (mostly from striver)
Quant:
- 50 challenging problems in probability by Frederick Mosteller
- Brainstellar

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
DOs:
- Take advice from seniors.
- Practice DSA as much as possible.
- After you are shortlisted for any company’s interview, find all the previously asked
questions by that company and solve them religiously.
- You can do this thing before the coding test of that company also (although much
lesser time is available once the coding tests start)
- During the interview, aim to exhibit confidence by speaking a little louder and with
clarity.
DONTs:
- Don’t focus too much on gathering more projects if you already have enough relevant
projects for your resume. It would be best if you have DSA + one more skill (ML,
WebD, or anything else). Take an SnT or Stamatics summer project if you need one
(they generally don’t require much effort).
- Well, don’t waste your time in the summer XD. Do enjoy, but within limits.




Girik Maskara, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in CSE will do
his summer internship in Quantitative Trading profile at Jane Street. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Jane Street - Quant Trading, Optiver - Quant Trading.

## Insights on the Selection Process
For Jane Street :
1. Resume Shortlist
2. Test - There was a subjective test with questions on probability
3. Interview Process - There were a total of four interviews, one of which was a preliminary round, and the other three happened consecutively on the final day.

They mainly test your knowledge and application to apply basic concepts of probability like expected value, linearity of expectation, understanding of probability distributions, etc.. 

##  Preparation Resources
50 Challenging Problems in Probability, Guide to Quant Finance, Brainstellar, Interview Bit.

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
For Quant profiles, it is important to have a strong hold on the fundamental concepts of probability. It is also important to be good at approximating difficult calculations quickly, as well as being quick and accurate while solving simple calculations mentally.




Harjap Singh, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in CHE will do
his summer internship in Pharma profile at Piramal Groups. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Microsoft (TPM&PM) , WorldQuant (Quant), Edelweiss (Quant), Piramal Group (Pharma)

## Insights on the Selection Process
 Microsoft:
In each round, I had done case -discussions. Basically in case discussions, I was assigned a task of designing a app(like car-rental app, music app for blind people, ride app for blue-collar workers).Some questions about technical aspects like (frontend ,backened, user-interface) were also asked.

WorldQuant:
They asked general questions about my interest in finance and my projects. They asked 2 puzzles( how to create equal-probable event from biased coin ,  other is based on Bayesian probability) and one question of maths. After that some general HR questions.

Edelweiss:
They went deeper in my one of project and asked 2-3 math questions where I had to prove something. I was also asked two guesstimates questions and one of the interviewbit puzzle.

Piramal Group:
General questions about distillation column, its application and commercialization was asked. Then bunch of HR questions about my goals, strength, weakness and reason for choosing chemical Engineering. 



##  Preparation Resources
I started my preparations from second week of May. I already went though some of data structures before preparations but still follow the time table shared by SPO. Along with coding, I was also engaged in 2 projects. This was typical schedule that I follow till mid-June. After that, I also started looking for puzzles on "Gurmeet Puzzles", "Braingle"  and "Brainstellar". I also looked about "Guesstimates and case interviews".


## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Well prepared before D-Day begins. It will happen many times that things are not going as you think or hope. But just have a faith on yourself, learn from mistakes and keep on trying.




Harsh Jain , studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in CSE will do
his summer internship in R&D Associate profile at Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
nan

## Insights on the Selection Process
Only one Question from Strings and some projects from my resume were discussed in the technical interview.
Theoretical knowledge of DSA is a good thing to have for smooth technical interview process.
Just be confident and never give one word answers. It's not an objective Question paper which would have a binary answer. Always try to express your answer as a story.

##  Preparation Resources
I used GFGs for preparing the base. It has the collection of all standard problems and algorithms.
InterviewBit to practice for coding tests and interviews. 
I used Brainsteller to prepare for Quant profiles.

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Do CP to clear coding tests and have some good knowledge of DSA for clearing interviews. A course on probability is a good thing for Quant profiles. And try to maintain a good CPI ( it will have only good side effects:)




Harsh trivedi , studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in CSE will do
his summer internship in Quantitative research  profile at Quantbox. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Google, quadeye, graviton

## Insights on the Selection Process
Google - Easy question in the coding round 1, in second round the coding question was good but solvable.
Graviton - 2 coding question which should be easy if you have practiced and the questions on computer organisation for SDE role.
Tower - 3 or 4 probability question which were hard for me and fun for interviewer xd. Overall it is super intense interview.
Quadeye - Again some coding and probability question which were very easy.
Samsung - Easy coding question but the HR round is intensive and you should know about korean culture.
Quantbox - Again some question were repeated from interviewbit and the interview that I had given but in some questions the interviewer was helpful and we had a great discussion.

##  Preparation Resources
First of all start coding by giving contest on different platforms and the key to success is to  not skip even a single contest on codeforces, codechef and atcoder. This will create a good base then afterwards start solving problems on interviewbit they are super good and relatable to the tests.
The 2 main topic that I feel is asked most is DP and graph so once you are finished with interviewbit solve problems from these topics. And give the pclub contest seriously because they are the real test to measure your preparation.
Enough of coding now the next part needed especially for Quant profile is probability for which first finish "50 challenging problems", then brainstellar, if you still have time left then go for "practical guide for quantitative finance". 
Now your are ready for the interview all the best



## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Plan your preparation and complete interviewbit, branstellar and 50 challenging problem. Interview is all about confidence just think loud share your thought and take hint from the interviewer and you are good to go.
All the best




Hisham Hadi T, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BTech student in EE will do
his summer internship in Silicon Engineering Intern profile at Google Hardware. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
nan

## Insights on the Selection Process
Google gives high weightage to previous experience in core when
shortlisting candidates for interview. Having core projects or second
year core internships is a positive factor
Google also looks for something they call Googleyness, which is an
indicator of how good a fit the candidate is to the google culture.

##  Preparation Resources
1. Prof. Baquer Mazhari’s lectures for ESC201, available on YouTube
2. HDLbits for Verilog practice
3. PYQs of relevant core courses done in IITK
4. Other youtube lectures and channels like Neso Academy
5. Coding from Interviewbit (mainly for other profiles)

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Dos:
1. Think out loud in interviews. Keep talking through whatever you’re doing to get to the
solution. For the interviewer, how you reached the answer is just as important as the
answer you got.
2. The interviewer is not your opponent. Learn to find cues in what they say, they often
nudge us in the right direction.
Don’ts:
1. Don’t try to answer questions from courses that you haven’t studied. Just tell them and
they will avoid questions from that area.




Hitesh Anand, studying in IIT Kanpur as a CSE student in nan will do
his summer internship in Quant profile at Quadeye Securities. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Quadeye(Systems), Tower Research Capital(Quant), Samsung Korea (Core/Research), Microsoft (Software)

## Insights on the Selection Process
I had four interviews in total on Day-1. Two (Tower and Quadeye) were offline and the rest (Samsung and Microsoft) were online.

Tower Research : I was asked questions from probability and some puzzles. The problems were really tricky and they really took a lot of time and thinking. I think doing the last 15-20 questions from 50 CP and hard problems from Brainstellar properly might give you some exposure to the level of questions asked here. Though, I still feel the level of questions was slightly more difficult. For example, one of the questions was based on a slight modification of Minimum Spanning Tree.

Quadeye : There were four rounds. In the first three rounds, they asked some probability questions and puzzles. The topics covered expected values, mean, variance of probability distributions, puzzles, etc. The difficulty was that of Brainstellar Easy+Medium, and 50 CP. The questions were quite interesting, but not that difficult. Some of the questions were: 1. find the 80th percentile element in an unsorted array in linear time, 2. A 6-sided fair dice is rolled n times, define a random variable Xi to denote the number of times the ith face showed up, then find the covariance of X1 and X2, 3. Estimate the sum of the square root of first 49 natural numbers, etc. 

Samsung Korea : This was a very smooth experience (except for the miserable internet connection). I was first sent to the HR round. They asked me about my future goals and why did I apply for Samsung, and similar questions. It went on for about 20-25 minutes. Next, there was a small technical round where I was asked questions about my resume(my projects and internship experience), and a question from String manipulation (easy one). 

Microsoft : There were two rounds. Both were related to DSA. Some questions were easy and some were tricky. The questions were : 1. Second smallest element in array, 2. find the peak element in an array (and some variations), and 3. A string pattern matching question based on KMP algorithm (slight variation).

##  Preparation Resources
For the SDE role, I focused mainly on competitive programming and DSA. I didn't have much CP experience at the start of my preparation. I started focusing on CP properly after the beginning of my 4th sem. I tried to solve 1-2 problems daily from the codeforces problem set. I started covering topic-wise DSA from interviewbit. It took me around one month to complete all the topics properly. I also took notes of the topics and questions where I was stuck which were quite helpful at the time of revision. I was also regular in giving the contests on Codeforces and Codechef. Besides this, I also participated in some of the contests organized by Pclub. Contests really helped me improve my CP skills and solve problems in limited time. But, first learn properly about C++ STL from any online source (GFG preferably) before solving harder problems. So to summarize, Codeforces + Interviewbit + Proper revision of DSA should be enough to do better in Coding rounds and Interviews as far as SDE roles are concerned. I was done with all this one week before the tests started. Hence, I solved some problems from Leetcode Hard as well but that's completely optional if you have done rest of the things mentioned above properly.

For the Quant roles, I covered 50 Challenging Problems, Brainstellar, Cut-the-knot problemset, and Xinfeng Zhou's Practical Guide to Quantitative Finance Interviews. Before solving questions, ensure that you have revised the basic probability concepts such as Expected values, means, variance, probability distributions, Geometric Probability, etc. These topics are covered in the Probability courses such as CS203 or MSOs. The order of solving problems was as follows : 50 CP -> Brainstellar -> Xinfeng Zhou -> Cut-the-knot. You need not solve all of them. Just solve 50 CP and brainstellar properly (atleast twice). Then, move to the last two if you have time. You need not have a good knowledge of finance or markets beforehand.

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Maintain your CPI (the most important advice) and improve your problem-solving skills. Most of the coding tests require decent CP skills for you to get shortlisted. Hence, along with Interviewbit/Leetcode, also invest some time on solving problems from Codeforces/giving contests. The earlier you start, the better you get at this. Be consistent. Another important thing that most people overlook is that you have to maintain your temperament throughout. At times, you might feel quite nervous and frustrated. You will want the process to end as soon as possible. Avoid this sort of thinking. In your free time, do breathing exercises, meditate for a while, exercise. In the summers, try to get a project/internship which doesn't affect your preparation too much. During the summers, try to fix your routine and devote a fixed amount of time to preparation consistently. Maintain your health and stay calm even if you get an unexpected result. Stay calm, maybe there is something better waiting for you at the end :)




Ishaan Shukla, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BTech student in Electrical Engineering will do
his summer internship in Member of technical staff profile at Oracle, India. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
● Texas- analog, digital
● Oracle

## Insights on the Selection Process
DP, linked list, Puzzles

##  Preparation Resources
Leetcode, interviewbit, striver sheet

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Dos
Don’t lose hope
If you are not good at coding don’t start from codeforces rather start from some basic
problems
Find what suits you not what your friends suggests you
If you are not able to do question, learn that Algorithm.
Don’ts
Do theory and questions simultaneously. Don’t wait for doing theory first and then questions.
Don’t waste summer




Ishan Bawne, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BS student in Physics will do
his summer internship in nan profile at Finmechanics. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
● Oracle
● Giva
● Slice
● Finmechanics

## Insights on the Selection Process
1. Resume Shortlist
a. CPI > 7.5
2. Test
a. Probability
b. Logical Reasoning
c. DBMS and SQL
d. Find the Output type Questions.
3. Interview Process
a. Two Rounds of Interview
b. Round 1 was on Probability and Problem-solving skills
and details about past internships and projects.
c. Round 2 was based on Programming aptitude, Resume,
and general HR Questions.

Insights on the
Selection Process

I observed that selection the process favored those who were good with
programming aptitude and had previous work experience in internships
and/or quality projects.

Sample Interview
/Test Questions

In the interview they asked about a graph optimization problem. They
framed the question as if it was a networking problem but essentially it
was a graph problem. Knowing Dijkstra Algorithm helped me there.

##  Preparation Resources
I used Leetcode for solving programming questions. And geeks for geeks for puzzles.

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Do’s
• Try to add quality projects to your resume.
• Previous work experience such as any internships would add great value to your
resume.
• In the interview don’t leave your ideas and opinions open to interpretation. Try to
communicate what you are thinking to the interviewer and make sure that they
understand it the way you want it to (With help of examples or by any other means).
Don’t’ ‘s
• Try to avoid talking about topics you don’t know about. If asked about those topics I
think it would be better to explicitly say that you didn’t come around those topics and
you would like to read about those topics. If you have valid justification for not knowing
you can give a short justification too.




Jahnavi Kairamkonda, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BTech student in CSE will do
her summer internship in SDE profile at Uber. Here are some brief
insights of hers.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Google SDE, Goldman Sachs

## Insights on the Selection Process
Technical interviews had CP questions in both Uber and Google. Probability was asked in Goldman Sachs. 

##  Preparation Resources
I mostly concentrated on improving my coding skills because SDE was my target. Interviewbit was helpful throughout. In the end when it came to preparing for company specific or topic wise questions, I started using Leetcode.

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Start DSA as early as possible. It’s always good to have more practice when it comes to that topic. Luck plays a role in everything. Do not get disheartened by rejections. Try to know what you missed and try improving for further tests and interviews.




Janhvi Rochwani, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in CSE will do
her summer internship in Summer Intern (SDE or Quant will be decided within the company later) profile at Goldman Sachs. Here are some brief
insights of hers.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Optiver - Trading role

## Insights on the Selection Process
Mostly DS and Programming. For quant/trading roles, emphasis is on probability, logic and math.

##  Preparation Resources
InterviewBit and GeeksForGeeks

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
Practice as much as you can. The next question you choose to solve may very well end up in a test or an interview. Keep calm and do your level best. Good luck!




Jasjot Singh, studying in IIT Kanpur as a BT student in CSE will do
his summer internship in Research Intern profile at Adobe. Here are some brief
insights of his.

## Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Optiver (Quant), Quadeye, Goldman Sachs, Sprinklr, WorldQuant, Edelweiss

## Insights on the Selection Process
For Adobe, my interview was based on discussing projects mentioned in the resume,gauging my interest in research and one quant problem - Monty Hall
In quant firms apart from Optiver, the questions are mostly based on the resources mentioned above or slight variations of them.
For software roles, I was asked theoretical questions on Object Oriented Programming and mostly variations of standard problems (Stacks and Queues, Heaps, Graphs). I was asked to implement some standard data structures such as Vectors and Strings as classes.
Optiver has a very different interview process which invovles mental math and market making so it's a bit hard to prepare for that.

##  Preparation Resources
For Quant preparation -  50 challenging problems in probability, Brainstellar, Xinfeng Zhou (problems might overlap in the last two but the book has very good explanations of problems, so do read the first 5 chapters)
For SDE - InterviewBit/LeetCode for practice (stick with one platform only and I feel InterviewBit is concise and has a good set of questions which cover most of the stuff)
GeeksForGeeks and InterviewBit resources for theory

## Advice for students (dos and don’ts)? 
It's very important to know your resume inside out, especially for projects. I had a few rounds where I was grilled for half an hour just on one project which they liked.
For people targeting software role, do study OOPs seriously because a lot of MCQs or theoretical questions are asked in the tests and interviews.
Also, try to understand how some major data structures are implemented in the programming language.
For quant roles, CPI plays a major role in certain firms so do your best to work on that

