IT Company Interview – Campus Interview Experience in Dell

My name is Rishav and I am the writer and founder of this blog. I have done my B.tech (CSE) from IP University New Delhi. Today I am going to share my campus interview experience in Dell. Friends, it is very easy to take an on-campus placement. You appear in company’s interview recruitment derives in morning and in the evening you get a job in your hand. So without struggling much you get a job through on-campus placement. On the other side in off-campus placement there are thousands of people and finally a few get selected thus a great competition in off-campus placement. Therefore it is very important to get serious for on-campus placement if companies visit your campus.

Dell came to our campus after the four IT companies. Dell placement process is divided in two parts:

1.     Written test

2.     Interview (technical and HR)

  Written test: On 15^th October, 2012 Dell conducted its written test in our campus. Dell itself, don’t conduct written test, though it gives contract to some company to conduct its written test. The written test constitute following three sections:

a.     English (15 questions)

b.     Quantitative Aptitude (20 questions)

c.     Technical Part (10 questions)

  

English: there were very simple questions in English section. 8 questions were from comprehensive passages (there were 2 comprehensive passages). Rest 7 questions were simple questions related to fill in the blanks, no antonyms and synonyms questions were there. R.S Aggarwal Objective English book is sufficient to crack English.

Quantitative Aptitude (QA):  very easy questions from QA part like work and time, problem on train. You can follow R.S Aggarwal book for this section also.

Technical questions: 10 questions were from this section. The questions were very easy and logical based on C, C++ and data structures. There were output finding questions; if you know how to generate logic in languages like C/C++ you can crack this section very easily.

My written test was gone quite well and I was pretty sure to be selected in written test. There were four codes to question papers. The questions were same in four codes but there numbering was different.

   Interview Day: On 16^th Oct, 2013 Dell recruiting team came to our campus. There were 12 members in their team. 10 were from technical domain and 2 were from HR. Dell team firstly gave a small power point presentation. Explain the work profile, package and perks to be given and bond. You must be curious about package. Well the package was 3 lacks/annum. And they told us, you will get 21000/month after deductions. After PPT, they announced the names of candidates who were selected in written test held one day earlier. There were 35 students out of 150 who were selected in written test. Luckily I was one of them.

Now comes the interview turn:

First interview was the technical interview. There were 5 panels of technical interview. I was allotted panel number 5. My turn in that panel was 2^nd. When I was called for the Interview I was a little bit nervous. Obviously you are nervous before your interview but don’t think much about what will happen in interview panel. I was waiting outside the interview panel, and then suddenly first candidate came out of panel. He was not happy from his interview and he scared me. Now it was my turn, I was called by Interviewer in interview panel. Before entering to room, I opened the gate slightly and asked to come in.

              After entering the room, I noticed there were two people (aged 35 to 40) in the panel.

Me: Good morning Sir.
Interviewer 1: Good morning Rishav, how are you?
Me: I am good sir, how are you?
Interviewer 1: I am also fine Rishav. Thank you.
interviewer 2: Ok Rishav, introduce yourself.
Me:I told my name, hometown,my hobbies and my career goals. I told them one of my habbits as cooking. both laughed at this and further asked question.                                                                                                                                         Interviewer 1: So Rishav, what you cook and do you follow any master chef?

Me: I explained them about what I like to cook and how I learn these things.

Interviewer 1: Ok, how you spend your time.

Me: I explained my hobbies again and also my daily schedule.

Interviewer 2: tell me more about your interests?

Me: I explained more activities and I mention I sometimes read newspaper.

Interviewer 1: he asked me questions about activities of Anna Hazare that are going around and do u support him?

Me: I explained them what he is doing, I also said I follow him and sometimes I go to protests (But I don’t).

Interviewer 1: Ok good, what you think Anna Hazare don’t get support in his 2^nd movement.

Me: I explained.

Interviewer 2: tell me the activities of Arvind kejriwal that are going around?

Me: told.

Interviewer 2: Ok that’s sufficient. Let’s come to technical part. What subjects do you like most in B.tech?

Me: I said I like all subjects of CS like Data structure, C, C++, Java, OS, DBMS.

Interviewer 1: write a program to reverse a string.

Me: done

Interviewer 2: Puzzle questions: there are 14 balls of same shape and size. There is one ball that is heaviest among all the balls, how many steps are needed to find the ball.

Me: I was explaining, interviewer stopped me

Interviewer 2: I think you have heard about this problem before, let me ask you another one. Then he asked me there are two jugs of capacity 3 liter and 5 liter respectively. They both are of uneven shape. You have to measure exactly 4 liter of water. How can you do this?

Me: hardly 1 minute puzzle.

Interviewer 1: what is integrity constraint in database?

Me: I explained.

Interviewer 1: tell me projects that you have done?

Me: I explained my banking system project.

Interviewer 2: what modification can you make to this project?

Me: I explained.

Interviewer 1: tell me the list of tables that you have made in your project.

Interviewer 2: tell me the seminar you have done in your B.tech?

Interviewer 2: last question from my side. What is the role of virtual memory in Operating System?

Interviewer 1: Now last question from my side where you see yourself in next 5 years and to what level you want to go?

Interviewer 1: Ok Rishav we are done, do u have any question to ask

Me: I asked the questions regarding training.

So this was technical interview. It took around one hour. After 10 minutes I was called for HR interview. I was quite confident and all the nervousness was gone. There was one person in HR panel. I entered in the room and I wished him and took my seat.

Interviewer: what was your AIEEE rank?

Me: I said 30000 but actually it was 59000 (who cares).

 Interviewer: If you were not selected in this college, which college would you prefer (don’t say IITs, NITs)

Me: I explained.

Interviewer: On what basic we can say college is good or not whether it is placement/faculty.

Me: I said faculty and explained it.

Interviewer: what you surf on internet?

Me:  I said google, youtube and facebook.

Interviewer: when you use facebook in a day

Me: whenever I get time.

Interviewer: how many interviews you have faced before.

Me: I told.

Interviewer: thank you Rishav, I am done you can leave now.

Results were announced in two or three hours.   14 candidates out of 35 were selected. I was lucky to get seat.