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:
One on one interview: 29%
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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I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at IGATE in Apr 2010
Interview
Whole process took 1 week of time. Interviewers were very friendly, even i failed to answer his one question, he actually took some time and explained me the answer.
1. Written test (conducted by third party staffing agency)
2. Technical round (Company campus)
3. HR round (Company campus)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Freshers questions
1. Why we need SDLC to develop a software ?
Unexpected Question only to me from the batch
1. they gave me one topic and gave me 30 secs to prepare and then deliver a presentation using whiteboard.
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.