HR Interview

1)It started with him telling about himself. He told his position and his work role. I
couldnt get a single thing of what he was talking about. :p Flew over my head
2) Then i started to tell about myself, strengths weakness, hobbies.
3)He asked why i like listening music a lot. I was like- I love it without any reason.
4)He asked me if i like maths. I said no! He gave me a small problem
5)How many squares are there on a chess board.
without further thinking, i spit out 64. He asked for my surity. Then i thought and said
no(there are plenty of them inside, bigger and nested squares)
so, i gave up, he finally told me the answer. (sum of squares of numbers from 1 to 8)
He asked about software development life cycle. I gave an honest reply i forgot. Then
he started scolding me saying that my pointer is 8.30 and i forgot this! He started saying
to go prepared for the next interview.
6)Then he asked me what if i dont perform well if they hired me.
i said- kick my ass.
7)Then he asked me what would i want first in process of making tea. (related to
software development life cycle)

i said- gas(fire). but he says the first step would be knowing the no. of people who will
drink that and what are their requirements(same as a software needs)
Thats it. It ended. and after news came over. I got selected :p

8)He was really focussed on my CV. So always justify what is written in your CV. Dont
Say I dont remember it now but I have done it in past, if you dont remember then dont
write in CV. I mentioned in my CV HTML, CSS, MySQL, JAVA project, Data
Structures. So they asked me the questions on each Skill

9)Tell me About Yourself (He expected me to prepare a solid answer for this question,
so prepare for it)
10)Why Sapient?
11)Why should I hire you, not others? What makes you unique?
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12)I made Info graphic CV that helped me to impress them, it made me stand out of
crowd.
13)What is my proudest moment in life?

14). Discussion about my projects.

15). Normal situation based questions.
16) Strength, weakness, proudest moment etc.
She actually checked my live website and my blogs on internet in front of me. so, never
lie on your resume.
Basically, puzzle solving skills has to be good and basic technical knowledge.was
required.
16)why low cgpa, how do you face your problems and how you try to handle it ,and
some general discussion. Seemed like a formality.
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17)Then they came up to global market questions ,For eg, sensex ,Banks
Interest ,RBI, Finance ,Loans ,Acoounts. (mad tho)