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Process

Written Exam

Interview

Other Remarks

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Books and Materials

Disclaimer: All this information is only based on our experiences. Same may not be true/applicable in your case. Please use this only as guidance.
Qualcomm Vamseedhar Reddy 1 Computer based exam and 3 rounds of interview 2 profiles. 1. ASIC design. 2. network software engineer. both has 1 written exam plus 3 rounds of interview ( 2 technicals+ 1 HR) 3 sections: 1 aptitude 2. C,DS 3. techinical - mostly DSP 1st and 2nd interview on Digital Design. Standered questions on Muxes, State diagrams. 3rd HR interview 8 students were selected, 5 from SPCOMM, 3 for Digital Design and 2 for Software

Juniper Networks

Sambuddha Kumar

in both profiles 1. aptitude. 2. C, ds. for asic technical mostly digital design. in software profile OS. software interview mostly on networking ideas and C proficiency.

Nvidia

Nvidia Cadence Design Systems

1 written exam and 3 rounds of interview (2 technicals + 1HR) 1 written exam and 4 rounds of interviews (3 technical + 1HR) (one Shivashankar extra interview for me) 1 written exam and 3 rounds of interview(2 G Chandra Sekhar technical and 1HR) Sambuddha Kumar

aptitude, C, DS, OS

1st technical. On term paper and project. Implementation of few practical problems in C. Boolean logic opearation and corresponding C algorithms. 2nd technical: on random number, PDF, Again C and boolean logic operation. HR interview is purely non technical ( example:tell me about you, why NVIDIA, why software profile)

With good knowledge of networking or with networking subjects in coursework, networking software profile is better. Otherwise, ASIC profile is better, if offered. ASIC profile none from SPCOMM was selected needs good knowledge on digital design. This year they offered only software profile, last year they recruited for hardware profile also. If you have Image/video processing as subject/ thesis topic, then they may ask about term paper or project in details. but overall your software 3 from SPCOMM were selected plus knowledge matters. image/video proc in profile is NOT another in waitlist. mandatory criteria. 3 from SPCOMM were selected plus another in waitlist. 2 chose Nvidia, other 2 chose cisco (multiple offers) There was sectional cutoff for individual sections

aptitude, C, DS, OS aptitude, C/C++, DS, OS and digitsl circuits(especially state diagram representation) Test is easy ....Time management is very crucial... no negative marking.. 3 Sections 1.Apti 2. C , DS...These 2 sections are very easy 3.Technical section is the deciding factor....DSP , Filters , Signal processing techniques

1st technical: On term papers, thesis and C. 2nd tech : purely on C. 3rd: some mathematical puzzles and C, HR: general HR questions 1st interview is fully on my thesis work then asked about the questions given in the written test (aptitude n technical) 2nd interview fully on C and DS 3rd HR interview

Qualcomm

Avinash Manda

Computer based written exam and 3 rounds of interview.

Broadcomm

Harish Padaki

1 written exam and then Interviews (no of rounds is not fixed)

Written test had C,DSP and Apti

2 Technical Rounds + 1 HR round Technical--Digital Design , MUX, Finite State Machines desiging questions , Puzzles ,CMOS , PMOS, Basic Computer architecture questions, HR--tell me abt urself, choice of place of joining 3 Profiles were offered 1> Protocol stack development for 4G 2> VLSI related profile 3> Software Related Profile I chose the first one. Interview Questions in 1st round are as below, -> Tell me about yourself -> Explain MIMO-OFDM, operations involved and their necessities, PAPR, -> difference between Linear conv and Circular conv? when are they same? Give examples to support your answer. -> C questions on bit fiddling: Find whether num is power of 2 using a single if statement, reverse the order of bits of an integer and some other bit related questions 1st Round Techincal: -> Different layers in OSI Model -> When I type "www.google.com" what all will happen in different layers? Difference between OSI and TCP/IP? Devices which fall in different layers? -> Write ANY sorting algorithm which you know. -> Count the number of bits set to 1 for a given integer 2nd Round Techincal: -> How do you insert an element into a sorted double link list? -> Given two intervals (a,b) and (c,d) how do you find whether they are overlapping or not?

3 profiles 1.Software, 2. DSP/Communiation , 3.Hardware Design.... This time they were looking more hardware designers.... Total 9 Selected 5 SpComm (3 in Hardware Design profile , 2 in DSP/communication profile)

C---Denis Ritche...( Solved Q's in the text r given directly in some written test)... C solutions -Yeshwant kanetkar --solve all chapters--helpful in C obj q's DS---schamm series / Yeshwant kanetkar Aptitude--Arun Sharma..level 2 must ,3 ( for few topics )--develop speed and accuracy Digital Design --Morris Mano Networking--Tannenbaun OS--Galvin--Memory Management, Process Coordination.Skim thru file sys, I/O Solve Examples in OS Schamm series text --very helpful Use the web for model C / Apti / Puzzles /DS questions .in placement prep blogs. Most of the standard Q's on net are repeated asked in written test and interviews

none from SPCOM was selected

Be strong in C skills. They expect the bit fiddling operations to be done in a very simple but very efficient way(less memory, less runtime).

Cisco

Harish Padaki

Brocade

Bhumi Sabarwal

Qualcomm

Vaishali Ailani

3rd round HR: -> Tell me about yourself -> Why Cisco and what if i don't select you? the next HR questions are applicable to those with work experience, you can safely ignore if its Written test is very simple.8085 not applicable to you Interrupts, Memory Interfacing, -> tell me an instance when u took leadership in the team 1 written exam, 2 Tech logic design along with C and -> tell me an instance when u were recognized for exceptional performance. rounds and 1HR Apti will be there. -> what was your significant contribution to the team 1st Round- Technical -> How do you swap two elements in a singly link list. C and data structures were mostly asked. Some questions in networking, since i had a btech project in networking, he asked me questions Written test had 3 sections- 1) in that. Then he asked me my thesis. 1 written + 2 technical Apti 2) C/C++ and data 2nd Round Technical cum HR interviews+ 1 HR structure 3)OS ;with negative Mostly networking- MAC layer, Token bus, token ring and some questions related to OSI layers. interview marking HR Questions- Why Brocade? What do you know about Brocade? 2 round of technical interviews: asked about thesis, term papers, trainings, question on Digital logic circuits: to design FSM, simple logic circuits, delay & its calculation in the digital circuit , online computer based MOS etc.they asked me few puzzles and apti questions. they asked me few puzzles and apti test followed by 3 rounds 3 parts: Apti,Programming(C, questions. of interview DS), Technical + 1 HR interview 1 online+ 3 rounds of interview 1 offline+2 rounds technical interview+ 1 round HR 3 rounds of technical interview. Mostly Digital design questions based on logic circuits. A bit of basic programming, basic data structures and background in OS

8 people from SPCOM were selected and 7 chose Cisco

Practice previous question papers from online.( At least CISCO)

Refer to http://www.cracktheinterview.org/ for the most frequently asked interview questions with very simple and efficient solutions

5 people were selected, 3 from SPCOM.

Good command over C and Data Structures is needed, networking is a plus point.

Read basics topics of operating systems.(memory management....)

IBM

Deepika M

general aptitude Apti+C+DataStruct+OS. .no negative marking.Apti was tough. onlinetest:apti(easy)+Data structures in c++(tough)+logical reasoning(moderate) Offlinetest:2 questions for which suitable algorithams have to be written

5 selected. 2 for digital design + 3 for software. among the 5, 2 were from SPCOMM knowing C++ is an advantage.But knowing how to reverse a linked list is mandatory.know at least the basics of Networking and OS. Whatever you say be confident.They dont know what is ur thesis or term paper actually. Oracle had openings in 4 profiles, However they took 6 members for only server tech profile, and 1 for application profile(this guy from spcom only), for application profile they are looking for mainly for CS people, So prefer server tech profile 1.Aptitude book by R.S.Agarwal 2.Let Us C -Yeshwant Kanitkar 3.Data Structure Through C 4.Test Your C Skills-Try to solve all the relevant chapters from this book.Important for objective questions in C. They only want students with communication background.

NETAPP

Soumik

Reversing a linked list. delete a node from linked list. basic C programs. Networking basics.OSI model. Working of layers. OS basics. Puzzles. Thesis.Concept of your thesis should be clear. Term paper concepts also were asked.working area in thesis.challenges faced. 3 selected, 1 from Spcom.

Oracle

Phani

1 online test+1 offline test+3 rounds tech interview+1 round HR

Oracle C-DoT

Monideepa Raghavendra k

Onlinetest:Aptitude+Data structures+logical reasoning 1 online test+1 offline Offlinetest:2 questions for test+3 rounds of technical which suitable algorithams interview+1 round HR have to be written 1 technical interview None

first round is completely based on Offline test questions Second and third rounds: data structres like linked lists,trees, Sorting and Searching,and some puzzles In the 1st Round they asked about the offline questions,MTech Thesis,a program to reverse linked list, question on binary tree,questions on C language like define macros,difference between global and static variables and a puzzle. In the second round they asked some C program like write a program to find pallindrome and few data structure questions based on trees. In 3rd round I was asked few HR questions few practical questions in wireless communications, finite state machines,questions relating ofdm,receiver structure

7 selected,5 from spcom

7 selected,5 from spcom 1 selected

Company

Name

CITRIX R&D

Vaibhav Khare

Process 1 written objective+subjective followed by 3 technical and one hr interview

Written Exam

Interview 3 rounds first round on C and Data structures second round on Networks and third round on Operating systems puzzles will also be asked. Once you get through tech rounds HR is just a formality

Other Remarks

Comments they will only see you problem solving ability, getting to the answer wil not matter much, its just your approach and your dedication on solving whatever comes your way

Books and Materials

Juniper Networks

Yenduri Naveen

Cassidian

Y.Naveen

Broadcomm

Shivashankar Vamseedhar Reddy

aptitude + c programming gave two data structure problems in subjective test aptitude and c , os , data structures computer networks this is regarding software design In the written test they will ask to write D.S programs two profiles 1.software 2. and in interview they will ask to ASIC design debug it only 5 technical questions 30 min duration 1.Digital logic design 2.communication related topic 3. O.S question 4. program (simple ) 5.another Signal processing profile technical question Protocol stack 1 technical test: qsns on development for 4G probability, estimation detection (Signal processing & theory, 1 techincal interview, 1 Communication profile) phone interview, 1HR interview

2 selected one spcomm and one from cse

all the books are listed above

3 rounds 1 technical (regarding all computer network basics, o.s,real time applications of o.s, data structures, last but not least C programming )and another technical round if needed and finally HR i had only 1 round 3 people will be in the panel first they asked me to explain my project and questions regarding the project and they have given my written test paper and asked me to solve the question which i cannot able to do it in exam and they will ask some basics regarding C(time complexity,sortings,Data structures) , term papers also and HR questions like why you are willing to join cassidian ?what do you know about it? and some puzzles 3 people will posing questions towards you thats for sure In technical interview they asked about my thesis (speech signal processing), term papers , Phone interview on wireless communications mainly on my term paper MIMO, Almouti Coding and some puzzles. qsns like finding linear convolution using circular convolution. Two profiles 1 software and another VLSI, for software they asked about C, DS, and qsns based on resume like thesis, software skills etc, 1 HR interview on soft/ behavior skills like conflict of interest etc another HR interview is a standard one Complete technical interview was based on written exam. So solve your written exam paper before going to the interview. Qn which I could not solve/ wrong , were asked and qn related to written paper too were asked.

Mostly time constraint is the major factor try to solve first technical questions and then write the program and finally actually they haven't shown much the aptitude questions they will select very few members interest on SPCOMM but we did well from written test they have selected 20 from nearly 250 for in the interview written test

2 from SPCOMM

Nobody got Selected from SPCOM

Intel

Analog devices

Resume shortlist, 1 Technical, 2 HR, CPI shortlist(Cut off 8), Written Test, 3 rounds of technical and 2 rounds of Rajshekhar V Bhat HR interview Sambuddha Kumar written test + 2 rounds of technical + 1 round HR 2 profiles: ASIC design and Software. for software profile written test + 2 technical interviews + (probably) 1 HR interview written test + 2 rounds of technical + 1 round HR (probably)

no written test Written exam based on digital timing analysis and some qn which involved R-C-L components computer based test : apti+c+OS+DS

1 from SPCOMM

Inmobi

Few mathematical questions ( co-ordinate geometry, problem solving in algebra), OS, puzzles

None from SPCOMM

This company mostly searches good knowledge in computer science and software skills. Very sound knowledge in DS, OS and algorithms as well as C is required.

Xilinx

Sambuddha Kumar

for software profile written test = apti + c,OS, DS. apti in one section and all others in another section

My interview was completely on DS. linked list( reversing a linked list, complexity of various sorting), trees , codes for depth-first search , implementation of queues, hash table.

one from SPCOMM

Broadcomm

Anil kumar

apti+c+OS+DS

NVIDIA

Anil kumar

refer to row 4 or 5

First round was based on off line test and some c programs. Then they told that they are not going to selecting any one for this profile. None from IIT Kanpur First round was some puzzels and c programs. Second round was on OS. 1.How much you rate yourself in C out of 10? and Why? 2. which was your previous best program that you have solved so far? 3. What do you do in free times? refer to row 4 or 5

you should be very good in programming and aptitude also.

For puzzles; http://www.techinterview.org/,

ONline computer based C,DS,Aptitude ( they asked to test+ 2 technical rounds + write the program in written First round: complete C programming, asked to write some programs. Second round: some INMOBI Anil kumar 1 HR test) logical reasoning questions. other Companies: IBM ISL, Redpine, Imagination Tech, Inmobi, NI(backedoff), Goldman Sachs, GE, Cypress Semiconductors, Aptina, Mechatronics, STericson, samsung, BEL, ATC Labs, Cypress semiconductor, Robert Bosch Companies which backed off : NI, Marvell, AMCC, TI

Good in problem solving.

Links of Useful websites http://www.careercup.com/ http://puzzles.nigelcoldwell.co.uk/index.htm http://www.glassdoor.com/index.htm http://cquestionbank.blogspot.in/