Toshiba Interview Experience for Trainee Engineer

Toshiba Software (India) Pvt. Ltd., (TSIP) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation, Japan. So the Campus Recruitment by Toshiba for the 2024 batch was recently held in our college. They were recruiting freshers for the position of Trainee Engineer. They were seeking highly motivated students who were willing to participate of next-generation Embedded System verification analysis for their Storage domain.

Skills Required –

• Computer Architecture Knowledge
• Strong C Programming Skills
• Strong Analytical Skills
• Very good Communication and Inter-Personal Skills

Eligibility – B.E./B.Tech from the 2024 batch (Throughout their academics must be above 70%)

Stream – CSE & ECE

Round 1 – Online test consisted of 4 sections.

• Cognitive Aptitude – 23 questions
• Technical (Predict the output) – 13 questions
• Analytical – 4 questions (2 min)
• Programming – 1 for CSE and 2 for EC
• Total Time Limit = 60 min
• No sectional time limit on any section except for analytical thinking.
• Aptitude section: 23 questions, based on topics like profit and loss, directions, data interpretation, human relations, time and work, speed and distance, non verbal reasoning, and percentages. No verbal or comprehension questions.
• C snippets were based on strings, for loops, printf, switch case, etc. Totally 13 snippets were asked.
• Coding questions for me were to find the sum of divisors of a number and to find the nth prime number.

Round 2 – Technical Interview

• In this round, I was asked – “Tell me about yourself”
• Then I was asked to explain my projects in detail
• After the explanation of the projects, the interviewer started to ask basics of C and C++
• Strings, pointers, structures and unions, OOPs concepts, stacks, and queues were the concepts they focused on
• As I had mentioned Python in my resume, I was asked about the Dictionary and Set
• Some questions related to bit manipulation and sorting algorithms were also asked

Round 3 – Managerial Round

• Some of my friends had another technical round, so even I thought this was a technical round.
• So when I was asked questions about my projects, such as the challenges faced during my projects, I was answering the questions with technical details and the interviewer asked me no to mention technical details.
• The interviewer went through my resume and asked questions based on the details that I had mentioned in my resume.
• Some general questions such as – “Why did you apply for Toshiba?”, “What do you do when you are demotivated?”, “What all books do you read?” were asked.
• Some puzzles were given to solve. I had prepared puzzles from GeeksForGeeks so I was able to solve those puzzles
• Then I was asked if I had any questions, for which I asked them about higher studies opportunity while working in their company. This was a negative move from my side. The interviewer answered it positively but it left a black spot. Due to which I think, I was not selected for the next round.
• The next round was the HR round and all those who were qualified for that round were selected for job and internship
  

Suggestions

• Remember to smile and be cheerful, it gives an admirable impression to the interviewer
• Try and calm your nerves during the interviews, even if you don’t know the answers to any of the questions try and explain a bit.
• Aptitude questions play a huge role in the online round and most of the students are eliminated in this round.
• Go through resources for explaining output from code in C language
• Catch up on your OS, C++ and C concepts
• Even if you don’t know all the parts of a question ask the interviewer if you could explain at least part of the question.
• Coding questions are comparatively very easy and you’ll clear the questions with ease. If you find coding difficult try looking into the most asked C coding questions from GeeksForGeeks.