satym paper 5

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I got selected in Satyam after much struggle.I would like to thank the owners of this wonderful group and all the members who have been providing valuable information about companies from time to time.

Well coming to the point I would like to tell u abt the pattern.Actually its a 30 min test and there are 15 questions. The most important thing is time management.questions are very easy.I will soon be mailing the questions on the group id.My topic for GD was "Environment-Whose Responisibility".

Questions for interview were mainly from C,C++.And he also asked me my choice so I told him data base so he also me few questions on data base.With the paper I will also mail the int questions.






i'm very thankful to chetna group as it helped me to
get a job as a software engineer trainee in SATYAM
computer services limited.
the test was held at Delhi as usual first written
then GD and finally interview.

some helpful information :
date of test : 28-29 sept.
total no of candidate appeared for written
:690(approx)
total selected for GD : 247
total selected for interview: 107
final selection :73


Compensation package offered: 2.0 lacs per annum
gross (but during training a
stipend of
Rs. 10,000 will only be given )

training period : 6 months ( 2months in secundra
bad,then remaining period at any of their indian
development centres)

agreement bond : for 2 years of Rs. 2 lacks



test paper pattern :

15 question in 30 minutes ,which comprises of 5
questions from gorge summers puzzle book
and few were easy quantitative question& puzzles ,3
simple missing number series of alphabets or numbers.

the gd topics were very simple and general one.

my topic was: should GD be a part of selection
process?

then in intw: one technical ,and one HR person were
sitting

i was asked question on my final year project ,my
family background , why i want to join software
company (as i 'm a mechanical engineer),any team
efforts done by me in college ?simple c,C++ question
,area of interest . hobbies.



personal suggestion :just keep your cool ,dont panic
,and most importantly be natural .

the quality they are looking in a candidate: aptitude
& most importantly attitude & nothing else believe me
.




Apti had logical puzzles like infosys pattern,slightly simpler - 15 ques in 30 min with negative marking. I marked only 8,and i think got all right. then in GD topic was : Should GD be important in selection process. Guys started with saying that GD is very imp, this that blah blah. But i said that main thing is what kind of skills the company is looking for in the candidate.like for a Software Engr job technical knowledge is most imp.

then interview was ok lasted for 30 min,mainly technical - databases,why database should be used instead of files. i forgot one main point which the interviewer mentioned - that security is an advantage with databases over traditional file structures. then pointers,diff b/w call by value & reference, OS - diff b/w multitasking,multithreading,multiprocessing. what is thrashing ?( i didnt know).



a bit abt the test----->
the test was for two days ---long tiring process....
the first day the logical reasoning paper...
there were 15 questions to be answered in 30 minutes. don't worry abt that... questions are difficult with -ve marking go through the instruction first... here cut off was merely 5 question... it means if you are solving only 5-6 questions corectly then you have fair chances...

after that the GD was there....--- be confident and do talk your level best..
your view is not mattered but the way you communicate is importent...

then the second day the interview was there...
it was really cool don't worry about it... questions were on your project and if you are a freshers then easy questions like
diff in arrays and ptrs..
diff in C and C++ etc..
diff in class and structure..

be confident and yes one common question was to describe abt you...--- this is importent... start from your family and education then strengths and weeknesses and see this is what they expect---> be confident and talk like professional...
communication and softskills are needed.. be +ve.

one more thing while filling the forms remember what you have filled.. this is also important.

rest best of luck.
And FINALLY I CANT MISS TO THANKS THE SITE USERS AND SPECIALY THE MODERATOR FOR PROVIDING ALL THE NECESSARY INFORMATION... THANKS A LOT..
I HAVE CLEARED ALL THE ROUNDS OF TCS ALSO AND WAITING POSITEVELY FOR THE RESULT..
I HAVE MADE IT TO HCL TECH NOIDA ALSO AND WAITING FOR THE FINAL TECH ROUND.


SATYAM
All Aptitude
1. get the correct arrangment of sentences.
i. This is.
ii.This is sentence with 4 references.
iii.This is to say that this sentence is a lonf sentence.
iv.This is not the last sentence of the paragraph.
v. The previous sentence to this is the longest sentence.
vi.This is first sentence of last paragraph.
vii.This refers to last sentence.
There were 2 more sentncs similar 2 this. For the correct soln look at the answers & get it. By lookin at the stmts u wont get anythin.
2. Somethin bout _a's,ii b's,ii c's.......i didnt get the question.
3. A third of this value is 1/2. What is the value.
Ans: 3/2
4. How to measure 4 l by using 5 l & 3 l vessels only.
Choices were 5 l - 520254 3 l - 032.....u will get it by lookin at answers.
5. there are 6 somethins...lets call it cups...holding 19,14,21,35,10,8 nails each. Joe and Jack bought 5 of them with Jack buying twice number of nails than Joe. How much did they buy.
Ans: Jack-21,35,10 Joe-19,14 U can get it by lookin at ans(again). Easy.
6. Truck is travellin at 60 kmph. Wat rate should car travel to be ahead of truck for 2 mins.
Choices were 72, 66.8, 90,.... Me thinks its 66.8. Not sure.
7. Ther are 10 red balls,6 white and 5 blue. How many balls should i pick to make sure that i have atleast 1 of each.
8. A horribly phrased & really long question bout base 3....If u do get it attempt it only if time permits.
9.Next 4 Very very easy.
Old code
BLUE SKY (or somethin)....most of my qs r not xact
1234 567
New Code
SKY BLUE
123 4567

A company initially had a code for keepin price secret(god knows why)....dat was old code. They felt it was time 2 change & adopted to new code.

Q: If LKY was old code...wat is correspondin new code
10. Refer above for a similar q
11.Again from the 8th one....somethin bout letters repeatin themselves.
12. If SUE was in old code & was overlooked during new code....wat will the price be if salesman does not change code. Again refer 8.
from 4 mostly can score easily.
13. There are 1 way routes from A to G, Mto H, A to F....(A, G etc are given as some place)
Which is the shortest route from A to F.
Ans: U dont even have to draw a graph. Just look at q & ans is urs.
14. A Fence was being erected by Jatin. The poles were to be 5 ft apart, but as Jatin(the fool that he is) forgot to bring 4 poles, he erected them 7 ft apart. The q is how much distance was the fence to cover.
Choice: 70 ft 92 ft 100 ft 75 ft....Ans: 70 ft.
15. A friend of my, a teacher, lives in a house. When i asked her address she told me that she lived in a street where her side had the houses marked successively with consecutive even house numbers. She told me that the block of 6 houses near her house on the same side had a total of the house numbers as 8790 & that her house had the lowest number among them. Wat was the number of her house.
Another easy one.

Following this was a gd. There were 5 topics
1. US war on iraq-justified or not.
2. Role of UN in peacekeeping.
3. Position of Women in India compared to other nations.
4. Environment MAnagement.
5. Is China better than India in software.
Ppl appearin for test: 828
PPl selected for gd: 300
Ppl selected for interviews: 142
Listen to 'Staind-So Far Away'....Nice Song


Written test: 15-qustion. 1-mark for right answer, 1/4 minus for every wrong answer.
I don't remember the questions exactly, but let me tell you.
1> e o e r e.... which is the next letter
2> A ship has a ladder which has 6 rungs. The first rung is 1 ft. above water. If tide rises 1 ft for every 15 min. How many rungs will be under water after 1 hr.

3> Red, blak hat like questions which requires damn horrible patince ton look in to the root of the problem and come up with answer. It was

from george summers.
4>Who is the billionaire among henry,everet..... Almost same question which was asked in infosys october 12th test.
5> mango, orange problem.... basically from R.S.Agrawal book.
6> Two qustions from CAT logical reasoning. The ones having 4 figures, we have to find the fifth. I was well prepared in that type. Most of the people got eliminated in these kind of problems only. One should be very carefull while answering such qeustions, b'coz you will find 2 figures which may look like right answers, but only one has the exact relationship with the previous 4 figures. So, you should be carefull in choosing such answers. I got them right.

7> Most of the rest were like george summers things, but modified perfectly. Like one of them tell you the exact truth, one sometimes tell you the truth, one lies. So, startr with which you see as wrong first. In my case I started with the thing which most others thought it to be wrong. I wrote that as answer. I got it right.

8> A nawab gets out at a railway station 2 earlier to his scheduled arrival. He walks at 3mph speed. At the same time, when he left railway station a cab left his house so as to reach the station just on time. He is walking towards his house. He got his cab on the way and reched his house 1 hr before what everybody thought it as his scheduled arrival. What is the distance between his house and railway station?

It is a very tricky railway station problem. Try to solve it. I will tell you the answer later.

* GROUP Discussion:
1> Environmental pollution whose responsibility is it? {topic given to me}
2> Computer is a female or male?
I remember only this much. One should have a good command over the language and the people around, then only he/she will be selected.

* HR-Tech interview:
It consists of HR-TEch both. A HR person and a tech engineer will be sitting together. Such 6 groups will be there. So, one need not wait for more. He/she may get any of these group. In tech interview tey will ask only about our project. Thatz very easy. simultaneously HR person will interfere{if you are cruising smoothly in tech. , as in my case}and he is the person who will put you under sea. You will feel like a fish put on road from water. It seems I did that one also perfectly. But, I should have put my percentage as 75+ in the resume which they provide there. They provide there own resume. So, I lost there in HR-Tech thing.

Few questions like:
" What is so special about software engineers?"
" If I give you a pen and make you to stand on top of this building and tell you too calculate the total height of this building how will you do it?"

" Tell me about your personal life"{ probably here also I failed. I told about my family and myself. I should has stressed more on my records"