Garima Natani

Resume Preparation, Profile Selection, Placement Experience

Resume Preparation

I started late, so I got very less time for creating my CV and I found a few mistakes were present in my resume like extra space when I took printouts for the interview.

One different thing I did was to use decent colours in my resume and I took coloured printouts of my resume for the interview. Some tips:

• Start resume preparation early. It takes time! And when companies will open walk in they will look at your resume. So it is important
• Take printouts of resume and give it for review to your friends. Because it is easy to catch mistakes in printed version then the digital version.
• Be real. Don’t put fake projects and fake things in a resume because if you have command on your resume, that confidence will be shown in the interview.
• You can use a different font colour and heading colour in the resume as it will make your resume different from other resumes. Make sure to use decent colours and fonts. It should look professional.

Profile Selection

I had 4 years of work experience in the IT industry and I enjoyed my previous job very much so It was clear to me that what kind of job I want to. Finance, consulting was a big nofor me.
Some tips:
You must have heard the saying that DON’T PUT ALL YOUR EGGS IN ONE BASKET. But I don’t believe in this. I will suggest that put all your eggs in one basket because when you know that there is no backup plan your effort will become more than 100% and when you will try your best you will for sure get success. And even if you fail it’s good to start from scratch because now you will have everything new to explore and you can start the journey without repeating mistakes.

So my suggestion is to take time to decide what you want to do after passing out from IIT, in which profile you want to go but when the decision is taken never look back.
You want to go for CAT/GRE/GATE/UPSC then go for it, leave placement as a backup plan because having a backup is somehow restricting you from giving your best.

Placement Tests and Preparation

Competitive programming is always different from real-world programming. I had experience of real world programming. I applied to more than 60 JAFs my strategy was to use company tests as practice tests and improve my syntax writing and improve my logic.
Tips:
1) Check what are the questions asked by companies and prepare them well
2) There is one FB group called Inter IIT placement group check that frequently as most of the time similar questions are asked in other IITs as well.
3) Don’t get depressed if you are not able to perform well in the test. Because of companies open for walk-in interviews
4) Prepare well

Interview Experience

My first interview was at Google,
Interview 1) One question was on graph. How to find min cycle length in the graph and another question was related to Permutation and combination.
Interview 2) Given un-ordered array and binary search which use a random element instead of mid element. For how many elements it will return always return true.
After that, I was not selected for further round.
My second interview was at Oracle, some easy but tricky questions were asked.
Third Interview was at Hitachi Limited was related to IoT researcher and My MTP is also related to IoT so lots of questions were asked on IoT.
Tips:
1) Prepare HR questions well in advance, discuss answers with friends.
2) Believe in yourself.
3) Do research about the company beforehand
4) Prepare whatever you have written in resume
5) Prepare some basic questions that are asked in every software interview.