Mayank Kapoor
| Name: | Mayank Kapoor |
| Course: | COE |
| College: | DCE |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Company: | Aricent |
| Package Offered: | 3.5 LPA |
| Preparations: | I studied C/C++, SQL, DBMS, Operating System. |
| Books Reffered: | I studied all the books written by Yashwant Kanetkar, DBMS by Korth, Operating system by Galvin. |
| Eligibility criteria and students appeared: | Cutoff percentage was 65%. About 100 students appeared for it. |
| The Written round: | It had technical + aptitude questions + personality development qs.
There were questions based upon linked lists, its implementation • what are big- endians, small endians • data types and their details |
| The group Discussion: | There were 10 students in each round of GD. Topic was “whether or not television should be banned for the obscene content”. We were given just 1 minute to prepare. We were suggested to be courteous while adding our point |
| The Interview: | Mainly technical qs. Apart from that
• why would you like to join? • how would you rate yourself as a coder? |
| Role of Internships and extracurricular activities: | Role of internships: yes, because I was articulate about them
Role of extra currics: in a company, I reached to the final round but somehow had to quit in the final round; in the second last round, they were so impressed by my extracurricular activities that they didn’t ask anything technical. We had discussions about extra curricular activities. |