EY India visited VIT for campus placements in the month of November. There were various roles for which candidates will be mapped according to their resume details. There were 5 rounds of the selection process.
Roles (Full-time Associate Consultant)
- Business Consulting – Asterisk
- Tech Consulting – Cyber
- Tech Consulting – Analytics
- Tech Consulting – ITT FS
Eligibility Criteria: 65% in X, XII, and UG/PG, No Standing Arrears.
Round 1: Online Assessment About 750 people were shortlisted for the Online test inclusive of all the roles that they were hiring for.
- Test Platform : iMocha.
- Duration: Sectional timing varied for each section based on a number of questions.
- Topics: Quantitative Aptitude, Logical Reasoning, Verbal Ability, Data Interpretation.
- Practice link: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/aptitude-questions-and-answers/amp/
Round 2: Coding round 214 people got shortlisted to attend the coding round.
Both questions of easy level were asked. If you have basic logical thinking with basic programming knowledge, you will be able to crack this round easily. One question was based on strings and the other was based on arrays. I could solve both questions within 15 minutes. You just have to understand each piece of information given in the question and find the simple logic behind it. Do not directly start to code, make a rough outline of your understanding and iterate your approach before coding. This will save you time in the exam.
- Duration: 60 minutes
- Number of questions: 2
- Practice link : https://practice.geeksforgeeks.org/
Round 3: Technical interview
- 153 students were shortlisted inclusive of all the roles.
- I was one of the 21 students shortlisted for Business Consulting – Asterisk
Interview Platform: MS Teams.
- Tell me about yourself.
- Explain your approach to the problem :
- You are given a string s. We want to partition the string into as many parts as possible so that each letter appears in at most one part. Note that the partition is done so that after concatenating all the parts in order, the resultant string should be s. Return a list of integers representing the size of these parts.
Test case :
Input: s = "ababcbacadefegdehijhklij" Output: [9,7,8]
- I explained my approach using the naive method and HashMap.
- Project-based questions
- What is a docker?
- Why did you use it?
- What are the functionalities of docker?
- Did the docker help you code the point of view of development?
- Other follow-up questions based on my answer.
- Have you led any team so far?
- Follow-up question: How many members were on each team?
Round 4: Technical interview 6 out of 21 students were shortlisted for this round. Interview Platform: MS Teams.
- Tell me about yourself.
- Explain your approach to the problem: You are given a CSV file consisting of 3 fields. Employee ID, Employee Name, Manager ID. The managers will have their managers as well so those managers are listed as employees with their managers. List the employees’ names and the managers they report to.
He was okay with any language to be used for giving an approach. I gave him the approach using SQL JOINS.
3. Project-based questions
- Brief about Docker.
- How did you use it in your project?
- How did it help you?
- Explain each line of the docker command that you used for your project. (I spent around 5 to 7 minutes in explaining each command that I used)
- What is a docker image?
4. Managerial question
- Where do you see yourself in the next 3 years?
- How many members do you lead in your current and previous projects?
Round 5: HR interview 2 out of 6 were selected for this round.
- Tell me about yourself
- Why EY India?
- Willing to relocate?
- Salary package discussion.
Finally, 2 students were selected for Business Consulting – Asterisk profile and I was happy to be one of those two!