Maruti Suzuki

Maruti Suzuki came with three rounds for Internship in my university. The rounds were generic to skills and problem solving and not focused only on Data analyst questions.

Round 1 [Resume Shortlisting] Mode: [Online] Description: Introduction: A total of around 40-50 students submitted their resume. They kept a criteria of a minimum 7 CGPA. Students having 7+ CGPA were shortlisted, they did not do screening on the basis of skills present in the resume. I was shortlisted with 23 others. Key point - Mentioning CGPA in the resume is a must sometimes.

Round 2 [Online Test] Mode: [Online] Duration: [1hr] Description: : The test was very lengthy and hectic. It was not only on CS skills but also general aptitude, psychometric, and English. There were 4 sections: Aptitude - Easy to medium level MCQ - Based on core fundamentals Psychometric English - The level of questions here was good, it was not just some basic English test, you need to be good in English to clear this with good marks. There were no Data Structure questions asked in this round. Overall Difficulty: Easy to mid easy. Preparation Tips: Prepare your core fundamentals of CS (OOPs, CN, DBMS, OS). Try INDIABIX for Aptitude. Many people failed this, I think because of the English section. I was shortlisted with 5 others. (I am no master in English, so you can say LUCK) Interviews were scheduled for two days later.

Round 3 [Technical] Mode: [Online] Interviewer(s): [Team lead with 5 yrs of experience] Duration: [45-50 mins] Description: Introduction: The interviewer introduced himself and then asked me to introduce myself. I started with my name and went on to briefly explain my projects. Technical Questions: List of the technical questions asked - Puzzles, DSA, projects, core fundamentals Question 1: He gave me a puzzle "How many maximum slices of a cake you can make if you can make exactly 4 slices." - It was easy for me as I knew the formula of ? cuts =(horizontal cut +1)∗(vertical cut +1) n cuts =(horizontal cut +1)∗(vertical cut +1), where horizontal =?/2horizontal = n /2 and vertical =?−?/2vertical = n − n /2. Then he asked me to defend my answer. Tip: I did not tell him about the formula and pretended like I am trying to think about it, I pre-calculated the answer then based on it I thought about the cuts. Question 2: He gave me a data structures question to solve, the question was easy. "You have a string, let's say s = "abcde", you need to convert it into a hash code, the hashing function would work like if s[0] = "a", and s[len(s)-1] = "e" you need to return "b3f", where the first and last characters are the next letters of s[0] and s[-1], and the length of the remaining string is 3." I solved this using the ASCII values. The interviewer was satisfied. Question 3: He started a discussion on my projects. All my projects were on development, I also included my internship which I did in my university on their ERP portal. He started asking questions about Angular.js as I used Angular in it: What is data binding? How do you transfer data from one component to another? I do not remember more about this. Question 4: He asked some questions on OOPs: Explain any one pillar of OOPs - I explained inheritance in detail. Why do we need OOPs? - I gave some demerits of sequential programming. He seemed to be satisfied. His last question to me was "I cannot see any Data Analyst or Scientist related projects in your resume, how will you fit in this role?" I got a little nervous on this, but I gave him some points of my PowerBI experience (I only knew the basics of it), and tried to convince him that I am open to learn in this role and really excited to join. He showed mixed feelings, but I think the last question was something he did not care much about, he wanted to check the general skills only. And all the interviews (6 people) went the same way, They asked questions on DA skills where the interviewee mentioned about it in their resume. Difficulty: I will rate the round as easy to mid easy. Preparation Tips: Prepare your problem solving, be thorough with your resume, fundamentals of CS, try puzzles on GFG, and have good speaking skills. Overall Experience Final

Outcome [Selected with 2 others] | Total of 3 people were selected for this role. Overall Difficulty: Mid easy Advice for Future Candidates: Focus Areas: [problem solving, Puzzles, fundamentals, English & speaking skills, aptitude]