| Name: |
Anoop Ramakrishna |
| Course: |
BE in Electronics and Communication |
| College: |
DCE |
| Year: |
2009-10 |
| Company: |
Aricent |
| Package offered: |
3.5 LPA |
| Preparations: |
I had preparing for the placement sessions for the last 20 days. |
| Books Reffered: |
Of course I did not study each and every subject. I shortlisted the following: Programming and Algorithms, DSP, Operating Systems, Networking and Microprocessors. You might have to shortlist more or lesser as per requirement. Also, for these, I referred The C Language – Kernighan and Ritchie,Operating Systems – Silberschatz and Galvin, Discrete Time Signal Processing – Oppenheim, Schaffer and Buck, Computer Netwirking – No specific book Tanenbaum is good and Algorithms Cormen. |
| Website Reffered: |
Also people might go in extensively searching the websites. I limited myself to normal searches on Google. |
| GD, PI Preparation: |
I would also like to point out that I did not specifically prepare for Group Discussions. |
| Eligibility criteria and students appeared: |
The GPA criterion was 60% for Aricent and qualified to sit in the written round. There were almost 200 students sitting for the same. |
| The Written round: |
The paper had technical as well as aptitude and verbal ability questions. This, I cleared. |
| The Group Discussion Round: |
Then there was the Group Discussion session. In all, 20 students got shortlisted for this. We were given 2 minutes to prepare on the topic Whether Global Light Hour has any practical significance. |
| The Interview: |
Again, I was lucky enough, of course due to my good speaking there, to get qualified for the interview next. I was asked some basic C questions. Also I was asked about my background. |
| Role of Internships and extracurricular activities: |
They did not particularly ask about my internship, but as they read the resume thoroughly, they might have paid attention to it there. For the role played by extracurricular activities, I would say on a scale of 10, they would be contributing 1.5 |
