Placement Papers - Mahindra Satyam

SATYAM PAPER & INTERVIEW - JUL 2006 - RAJPURA

Hello Friends
 
Txs to u all for ur support.
 
Its was a pool campus at Chitkara Institute Rajpura.
 
Satyams pattern was the same.

Written:15 ques in 30 mins. (+1 , -0.4)
I tell u the ques which i remember.
1. Easy one on simple interest.
2. Downstream Upstream very easy one.
3. Pyramid.
4. Series(i was not able to do a tough one).
5. simple logic que like some couples are their
A is teacher nd her husband is .............
Some conditions like this
Easy one.
6. English Paragraph i hd not even read this.
7. English Paragraph i hd not even read this.
8. one alpha beta kind que.
9. Input given to a machine.
10. Probability que two bags are first contain 2 orange nd 1 red ball nd second bag contain 3 orange nd 2 red balls.pic one ball from first bag nd put that in secone nd now pic one ball from second.Wats the probabilty that it would be an orange ball?
11. A clock gains 55 mins in a day nd is set 2day at 12 noon thn after 2 weeks how much it will gain?

I don't remember other ques.
I hd attempted only 8 ques nd i feel cut of was around 5-6.
 
After written they had selected 495 out of which only 23 r MCA's rest all r enginerring students. 10 from our institute.

2nd Round: GD:
They made groups of 10.
Our topic: Indian Education VS. Foreign Education.
From our group 8 got selected, its really unbelivable.
Just remain calm and boldly give ur points.
Three are with Indian nd all others r with Foregin.
The lady who is watching us even stopped us in between twice; once for not to look at her nd secondly asked us why we are fighting, bt finally she had given gud results 8 out of 10 really awesome.
219 out of 495 in total, 8 from our institue.

Then we filled the form which they hd given us. Fill that properly bcz in interview they asked a lot from that.

Interview :
It was a general talk.
The panel which interviewed me hv a female(hr) and male(technical). They are really too cool and soft spoken.

Technical
Interviewer:Tell me your favourite subjects.
Me:C, C++, DBMS
Interviewer: Wht is a Data Base.
I told
Interviewer: Data base concepts?
Me:I don't know exactly wat to tell in this i asked should i tell u Three schema architecture he said ok tell me
I explained the whole.
Interviewer:U r not getting me wat i m asking u....
Me:Are u asking data independence?
Interviewer:No, i m asking u Integrity.........Ok leave it wat is a foreign key?
Me:Expained.
Interviewer:which bk u had read for Dbms?
Me:Navathe.
Interviewer:Tell me its first chapter.
Me:Name is not striking in my mind rite now.
Interviewer:Then he asked me a simle query to write.
Me:written it
Interviewer:asked me a que frm that.
Me:able to expain
Interviewer:Given one more query.
Me:Told bt not exactly
Then he given me a program to write in C++ to find wheather a word is palindrome or not?
I had written it then he asked me expain the whole logic.I expalined him.
Just tell if u don't know anything never gv fake answers

HR:
It was a general talk.
Just those normal ques:
Why Satyam?
Why we select u?
Family Background.......
Will u be able to relocate?
Ur achievments.........
If u got selected here will u give more campuses?
Wat if we give u work in any technology?
Some more general que
Just remain calm nd never loose confidence.
Rest all is on god
Finally they selected 147 out of 219.
Out of which 7 r frm our institute.