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hi friends......... this is partheeban from cit college coimbatore......aricent visited my campus on 21st september....
selection procedure includes
1.written test (2hrs)
it includes
1. analytical section
2. attention section
3. technical section(choice is given to choose either c or c++ or java)
4. data structures

2. critical incidence filling... under this section several scenarios are given.. and you have to fill those scenarios based on your life experience
3. selective G.D
4.technical + H.R. interview


once if you get through the written test then no elimination.... cumulative scoring only .

in my college totally 373 attended in that around 133 were shortlisted... i,m one among it...
then i,ve attended G.D. .. from the interviews finally 67 got selected... i,m one among them... so happy.. guys its so so easy to crack aricent selection procedure ....just concentrate on computer networks ,,, microprocessor,,, c programming , data structures if you,re having basic knowledge definitely you ill get into aricent...........

Hi friends, i am Ankush (MCA) from Panjab University, Chandigarh. Aricent came to PU on 7th July 2008 ..
The Criteria was 70% in current degree. This time the pattern was totally different from the previous papers
The pattern of paper is as follows:
1. Written test
2. Group Interview
3. Interview (HR + Technical)

Written test:(10:00am)
Written test consists of three parts rather than seven:
1) There were 30 questions of Aptitude (30%) and Reasoning (70%) in 30 mins
they were easy only 4-5 were difficult. i attempted in 20 mins..means time is not a problem i aricent ..
2) Data structures 20 questions in 20 mins. 7-8 was very easy 6-7 average and 3-4 were very tough. i attempted in 15 mins.
3) Choice between C, C++ and Java. 60% students chose C, 35% chose C++ and rest 3 students chose Java and i was among those three students .. it was a 30 questions paper in 30 min .. java was really tough i attempted only 16-17 rest was a fluke(not Blind).
## Remember Sectional cut off was there ##
Finally the result came out and i was selected .. after this all rounds were open for us ..

Group interview:(6:00 p.m.)
then it was the GI round we were 6 students on one side and six on another ..
Topic was "Too much Cricket is killing the Game"
other Topics : "Global Warming", "Junk Food", etc ..

Interview:(1:30 a.m.)
I was the last to be interviewed at 1:30 a.m. and it was gud .. i answered almost 80%... i came out of room at 2:35 a.m.
They will ask u everything: C, DS, NETWORKING, OS, S/w ENGG. && TESTING
i was very Happy ....i thought "ab to ho hi jayega yar...". Result came at 3 a.m.and unfortunately i was not selected ...yet i have given my best Interview
i ll tell u the Reason because i attempted Java and Java paper was difficult and C was very easy and those who were selected attempted C ... Please take care of these things ...
If someone is not good in GI then he can score more in Written and vice versa ...
Wishing U "All THE BesT" ... do well in written because they count all the marks (Written + GI + Interview)
Ankush Bagga

Hi friends.........

ARICENT PAPER ON 23rd AUGUST 07 AT "BIT_Mesra ,Ranchi."
I am going to share my recent experience with Aricent. I hope it will help you to prepare for the In/Off Campuses. The written test was held on 23-aug ,it was conducted by Merit Track Consultancy.

1.Written Exam
Aricent Written exam has 7 sections. Each section has 10/15/20 questions,around 90ques in total and the time given is 1 min per question so 90 mins test duration for 6sections + 5 mins duration for 7th section.there is individual cutoff for each section.So be carefull.

1) simple english (prepositions, verbs etc.). you can easily clear this section if u have general idea about english grammer. You can follow any english book if u have problem like new style etc.
2) reasoning . this section has reasoning questions based on puzzles, seating arrangements, cubes puzzles etc. R.s Agarwal is sufficient

3) quntitative . it has ques like sets using venn diagrams, time and work etc.R.s agarwal is sufficient here again.

4) DS and OS. It is the most difficult section as I feel. It has 20 ques and and 20 mins duration. DS was tough and you should be well prepared with trees, graphs and sorting (with programs). there was prog with 1-2 pages to find output or error. 1 question from UNIX also.

5)C/C++. next section is of C or C++ programming. they will ask u to have one lang. C paper is full of pointers and strings, arrays and other questions. Prefer Exploring c and pointers in c to solve. I opted for C.

6) This section is unseen pessage. Not very tough english but the questions are confusing. you should read the pessage at least twice.they will give15 mins to read it and thereafter given ques based on it with duration of 10 min for 10 ques.

7) the last section is E-mail writing. They assigned a problem specification and you have 5 mins to write email. try to write it in professional way using proper grammer puntuation and english.

ok cool,
Around 300 students are appeared for written test and only 85 have cleared it,including me.

2.TECHNICAL INTERVIEW
My Tech interview is good , queries regading Data Structures, they majorly test your programming skills .so you must be good at programing skills and you cant escape without writing atleast 3or 4 programs. they ask you to write the program ,if you are not getting the logic they will give you the hints .u must be able to catch those hints & crack the program.after they slowly starts queries frm OS,CompN/Ws,& C. you must have clear & basic knowledge abt these subjects. these much of things are sufficient to crack the tech round. duration of my tech round is just around 50 mins,but to my friends it is more than 1hr 30 mins,if u performed well then u will be forwarded to HR. tech result will be given with in 5 mins just after ur tech interview is over. as the day is very much good to me ,I cleared this round &I have been forwarded to HR.

ok cool

3.HR

Compared to my tech Interview, HrIinterview is very cool .no need to feel or get tense. if you cleared the tech then there will be >90% chances to get in to the aricent.
They asked me queries like

1.What u will be after 2years
2.Situational quries.
3.Abt higher studies
4.After 2 years how u see yourself like leader or normal team mem.
5.Wat u r expectin frm aricent other than sal
6.Abt abroad relocation
7.Finally ,do u like to ask any thing
If u r intrested then ask the HR , they dont mind bcoz they r very cool.
Hr was satisfied with my answers & i came out of hr room with lot of confidence.

ARICENT PAPER ON 19th JULY



hi this is sunil kumar garg from national institute of technology, jamshedpur . today i m going to share with u mine experience of aricent campus placement



first of all i start with written test........there is no negative marking.......u will get every section separately..........mean u will get first one first n before completion of its time u will be given
next one....n u will be asked to stop first one a do next one.....one thing i want to tell......this process is really pressure creating....n u will have to be calm n cool

some of ur section may be screwed up but don,t screw paper next to it.......u have to qualify only in screwed up paper.



Section 7: E-mail writing:
in 5 min u have to read question as well write the mail on certain condition. mine condition was............

there is a cloth show room.........which pay back amount with in the 3 days of purchase....a lady asked to refund the amount after one week..........

u r manager of showroom and u have to write apology mail to her.



Section 6: Comprehension

u will be given one comprehention most probably on some technical issue.....i was given on sso.

it will be followed by 10 question.

In my coll question n comprehention was given together but question may not be given with comprehention.

first of u will have to read the comprehention n then u will have to answer that question without looking back to ur passage.



Section 5: C or C++ (choice is urs)

i have chosen c n kanitkar book was very help to me........if u want to qualify.....

u have to be very good in this section.

question were on increment operator decrement operator.......pointer......variable passing to function........array......enum....structure.....file.

question was very basic.........go through objective book of kanitkar.....u can,t do without it.......u need a practice.



Section 4: Operating system, data structure and algorithm

frankly speaking......i m very good in data structure.......but it is not worth will to attempt it first......as it has long cords and u have to find o/p

or error......attempt operating system first and then algo......

If u will go for data structure first u will certainly get screwed....have a good concept of operating system......



Section 3: Mental ability.............

It was damn easy.........u have to score a good marks in it.....if want an edge over other....practice more through....any marittrack paper as of accenture or ibm.



Section 2: Analitical ability......

don,t mess up with a particular problem........u can,t solve all....just chose easy one and do it

because of time limit u can,t do all....so why not to attept easy one. practice ibm or accenture paper.



Section 1: Verbal ability

practice.......articals n preposition.......don,t take it easy.......smtime it may screw u.

u may think that u have screwed up ur paper……..but don’t give up……bcoz every one have done the same.



now it is time of interview……………………..

panel was very cool………….doing everything themselves……….very down to earth.

I was first for interview………….The person who was taking interview come outside n escorted me to the interview table.

I wished him……….he asked me to give an introduction of myself. Meanwhile he was seeing mine profile……..from up to down…….for that I was ready……..n u may say it ws my luck……I had a lot of certificate to show.



He was very much impressed………..He asked me about my different subject from first semester………frankly speaking I was frightened……..i couldn’t tell him. Who remember……what is chemstry and mechanics.

But suddenly he stopped asking all that. He asked me the difference between unix n linux. I screwed up……..

After that he asked me about mine favorate subject……..i told computers networks.

He asked what it is………I defined……..

He told me to draw a network…….i draw an hybrid one……..he asked me about token ring…….i answered satifatorily…….then he came to different layers….asked different function of all……then why tcp/ip………what it is………if not then what……..i answered satisfactorily……….

After that he asked me to write a program of factorial that compile in first go without any warning or error. I did with for loop. He then asked me to write with recursion……I did..

Consider all condition of negative and positive. Never sckip up any condition….

After that he came to operating system and asked about interrupt………..described it to his satisfaction including all taking from interruption handling n mode switch n context switch.

Completed………tech

I was relaxing………suddenly one member came from came n asked me to follow him.

I did.

After going into the room, he told me that he will talk more on programming ….at that time I was really scared……..bcoz I was acpecting hr. he gave me a program to write.

Conditin was as follows…..

U have to take one number from user of integer type. It is of 32 bit and u have to count the number of 1 and 0 in it. I did it……..it was a good program……n u can’t do it without practice……….so if u want to get into it……..practice programming on paper not directly on moniter…….bcoz writing code on paper is really tough.



After that he asked me question on unix………….a senario created that make me laugh today itself………..

He asked me that u don’t know unix n want to learn it………what u will do it?

I told that first of all i will purchase a book n try to read it…….if find any difficulty then consult to faculty then to my senior. He told me that let u don’t have any of this thing then what u will do? I told that I will use my internet……will go to google and type unix tutorial……..he startes to smile……..then he asked me that do u know what a ‘MAN’ is?

I replied the appropriate answer…..that it is a command to know about a particular command. He told me that can’t u use it……..that time I told him that……sir u told that u don’t know unix….then how I will able to use it……n my comp may not have unix install in it……..he started to laugh…..he was impressed….

Then he asked me about……..networking(tcp/udp/ip), message passing in operating system……..mine second round of tech was superb.

Then after 3 hours I was called for hr…….asked me about mine backgroung and mine family background……it was 4th company in my campus……he asked me about any offer from other company…….i told him that I m sitting for campus interview for the first time. I didn’t appear for any other company…….he was shocked……he asked reason……I repeated the same lines what he had told in the ppt 2 days before campus.

Then he asked how u can take such a risk to leave all other company….i told that I was a bit confident……..that I will get through this exam……..then he told me that u r not….u have done so bad in ur tech………now what u will do next……I told that after result declaration I will get feebback from u and after improving myself on certain areas I will apply for off campus if not selected from this campus………he was very much satisfied……then he asked me about mine preferable location to work bcoz I had left that column blank in the form what they had given…….i told that……as gurgaon, chnnei and bangalore all r new to me…..i don’t mind working anywhere as I have to explore any of these cities………he told me that’s ok…….

ARICENT INTERVIEW ON 17th JULY

The Tech interview-
Here they mostly check for your ability to code and your knowledge in networks.You need to be extremely confidant and be well versed in C or C++.

Your marks in C or C++ in written test plays a important role.Several of whom i know performed not that well in interview but had very good marks in that section.

Aricent written test mainly concentrates on your C strength.
Regarding the interview they mostly ask these type of questions
They will definitely ask u from ur area of interest.

if u have choosen os
Then read
-paging
-memory management
-process scheduling
-dead lock
-process synchronization

again from data structures
*linked list----very important.. they mostly ask u to insert and delete a node from a singly or doubly linked list...This they ask u even if ur area of interest is not DS
Trees also binary tree...
read all the sorting algorithms...

from networks
osi layer
role of each layer
protocols in each layer
HTTP
DHCP
*Router and a switch-Router works on network and switch on data link layer
Gateway...which layer does it work on..mostly all seven layers
gateway and firewall

Basics of networks is a must with out which its very difficult..
Then next is c programmin
They mostly ask u to code the linked list..
other things tat they often ask is string manipulation programs
like strcat,strlen,strcmp....
u have to write code to perform tat...
they also asked the different types of variables in c--external,static,local ,global...
Thats all..

Well aricent there is no standard tat they choose a particular question always. mostly in chennai these are the possible questions....They are not exhaustive..Usually some interviewers ask questions from all the subjects thats a rare chance..

ARICENT PAPER ON 07th JULY

hi friends, I am bhargavi from Mepco Schlenk Engg college,Sivakasi(TN).I attended the interview on 7th of july ..this s to share few of my experiences

Pattern for the written test

1. Verbal

2. Aptitude
3. Mental Ability.
4. Data Structures and OS(20 mins)
5. C or C++ (20 mins)
6. Comprehension( 15minute reading time +10minutes for answering)
7. E-mail writing (5 minutes)

The first section consisted of questions from basic english grammar...it was quite easy....u neednt have any prep for it.
for the next two sections concentrate
problems on cubes
data sufficiency
some quantitative aptitude ques..
for all the above R.S.Agarwall s more sufficient

Even though I am from ECE Dept,we had questions from data structures,OS and algorithm
(But the cut off for this section was reduced only for non IT students)
We had choice of C or C++
I chose for C
The questions were quite simple...
U cud refer to TEST YOUR C SKILLS by Yashwant Kanetkar.

For comprehension the passage was so technical wit lot of new terms...U cud make a note of it while reading ....coz they will issue the questions only after collecting the passage

E mail writing shud be min of 50 words and max of 120 words.......n if u exceed either it ll be rejected...
Follow any professional format and rmber time s just 5 mins and don waste much time thinking around...

There s sectional cut off for each section ...manage ur time effectively...

TECHNICAL INTERVIEW
My technical interview lasted for half an hour...They concentrated more on C and Networks..
In C ....I was asked ques from pointers,linked lists,stack,Queue,Tree(BST ,AVL),mem allocation ..........
Be clear in ur basics and they also asked to write some simle prog
In Networks,they almost covered everything (Starting from OSI layers ,routers,Bridges,till the wireless protocols,GSM,GPRS)
Those who cleared the tech interview was called for the HR round..It was just a formal interview.. Be prepared wit some general HR questions...and show some eagerness towards the company..

ARICENT PAPER ON 6th MARCH AT PATIALA

Hi friends,

i want to tell u the pattern of aricent company.the written pare has 7 sections namely:

1. verbal 10ques
2. mental ability 10ques
3. analytical 10ques
4. DS,OS,algorithm 20 ques
5. C or C++ 20ques
6. comprehension
7. E-mail Writing

verbal section contains the fill in blanks type english questions,easy to solve.

mental ability consists maths questions like a cube is divided into 64 parts & 1st,2nd,3rd,4th layers r painted blue,green,yellow,blue respectively.find no. cubes which is 2 side yellow painted,etc.
a+b*c/g-e here a+b=a is brother of b

a*b=a is father of b

question on blood relations. must have the basic knowledge of DS & C,otherwise it is difficult job to clear the test.

C section has:
Extern int i;
wht value is stored in the memory
a. 0
b. garbage
c. -565875
d. error

written test is the elimination round,out of 1100 student appeared only 46 had shortlisted for next round. In next i.e. Technical round they asked abt C, digital,CN,project which i have made in final sem,be confident on wht u r saying Final in HR round they took around 1 hour for each student & finally 15 students are selected.

ARICENT PAPER ON 25th FEBRUARY

hello all

i am shailesh and final semester student of mca.i appeared in aricent wriiten exam ..but i did not selected..i have some question those were asked

Verbal ability...(15 questions)
Fill in the blanks with the help of prepositions..(5 question)
Fill in the blanks with the help of articles (2 questions)
Synom(3 question) like quantum,elegant..etc...
Comprehension(5 questions)

this section was very easy...so score high in this section..

Numerical ability(15 questions)
Set theory -3 questions..
Reasoning question(2 questions) like she is the sister of my fathers,mother,s son. who is she..?

and some question is based on cube..

Mental ability section.....(10 questions)
that was one of the easiest section ..but should also score high

Data structure & os(20)
what are the conditions for deadlock...
data structures ...,order of bublle sort etc...

c-questtions(20)
what is the highest order

&& || !

what will be the output

main()

{

int ch=0;

switch(ch)

case 0 : ch++;

case 1 : ch++;

case2:ch+;

default: ch++;

so please prepare seriously and take the exam seriously.

ARICENT PAPER ON 21st JANUARY AT DELHI



Hello Everyone!!!



Selection Procedure:

Written Test : duration 1hr 50 mins

Technical Interview (can be more than 1)

HR



In written test there are 7 section of each 10-20 minuts duration:

1. Verbal( English)
2. Aptitude
3. Mental Ability.
4. Data Structures and OS(20 questions,20 mins)
5. C or C++ (20 questions,20 mins)
6. Comprehension( 15minute reading time +10minutes,10 questions)
7. E-mail writing (5 minutes)



There is a sectional cutoff for each section. So please be prepared and manage your time accordingly. When given time for each section is over, paper is collected back, to create pressure on the candidate.


1) Verbal section contains some easy questions like :

fill in the blanks, abbreviations, vocabulary…


2) Aptitude section contains mainly a set based questions….just go through the basic set formulas. There were around 5 questions from sets.



3) Mental Ability: there were very easy questions like

Identify the correct match

1114422343243

a) 1114422344243 b) 111442224243 c) 1114422343243



4) Data Structures and OS

Here incomplete codes were given, using queues , trees, linked list etc and we were required to select the correct code from the options given, which will give the correct output.

From OS questions were from context switching, throughput…



5) C or C++

I opted for C. few questions were very easy, but rest were quite difficult.

1 question was on memmap() function

there was a question like



Q. float f =11.002

if(f < 11.002)

printf(….)

else

printf(…)





6) Comprehension.

They will give u 10-15 mins to read the comprehension. And after that questions will b given to you n comprehension paper will not be with you at that time.

My topic of comprehension was on new software for user authentication.



7)Email Writing

here in 10-15mins are given to you to write an professional email.

Situation was like this:

There is a readymade garments showroom F Folio, whose very loyal customer Ms.Preeti wants to return the suit she bought 2 weeks before. And according to the company policy, goods can only b returned within 3 days of purchase. Thereafter no returns are accepted. So kindly write an email to Ms.Preeti that you can’t take goods back once sold after 3 days of purchase.



I had a technical interview, after 2 days of my test. In technical interview, they ask questions mostly from OS, Networking, DS. They started with the last project I did.



· Normalization from (1NF – 4NF)

· Best algo to sort student table, on the basis of marks.

· Join querry

· Program to implement quick sort, right from the beginning including stack

· Sparse matrices concept, prog and what is the need of it

· Complexity of quick sort and bubble sort

· Zombie process

· Three way handshake in tcp/ip

· Scheduling algos in os

· Case in which fcfs is the best algo

· How semaphores are implemented

· Prog to reverse a singly linked list

· Prog to remove a node from a doubly linked list

· Devices used in each layer of osi model

· Protocols used at data link layer

· Multilevel feedback queue concept





HR Interview



My hr interview was held on telephone, reason being, after my technical round, no hr was present there at that moment. HR interview is mere a formality. Around 90% of the students were through with this round.



Questions in HR interview :

· Introduction

· Family background

· How do feel like to be a younger brother. If given a chance what would you like to be elder or younger brother.

· Interest (development/ testing) n y?

· R u placed somewhere and if yes then y do u want to join aricent

· Relocation?

· Have you ever worked in a team? N if yes what have u learned from it?

· Asked to speak on a topic “growth”.

· Any questions

ARICENT PAPER ON 26th DECEMBER AT JAIPUR



Hi Friends,

I am Abhishek Agarwal of student St. Margaret Engineering College, Neemrana( Rajasthan University ). I have attended the Aricent On 26th December 2006 in Jaipur Campus at JECRC college. Some of the question I have remembered. There is a choice in b/w c/c++. I have taken C.


There are 7 section of each 10-20 minuts duration:

1. Verbal( English)
2. Aptitude
3. Mental Ability.
4. Data Structures and OS(20 questions,20 mins)
5. C or C++ (20 questions,20 mins)
6. Comprehension( 15minute reading time +10minutes,10 questions)
7. E-mail writing (5 minutes)


1) Verbal section contains some easy questions like :

fill in the blanks, abbreviations, vocabulary etc.


2) Aptitude section contains mainly a set based questions which u can solve easile with the help of venn diagram.


3) In the mental ability section there were a series of 12 digit numbers or 12 letter words were given and one had to identify the similar numbers or words, you only need to concentrate hard for this section. There were questions such as
2+3*4/5-9,if ‘+’ is replaced by ‘*’,’/’ by ‘-‘,….. what would be the value.

4) Data structure , C, OS & networking Question(quite tuff mainly C section(structure programming)): some of the questions are
1) What is POSIX(ans: It is an advanced version operating system of unix)
2) void main()
{
int i=-3,j=2,k=-1,m;
m=++i||++j&&k;
printf(“%d%d%d%d”,i,j,k,m);
}
What will be the output ?
3) which is not a condition for a deadlock?
4) In which sorting we use the partition approach?
5) They are asking an output of c programs which are on linked list. So be prepared with structure programming.(about 50% of this section is based on C and other 50% includes other subjects. They are mainly emphasis on C language, so you have to be well prepared for C language ).

5) C section:
1) What is this called (char *) (*(*(*A[X]) ( ) )) ( )(something like this).
2) There are some basic questions of C. You can easily output them. I don’t remembered exactly the programs but they are quite bit easy as the previous section.

6) Comprehension:
There is a passage of 2-3 pages long. They give you 15 minutes for reading & 10 minutes for questions-Answering.
My Passege was on fetures of USB drive:
1)What is USB.
2) what are the component associated with it.
3) what are the advantage/ disadvantage of using USB.
4) Internal structure of USB.etc.

7) E-Mail writing: I am manager of Reader Digest company which is used to publishing the Magazines every month. One of your customer who is with you for many years, not purchasing your magazines before 6 month. Write an E-mail to know the reason whats the problem exactly & force him to read your magazines. E-mail should be in 50-100 words long.

Technical Interview:
I got selected in written test but not in technical interview. They are taking technical interview of about one & half hour. One of the girl has her technical interview of about two & half hour.

Firstly they are asking about your project. So be prepared with your projects. Then they are emphasis on C programming. Be prepared with the structure programming. They are giving you to write a program of using structure, union and to find the size of the structure like:

Struct str

{

int a;
int *b
float c;
char d;
char *d;
union

{

int ui;
char uc;

};

};

calculate the size of the structure?

There are so many programmes which they can given to you. They are also asking the programs of FILE pointer and performing some manipulation on it. Storage classes, Difference between Macro & functions, What are Macro etc. After that they are asking from data structure like array manipulations, Linked list programs etc. After that they are asking from networking like Start from OSI refrence model and goes into depth of the model like they are asking about the practical approach of TCP & UDP protocols. List of protocols at each & every layer of the OSI refrence Model.. Working of each protocol. What are the algorithm used at each layer etc