Infosys Placement Paper 122

Infosys Placement Papers

IBM-Latest fresher Interview Pattern

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
This 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.
We are providing you with some of the questions asked in the exam, so that you have an idea of what to expect in the written test.

Interview
There are two rounds of interviews, viz., the technical and and theHR 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.

Edited by rakesh_vyom - 21Jul2006 at 10:33pm


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