Hi Friends

This is Abhishek Kumar, B.E (CS), final year student of AMC

Engg. College, Bangalore, and I wud like to share my
experience with all of u..

There were mainly 3 rounds in Mphasis pool campus

recruitment procedure.
1. Written aptitude test
2. Technical Interview
3. HR Interview 

On 19th Sep there was a written exam, approx 500 students

from various collages gave the written test. 

MPHASIS PAPER ON 26th OCTOBER 2007 

Hi! Friends I am P.V.Kishan Kumar from Chaitanya Engineering

College.I got placed in Mphasis an Eds Company which
conducted a pool campus drive at GIET Rajhamundry.
 First of all I want to thank my parents n god for this success.
So friends be bold n brave don’t get upset in life bcoz life is a
journey of ups n downs.I m telling u this bcoz it is my 13th intw.
I was knocked out in first rounds of wipro ,infosys, syntel, sify,
assurgent, sapient, accenture, accord.I cleared d first rounds of
Satyam and Infotech Enterprises but lost in Tech. so friends
don’t be get disappointed try untill u get success bcoz its very
joyful n sweet in any ones life.
 
Ok friends so coming to the selection procedure there are four
rounds
1.Written test
2.Group Discussion
3.Technical Interview
4.HR Interview
 
1.Written Test
A total of 23 Engg. Colleges attended the drive all over the
state at GIET Rajhamundry in which 950 students attempted
the written test conducted by Meritrac out of which 168 cleared
the written test.The paper consists of four sections
1.Comprehension  reading(2 passages,10 qns-10M)
2.Logical reasoning(15Q-15M)
3.Numerical Ability(15Q-15M)
4.Tecnical qns frm C&Ds,C++,Java,OS,DBMS(20Q-20M).
 
The paper was a bit easy,but u need a lot of practice bcoz u will
have a less time for doing tat my dear friends.so start doing lot
of problems from R.S.Aggarwal n other books which will help u
a lot n tech. qns contain simple basics.There is no negative
marking so try to attempt all qns my dear friends.So I was one
of the 168 ppl.
The results were announced at around 12.30pm afterwards the
ppl were attending GD
 
2.Group Discussion:
As far as Gd is concerned with Mphasis they will conduct a jam
session in which a group of 10 ppl are divided n each one
would be given a topic n they shud talk on it for 2 min
friends.So plz try to be pprd 4 tat bcoz they simply concentrate
on your communication skills.try to speak for maximum n don’t
get stammered.try to speak anything wid out stopping.In my
group my topic was on politics n I did exceptionally well.n I got
selected.
In my group out of 10, 3 were selected for the tech round n I m
one of them.So friends be well pprd for this round bcoz they
mostly eliminate ppl frm this round.out of 168 they shortlisted
58 ppl for the tech round.this round was completed at around
6:30pm my dear friends.
After GD jam session they  gave their corporate ppt for d
selected students.It was pretty good n watch it carefully bcoz
there will be askin qns on it in HR intw.
 
3.Technical round:
After GD around 58 ppl attended the technical round.It was
pretty easy 4 cse students n a bit tough 4 other branches.the
priority will be given to cse students n  other branches try to be
in touch with languages like c,java,c++.they will be askin simple
basics.so be cool.
4 me they asked to write a simple program in java n asked
some simple qns frm it.He also asked sm qns frm java n I ansd
it pretty easily bcoz I m good in java.so I was selected fr the HR
round.around 25 ppl cleared the technical frm 58 students n I m
1 of them.
 
4.HR round:
So friends once u entered the HR panel u are almost 99%
selected.they ask abt urself n ur likes n dislikes,will u able to
relocate or not n other kinda stuff like tat,they will be askin
company’s profile also,so be pprd 4 tat.its was a pretty cool
intw which u will njoy it.after HR round I was given an offer
letter frm which I was one of the family of Mphasis an Eds
company.
Once a moment I was in my atmost happiness in my life bcoz
it’s a very nice company which is 3rd best in d world.the pay will
be around 2.5lacs per annum plus  50000 allowances.
 
So my kind request to u my dear friends tat be Confident,work
hard until u get success.
C u at Mphasis,bye my dear friends….!!!!

1. written test
! NO SETS ! (all are same)
> written test will be conducted by merit track group.
> sections are :-
1. English (reading paragraph) 2 nos. (10q)
(very easy) solve at last
2. data sufficiency ..
like if answer can be solved by one statement only or both
(20q)
(easy but time taking ... i solved this first) 
3. Maths...
simple simple maths q from profit loss, %, mixture, ages, speed
& time
(very easy ... 20 q)
4. C and Data structure:- Some theory q from C and data
structure mainly malloc & calloc. simple program for finding
output study increment operator properly (i++, ++i etc) It was a
1 hr paper, after 3 or 4 hour, result of written test was declared.
Out of 500 students they selected about 160 students...

>>when they were announcing results they did a mistake in my

name with college name. So I went home after this.. but after ½
an hour my name was again called so my friend called me.. I
came to college again as soon as possible. (so check ur name
with college name once again before leaving)

>> second round will be technical intri.

> Thy will ask u C, C++, data structure, OS, DBMS etc
(simple q) explain maximum q by writing in paper front of him)

>> Third round HR interview

They will just ask ur intro, ur hobby, why mphy, where do u
want to see ur self after 2 years. (For me there was no
technical round as in hr she told i have good score in C & dc
18/20. In HR only she told me u r selected she gave me her
card and told me to submit All my marks card tomorrow in
office, as I was not having marks card

>>> so solve d & c very nicely because they will decide u on

this. again I was asked to wait outside for 5 min, and then a
volunteer announced the biggest achievement of my life!! I was
the happiest person on this earth when he said u r
SELECTED!!

Finally at the end 79 students got selected. From my collage 18

got selected and 7 of which were from my branch including
me.. The very next day I got my intent letter after submitting my
marks card. Today (1 month after test) I got my OFFER
LETTER.
Date :27 Feb 2011
Venue : Fedral Institute of Technology, Angamally
Post: Entry level Software Engineer
Eligibility Criteria :
B.Tech / BE / MCA passed out in 2011 batch only.
Candidates must have minimum of 60% aggregate in the
qualifying degree
(B.Tech – CS, IS, EE, EC, Telecom,Instrumentation,Chemical,
Mechanincal / MCA) as an eligibility criterion for this recruitment
drive. Also, the student must have no pending backlog / back
papers.
Interview Process :
Candidates will be asked to appear for online test as the
preliminary
screening round for MphasiS.
Shortlisted candidates based on the scores will be invited for
the interviews.

PAPER: MPHASIS PLACEMENT PAPER (OPERATING

SYSTEM)

1.In the command scanf, h is used for

Ans. Short int

2.A process is defined as

Ans. Program in execution
3.A thread is

Ans. Detachable unit of executable code)

4.What is the advantage of Win NT over Win 95

Ans. Robust and secure

5.How is memory management done in Win95

Ans. Through paging and segmentation

6.What is meant by polymorphism

Ans. Redefinition of a base class method in a derived class

7.What is the essential feature of inheritance

Ans. All properties of existing class are derived

8.What does the protocol FTP do

Ans. Transfer a file b/w stations with user authentification

9.In the transport layer ,TCP is what type of protocol

Ans. Connection oriented

10.Why is a gateway used

Ans. To connect incompatible networks

11.How is linked list implemented

Ans. By referential structures

12.What method is used in Win95 in multitasking

Ans. Non preemptive check

13.What is meant by functional dependency

14.What is a semaphore

Ans. A method synchronization of multiple processes

15.What is the precedence order from high to low ,of the

symbols ( ) ++ /

Ans.( ) , ++, /

16.Preorder of A*(B+C)/D-G

Ans.*+ABC/-DG

17. B-tree (failure nodes at same level)

18. Dense index (index record appers for every search -key in

file)

19.What is the efficiency of merge sort

Ans. O(n log n)

20.A program on swapping ( 10,5 )was given (candidate cannot

recollect)

21.In which layer are routers used

Ans. In network layer

22.In which layer are packets formed ( in network layer )

23.heap ( priority queue )

24.copy constructor ( constant reference )

25.Which of the following sorting algorithm has average sorting

behavior -- Bubble sort, merge sort, heap sort, exchange sort

Ans. Heap sort

26.In binary search tree which traversal is used for getting

ascending order values--Inorder ,post order,preorder
Ans. Inorder

27.What are device drivers used for to provide software for

enabling the hardware

28. Irreverent to Unix command ( getty)

29.What is fork command in Unix

Ans. System call used to create process

30.What is make command in Unix

Ans. Used for creation of more than one file

31.In Unix .profile contains

Ans. Start up program

32.In Unix echo is used for ( answer C)

33.In Unix 'ls 'stores contents in

Ans .inode block