Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
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I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Tell me about yourself?
- Q2. Tell me about your family or life before college?
- Q3. What do you do in free time?
- Q4. What would you expect from this company?
- Q5. Questions related to family and past life?
- Q6. Do you have any family member or friend in Bangalore?
- Q7. How will you find loop in the circular linked list?
- Q8. How will you perform pre-fix and post-fix operation for the given string expression?
- Q9. What is data analytics(cause I had mentioned it on the resume)? Just explain the basic and tell them how it can help us make decision/inference
- Q10. In my final year project I have used random forest. So he asked me to explain random forest. And other projects related questions
- Q11. What is your strength and weakness? why J P Morgan Chase? What do you expect from this company? I am from Mechanical Engineering, so she asked me why non-core?
- Q12. Few behavioral questions: What will you do if you have enough money and good idea to start your own company?
- Q13. How would you resolve team conflict between your idea and other idea, supported by majority?
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: The company came to our campus on day 3 and agreed to take walk-ins.
Therefore resume shortlisting was the procedure.
They had a cut off of 7 CGPA.
Tips: It would be good if you have some coding background with few projects. It could anything from class projects to your internships, extra-curricular or final year projects. Don't forget to mention what all programming language you know on your resume.
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: The first round consists of two panels. One of them was asking HR. And the other was asking technical questions. They were just looking whether you have the basic technical knowledge and if given an offer you will join or not.
Tips: For technical knowledge, you can refer OOPs basic concepts, standard coding interview problems, geeksforgeeks, cracking the coding interview by Laxman Gayle etc. It would be better if you can first practice hr questions among your friends instead of going directly to interview. I found a youtube channel explains technical relatively easier and simpler way. you can follow that. Just try to show that you are interested in that company.
For HR questions, one can prepare from 64 HR questions.
For the basic OOPs concepts, one can read first 10 chapters from E.Balaguruswamy but any other OOPs book will also be fine.
Confidence is the key ace any interview!!
Round: HR Interview
Experience: This round was mainly to check your personality. He was trying to know whether you will fit in the company or not. Most of the question was from my personal life. They will see whether you are serious about your life or not.
Tips: Be ready to give them instances of your life where you did things differently. Try to show that you are passionate about the company. Try to show you have a clear vision in your life and working hard to achieve that.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: This round was just a formality. The HR from the second round interview introduced me to the third interviewer. He asked few question related to the family.
Tips: One important thing I would like to is that NEVER ASSUME THAT WHATEVER YOU TOLD TO YOUR PREVIOUS INTERVIEWER WILL BE KNOWN TO THE NEXT INTERVIEW. So, if you think some specific points will help you do good in an interview...just let him know. I could be anything your project, conference, paper presentation or your past life as well.
Skills: Programming, Object Oriented Programming (OOP) Basics, Team Working Ability, Passion, Data Strrutures, Algorithm
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: The company came to our campus on day 3 and agreed to take walk-ins.
Therefore resume shortlisting was the procedure.
They had a cut off of 7 CGPA.
Tips: It would be good if you have some coding background with few projects. It could anything from class projects to your internships, extra-curricular or final year projects. Don't forget to mention what all programming language you know on your resume.
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: The first round consists of two panels. One of them was asking HR. And the other was asking technical questions. They were just looking whether you have the basic technical knowledge and if given an offer you will join or not.
Tips: For technical knowledge, you can refer OOPs basic concepts, standard coding interview problems, geeksforgeeks, cracking the coding interview by Laxman Gayle etc. It would be better if you can first practice hr questions among your friends instead of going directly to interview. I found a youtube channel explains technical relatively easier and simpler way. you can follow that. Just try to show that you are interested in that company.
For HR questions, one can prepare from 64 HR questions.
For the basic OOPs concepts, one can read first 10 chapters from E.Balaguruswamy but any other OOPs book will also be fine.
Confidence is the key ace any interview!!
Round: HR Interview
Experience: This round was mainly to check your personality. He was trying to know whether you will fit in the company or not. Most of the question was from my personal life. They will see whether you are serious about your life or not.
Tips: Be ready to give them instances of your life where you did things differently. Try to show that you are passionate about the company. Try to show you have a clear vision in your life and working hard to achieve that.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: This round was just a formality. The HR from the second round interview introduced me to the third interviewer. He asked few question related to the family.
Tips: One important thing I would like to is that NEVER ASSUME THAT WHATEVER YOU TOLD TO YOUR PREVIOUS INTERVIEWER WILL BE KNOWN TO THE NEXT INTERVIEW. So, if you think some specific points will help you do good in an interview...just let him know. I could be anything your project, conference, paper presentation or your past life as well.
Skills: Programming, Object Oriented Programming (OOP) Basics, Team Working Ability, Passion, Data Strrutures, Algorithm
College Name: IIT Madras
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SHUBHAM VINAYAK KALE shubham
posted on 4 Dec 2016
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Project/DDP based questions
- Q2. Any coding done in curriculum, explain the most complex one
- Q3. What is 'Big data'? Why is it called 'Big'
- Q4. Why do you want to switch to IT sector from your respective branch
- Q5. I did a course on compute simulation and had extra curricular in chess, so was asked to simulate a chess game
- Q6. Two friends A & B meet after long time, A asks B about his family. B says he has 3 children, product of their ages is 36, and sum of their ages is equal to the ...read more
- Q7. A rat has 3000 gm of rice, he has to travel a distance of 3000m, he eats 1gm rice/m, his maximum carrying capcity is 1000 gm,how should he travel the distance t...read more
- Q8. A new software has 3 functions SelectSum(), log() and exp(). You have a table of 1000 data points, how will you find product of all points using only the above ...read more
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Aptitude part has easy questions, including number series, picture series, interest rate and some quant based questions.
The coding part is difficult.2-3 coding questions, Codes will be related to linked lists , trees or sorting.
Tips: Try to get maximum marks in aptitude, which should be fine with some practice . One of the code will be easy, so complete it and make a try for second
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 30
Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: very easy puzzles, I was able to solve all puzzles in first attempt
Tips: Be confident in your approach they are locking for approach more than result
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I answered all resume based questions, he liked my choice of projects, though they were not exactly related to the profile. He liked me and said I would recommend you directly to HR round
Tips: Prepare in details about all points in resume, course work mentioned and projects, Based on performance in this interview, they decide to whether to take one more technical interview or send directly to HR
Skills: Behavioural Skills, Puzzle Solving Capability, Approaching A Problem, Basic Coding
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Aptitude part has easy questions, including number series, picture series, interest rate and some quant based questions.
The coding part is difficult.2-3 coding questions, Codes will be related to linked lists , trees or sorting.
Tips: Try to get maximum marks in aptitude, which should be fine with some practice . One of the code will be easy, so complete it and make a try for second
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 30
Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: very easy puzzles, I was able to solve all puzzles in first attempt
Tips: Be confident in your approach they are locking for approach more than result
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I answered all resume based questions, he liked my choice of projects, though they were not exactly related to the profile. He liked me and said I would recommend you directly to HR round
Tips: Prepare in details about all points in resume, course work mentioned and projects, Based on performance in this interview, they decide to whether to take one more technical interview or send directly to HR
Skills: Behavioural Skills, Puzzle Solving Capability, Approaching A Problem, Basic Coding
College Name: IIT Madras
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Neel Kumar Bodanki
posted on 2 Dec 2016
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Write a pseudo code to find the k'th largest element in a array
- Q2. A question based on expectation
- Q3. Another coding question(cannot remember which one)
- Q4. This round was completely based on probability and expectations. Asked 3-4 questions on expectations
- Q5. Probability and coding
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: There were total 10 multiple choice questions and 4 subjective questions.
The MCQ's were based on Probability and expectation.
The descriptive were based on
1. Number Theory
2. Puzzle
3. Coding (Need not write compilable version but write a clear pseudo code).
4. Coding(Same as above).
Solve puzzles in heard on the street and day 1.0 book. Finish the course Data Structures and Algorithms.
Tips: Must correctly solve atleast 9 of the probability MCQ to ensure a final interview shortlist.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes
Total Questions: 14
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: He asks you write a pseudo code for the question asked. You must write a clear working algorithm. If you make small mistakes, he will try and correct you but huge algorithm errors can cost you the call for next round.Remember to give correct time complexities for the algorithm written. Be clear and try to explain your thinking process to the interviewer. If you are stuck, try to explain your idea and where you are stuck. He will help you move further. The whole interview lasted around 40-45 mins.
Tips: Maintaining communication with the interviewer is very important. Asked reason for low CGPA (mine was 7.94).
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: One o the question was - If you break a stick of unit length into two parts then what is the expected length of the longer part. A few others to calculate mean and standard deviations etc.
Tips: Must communicate with the interviewer and show him your arrival at the solution. They usually respond positively if you give them the correct answer. If you make a mistake, will give you a small hint to correct yourself but if you still make it, then you're out. If you are good with stochastic processes , then it would definitely increase your chances of progression.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Started with asking about favourite coding language. Chose Java , then asked basic questions like what is static class and what is it used for (OOPS concepts). Asked a few probability questions and then a few DSA questions.
Tips: Was bad in a section( I could not answer OOPS questions)but still gave me a chance again. If you recover from it and answer remaining correctly then you get to go to the HR round.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Telephonic interview and was asked few questions about myself like education, Family background, Why job instead of higher studies, why job in finance and specifically Quantitative research, future plans etc.
Tips: This was not really tough. The HR also tried to explain what the job was about. They confirmed the Job Offer within 5 minutes after the phone call ended.
Skills: Coding Skills And Knowledge On Data Structures, Probability And Statistics, Solving Logic Puzzles
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: There were total 10 multiple choice questions and 4 subjective questions.
The MCQ's were based on Probability and expectation.
The descriptive were based on
1. Number Theory
2. Puzzle
3. Coding (Need not write compilable version but write a clear pseudo code).
4. Coding(Same as above).
Solve puzzles in heard on the street and day 1.0 book. Finish the course Data Structures and Algorithms.
Tips: Must correctly solve atleast 9 of the probability MCQ to ensure a final interview shortlist.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes
Total Questions: 14
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: He asks you write a pseudo code for the question asked. You must write a clear working algorithm. If you make small mistakes, he will try and correct you but huge algorithm errors can cost you the call for next round.Remember to give correct time complexities for the algorithm written. Be clear and try to explain your thinking process to the interviewer. If you are stuck, try to explain your idea and where you are stuck. He will help you move further. The whole interview lasted around 40-45 mins.
Tips: Maintaining communication with the interviewer is very important. Asked reason for low CGPA (mine was 7.94).
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: One o the question was - If you break a stick of unit length into two parts then what is the expected length of the longer part. A few others to calculate mean and standard deviations etc.
Tips: Must communicate with the interviewer and show him your arrival at the solution. They usually respond positively if you give them the correct answer. If you make a mistake, will give you a small hint to correct yourself but if you still make it, then you're out. If you are good with stochastic processes , then it would definitely increase your chances of progression.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Started with asking about favourite coding language. Chose Java , then asked basic questions like what is static class and what is it used for (OOPS concepts). Asked a few probability questions and then a few DSA questions.
Tips: Was bad in a section( I could not answer OOPS questions)but still gave me a chance again. If you recover from it and answer remaining correctly then you get to go to the HR round.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Telephonic interview and was asked few questions about myself like education, Family background, Why job instead of higher studies, why job in finance and specifically Quantitative research, future plans etc.
Tips: This was not really tough. The HR also tried to explain what the job was about. They confirmed the Job Offer within 5 minutes after the phone call ended.
Skills: Coding Skills And Knowledge On Data Structures, Probability And Statistics, Solving Logic Puzzles
College Name: IIT Madras
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I was interviewed in Dec 2016.
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Write the algorithm for reversing the string
- Q2. Write an algorithm to select the number between min and maximum from a number series and that number shouldn't be a multiple of 10
- Q3. This was puzzle: you have 2 eggs and 100 floors. Eggs will start break beyond a particular floor. You can throw eggs from any of the floor. How will you minimis...read more
- Q4. Assume yourself as CEO of a company. You have vacancies and you are conducting interviews. 4 candidates (1. An IITian, 2. A woman, 3. Gay, 4.Physically handicap...read more
- Q5. My interview was just after demonetization. So question was, assume you are CEO of Paytm. What will be your key values and what will be your strategy to add mor...read more
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Aptitude part was pretty straightforward. Make sure you don't loose too much time on one question. Most of the questions were very easy. Number series, men working hours, probability and simple math calculations are enough to crack the test.
Coding part will definitely have one easy question (mostly will be on sorting algos). Basic coding knowledge is enough for this part.
Tips: Aptitude : Speed is the key. Since questions are easy, one who gets more than others will be shortlistled for the Interviews.
Coding: Make sure you solve atleast 1 problem correctly. And then try to attempt others.
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 28
Round: Behavioural Interview
Experience: They also asked basic interview hr questions. Be prepared with your stories. If One of your story can make you look out of the stand, it will definitely work for this round. Strengths, weakness and where do you see yourself after 5 years.
Tips: Be confident. And be ready to defend your answers.
Skills: Math Puzzles, Algorithms And Data Structures, HR Skills, Inter Person Communication Skills
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Aptitude part was pretty straightforward. Make sure you don't loose too much time on one question. Most of the questions were very easy. Number series, men working hours, probability and simple math calculations are enough to crack the test.
Coding part will definitely have one easy question (mostly will be on sorting algos). Basic coding knowledge is enough for this part.
Tips: Aptitude : Speed is the key. Since questions are easy, one who gets more than others will be shortlistled for the Interviews.
Coding: Make sure you solve atleast 1 problem correctly. And then try to attempt others.
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 28
Round: Behavioural Interview
Experience: They also asked basic interview hr questions. Be prepared with your stories. If One of your story can make you look out of the stand, it will definitely work for this round. Strengths, weakness and where do you see yourself after 5 years.
Tips: Be confident. And be ready to defend your answers.
Skills: Math Puzzles, Algorithms And Data Structures, HR Skills, Inter Person Communication Skills
College Name: IIT Madras
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Rashmi Ravishankar
posted on 6 Nov 2016
I applied via Campus Placement
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. How would you find the square root of a number using code? (Answer: Binary Search)
- Q2. Check if a linked list is looped onto itself (Answer: Hashmaps)
- Q3. Prove that p^2-1 is divisible by 8. Divisible by 24? (p is a prime) Is this true for all primes?
- Q4. How many cuts needed to divide a cube into 27 smaller cubes. Explain your logic. (Answer: 6)
- Q5. What is the probability that three unbiased dices to roll such that a>b>c. Extrapolate to five random number generators (1 to n)
- Q6. 50 red marbles, 50 blue marbles. 2 jars in a room. Divide the marbles into the 2 jars such that you maximise the probability that a blind man picks up a red mar...read more
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Good. No glitches.
Tips: I had made a specific resume for Analytics/ Finance/ Consult profile. Since I had absolutely no economics coursework to talk about, I included a line about interests and wrote "economics, current affairs and languages" under that heading. I think my Data Analytics course and knowledge of quite a few programming languages helped. The 3 main categories in my CV were Academics, Co curricular, and Leadership.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Extremely good experience- I was out of the country and they accommodated my needs and video interviewed me. More importantly, there was an audio glitch that we couldn't diagnose- the interviewers were very patient and used Whatsapp call for the entire audio portion of the interview!
Tips: Stay calm, and tell them what you are thinking in clear terms. This way, even if you don't get the final answer, you will be given points for your thought process. I actually approached quite a few problems incorrectly, but since I was explaining my thoughts to them, they quickly helped me course correct by giving hints, and I took it forward from there.
Round: Other Interview
Experience: Again, very good experience! Accommodated my being in a different timezone very well.
Tips: Same as interview one.
General Tips: Stay calm, and prepare "walk me through your CV" properly.
Skill Tips: Study Probab, Geeksforgeeks, etc.
Skills: Probability Concepts, Algorithms And Data Structures, Basic Coding, Ability To Analyse
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: Dream company!
Experience: Good. No glitches.
Tips: I had made a specific resume for Analytics/ Finance/ Consult profile. Since I had absolutely no economics coursework to talk about, I included a line about interests and wrote "economics, current affairs and languages" under that heading. I think my Data Analytics course and knowledge of quite a few programming languages helped. The 3 main categories in my CV were Academics, Co curricular, and Leadership.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Extremely good experience- I was out of the country and they accommodated my needs and video interviewed me. More importantly, there was an audio glitch that we couldn't diagnose- the interviewers were very patient and used Whatsapp call for the entire audio portion of the interview!
Tips: Stay calm, and tell them what you are thinking in clear terms. This way, even if you don't get the final answer, you will be given points for your thought process. I actually approached quite a few problems incorrectly, but since I was explaining my thoughts to them, they quickly helped me course correct by giving hints, and I took it forward from there.
Round: Other Interview
Experience: Again, very good experience! Accommodated my being in a different timezone very well.
Tips: Same as interview one.
General Tips: Stay calm, and prepare "walk me through your CV" properly.
Skill Tips: Study Probab, Geeksforgeeks, etc.
Skills: Probability Concepts, Algorithms And Data Structures, Basic Coding, Ability To Analyse
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: Dream company!
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I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
3 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Basic coding questions on stacks, algorithms
- Q2. Having Analytical skills is also essential
- Q3. Puzzles were asked at the end. Solving all basic standard puzzles is also essential
- Q4. Problems on array manipulations
- Q5. Finding duplicate element in the array
- Q6. Questions on your projects don in institute
- Q7. Basic questions on your background, family details
- Q8. Be comfortable while talking about your commitment towards the company
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Tips: Be confidant while solving the problems and also have basic idea on what the profile is about.
Skills: Coding Skills And Knowledge On Data Structures, Analytical Skills, Big Data Analytics
College Name: IIT Madras
Tips: Be confidant while solving the problems and also have basic idea on what the profile is about.
Skills: Coding Skills And Knowledge On Data Structures, Analytical Skills, Big Data Analytics
College Name: IIT Madras
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4 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Explain the Eurozone debt crisis
- Q2. Difference between a bond and a debenture
- Q3. What is working capital
- Q4. Explain how the balance sheet works for banking sector
- Q5. If I buy a piece of equipment, walk me through the impact on the 3 financial statements
- Q6. What is goodwill ?
- Q7. What is a deferred tax asset ?
- Q8. Tell me about yourself
- Q9. Why finance or investment banking ?
- Q10. How did you develop your interest towards this field ?
- Q11. What are your strengths and weaknesses ?
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I had done a couple of finance projects, one internship in a VC firm and published a paper at IIM Calcutta. All this excited the interviewer and he started grilling me about various questions related to the course projects, generally about basic terms in finance and about my internship. These answers I had well prepared and hence were smooth to answer. But what was unexpected is where it would lead to once you answer the initial set of questions. I was asked to explain Eurozone debt crisis in simple language. I had also given CFA and FRM level 1 exams and there were a few questions related to risk management and portfolio investment.
PS: Please note that since I had done so many things related to the core work at JP Morgan I was asked a lot of questions in core finance. IT IS NOT AT ALL NECESSARY that you will be asked the same questions.
Tips: Know the basics really well. It goes a long way if you know the concepts crystal clear. You can watch a few videos that explain the various crises and why they happened on Youtube. ( I have put up the links in the preparation material section). Be confident and if you don't know the answer, be straightforward to tell that you are not aware of that or maybe even have forgotten at the moment. Honesty helps! The interviewer can always guide you if you are stuck somewhere so ensure you attempt to answer or atleast get closer to the answer. Many a times they want to look into or analyze your thought process rather than getting the correct exact answer itself!
Round: Problem Statement
Experience: It should be easy if your fundamentals are really clear. The case as such does not matter much since the positives and negatives of different valuation models are pretty much well known. I showed on how i arrived at the number using the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Valuation model and Comparative Comparison Valuation model. They also wanted to check on how well you write and are able to put out on paper as this was a Junior Analyst interview for a Equity Research Analyst role.
Tips: Revise the various types of valuation models well and know the assumptions correctly. Models could get really complex sometimes but you should be clear with how you get at the final number and be able to explain it easily. Conceptually this is very interesting. This pretty much forms the basics of a lot of concepts in finance.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: This was a simple round. Usually you know the HR round questions already and hence you know how you could answer and even manipulate and steer the interview in your favour. Ensure you are clear with basic questions about how you got interested in this field and why you would like to pursue finance as a career option and not your core field (in my case it was civil engineering). A clear and simple story with facts shows that you have prepared well for the interview and have something concrete to say. So do prepare for these kind of questions and don't take them lightly.
Tips: Practice out loud alone and with your friends and take feedback. Most of the times you would yourself realize that you have not answered in the best way possible. But at the same time do not push yourself so much that you get confused at the end moment. Keep a good balance. Try writing down points on a piece of paper and then frame them accordingly on the spot. It always better to know the important points instead of "mugging up an answer". A good interviewer can always tell the difference.
Preparation for this round actually helps you connect with your inner self and you start to ask yourself why you think you deserve this job and why this is a very good bet as a career option. Hence do go through this exercise atleast a few times! :)
General Tips: In my case I had prepared a lot from various resources. I have put it out in detail in the previous section section.
CFA and FRM exams helped a lot for building a strong foundation but more importantly you actually need to be passionate about financial markets, how investment banks function, know the work details about your job profile and be excited about finance in general.
Do not try and put things in resume that you think will "look" very good but you wouldn't be able to explain it thoroughly. The job is very demanding and requires long working hours, so be prepared for it. Know some basic numbers like GDP of top economies, population, interest rates, valuations, etc so that even if you guess things it should sound reasonable.
Skill Tips: The best way to prepare would be actually building financial models, doing an internship in a financial services firm and getting a first hand experience of all the above. Theory part can be understood through CFA or FRM Level 1 books which pretty much cover the basics of finance.
Skills: Financial Modeling, Valuations, Mergers & Acquisitions, Basics of stock market, Portfolio Management, Risk Management
College Name: IIT MADRAS
Motivation: I was very keen to work at an Investment Bank. I had given CFA and FRM Level 1 and it had got me very excited about financial markets in general. I was trading part time and thoroughly enjoyed it. JP Morgan being one of the largest and most reputed Investment Banks I thought would give me exposure to various facets of equity research and thus improve my knowledge and understanding about markets. Also I was referred by my senior Kartheek Konanki who was an alum of IIT-Madras and the idea of having working with a lot of colleagues from various IITs excited me.
Funny Moments: I was asked a lot of questions about the movies I had seen like Wall Street, Boiler room and was asked to explain what happened to which character and why ? and that was not expected :P But they did make me comfortable and referred me other movies and books that would make learning all the more interesting. Net-net I think the interview had its fair share of ups and downs :D
Experience: I had done a couple of finance projects, one internship in a VC firm and published a paper at IIM Calcutta. All this excited the interviewer and he started grilling me about various questions related to the course projects, generally about basic terms in finance and about my internship. These answers I had well prepared and hence were smooth to answer. But what was unexpected is where it would lead to once you answer the initial set of questions. I was asked to explain Eurozone debt crisis in simple language. I had also given CFA and FRM level 1 exams and there were a few questions related to risk management and portfolio investment.
PS: Please note that since I had done so many things related to the core work at JP Morgan I was asked a lot of questions in core finance. IT IS NOT AT ALL NECESSARY that you will be asked the same questions.
Tips: Know the basics really well. It goes a long way if you know the concepts crystal clear. You can watch a few videos that explain the various crises and why they happened on Youtube. ( I have put up the links in the preparation material section). Be confident and if you don't know the answer, be straightforward to tell that you are not aware of that or maybe even have forgotten at the moment. Honesty helps! The interviewer can always guide you if you are stuck somewhere so ensure you attempt to answer or atleast get closer to the answer. Many a times they want to look into or analyze your thought process rather than getting the correct exact answer itself!
Round: Problem Statement
Experience: It should be easy if your fundamentals are really clear. The case as such does not matter much since the positives and negatives of different valuation models are pretty much well known. I showed on how i arrived at the number using the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Valuation model and Comparative Comparison Valuation model. They also wanted to check on how well you write and are able to put out on paper as this was a Junior Analyst interview for a Equity Research Analyst role.
Tips: Revise the various types of valuation models well and know the assumptions correctly. Models could get really complex sometimes but you should be clear with how you get at the final number and be able to explain it easily. Conceptually this is very interesting. This pretty much forms the basics of a lot of concepts in finance.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: This was a simple round. Usually you know the HR round questions already and hence you know how you could answer and even manipulate and steer the interview in your favour. Ensure you are clear with basic questions about how you got interested in this field and why you would like to pursue finance as a career option and not your core field (in my case it was civil engineering). A clear and simple story with facts shows that you have prepared well for the interview and have something concrete to say. So do prepare for these kind of questions and don't take them lightly.
Tips: Practice out loud alone and with your friends and take feedback. Most of the times you would yourself realize that you have not answered in the best way possible. But at the same time do not push yourself so much that you get confused at the end moment. Keep a good balance. Try writing down points on a piece of paper and then frame them accordingly on the spot. It always better to know the important points instead of "mugging up an answer". A good interviewer can always tell the difference.
Preparation for this round actually helps you connect with your inner self and you start to ask yourself why you think you deserve this job and why this is a very good bet as a career option. Hence do go through this exercise atleast a few times! :)
General Tips: In my case I had prepared a lot from various resources. I have put it out in detail in the previous section section.
CFA and FRM exams helped a lot for building a strong foundation but more importantly you actually need to be passionate about financial markets, how investment banks function, know the work details about your job profile and be excited about finance in general.
Do not try and put things in resume that you think will "look" very good but you wouldn't be able to explain it thoroughly. The job is very demanding and requires long working hours, so be prepared for it. Know some basic numbers like GDP of top economies, population, interest rates, valuations, etc so that even if you guess things it should sound reasonable.
Skill Tips: The best way to prepare would be actually building financial models, doing an internship in a financial services firm and getting a first hand experience of all the above. Theory part can be understood through CFA or FRM Level 1 books which pretty much cover the basics of finance.
Skills: Financial Modeling, Valuations, Mergers & Acquisitions, Basics of stock market, Portfolio Management, Risk Management
College Name: IIT MADRAS
Motivation: I was very keen to work at an Investment Bank. I had given CFA and FRM Level 1 and it had got me very excited about financial markets in general. I was trading part time and thoroughly enjoyed it. JP Morgan being one of the largest and most reputed Investment Banks I thought would give me exposure to various facets of equity research and thus improve my knowledge and understanding about markets. Also I was referred by my senior Kartheek Konanki who was an alum of IIT-Madras and the idea of having working with a lot of colleagues from various IITs excited me.
Funny Moments: I was asked a lot of questions about the movies I had seen like Wall Street, Boiler room and was asked to explain what happened to which character and why ? and that was not expected :P But they did make me comfortable and referred me other movies and books that would make learning all the more interesting. Net-net I think the interview had its fair share of ups and downs :D
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Interview Questions
- Q1. What is the most complex algorithm you've ever written?
- Q2. Asked to explain my recent project in detail.
- Q3. Asked which algorithm I’d used. I explained the algorithm with examples.Time complexity of my most recent project
- Q4. How did you test your project?
- Q5. Any conflicts within the team while making the project? How did you resolve them?
- Q6. What are your weaknesses?
- Q7. What are you passionate about?
- Q8. What are the two things you really want to do with your passion?
- Q9. One innovative change you would like to bring in the current ATM system. (We had a healthy discussion on this one.)
- Q10. What is your family background?
- Q11. One thing about your life you would want to change?
- Q12. Do you have any senior friends at JPMC? I said "Yeah, many." They asked me to name them, and wrote a few names on the back of my resume
- Q13. What is the difference between you now and in this photo? (the photo attached to my document)
- Q14. Why do you like JPMC?
- Q15. What are your Strengths and Weaknesses?
- Q16. What is your Location preference?
- Q17. Ready to work night shifts?
- Q18. Any plans for further studies?
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: It was a pen & paper test. There were 4 sections, 20 questions and 20 minutes for each section. You cannot switch between the sections as they take the question paper after a particular section is timed out.
1. Verbal- Comprehension and basic grammatical sentence structuring. I solved the latter part first. It wasn't very difficult
.2. Logic- Find the next number in series, next figure stuff. This was the simplest section.
3. Quants- Not that easy, but manageable.
4. Programming- Very difficult. Questions were majorly of the type:
a) Get the output (Almost all the codes had complexity n^2.)
b) Which of the following options is the correct algorithm for c) Output of flowchart (Honestly, I don’t even remember seeing the flowcharts.)
d) One or two theory questions.
I solved around 7-8, made logical guesses for the rest.There was no negative marking, so I made sure I attempted all the questions. Also, I marked the answers with pencil, so that if I get time at the end of any section, I can change an answer after cross checking. After the aptitude test, we were given a chance to interact with the managers of the company. It was not a very formal session. Make sure you make the most of this opportunity, as no other company gives you such a chance. Get all your doubts about the company cleared in these 20-30 minutes. I gained some interesting insights about the company in this session. This was not an elimination round.
Tips: All of us struggled with this section. My suggestion would be to scan the paper for the theory questions first, then type a) questions and then type b). I doubt you’ll get time for type c). Another key point is to not get stuck on a particular question for a long time. If you are finding it difficult, there’s a possibility that others are also struggling with that question. So it would be wise to utilize that time to solve a few simple questions rather than one tough question. After all, weightage for each question is the same. ;)
Duration: 80 minutes
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Any questions for me? (I asked him about one of their products. )They look for many things apart from your technical skills.
General Tips: Always dress properly. Even if you are told that 'semi-formals' are allowed,wear formals.Read about the company and be thorough with the job they're offering. Sit for the company only if it interests you. I sat only for those companies whose job profiles aligned with my job preference.Eat your breakfast/lunch. Fruits preferably. Interview day can be stressful sometimes and you need energy to look lively in your interview.Don’t forget your manners. Ask for permission to enter the room, greet them and thank them after your interview.If you are rejected for a company, don't lose hope. Instead, accept the decision and analyze where you went wrong. Work on it and make sure you never repeat that mistake again.Come talk to me if you aren't able to cope up with rejections.Even I faced rejections, but every rejection taught me something that eventually helped me on 22nd September, in one way or the other. :)
College Name: IIT MADRAS
Experience: It was a pen & paper test. There were 4 sections, 20 questions and 20 minutes for each section. You cannot switch between the sections as they take the question paper after a particular section is timed out.
1. Verbal- Comprehension and basic grammatical sentence structuring. I solved the latter part first. It wasn't very difficult
.2. Logic- Find the next number in series, next figure stuff. This was the simplest section.
3. Quants- Not that easy, but manageable.
4. Programming- Very difficult. Questions were majorly of the type:
a) Get the output (Almost all the codes had complexity n^2.)
b) Which of the following options is the correct algorithm for c) Output of flowchart (Honestly, I don’t even remember seeing the flowcharts.)
d) One or two theory questions.
I solved around 7-8, made logical guesses for the rest.There was no negative marking, so I made sure I attempted all the questions. Also, I marked the answers with pencil, so that if I get time at the end of any section, I can change an answer after cross checking. After the aptitude test, we were given a chance to interact with the managers of the company. It was not a very formal session. Make sure you make the most of this opportunity, as no other company gives you such a chance. Get all your doubts about the company cleared in these 20-30 minutes. I gained some interesting insights about the company in this session. This was not an elimination round.
Tips: All of us struggled with this section. My suggestion would be to scan the paper for the theory questions first, then type a) questions and then type b). I doubt you’ll get time for type c). Another key point is to not get stuck on a particular question for a long time. If you are finding it difficult, there’s a possibility that others are also struggling with that question. So it would be wise to utilize that time to solve a few simple questions rather than one tough question. After all, weightage for each question is the same. ;)
Duration: 80 minutes
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Any questions for me? (I asked him about one of their products. )They look for many things apart from your technical skills.
General Tips: Always dress properly. Even if you are told that 'semi-formals' are allowed,wear formals.Read about the company and be thorough with the job they're offering. Sit for the company only if it interests you. I sat only for those companies whose job profiles aligned with my job preference.Eat your breakfast/lunch. Fruits preferably. Interview day can be stressful sometimes and you need energy to look lively in your interview.Don’t forget your manners. Ask for permission to enter the room, greet them and thank them after your interview.If you are rejected for a company, don't lose hope. Instead, accept the decision and analyze where you went wrong. Work on it and make sure you never repeat that mistake again.Come talk to me if you aren't able to cope up with rejections.Even I faced rejections, but every rejection taught me something that eventually helped me on 22nd September, in one way or the other. :)
College Name: IIT MADRAS
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I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. The questions are coding data structures
- Q2. How would you find a loop in a linkedlist?
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: The questions are from expectations.
Practice probability
Duration: 1 hour
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Questions are adaptive,I mean interviewer builds up questions basing on our answering
Skills: Data Structures and Algorithms, Mathematics, Probability And Statistics
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: The questions are from expectations.
Practice probability
Duration: 1 hour
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Questions are adaptive,I mean interviewer builds up questions basing on our answering
Skills: Data Structures and Algorithms, Mathematics, Probability And Statistics
College Name: IIT Madras
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posted on 9 Jan 2016
6 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Tell me about yourself
- Q2. Why a bank not some IT company?
- Q3. Internships and projects
- Q4. Family background
- Q5. Hobbies and general interests
- Q6. Plans for higher studies and why not continue in Aerospace Engg?
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: I don't think there was a resume shortlist.
Round: Test
Experience: Pen & paper test. Interviewers had our answer scripts pined to the resume during the interviews. Section 5 played a major role in advancing through the interviews.
Section 1:
Multiple choice questions on OOP in JAVA (They wanted to test our JAVA skills because most their applications are written in JAVA). Many students who got shortlisted for the interview didn't know JAVA including me. Since there was no negative marking I attempted every question.
Section 2,3,4:
Questions were simple. I think they shortlisted based only on these 3 sections.
Section 5:
Two programming questions were asked and you have to attempt any one, we had to code in C/C++/JAVA. Questions are very simple if you have minimum knowledge of DSA
Q1. Remove duplicates in Linked list.(I did it using hash map)
Q2. Find Kth largest element in array. (I didn't do this in the test. They asked me this in one of my interviews)
Duration: 120 minutes
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: First interview was taken by Vice President, Global Technology, JP Morgan Chase.
This round mostly contained Technical questions with some HR questions, had to talk about internships (I interned with TechMahindra, Ambitionbox.com and NAL) and projects. He asked me around 5 algorithm based questions(mostly on string manipulations and string buffers) and couple of puzzles. No coding was there in this round. I felt most of these were standard questions, I think I answered every question. 20 min interview.
He told me I will be having two more rounds, one HR and one Technical.
Tips: Be confident and show enthusiasm while answering.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Interviewed by HR head.
General conversation between two. No complicated HR questions. 15 min interview.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Interviewed by Director
For first 15 min he talked about growth opportunities in the firm, platforms they work on(why they are migrating from JAVA to Python), What kind of challenges they face, How working in bank different from typical IT company. Most of these are followups of the questions I asked him.
Next 15 min was technical. He asked couple of algorithm based questions, still no coding. One of these is to reverse a doubly linked list, I told him 3 or 4 possible solutions.
He told me I will have one more technical interview in 5 min.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Interviewed by other Vice President
This round was entirely coding, he wanted to know how I proceed in solving a programming problem. Asked me choose any programming language and code in that, I chose C++. At the end he asked some puzzles. Following are some of the questions
1. Find Kth largest element in array
2. N-queen problem - backtracking implementation
3. Searching for small tree(10 nodes) in a huge tree(1 billion nodes)
This went on for 30 - 40 min
General Tips: Take DSA course. Practice lot of coding problems on platforms like hackerrank, hackerearth, codechef etc. Try to maintain good CGPA, they were looking for candidates with very high CGPA
Skill Tips: Read cracking the coding interview by Gayle Laakman, few questions were directly asked from this book. Practice on hackerrank, read articles on geekforgeeks etc
Skills: Logical Puzzles, Coding Skills, Data Structures And Algorithms
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: I don't think there was a resume shortlist.
Round: Test
Experience: Pen & paper test. Interviewers had our answer scripts pined to the resume during the interviews. Section 5 played a major role in advancing through the interviews.
Section 1:
Multiple choice questions on OOP in JAVA (They wanted to test our JAVA skills because most their applications are written in JAVA). Many students who got shortlisted for the interview didn't know JAVA including me. Since there was no negative marking I attempted every question.
Section 2,3,4:
Questions were simple. I think they shortlisted based only on these 3 sections.
Section 5:
Two programming questions were asked and you have to attempt any one, we had to code in C/C++/JAVA. Questions are very simple if you have minimum knowledge of DSA
Q1. Remove duplicates in Linked list.(I did it using hash map)
Q2. Find Kth largest element in array. (I didn't do this in the test. They asked me this in one of my interviews)
Duration: 120 minutes
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: First interview was taken by Vice President, Global Technology, JP Morgan Chase.
This round mostly contained Technical questions with some HR questions, had to talk about internships (I interned with TechMahindra, Ambitionbox.com and NAL) and projects. He asked me around 5 algorithm based questions(mostly on string manipulations and string buffers) and couple of puzzles. No coding was there in this round. I felt most of these were standard questions, I think I answered every question. 20 min interview.
He told me I will be having two more rounds, one HR and one Technical.
Tips: Be confident and show enthusiasm while answering.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Interviewed by HR head.
General conversation between two. No complicated HR questions. 15 min interview.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Interviewed by Director
For first 15 min he talked about growth opportunities in the firm, platforms they work on(why they are migrating from JAVA to Python), What kind of challenges they face, How working in bank different from typical IT company. Most of these are followups of the questions I asked him.
Next 15 min was technical. He asked couple of algorithm based questions, still no coding. One of these is to reverse a doubly linked list, I told him 3 or 4 possible solutions.
He told me I will have one more technical interview in 5 min.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Interviewed by other Vice President
This round was entirely coding, he wanted to know how I proceed in solving a programming problem. Asked me choose any programming language and code in that, I chose C++. At the end he asked some puzzles. Following are some of the questions
1. Find Kth largest element in array
2. N-queen problem - backtracking implementation
3. Searching for small tree(10 nodes) in a huge tree(1 billion nodes)
This went on for 30 - 40 min
General Tips: Take DSA course. Practice lot of coding problems on platforms like hackerrank, hackerearth, codechef etc. Try to maintain good CGPA, they were looking for candidates with very high CGPA
Skill Tips: Read cracking the coding interview by Gayle Laakman, few questions were directly asked from this book. Practice on hackerrank, read articles on geekforgeeks etc
Skills: Logical Puzzles, Coding Skills, Data Structures And Algorithms
College Name: IIT Madras
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