Indian IT companies TCS, Infosys hit by denial of US visas
BANGALORE: Information technology companies are being forced to
subcontract more work than ever before in the US, as the measures
adopted by that country have made it harder and costlier for Indian
software professionals to travel on work to their main market.
For companies such as Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys, the use of
staffing firms instead of their own employees for US assignments is
resulting in higher costs and lower margins, further eroding their
competitive advantage in a weak demand environment. Ironically, they are
being forced to subcontract work to temporary consultants when an
increasing number of their own software engineers are sitting idle on
the bench.
At Infosys, subcontracting costs doubled to 3% of revenue in the first
quarter of fiscal 2013, its highest level. For India's largest IT
company Tata Consultancy Services, they were at 5%, from less than 3%
last year. Analysts expect the higher subcontracting costs to hurt
margins at top IT firms by at least 30 basis points.
"We expect the impact to be industry-wide and not restricted to Infosys
as the pressure to hire local talent mounts," wrote Shashi Bhushan and
Pratik Shah of brokerage Prabhudas Lilladher in a client note.
The US accounts for more than half of the over $70 billion in software
exports from India. Under President Barack Obama, in particular, the US
has made it increasingly difficult for Indian firms to obtain visas to
send employees to work on projects at client locations. Visa fees have
soared under Obama's watch and so have rejection rates.
Fewer L-1 visas being approved
This is especially true for L-1 visas for intra-company transfers.
In 2011, approvals for L-1 visas were 28% lower, show data from
independent public policy think tank National Foundation for American
Policy. On the other hand, such visa approvals rose by 15% for
applicants from the rest of the world, leading to concerns that India is
being singled out for discrimination.
More than 25,000 Indians travel to the US every year to work on
assignments for software companies. Up to 40% of work permits are
usually under the L-1 category.
Most people in the software industry believe there is a deliberate
policy of discrimination against Indians, but they are wary of voicing
their opinions publicly for fear of antagonising the American
government, especially when a presidential campaign is on and
unemployment is a major theme. Infosys, HCL, TCS and Wipro declined to
comment for this report.
Software industry grouping Nasscom said it is "working with" the Indian
government and US authorities on the issue of rising visa rejection
rates. "While some part of the work gets contracted, some IT firms are
now focusing on hiring locals for domain-specific work in the US," said
Ameet Nivsarkar, Nasscom's vice-president.
In mid-2010, when the US increased the fee for some types of work visas
used by Indian outsourcers, Nasscom had estimated the additional cost
burden on Indian IT industry at up to $250 million.
But not everyone is complaining about the turn of events. At staffing
firm TeamLease, where over 70,000 employees work on contracted projects
for various companies, revenue soared 30% last year due to the increase
in subcontracting. Similarly, at Ikya Human Capital Solutions, another
global staffing firm, demand from Indian IT firms for subcontracting
work in the US rose 8-10% in the past six months.
"Any change in the economic conditions first reflects in the staffing
industry. We are a springboard in good times and a shock-board in bad
times," said Ashok Reddy, managing director and co-founder of TeamLease.
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Why IBM, TechM BPOs are dumping telcos
BANGALORE: Severe competition and nose-diving tariffs in the
once-celebrated Indian telecom industry have squeezed margins out of
business process outsourcing firms catering to the sector, forcing many
to quit the space.
Domestic BPOs such as Tech Mahindra, Intelenet (now Serco), Firstsource
and IBM BPO are either walking away from, or choosing not to bid for
new, telecom-based contracts, as a steep fall in call rates coupled with
a sharp rise in costs have made such projects unviable, industry
insiders said.
The BPOs usually follow a Full-Time Employment (FTE) pricing model or
one based on duration of calls handled. In FTE, after taking in factors
like call volume and call-arrival patterns, the BPO employs a fixed
number of staff in consultation with the operator. In the second model,
the BPOs typically charge about Rs 3 a minute.
"The decline in call tariffs has affected revenues of the telecom
operators who are reducing the payout to partners," said SV Sriram,
senior vice-president at Tech Mahindra. He said this was becoming a
challenge for BPOs serving the telecom sector, especially in Tier-I
cities like Mumbai and Delhi, where costs are soaring.
The average revenue per user for Indian telecom operators has plummeted
from about 240 in June 2008 to 96 this June - a drop of 60% in just four
years.
TechM just concluded its six-year-old partnership with Tata Teleservices
as talks for price renegotiation fell through. It also chose not to
renew its three-year contract with Reliance Communications for similar
reasons. Sriram said costs in a Tier-I city have risen about 35% in the
last three-four years.
Also, the decision by telecom operators to start charging for customer
care calls, which were toll-free earlier, led to a significant drop in
their numbers, hurting revenues of the BPOs. In the last one year alone,
call volumes dropped about 15%, the BPOs said.
Besides TechM, IBM BPO and Serco are the other leading players in the
Indian telecom BPO sector, which analysts estimate to be worth about Rs
7,400 crore. All three declined to comment on the specifics of deals
that were renegotiated or declined.
However, firms like Vertex, Competent Synergies and Magus, which operate
mainly in smaller towns and cities, do not spend as much as their
bigger rivals on rent and salaries, allowing them to save on costs. This
has made it possible for them to lure customers away from the bigger
players with better pricing and deals.
For instance, when Aircel wanted to reduce costs, its existing BPO
partner offered to move its centre from a Tier-I city to a Tier-II city
and give it a 15% discount. But the telecom company eventually opted for
a mid-sized BPO with a larger presence in smaller towns to get nearly
double the savings offered by its existing service provider.
But Serco sees this move towards smaller players as temporary. "These
contracts are going from larger player to smaller and Tier-II companies,
but there are short-term gains. There will a consolidation in the
market," said Bhupender Singh, CEO for AMEAA (Africa, Middle East,
Australia and Australasia) at Serco. Serco's revenue from the domestic
telecom segment makes up only 40% of the total, down from 70%, three
years ago.
But some analysts believe that the turn of events should prompt Indian
BPOs to move up the value chain beyond plain vanilla customer care call
centres. "The BPO players can leverage on the existing opportunity by
moving up the value-chain and offering new services like call
management, collection management," said Milan Sheth, partner,
technology advisory services at Ernst & Young.
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Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, IBM, Oracle, Adobe hiring talent from small towns
BANGALORE | KOLKATA: When Sukruth KS first walked into the National
Institute of Technology in the small town of Warangal in Andhra Pradesh
three years ago, he was just another engineering student. When he
passes out in May next year, he will be the one who Microsoft hired for a
$1,00,000 (approximately Rs 60 lakh) salary for a global posting.
Anmol Kumar, Balmukund Trivedi and Dinesh Reddy, three of Sukruth's
batchmates, have also snagged similar salaries from Epic Systems, a
US-based company that makes software for healthcare companies. To put
that in perspective, the highest pay cheques seen at top-notch IITs are
in the $1,40,000 range.
Global tech and internet firms are on the prowl in small towns this
placement season, looking to lure talent from NITs and good private
engineering colleges. Both would rank a notch lower than IITs in the
talent pecking order.
Sample this: Amazon, Google, PepsiCo, Yahoo, Cisco, Oracle, Deloitte,
Adobe, DE Shaw, Flipkart, Direct-i, Caterpillar, Future First and IBM
are making offers this year at non-IIT campuses in Vellore, Madurai and
Mesra, and also at private colleges in Delhi and Bangalore. Placement
heads at these colleges say companies are hiring more than last year.
The companies are offering higher salaries and dangling better perks,
including international assignments, free holidays and joining bonuses
of up to Rs 1 lakh.
Amazon, Google, PepsiCo and more such marquee employers wooed students
at NIT Warangal with salaries in the Rs 8-20 lakh range. Global IT
services major IBM also hired 85 students from the institute this year.
"Even gaming firms such as EA Sports have come in and selected four
students for Rs 12 lakh," says M Chandrasekhar, NIT's placement head.
"It's a question of supply and demand which cannot be met by going only
to IITs," says Yugesh Goutam, executive director of KEC International,
the infrastructure firm of the RPG Group.
"When we have to hire 1000, it is not possible to take them only from
the IITs, which only have a handful," says P Thiruvengadam, senior
director, Deloitte India. "Also, tier-II and III colleges are important
because they give us a good mix of students from different cultures," he
adds.
"We strike a healthy balance by hiring a mix of students from IITs and
from tier-II and III colleges," says V Nagarajan, VP and head-HR, Times
Internet. "Students from the latter come with high aptitude and a high
emotional quotient." Times Internet hires 20-25% of its talent from
tier-II and III colleges.
Engineering and tech firms and core product companies form part of the
first wave of recruiters at such campuses. IT service giants such as
Wipro, Infosys, Cognizant, TCS and HCL will start visiting campuses from
September. Salaries offered by these mass recruiters are typically
around Rs 3.75 lakh.
In the past few years, students have preferred product and core
companies rather than the IT services sector as whispers of a downturn,
delays in joining dates, etc, affect the image of the industry, sources
from these colleges say.
At the Vellore Institute of Technology, Flipkart beat Amazon and Google
with a Rs 12.5 lakh package, while Microsoft offered Rs 10.5 lakh.
Another e-commerce firm, PayPal, hired for Rs 8.25 lakh. Others such as
Schneider, Cisco and Thoughtworks are offering Rs 6-10 lakh. DE Shaw
came armed with a package of Rs 14.5 lakh and Amazon has given students a
retention bonus of Rs 1 lakh after a year. "We are here to compete with
MNCs such as Google, Yahoo and Adobe since we need students with
similar caliber," said Aparna Ballakur, HR head for Flipkart. The
e-commerce company will pick up its fresh batch from IITs, BITS Pilani,
NITs and VIT.
At the Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, IT product companies alone
have so far absorbed 8-10% of the 375-400 undergraduate batch. These
include the likes of Microsoft, Facebook and Direct-i. Overall, packages
are 15-20% higher than last year, says Saitab Sinha, deputy placement
head at the institute. Bangalore-based RV College of Engineering has
seen 35-40% of its 1,000 students roped in by a similar lot, and at
double the pay in some cases. Salaries offered at Delhi Technological
University are 30% higher than last year. "Several Korean companies have
offered packages of Rs 35-40 lakh, including perks, and joining bonus
amounting to Rs 1 lakh," says Neeraj Nimwal, training & placement
officer for the college.
IBM hired 154 students from the 2013 batch at Madurai-based Thiagarajar
College of Engineering, compared to 90 last time. Amazon has selected
two students for Rs 11.5 lakh and ITC, Thoughtworks, Athena Healthcare
have recruited for around Rs 6 lakh and above. Automotive manufacturing
companies such as Tata Motors, Maruti and SKF are ready to pay Rs
4.25-5.5 lakh to candidates.
Source : TOI
'IT companies should not over-reach themselves'
BANGALORE: India's big IT companies are building strong consulting
practices that are taking them into spaces traditionally dominated by
the likes of Accenture, Deloitte, PwC and even McKinsey and The Boston
Consulting Group.
Infosys' $350-million acquisition of Switzerland-headquartered
Lodestone, a consulting firm focused on SAP-enabled business
transformation, is only the latest indication of how serious IT
companies have become about consulting.
Cognizant has been organically building its consulting business but has
also made five global acquisitions since 2005 that have strengthened its
consulting capabilities in telecommunications , media &
entertainment, IT infrastructure services , high-end programme
management and IT testing.
HCL acquired UK-based Axon in 2008 that brought capabilities in SAP
consulting. Wipro has been focusing on business transformation
consulting and its head of consulting services Kirk Strawser has said
the company intends to become "the largest pure-play business
transformation consulting practice in the world" , with 5,000
consultants by 2015.
The company now has 1,750 consultants that offer advisory services on
designing, adopting and operating new business models to outpace
competitors.
Sundararaman Viswanathan of globalization advisory firm Zinnov
Management Consulting says Indian IT companies are increasingly seen as
viable options for some of the costlier offerings from global consulting
companies.
For IT companies, consulting brings at least two big benefits . One is,
as Gartner India's distinguished analyst Partha Iyengar says, they make
for "stickier client relationships". A lot of consulting happens not
with the CIO - the traditional interface for IT - but with other CXOs.
This helps get mindshare in company managements and boards, which then
translates into deeper and longer-term client relationships.
"We sell 40% of our consulting services through CXOs such as CEO, CFO,
COO, chief medical officer, chief marketing officer, chief risk &
compliance officer, and chief merchandising officer," says Nat
Radhakrishnan, VP in Cognizant's business consulting division. He says
in the last one year, consulting also helped to get 25 new clients for
Cognizant.
The second benefit is the downstream one. Most consulting assignments
will eventually translate into IT orders, because any business change
and transformation today involves technology transformation or the use
of technology. Iyengar notes that Cognizant has a strong application
portfolio management practice.
"If a customer hires Cognizant to analyse their application portfolio,
and the company spends 6 months doing it, then the customer will
inevitably also give the recommended application work to Cognizant. I
believe a lot of their application development and maintenance deals are
a result of their strong consulting practice," he says.
Acquisitions can accelerate and add to these benefits. An acquisition
not only brings new consultants with access to new customers and
geographies (which will eventually help the IT business), it could also
bring better tools and frameworks to diagnose problems and recommend new
ways.
It is these reusable tools and frameworks that are a consulting model's
strength. Ray Wang, CEO of Constellation Research, says Lodestone's
methodology and culture would transform Infosys. "Lodestone brings its
trademark IDEA methodology . IDEA represents insight, design, execute
and achieve. This approach aligns with Six Sigma standards and SAP ASAP
(the roadmap for implementing SAP solutions in a cost-effective , speedy
manner ) to improve the quality of implementation outcomes," he says.
Gartner's Iyengar, however, warns that IT companies should not
over-reach themselves. He says consulting's sweetspot is when a company
strategizes around the work (IT services in this case) that it is doing;
suggest to clients how to do their IT better, how to optimize.
"But if you try to do high end management consulting (organization
design/structure, general strategy etc that the McKinseys do), it may
not work out. Many clients have told us the last thing they want from
India is another management consulting firm. We don't have the
capability and maturity to provide such consulting. And acquisitions
will not help either," he says.
He believes Infosys has tended to get into high end management
consulting in the US. "The jury is out on that. There could be short to
medium term challenges," he says.
Cognizant has also been reaching into those spaces. It's working with
Saint-Gobain Building Distribution in the UK and Ireland to improve its
business processes, and identify areas of improvement and unlock
synergies among its many brands.
It's working with a publishing company to transform them into an
integrated media play. Technology is just a small part of these
exercises.
On the contrary, Wipro seems focused on technology-enabled business
transformation consulting (transforming businesses through, say, newer
technologies like mobility, cloud etc), which some find appealing.
Research firm Forrester recently analysed IT firms that are into such
consulting and said that amongst the pure-play Indian IT vendors, "Wipro
is the most advanced in terms of its approach and its vision for
transformational consulting".
Source : TOI
National Policy on IT to create 10 million jobs by 2020
NEW DELHI: The National Policy on Information Technology 2012,
which envisages the growth of the IT market to $300 billion and creation
of another 10 million jobs by 2020, has been approved by the union
cabinet.
A statement from the communications and IT ministry said the policy
attempts also to leverage India's global edge in information and
communication technology (ICT) to advance national competitiveness in
other sectors, particularly those of strategic and economic importance.
The thrust areas of the policy includes encouraging adoption of ICTs in
key sectors to improve their competitiveness and productivity besides
providing fiscal benefits to small and medium enterprises and start-ups
for adoption of IT in value creation.
It envisages creating a pool of 10 million additional skilled manpower
in ICT and make at least one individual in every household e-literate.
The policy will enhance transparency, accountability, efficiency,
reliability and decentralization in government and in particular, in
delivery of public services.
The policy will be notified in the Gazette shortly, the ministry said.
Source : TOI
Bench employees may hurt TCS, Wipro, Infy profits
BANGALORE: The rising number of idle workers in the US and Europe
for Indian software companies could drag profitability lower. This will
add to troubles already caused by an uncertain business environment,
where clients are delaying decisions around technology projects.
The so-called 'bench' consisting of engineers who are not working on any
active projects has increased by at least seven percentage points at
TCS, Infosys and Wipro, analysts said. Industry executives and analysts
are of the view that the swelling bench could shave off up to 150 basis
points from operating margins in the coming quarters.
Onsite utilisation rates, or the proportion of engineers in client
locations assigned to billable projects, have fallen to below 90 per
cent from 97 per cent at the beginning of the year. A senior industry
executive, who works closely with large IT companies, said that up to 18
per cent of onsite staff are sitting idle at some firms.
"Onsite bench size has swollen across large IT firms," said Hitesh Shah,
director of equity research at Mumbai-based brokerage IDFC Securities.
"With every contract won, companies hired more local staff, but they are
retained even after the deal matured. This adds to the bench until they
find another contract."
Typically, as an outsourcing contract matures, part of the work is moved
to less expensive offshore locations such as India. However, with the
jobless rate staying stubbornly high in the US and outsourcing becoming
caught in election-year politics, Indian IT companies would not want to
be seen as adding to problems.
Infosys, TCS, Wipro and HCL declined to comment.
Over the past two years, Indian IT firms have also been hiring more
aggressively in the US in anticipation of economic recovery there as
well as in response to higher rates of rejection of visa applications to
send workers from India. Local hiring is also being used to project a
community-friendly image in the US.
For Infosys, which counts JPMorgan and Bank of America among clients,
the swelling US bench has already made a dent in profits - a
210-basis-points negative impact on its operating margins during the
April-June quarter, according to Barclays Equity Research, which said
that Infosys saw its onsite bench rise to about 11 per cent during the
period from 5 per cent earlier.
Part of reasons why workers are sitting idle is because they do not have the right skill sets that new IT projects call for.
"There is a serious mismatch between the available skill sets and the
market demand," said Ajit Isaac, chief executive of Ikya Human Capital
Solutions, a professional staffing company that serves the Indian IT
sector.
If traditionally, application development and maintenance made up lion's
share of Indian IT's work, increasingly, clients are increasing seeking
services based on emerging technology areas such as enterprise
mobility, cloud computing and data analytics. Employees trained in these
technologies, however, are scarce, especially in the US.
Typically, about 10-15 per cent of the workforce of large IT firms is
based overseas at client locations. Bangalore-headquartered Infosys has
around 13,000 employees in the US while Wipro has about 10,000
employees. HCL Technologies has around 8,000 and TCS some 6,000.
Such a fall in utilisation levels and the burden of an idle workforce in
expensive locations could snowball into a persistent headache, if
business does not pick up in US and Europe, which together contribute
about 80 per cent of revenues for large Indian IT companies.
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Tier-II technology companies like MindTree use Facebook, Twitter for hiring
BANGALORE: With the top information technology services companies
toning down their recruitment push at campuses this year, many
second-level players are aggressively promoting themselves on social
media to lure quality talent.
Lacklustre growth and tight budgets at top IT firms like Infosys and
Wipro have given Tier-II companies like MindTree an opening to go after
the cream of the crop at engineering colleges. To give potential
candidates an idea of what's in store, Tier-II companies are beefing up
their presence on social media sites like Twitter, Youtube and
Facebook-the favourite online haunts of students.
MindTree is bringing together a team of about half a dozen social media
experts whose only goal will be to ensure that online videos
highlighting its employee-friendly policies go viral, or in other words
ensure that they get as many views as possible.
"Attracting the best is a huge effort," said Ravi Shankar, chief people
officer at MindTree. "Areas like computer science are no longer as
interesting they were few years ago."
MindTree, which has about 11,000 employees, hopes to hire 3,000 more
this year. The Bangalore-based company said the social media team,
formed by hiring professionals from multinationals, will be given
specific targets like the number of hits expected for a video. Its
performance will be evaluated every few weeks.
A recent report by digital measurement company comScore said that one in
four minutes spent online was on social networking sites, making them
an important platform for companies looking to hire staff, market
themselves or transact with customers. Recognising this trend, even the
government recently approved a code of conduct for employees using
social media sites.
Since finding the right fit is vital for both the student as well as the
company, social media sites help raise awareness and reduce costs
arising from a possible mismatch, said S Sadagopan, director of the
International Institute of Information Technology in Bangalore.
"This will work very well in Tier-II colleges where the best student
thinks of Wipro and Infosys as the only representative of the IT
sector," he observed.
The IT industry in India hires around 2 lakh engineers every year, with
campus placements commencing in September. This year the big ones are
playing it cool - while Infosys indicated that it may not go to all the
370 campuses it visited last year, the country's third-largest software
exporter Wipro is hiring fewer people directly from campuses.
Another second-tier company, UST Global, has its own strategy in place.
With more than 7,000 employees in India and plans of hiring about 2,500
this year, it relies on cloud-based campus-hiring platform Bind to
inform students who sign up about placement dates and other
updates."This helps to push the UST brand on the web," Praveen
Parameswaran, head of sourcing (offshore).
The company began its social media marketing efforts almost a year ago.
"We realised how important online platforms are, especially when it
comes to engaging with campus hires and prospective employees,"
Parameswaran said.
A few others have even asked the bosses to pitch in. Infinite Computer
Solutions told its CEO Upinder Zutshi to join Twitter last month. The
company, which will conduct interactive sessions using Facebook, has put
in place a team to monitor conversations about it on social media
platforms.
Source : TOI
Engineering R&D to create 1 million jobs by 2020: Nasscom
NEW DELHI: Indian offshore engineering research and development
(ER&D) services market is expected to reach $37-45 billion by 2020
and create over one million jobs, software industry body Nasscom said
today.
This exponential growth is a result of flexible business models, short
product life cycles and decreasing time to market, Nasscom President Som
Mittal said at the two-day Engineering Summit 2012 at Pune.
"Indian ER&D service has played a pivotal role in accelerating
innovation and is establishing India as a design and innovation hub,"
Mittal said, adding that incremental growth will be driven by newer
verticals and markets.
ER&D exports are estimated to be $10.2 billion, growing year-on-year
at 14 per cent and comprising 15 per cent share of the IT-BPO exports.
Mittal said the domestic Indian ER&D market is expected to add to
future growth with infrastructure, automotive, aerospace and energy as
well as increasing focus on promoting local manufacturing.
"To further build on this leadership position, the industry needs to
pursue continued efforts to build a high-calibre R&D pool by
instilling relevant research aptitudes and capabilities, both from
educational and training perspective," Mittal added.
While the ER&D services industry has been growing by leaps and
bounds, certain challenges exist and and require immediate redressal.
"India needs to sustain its cost competitiveness and fill its absence of
linkages to manufacturing capabilities. Also, lack of a formal
innovation policy and supporting ecosystem will pose a threat to the
budding ecosystem. Collaborative action is required to ensure future
growth," he said.
India is now an emerging epicentre of the global ER&D market with
more companies exploiting its supply base for future growth.
"It is important for major stakeholders of this industry - Indian
Government and trade associations to ensure the growth trajectory of the
industry and moving it to the next level of product development,"
Mittal said.
The theme of the summit is 'Engineering Innovations for a better world'
and has focus on key verticals including automotive, robotics,
construction, heavy engineering and telecom.
Source : TOI
MindTree Placement Paper : Candidate Experiences Latest (2012)-14 Sep 2011
Hello friends...
Mind Tree visited to our campus on 15th sep 2011.(engineers day).
And I got best gift of my life on engineer’s day...really proud to be
an engineer!!!
Out of 400+ only 30 could made it!
Selection process of mind tree was as follows:
1 Aptitude test
2 Technical interview
3 HR interview
Aptitude Test:
Paper pattern of Mind Tree is always variable. There were four sections:
1. Aptitude(Quant and Reasoning)(R.S. Agarwal is sufficient)
2. Technical(only C programming)
3. Programming(we have to write C code or algorithm or flowchart)
4. Essay Writing(email to ur manager)
Time limit was 50 mins for both Technical and aptitude section then 20 min for C programming and 10 min for easy writing.
Test was conduct by Mind tree team only. HR himself was present for test and it was very very strict environment.
It was not online test. Around 400+ students gave aptitude test.
90 shortlisted among them then 60 shortlisted in technical interview and
finally 30 were placed. I was so happy when i cracked aptitude.
Then they gave their presentation only to shortlisted candidates. Listen
it carefully. Many times they ask a question related to PPT. PPT was
interesting.
Then they called us for technical interview on the same day. My
technical interview lasted for almost 1 hour. He ask me about all the
possible subjects which i studied till date. First he ask me to explain
the C code which i had written in aptitude test.
I had done lots of mistake. He ask me to correct those mistakes. Then he
ask me to write a code to swap to variables using stack. I explained
him nicely but he was not giving me satisfactory expression.
He ask me very difficult questions related to C then i told him that i
am from Electronics and Telecommunication engineering. Then he
arrogantly answer me so what am also from ECE branch and I have studied C
before 20 years(he was pass out from IIT). You must answer it.
Then i somehow manage to answer him. Then he ask me about my favourite
subject. I said microcontroller. Then he immediately told me i will not
ask u a single question related to microcontroller. Lets discuss about
microprocessor. He ask me about 8085,8255,8086. I answered all his
questions.
Then he ask me about OPAMP, antenna, operating system. I answered all
his question very calmly and with confidence. Friends just be through
with any one subject which u have studied. It will be good if your
subject is related to digital electronics. And have patience.
Interviewer may try to loose your confidence but please don’t give him
chance and show confidence on ur face. Be happy. Coz mind tree is
looking for happy people. So keep smiling during interview.
Then just after Technical interview i was called for my HR. I was not at
all prepared for HR interview when they announced my name. Then i went
for my 1st HR interview.
And my HR interview goes as
Int:tell me something about yourself apart from ur resume.(be ready for this question as this is very 1st question.)
What are your strengths and weakness?
Live example where u have done team work.
What are five senses of human body?
What is social networking?
Tell me four networking sites?
How many hours u spend on facebook daily?
Advantages and disadvantages of facebook?
Which movie u saw recently?
Who were actress and actor in it?
What do u like from that movie?
Who is ur role model?
By which train u go to home?
How often u go to home?
Ur preferences?
About family background
I gave him all answer very confidently and maintain my smile.
Friends just relax and be confident whatever u speak. Don’t lie or don’t
try to bluff. HR is smarter than u. And go with positive attitude.
Friends don’t get frustrate there is something reserve for u too. Keep
faith on god. And remember hard work always pay!! So ALL THE BEST!!
See u in MIND TREE!!!