Harman international Interview Expereince For Associate engineer

Round 1: Online assessment ( Elitmus test (2 hrs) + Technical assessment by Harman (3 hrs)

CGPA < 8.2 was shortlisted for round 1

• Elitmus pH test consisting of aptitude questions with great difficulty though sufficient time is given.
• Technical assessment consists of CN, OOPS, OS and two coding questions.
• After 17 days, we got results for the interview and three days before the d day.
• I was asked to submit (mail)my previous 4-semester marksheet, and ID card to talent acquisition.

8 out of 117 students were shortlisted for round 2

Round 2: Technical round

It was a virtual online interview.

• I was asked to introduce myself. When I started introducing myself and switched to my projects and skills. He interrupted me and told me ” I want to know more about you, why don’t you describe your hobbies and college life?”. I started talking about my hobbies.
• He asked me” What challenges did you face in your college life?”
  I told them I had a backlog and about my denial phase.
• He asked me “Your 10th and 11th marks are good, but your Btech marks are not upto it’s par.”
  I have told about my health reasons. He asked me “Is your health good now?”
• Then He started questions about my resume. ( Be prepared)

I was asked about every project. The questions included about every project are:

• Are you a team player or team leader?
• If you are a team leader, what challenges did you face? how did you make your teammates productive? what roles did you contribute and how did you allocate the responsibilities, etc..
• Are you more suited to be a team player or team leader?
• What are the modules of each project?
• Which tech stack have I used?
• Then He asked me which language I was comfortable in.
  I told “Python and c. But I use Python for competitive programming”
• He asked me “Do we use Java or C++ for programming? How do you cope?”
  I told ” It’s all about logic, logic is the medium to solve a program, not syntax”
• He asked me ” Does Python support OOPs?”
  I said yes.
• He asked me “What are OOPs and explained with examples.
  I said ” OOPs are nothing but representing real-world elements in the programming world. I took a bottle beside me and said bottle is the class and opencap() and closecap() are methods.”
• He asked me ” Why can’t you do OOPs in C? It has structures, right?
  I told ” C doesn’t support pillars of OOPs”
• He asked me ” What are the pillars of OOPs?
• Then I was asked to code for polymorphism in Notepad.
  I did examples of shapes
• He asked me to design the algorithm for string reversal
  I did a most efficient pointer approach and he was impressed.
• Later, he asked me if there were any questions.

I have asked :

• Are there any upskill programs in Harman?
• About work culture?
• Any feedback for me?

Round 3: HR Round

4 out of 8 are selected

• Tell me about yourself
• Work location choices
• Invention vs innovation
• What will you do as a team manager if your team member is not working?
• Any questions

After 13 days, our results are out.

3 out of 4 were selected. I was one of them.

Suggestions from my side:

1. Don’t give up at any point in time.
2. Be confident
3. Ask the right questions if they tell you to ask any questions. This makes it builds the conversation.
4. Be prepared with a resume fully ( very important)