IBM
Written Test
The written test consists of two sections each of 45 minutes duration
Section#1
This is the aptitude section consisting of 45 questions to be attempted in 45 minutes. As is in all the exams, this section is based on the MBA pattern of examination.
Section#2
his is the technical section. There is a separate paper for hardware and software. Candidates have to mention beforehand whether they want to write the software or the hardware paper.This section also carries 45 questions to be completed in 45 minutes.
Interview
There are two rounds of interviews, viz., the technical and and the HR round
Technical and Personal Round for Software Candidates
Mainly subjective questions in C, Operating Systems, DBMS, Data Structures are asked interspersed with some on the candidate's personal background.
.Typical questions in C and Data Structures
1. WAP to interchange 2 variables without using the third one
2. Explain quick sort and merge sort algorithms amn derive the time-constraint relation for these.
3. Explain binary searching, fibonacci search
4. General questions on binary trees, transversals
5. General questions on graphs and their representation.
Typical Questions on Operating Systems
1. Demand paging, page faults, replacement algos, thrashing, etc
2. Paged segmentation and segment paging
In this section, case studies are presented are presented before the candidate to percieve his reaction and his/her communication skills are tested. IBM expects teamwork and teamspirit from the candidates and their answers should reflect this attitude
Typical question is
You are a project manager of a big multinational project. There is a person X, assigned to you who has the best technical skills required for the project, even better than you. But he wishes to be the project manager ,which the management does not permit, due to which he threatens to quit. All others in the group are not as competent. Talk yourself out of this situation pretending that the interviewer is the disgruntled employee and explain the necessary action.
(1 vote)
Candidates appeared for
Candidates appeared for written test : 307
Cleared written test : 136
Cleared GD : 93
Finally Selected Candidates : 38
And I am one of those 38 candidates.
Procedure:
1.WRITTEN TEST & ESSAY WRITING
2.GROUP DISCUSSION
3.TECHNICAL CUM HR INTERVIEW
1.WRITTEN TEST:
This is the new pattern of IBM. Ours is the 5th college in which this new pattern has been implemented. it contains 3 sections.
SECTION 1, some information is given in the form of matrices, with headings for rows as row1,row2 …. Etc.For columns with headings as column1,column 2…. Etc.those matrices r as follows.
Column1 column2 column3 column4
Row1 @ * 2 Z
Row2 S K ? $
Row3 I P Z +
Row4 # 8 F Q
Questons r as follows ( not same questions but same type)
1.if column1 , Column 4 r interchanged and row3 , row4 r interchanged and diagonal elements from top left to bottom right r written in reverse order then what is the element in row1 and column 1?
2.if Z’s in odd numbered rows r replced with 7’s and S’s in odd numbered columns r replaced with 5’s then which column elements sum equals to 9?
3.After giving similar type of conditions , what is the element left to H?
In this section they gave around 4 matrices of this type and gave some questions for each matrix.
Total No. of Questions r 15. these r multiple choice questions.5 answers were given for each question. No negative marks for this section. Time Limit is 13 minutes.
SECTION-2
All questions in this section r from number series. Total number of questions r 20.time limit is 4 minutes.these r also multiple choice questions( 5 options).Negative marking(1/4) is there for this section.
SECTION-3
Analytical type Questions . this secton is little bit tough.u must have practice to do this section.questions 12.time 15 minutes.Negative marking(1/4) is there for this section.
*** REMEMBER***
à time management is very very important. don’t waste time on questions which needs calculations. First attempt direct questions only.
à if there is no negative marking then attempt all questions.
ESSAY WRITING:
After written test immediately they will give a topic.we have to write an essay on that topic within 15 minutes in 200 to 300 words.our topic is LIFE AT CAMPUS.
GROUP DISCUSSION:
12 to 16 members in a group. time is 15 minutes.they gave us POVERTY IN INDIA.u have to speak something.otherwise u won’t go to next round.don’t give only intialisation or only conclusion.u have to be interactive throughout the session.other topics r MONEY MAKES IRRESPONSIBILITY,FOREIGN JOBS.
TECHNICAL CUM HR INTERVIEW:
Next day means on 1st july thy conducted interviews.
The persons of IBM r very cool .Most of the questions for me r of General type and HR .
What is interrupt.
Interrupt handler.
By opening a MS-WORD document if u press ‘A’, what r the different things will be happened.will this interrupt the OS or processor.
What is the turning point in ur life.
Hobbies.i said news paper reading. We discussed a lot of time regarding politics in Andhrapradesh.
à if u score good marks in written test,Essay writing,GD then ur interview will be shortened. So,be cool and confident ,then easily u can get.
Finally, they announced results at 2 p.m on 1st july 2007 .
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