MINDTREE PAPER ON 17th JULY 2006 AT BENGAL ENGINEERING & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY
MINDTREE was the first software company to visit the Bengal Engineering &
Science University, Shibpur campus for campus placements. The entire
procedure was of two days- 17th and 18th July, 2006. It consisted of the
following things:-
1) Aptitude Test
The aptitude test was the first level to be crossed. The eligibility
criteria for the test was 65% in aggregate from IT, ETC, CST or EE
departments. The test was actually outsourced to a US-based agency known as
'Professional Aptitude Council'. The test they conducted was composed of 2
parts:-
a) Part One - This consisted of time-based sections ranging from Diagrams,
IT reasoning, quantitative analysis to approximations and chart viewing. The
different sections had times allotted as 30, 20, 6 and 2 minutes and total
questions were 105.
b) Part Two - This consisted of various sections but no time-bound sections.
The questions here ranged from Basic computer knowledge to logical reasoning
to Psychometry and knowledge about the various topics. This part was
allotted a total time of 75 minutes and total questions were 140.
So the total time was 133 minutes and the total questions were 245.
2) Group Discussion
For the group discussion, which was held on day 2 after the Pre-placement
talk (PPT) there were 90 students chosen. They were divided into 9 groups of
10 each. Each group was given a different topic to discuss. Some of the
topics were:
i) If you get up tomorrow morning and you find that the Internet has
vanished, will it be good for society or not?
ii) MNCs vs. Indian companies
iii) Indian IT companies are ruining business etc etc
3) Personal Interview
From the 90 students chosen for GD, 37 were chosen for the personal
interview. They were called in one-by-one and interviewed. Each student was
interviewed by one person only. The interviews were partly technical and
partly HR. Some were asked questions from their vacational trainings whereas
some were asked questions regarding the Linux User's Group at BESU, Shibpur.
Finally 22 students were chosen. The departmental break-up was 10 from
Information Technology, 6 from Electronics and Telecommunication, 3 from
Electrical Engineering, 2 from Computer Science and Technology and 1 from
MCA.
