I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Capgemini (Mumbai) in Sep 2011
Interview
The interview was arranged from the Placement Cell of my Institute. As researched about the pattern of exam the preparation included solving Aptitude questions and practicing some programming languages.
There was a Written test First which consists of questions from aptitude, verbal, qualitative analysis, logical and verbal reasoning.
The test was qualifying exam after which the process was followed by a Group Discussion. The Group Discussion's topic was 'Whether IPL is good or bad'. GD wasn't elimination round. All the candidates were required to go through face to face interviews, first Technical and then HR.
The technical interview consisted mostly of programming language related question; the more importance was given to understanding the problem and making an appropriate algorithm beside coding. questions from the past technical jobs like training and project work were also asked.
The HR consisted mainly personality testing questions, I was cross questioned many times regarding some questions just to observe how I react under pressure or influence.
To crack the interview one first must be confident on self. Practice of some languages before the interview will give confidence. For qualifying the test which is the major problem for may is very easy if practice has been done beforehand of aptitude questions.
Interview is based on resume not anything outside from resume
Project discussion,oops concepts, DBMS, operating system
Mostly they focus on how we give the answer of each and every question
Had 2 rounds of interview after an assessment. The first was technical round. They asked about data algorithms, lot of questions on java, SQL and working knowledge of C++. The second round was HR round, where it was mostly on behavioural questions, am i okay with working in any shifts and compensation negotiations and locations issues.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
OOPS fundamentals, what is wrapper class, how do you encrypt and wrap classes. Writing different pattern functions in java. SQL easy questions, there were no window functions.
Interview process is good and postive and panel also suportive went smooth
there will 3 rounds to crack interview and client round also capgemini was good also to work had great env
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Capgemini with 2.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 77% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 12 days to get hired, when considering 325 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Capgemini overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Capgemini as a Software Engineer according to 325 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 21%
Skills test: 14%
Presentation: 11%
Personality test: 10%
Group panel interview: 10%
IQ intelligence test: 9%
Phone interview: 9%
Background check: 8%
Drug test: 4%
Other: 3%
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