I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at IGATE (Noida) in Nov 2011
Interview
I got placed as part of my campus recruitment process
We had 3 rounds
1st Round:Aptitude round with around 50 aptitude questions to be answered in 30 mins
2nd Round:Technical Round .Here I was asked questions from C,C++ .I was asked to write program to find the reverse of a string.Then further I was asked about the subjects I learnt in B.Tech.Next the interviewer gave me few situations and asked me to explain what are my views on it.Below are the situations
1.Suppose u see a begger asking for money what would be your reaction
2.YOu are watching formula 1 match .Expalain your feelings
3.What do you have to say about Eve Teasing
3rd Round:HR round
Here I was asked with basic HR queations like
Introduce yourself,strenghths/weakness,why do you want to join igate,Few questions in German as I had mentioned that in my Resume.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The Question in german was unexpected .Though they were simple but I had not expected them at all..
Good. It had 3 rounds. Technical and then manager and then HR. Technical round had mostly project based questions. In manager round again some technical and some hypothetical questions were there
It is online assesment in the initial round with questions related verbal, non verbal reasoning, solving some puzzles, data structures.
Then follows a random technical questions on core fundamentals.
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I was placed in campus recruitment at off campus, there was an aptitude round followed by 2 tech rounds. First technical, the panel members asked me how I solved the aptitude problem, second tech was on programming and algorithms for sorting etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic programming and algorithms like binary search etc.
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at IGATE with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 84% positive. To compare, the company-average is 72.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 6 days to get hired, when considering 101 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at IGATE overall takes an average of 14 days.
Common stages of the interview process at IGATE as a Software Engineer according to 101 Glassdoor interviews include:
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Skills test: 16%
IQ intelligence test: 16%
Background check: 12%
Personality test: 9%
Presentation: 7%
Group panel interview: 6%
Other: 2%
Phone interview: 2%
Drug test: 1%
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