Job Interview @ Geodesic

I am currently doing my final year engineering from Watumull College of Engineering. Recently i went for a job interview for a company called GEODESIC which was held at Thadomal Shahani Engineering College (T.E.S.C.) on the 19th of JAN. They had a presentation about the company to tell us what they are all about. It was supposed to start at 9 am but it started at 10 am and went up till 10.30 am.

It seemed like a nice company offering a package of 3.5 lacks p.a. with no bond. The company has a 10 day training and then your on the job. Every year they recruit very less students. It is a small company 525 employees and started in 1999. It has made several applications one famous one is the MUNDU messenger. Mundu IM allows you to stay connected with your family, friends and colleagues over major IM services including MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, AIM, Google, and Jabber.

The company seems nice and among the people who came on behalf of the company was a ex-watumull student. He shared his experience with us. The word most repeated was 'FUN'. Getting on to the whole assessment procedure.

The company has a criteria of 50%+ aggregate but the allowed students with 49% and some students with 1 live A.T.K.T. were also allowed. The criteria in basic sense was very flexible. They had a 3 selection process.

1. The aptitude test

2. Technical interview

3. Personal interview

1. The Aptitude Test-

In the aptitude there were 2 sections - A and B. It was mostly a MCQs and had some programming questions too. They gave us blank sheets to do our rough work and write our answers on the same sheet. Apparently they wanted to see our steps. It started at 11 am and ended at 11.50 am. It was for 50 minutes.

Section A had mostly qutant Qs. like -

a.)If we divide some value into ratios 3:4:5 and the ratio 5 gets 10 then how much is the total?

b.)The current age of the father is 3 times his son. After 15 years it will be 2 times his son. Then what is his current age?

and there were few other such questions. One more question which had 4-6 sub questions. I don't remember the question that well but it was something like this-

If there are 3 committees A,B and C and 6 people. There are 3 people who can't sit in A , three other who cant sit in B and there other who can't sit in C. they had given the names of the people who cant sit in those committees. So there where sub questions based on the above data.

Section B had 4 programs, one quant question and one theory question-

a.)WAP for string reverse without using any string functions.

b.)WAP for factorial using recursion.

c.)WAP for converting the string 'cat and dog' into 'tac dna god' without using any string functions.

d.)WAP to take number from 5-15 and displaying the average of the even numbers and odd numbers seperately.

e.)Explain merge sort.

I don't really remember the quant questions.

The total test was for 30 marks and i guess to clear the aptitude we needed a minimum of 15. The highest was around 24. The programs were for around 2-3 marks each and the other questions were for 1 mark each. We had to first attempt section A fully then we could move on to section B. I managed to score 22 some how, 11 in section A and 11 in section B well that is what i think i saw. Out of nearly 300+ students 48 cleared the aptitude.

2. Technical Interview-

Well it was the most longest wait of my life i think. We got the result of our aptitude around 4 pm and my technical interview was at 8pm. I was 2nd to last actually to get my interview done.

In my interview they asked me a lot of questions.

They asked about my final year project and asked me to draw a diagram to show the flow of my application. As my project had a SMS gateway they ased me about the OSI layers. They asked me to list them and say why are they needed and one e.g. of an application level software. They also asked me where does the SMS gateway lie in these layers.

They then started asking me questions on c and c++. They asked me about polymorphism and write two functions and explain function overloading. Then they asked if c++ was object oriented and its advantages.

In all it lasted around 20 minutes or so. Looking at it now the interview was not that difficult but at that moment I kind of blanked out(I can't handle stress very well).

There was nothing like you had to clear the technical interview and the next, personal interview round, was compulsory for everyone.

2. Personal Interview-

There is nothing to say about this. The questions were pretty standard like-

Tell me about yourself, about your family, why do you want do work for Geodesic, etc. Pretty standard. The final question was 'Would you like to know anything about Geodesic?'. To which I replied how far is the office from Khar (every Mumabikar knows traveling is a fight, as the traffic gets crazy)

The overall experience was very good. Although the results came at 10pm (Yeah! that late. But it is a common happening at interviews). My joining date will be after i finish my 8th sem which is 1st july.

This was my entire experience there where other questions also asked during the technical and personal interview like- WAP for linked list or binary tree. Then asked about strengths and weaknesses in the personal interview.

If you want to get into this company then my best tip would be that just revise c and c++. Just the basics and when you know the answer just say it directly and confidently. The main thing which i saw they were looking for were basics of c and c++ and confidence.

Most of the companies which have come for placements till now start with an aptitude test (trust me they aren't easy). Always go prepared for the aptitude, if not the interview (you cannot goto step 2 without doing step 1).
All The Best! :)